IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PAPER FRONTS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Taylor, of the Firm of Messieurs Potters
and Taylor, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PAPER FRONTS.”
Scaled the 27th June 1871, and dated the 23rd January 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd January 1871.
I, FRANCIS TAYLOR, of the Firm of Messieurs Potters and Taylor, of.
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of
my said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PAPER FRONTS,".
to be as follows:-
I
The Invention relates to that portion of a gentleman's or lady's
wearing apparel known as the front, and. is designed for the purpose
of producing a front in imitation of the linen plaited front, combining
by such improved construction the advantages of warmth and durability..
The improvements consist in attaching by adhesion or otherwise
straight or curved lengths or strips of paper upon a foundational shape
corresponding in shape to the ordinary paper front. The said lengths or

page_text: strips of paper are arranged so as to form imitation plaits either straight
or curved upon the face of the front in imitation of the ordinary linen
plaited fronts, the whole when complete forming a paper front of greater
warmth and durability than the ordinary construction of paper fronts
hitherto worn.,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Francis Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office on
20th July 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
TAYLOR, of the Firm of Messieurs Potters and Taylor, of Manchester, in
the County of Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria,. by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Francis Taylor, Her special license that
I, the said Francis Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Francis Taylor, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PAPER
FRONTS," upon the condition (amongst others). that I, the said Francis
Taylor, 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 Francis Taylor, 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, that is to say :-
The Invention relates to that portion of a gentleman's or lady's
wearing apparel known as the front, and is designed for the purpose

page_text: of producing a front similar to a linen plaited front, combining by such
improved construction the advantages of warmth and durability.
The improvements consist in attaching by adhesion or otherwise
straight or curved lengths or strips of paper ùpon a foundational shape
corresponding in shape to the ordinary paper front. The said lengths
or strips of paper are arranged so as to form plaits either straight or
curved upon the face of the front similar to an ordinary linen plaited
front, the whole when complete forming a paper front of greater warmth
and durability than the ordinary construction of paper front hitherto
worn.
.
'
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with
the method of carrying the same into practical effect, I wish it to be
distinctly understood in conclusion that what I claim is, the adapting
to the ordinary foundation or shape of a paper front as herein-before
described straight or curved lengths or strips of paper in plaits, folds, or
ornamentation, giving increased warmth and durability.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and scal, this
Twenty-fifth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.
Witness to the signature,
THOMAS WRIGLEY.
FRANCIS TAYLOR. (L.S.)