IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS
Year: 1851

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
FIELDING EMPSON, of Birmingham, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent, under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day of
May, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, in the fourteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs, and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Fielding Empson, my exors, admors, and assigns, Her especial
licence, full power, sole privilege, and authority, that I, tho said John Fielding
Empson, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John
Fielding Empson, my exors, adñors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS;" in which said
Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said John Fielding Empson,
shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under
my hand and seal, to be inrolled in Her Majesty's High Court of Chancery
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being there-
unto had, will more fully and at large appear.

page_text: ANOW 1, that in compianto WICH The Sau
John Fielding Empson, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described
and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had
to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
thereon, that is to say :-
My Invention consists of applying thread or yarn to strengthen and orna-
ment die and pressure made buttons. And in order that my Invention may
be most fully understood and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to
describe the means pursued by me.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews a plain die and pressure made button, such as are com-
monly known as sewn-through buttons, and in order to give strength or
ornament thereto, I apply thread or yarn of silk, cotton, or other material or
materials, in like manner to what has heretofore been practised when making
"wire buttons" and "leek buttons, and this will be understood by reference
to Figures 2, 3, 4, where a like manufacture of button is shewn, with the
thread or yarn applied, and I would state that the ornament or device pro-
duced may, as heretofore, be varied.
I would also remark, that in place of employing the exact form and make
of die and pressure made button, shewn at Figure 1, others may be em-
ployed, and have strength or ornament imparted thereto by applying thread
or yarn in the manner explained, and such yarn or thread may be of the same
or different colors as the buttons.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is the
applying thread or yarn of silk, cotton, or other material or materials to die
and pressure made buttons, as herein stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Fielding Empson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.
JOHN FIELDING EMPSON. (L.B.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-second day of Novem-
ber, in the year of our Lord 1851, the aforesaid John Fielding Empson
came before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twenty-seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.