IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STAYS OR CORSETS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Pretty, of Ipswich, in the County of
Suffolk, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
STAYS OR CORSETS."
Sealed the 25th May 1866, and dated the 14th December 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Pretty at the
.Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 14th
December 1865.
I, WILLIAM PRETTY, of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
PACTURE OF STAYS OR CORSETS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of stays
of corsets. Stays or corsets are at the present time ornamented by braiding,
embroidering, and in various other ways. Now my Invention consists in,
making stays or corsets of fabric on which designs are printed in such,
manner that each piece when cut out to the shape required for making the
stays or corset may have upon it a complete pattern_suited to the form of the
piece so cut out. In this manner neatly ornamented stays or corsets may be

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Pretty in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th
June 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
PRETTY, of Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Pretty, Her special licence that I, the said William Pretty, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Pretty, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Chaunel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OR STAYS OR CORSETS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said William Pretty, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manuer the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Pretty, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of stays
or corsets. Stays or corsets are at the present time ornamented by braiding,
embroidering, and in various other ways. Now my Invention consists in
making stays or corsets of fabric on which designs are printed in such
manner that each piece when cut out to the shape required for making the
stays or corset may have upon it a complete pattern suited to the form of the

page_text: piece so cut out. In this manner neatly ornamented stays or corsets may be
made at a cheap rate. The above description will be more readily understood
by reference to the Drawing hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Pretty, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
WILLIAM PRETTY. (L.S.)