AN IMPROVED, CHAPLET OR HEAD-DRESS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry James Burt, of Balsall Heath, in the County
of Worcester, Manager of Works, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED,
CHAPLET OR HEAD-DRESS."
Sealed the 3rd November 1865, and dated the 13th May 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry James Burt
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th May 1865.
I, HENRY JAMES BURT, of Balsall Heath, in the County of Worcester,.
Manager of Works, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED CHAPLET OR HEAD-DRESS," to be as follows (that is to say) :-
I form a chaplet or head dress consisting of an ornament for the back of
the head and a diadem or coronet for the front part of the head combined in
ane, but separable if necessary to form two ornaments. The back part may.
be in the form of a comb back with ornamental balls and drops, affording a
bonnet rest when a bonnet is worn, and it may be furnished with a long pin
and catch to secure it to the back hair, or comb teeth may be employed as a
fastening in lieu thereof if preferred. The front part may be made of beads,
medallions, or other forms strung or arranged in a loop, the ends of which
are attached to the back part in such manner that if it be desired to wear.
only the back ornament the front part may be detached and may be used as
a necklace or a bracelet. This chaplet may be formed of any solid material.
such as papier maché, wood, glass, metal, ivory, or tortoise-shell.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry James Burt in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th November 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
JAMES BURT, of Balsall Heath, in the County of Worcester, Manager of
Works, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Henry James Burt, Her special licence that I, the said Henry
James Burt, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Henry James Burt, 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 Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED CHAPLET OR HEAD-DRESS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Henry James Burt, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner 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 1, the said Henry James Burt, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
I form a chaplet or head dress consisting of an ornament for the back of
the head and a diadem or coronet for the front part of the head combined in
one, but separable if necessary to form two ornaments. The back part may
be in the form of a comb back with ornamental balls and drops, affording a
bonnet rest when a bonnet is worn, and it may be furnished with a long pin
and catch to secure it to the back hair, or comb teeth may be employed as a
fastening in lieu thereof if preferred. The front part may be made of beads,
medallions, or other forms, strung or arranged in a loop, the ends of which
are attached to the back part in such manner that if it be desired to wear

page_text: only the back ornament the front part may be detached and may be used as a
necklace or a bracelet. This chaplet may be formed of any solid material
such as papier maché, wood, glass, metal, ivory, or tortoise-shell.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews a view of the chaplet complete; Figure 2, a front view of
the back part separate; and Figure 3, an inside or back view of the same.
(a) is the diadem or coronet forming the front part of the chaplet, and
which may be made as shewn of beads or blocks strung together, or of
medallions, leaves, or other forms suitably linked together. This coronet is
fastened as at (b), (c), by spring hooks or other suitable attachment to the
back part (d) in such manner as to be readily separable from it to form an
independent ornament if required, and when furnished with a snap it may be
used as a collar, a necklet, a bracelet, or other like ornament. The back
part (d) is fastened to the hair by the pin (e) passing through the hair and
engaging in the shield (f), but it may have comb teeth hinged or otherwise
secured to it as a mode of fixing it in the hair, and it may be made in various
designs with drop ornaments, chain links, or other ornamental appendages
hanging from a comb back.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I claim without limiting myself to these
precise details the improved chaplet or head-dress formed by combining a
diadem or coronet capable of being employed as a separate ornament with a
comb back or decoration for the back of the head, as herein more fully set
forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry James Burt, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Tenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
HENRY JAMES (L.s.) BURT.