So MAKING GENTLEMEN'S BREECHES AS ENTIRELY TO DO AWAY ALL THE INCONVENIENCES HITHERTO COMPLAINED OP, THE BREECHES BEING MADE TO. SIT WITH THE UTMOST EXACTNESS, WITHOUT PRESSING UPON OR PAINING THE WEARER, BY MEANS OF THE WAISTBAND HAVING AN ELASTIC SPRING CONTAINED IN IT, WHICH YIELDS TO ANY FORM OR POSITION OF THE BODY, AND ARE NOT INCUMBERED WITHEITHER STRINGS OR BUCKLES BEHIND, THE TROUBLE OF STRINGS IS AVOIDED, AND
Year: 1798

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
MARKS, of Tabernacle Row, Finsbury Square, in the County of Middlesex,
Taylor, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, by His Letters
Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at Westminster,
the Eighth day of December, in this present year of our Lord One thousand
seven hundred and ninety-eight, hath given and granted unto me, the said
John Marks, my exors, adññiors, and assigns, His special licence, full power, sole
privilege and authority, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term of fourteen years therein mentioned, to make, use, exercise, and vend
my Invention of "So MAKING GENTLEMEN'S BREECHES AS ENTIRELY TO DO AWAY ALL
THE INCONVENIENCES HITHERTO COMPLAINED OP, THE BREECHES BEING MADE TO. SIT
WITH THE UTMOST EXACTNESS, WITHOUT PRESSING UPON OR PAINING THE WEARER,
BY MEANS OF THE WAISTBAND HAVING AN ELASTIC SPRING CONTAINED IN IT, WHICH
YIELDS TO ANY FORM OR POSITION OF THE BODY, AND ARE NOT INCUMBERED WITH
EITHER STRINGS OR BUCKLES BEHIND, THE TROUBLE OF STRINGS IS AVOIDED, AND
THE OBVIOUS DANGER OF BUCKLES IN THE CASE OF A FALL IS PREVENTED BY THIS
INVENTION, THE POCKETTS ARE CONSTRUCTED UPON AN ENTIRE NEW PRINCIPLE, THE
SIDE WELTS THEREOF UNIFORMLY CORRESPONDING WITH THE SIDE WELTS OP THE

page_text: FOREPART OR FLAP, AND ARE PLACED IN SUCH A SITUATION AS TO PRECLUDE THE
POSSIBILITY OF THEIR BEING PICKED, AND KEPT UP BY ELASTIC SUPPORTERS PLACED
UNDER THE ARMS, SO AS TO DO AWAY WITH THE NECESSITY OF SLINGS OVER THE
SHOULDERS," within that part of His Majesty's Kingdom of Great Britain called
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed; in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, obliging me, the
said John Marks, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, to
cause a particular description and ascertainment of the nature of my 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 Letters Patent, relation being thereunto had, will more fully and at
large appear.
.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Marks, in compliance with the
said proviso, do hereby declare that the nature of my Invention and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, is particularly set out,
described, and ascertained by the following plan and description thereof,
with the referrences thereto hereafter mentioned:-
EIGURES Explanation of Figures
Figure 1 represents a pair of Patent breeches, with the elastic supporters
affixed thereto. a, a the red morocco elastic supporters, one on each side,as
affixed, with 2 buttons, one at each end of each supporter at the top, intended
to button in holes made to answer them in the waistcoat under the armholes in
the inside of the waistcoat. b, b, layers of wire springs to stretch to and from,
covered. with puckered silk. c, c, a buckle on each side fixed to a piece of
lind red-leather, with a hole at the bottom, which takes a button placed on the
waistband of the breeches, and then buckles upon the strap of the elastic sup-
porter, in order to draw the elastic supporters tighter or let them down looser.
d, d,.the buttons fixed on the waistband, one on each side, aluded to in the
description of c, c. e, rows of elastic springs in the back of the waistband,
made of, wire, which render a waistband buckle or strings needless, and -by
their elastic quality keep the waistband of sufficient and proper tightness round
the body. ff, shews a perpendicular breeches pocket-hole, with a button in
the centre on each side, which pocket-holes correspond on each side with the
side welts of the forepart or flap, and risc, directly up to the button a on each
side, by which the supporters-are fixed-to-the-waistband-on-each side,-by.means
of which the pockets are kept quite tight.

page_text: FIGURE 2. Explanation of Figure 2.
Figure 2 represents the elastic supporter separate from the breeches, and
buckled with the buckle, as mentioned in c, c.
FIGURE 3. Explanation of Figure 3.
Figure 3 represents the elastic supporter before it is buckled to the buckle
mentioned in c, c.
FIGURE 4. Explanation of Figure 4.
Figure 4 represents the buckle fixed to a piece of lined red leather, which
buckles to the strap of the elastic supporter, and likewise buttons upon the
waistband. And which said breeches may be either made of leather, cloth,
silk, korsymere, or any other materials that breeches are generally made of.
The elastic supporters are made at the top and bottom of red leather, lined
with white leather. 2 buttons, one at each end of each elastic supporter at
the top, and stitched in the manner as represented in the Figures above
mentioned. The shaded part in the middle of the elastic supporters of blue,
white, and red, represents the layers of wire springs put into the inside thereof,
and covered on the outside with puckered silk, and in the inside with linen
cloth, and which shaded part is joined at the top and bottom with red leather, as
appears in the figure of the elastic supporter. The shaded part under the
letter ein Figure:1, asrepresenting the waistband of the breeches, is made by
putting in rows of clastic wires at that place covered with puckered silk on the
outside, and linnen cloth within, and which are put in between the waistband
and the lining, and the perpendicular pocket holes at letters f, f, on each side
of the breeches in Figure 1, are made by cutting a slit from the top of the
waistband down in a straight line, so as to correspond with the forepart or flap,
and to button in the middle of the slit, as delineated at the letters F in the
Figure.
In witness whercof, I, the said John Marks, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of December, in the thirty-ninth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the grace
of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the
Faith, and so forth, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and ninety-eight.

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AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-ninth day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1798, the aforesaid John Marks came before our
said Lord the King in His 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 stampt according to
the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Second day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.