IM- PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NECKTIES AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Tombs, of Brixton, in the County of
Surrey, Trimming and Tie Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NECKTIES AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
OF WEARING APPAREL."
Sealed the 13th August 1872, and dated the 16th February 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Tombs at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th February 1872.
I, EDWARD TOMBS, of Brixton, in the County of Surrey, Trimming
and Tie Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF NECKTIES AND OTHER SIMILAR
ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL," to be as follows :-
This Invention consists in the manufacture of the bands of neckties
and other articles of wearing apparel of a similar nature, so as to possess
the property of elasticity or semi-elasticity. This object is effected by
placing in the bands of the neckties or other articles a piece of elastic

page_text: webbing, or by forming the same of a woven elastic or semi-elastic
material or materials. The neckties or other articles thus constructed,
by reason of their elasticity, always retain their proper position and
possess greater durability than when manufactured in the ordinary
manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Edward Tombs in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 16th August 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
TOMBS, of Brixton, in the County of Surrey, Trimming and Tie Manu-
facturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Edward Tombs, Her special licence
that I, the said Edward Tombs, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Edward Tombs, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein ex-
pressed, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF NECKTIES AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward Tombs, 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 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 I, the said Edward Tombs, do hereby declare

page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :—
My said Invention consists in the manufacture of the bands of neckties
and other articles of wearing apparel of a similar nature, such as, for
example, waist and wrist bands, so that the same shall possess the
property of elasticity or semi-elasticity. This object I effect by placing
in the bands of the neckties or other articles a piece of elastic webbing,
or by forming the same of a woven elastic or semi-elastic material or
materials. The neckties or other articles thus constructed, by reason of
their elasticity, always retain their proper position and possess greater
durability than when manufactured in the ordinary manner.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would observe in
conclusion that what I consider novel and original, and therefore claim
as constituting the Invention secured to me by the said herein-before in
part recited Letters Patent is, the manufacture of neckties and other
articles of wearing apparel in the manner and for the purposes herein-
before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Tombs, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of August, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.