MAKING SHOE CATCHES WITH SPRING STRAPS TO BE USED WITH BUCKLE RINGS OF EVERY KIND AND DESCRIPTION
Year: 1794

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
ADAMS, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Buckle Maker, send
greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Thirteenth day of September
instant, in the thirty-fourth year of His reign, did give and grant unto me, the
said Benjamin Adams, His special licence, that I, the said Benjamin Adams,
during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
usc, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-
Tweod, my Invention of "MAKING SHOE CATCHES WITH SPRING STRAPS TO BE
USED WITH BUCKLE RINGS OF EVERY KIND AND DESCRIPTION;" in which said Letters
Patent is contained a proviso requiring me, the said Benjamin Adams, under
my hand and seal, to cause a particular description of the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in
His Majesty's High Court of Chancery, within one calendar month next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same,
reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in pursuance of the said proviso, I, the said
Benjamin Adams, do hereby declare, discover, and make known, that my
Invention or method of Making Shoe Catches with Spring Straps to be Used
with Buckle Rings of every Kind and Description, is as follows (that is to
say):-

page_text: I take gold, silver, copper, iron, or any other kind of metal or metallic
substance, and either by casting, forging, piercing, stamping, or otherwise,
make the same into the form of a buckle ring, leaving spikes or parts in the
bottom thereof to fasten spikes thereto, which may be done by brazing, rivet-
ting, soldering, screwing, or otherwise, and which together form the catchet.
Any metal or clastic substance makes the spring strap, which is covered with
leather, the form depending upon the size of the catchet ring; the catchet ring
contains spikes, one or more of which are made or fixed at each end for the
purpose of taking hold of the outside of the straps of the shoe; there is a
groove or hollow part in the middle of the rim at each end, to admit the pro-
jecting part of the spring strap to go therein, which confines it by force of the
spring to the catchet, and incloses the ends of the shoe straps; at one end of
the catchet there are two small round holes or tubes made through the spike
ends and ring, to admit a pin to pass through a small sockett made at the end
of the projecting part of the spring strap, which will lie under the catchet ring
(the socket is either made in the leather which the spring is covered with, or in
the spring strap itself), to render it most convenient to secure the strap to the
catchet, or by taking out the pin for cleaning the catchet and strap seperately.
The catchet may be made without the spring strap being fastened to it, and then
the spring strap will be immediately disengaged from the catchett by the thumb
being applied in a reclining position, with pressure on the spring strap, which
must in either case be done, to separate the catchet from the shoe. Tho catchot
A, delineated in the Drawing hereto annexed, contains four spikes, two of which
are fastened to each end, inclining downwards, which take hold of the outside
of the straps and keep the shoe very tight; the spring strap, marked also A, is
made of tin or any other elastic substance, and may be covered with leather,
and falls into a groove or hollow between the two spikes by pressing it down
with the thumb. The catchet B, also delineated in the said Drawing, contains
four spikes inclining downwards, which are fastened to the barrs across, to one
of which the spring strap is fastened by a hinge, with a pin to take out for the
convenience of cleaning the strap and catchett ring separately. The catchet C,
also delineated in the said Drawing, contains also four spikes which fasten as
above; the spring strap is fastened to the bottom of the barr with a pin, to
take out, as appears in the catchet, or Drawing marked C, or left rivetted to it,
as may be found convenient. Any of the above catchets may be made with ono
or more spikes at each end, as will be found most agreeab'e, and the spring
straps may be added to and used with buckles made with chapes and tongues.
D represents the
upper part of a catchet and spring strap, as appears when on
the shoe; E is a catchet with a strap and ring, working by an hinge made to