IMPROVEMENTS IN MUFFS or FINGER PROTECTORS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Price, of No. 425, Brixton Road, in the
County of Surrey, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MUFFS or
FINGER PROTECTORS."
Scaled the 12th March 1872, and dated the 11th January 1872.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Price at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th January 1872.
I, GEORGE PRICE, of No. 425, Brixton Road, in the County of Surrey,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MUFFS OR FINGER PROTECTORS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in muffs or finger
protectors to be used when pushing perambulators or wheeled chairs
in order that in cold or frosty weather the fingers may not become
chilled, or get wet in rainy weather. For this purpose I form a case
by preference of waterproof fabric supported by a suitable frame and
lined with flannel, felt, fur, or other non-conductor of heat. The case

page_text: opens and closes like a box, and it has a hole at each end so that
it can be placed upon the handle of the vehicle and then closed. The
portion of the handle which is grasped by the hands in pushing or
directing the carriage is then within the muff or finger protector, and
to admit the hands to take hold of the handle there are one or more i
holes in the front of the muff or finger protector.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Price in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 10th July 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
PRICE, of No. 425, Brixton Road, in the County of Surrey, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of January, 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 George Price, Her special license that I,
the said George Price, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said George Price, 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 MUFFS OR FINGER PROTECTORS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Price, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Price, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo
performed, 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 muffs or finger
protectors to be used when pushing perambulators or wheeled chairs
in order that in cold or frosty weather the fingers may not become
chilled, or get wet in rainy weather. For this purpose I form a case
by preference of waterproof fabric supported by a suitable frame and
lined with flannel, fclt, fur or other non-conductor of heat. The casc
opens and closes like a box, and it has a hole at cach end so that
it can be placed upon the handle of the vehicle and then closed. The
portion of the handle which is grasped by the hands in pushing or
directing the carriage is then within the muff or finger protector, and
3 to admit the hands to take hold of the handle there are one or more
holes in the front of the muff or finger protector.
Immediately beneath the handle of the carriage the muff or finger
protector contains a hot water bottle of sufficient size to remain hot
whilst the carriage is in use.
The Drawing hereunto annexed shews a perspective view of a muff
or finger protector constructed as above described. a is the waterproof
covering which is of the shape required for the muff or protector;
the upper and lower parts of the covering are each supported by a
framework composed at the ends of metal plates b, b, and at the front
of wires c, the plates 6 being bent over the ends of the wires as shewn
at d. The exterior of the plates 6 is covered over by the covering,
and the interior by a lining of flannel or other suitable non-conducting
material. The covering a at the front is also doubled and sewn over
the wires c, and at the back it forms the hinge or joint by which
the frames of the upper and lower halves of the muff or protector
are jointed together. e is a stiffening rib along the top of the upper
part of the muff or protector and secured between the covering and
its lining; ff, are eyelets for securing the covering and lining to the
I end plates b; g is the opening at each end to allow of the bandle of a
perambulator being embraced by the muff; h is a hasp or fastening by
which the two parts of the muff are held together when they are
closed over the handle; k is a hot water bottle lying in the lower

page_text: half of the case to give warmth to the hands; is the opening through
which the hands are passed to hold the handle of the perambulator.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that I claim
the construction of muffs or finger protectors substantially as herein b
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Price, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
GEORGE PRICE. (L.S.)
July 6th 1872.