IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PINAFORES AND BIBS FOR CHILDREN
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Craft, of No. 12, Cambridge Road,
Hammersmith, and Thomas Wilson, of Bradmore House, Chiswick,
both in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PINAFORES AND BIBS FOR CHILDREN."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Craft and
Thomas Wilson at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
their Petition, on the 13th April 1859.
We, WILLIAM CRAFT, of No. 12, Cambridge Road, Hammersmith, and
THOMAS WILSON, of Bradmore House, Chiswick, both in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PINAFORES AND BIBS FOR CHILDREN," to be as
follows:-
The object of this Invention is to prevent the bibs and pinafores of children
being saturated with wet, either when being fed or when dribbling from
cutting their teeth. In order to attain this object, we propose making bibs of
a light waterproof material, and forming the lower part with a gutter of the
same material, so that any liquid coming in contact with the outer surface of
the bib will not penetrate, but run down into the gutter in the lower part.
We propose making pinafores for the same purpose either by inserting a
piece of light waterproof material near the top at front, or by rendering them
waterproof wholly or that particular part only.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Craft and Thomas Wilson in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 13th October 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, WILLIAM
CRAFT, of No. 12, Cambridge Road, Hammersmith, and THOMAS WILSON,
of Bradmore House, Chiswick, both in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said William Craft and Thomas Wilson, Her special
licence that we, the said William Craft and Thomas Wilson, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said William Craft
and Thomas Wilson, our 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 "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PINAFORES AND BIBS FOR CHILDREN," upon
the condition (amongst others) that we, the said William Craft and Thomas
Wilson, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our or their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or
them, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 Thomas Wilson, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is to prevent the dresses and pinafores, &c. of
children being saturated when wet, either when being fed or when dribbling
from cutting their teeth, &c. In order to attain this object, we propose
making bibs of a light waterproof material and forming the lower part with
a trough or gutter of the same material, so that any liquid coming in contact
with the outer surface of the bib will not penetrate, but run down into the
gutter in the lower part. We propose making pinafores for the same purpose

page_text: either by inserting a piece of light waterproof material near the top at front,
or by rendering them waterproof wholly or at that particular part only.
Having now fully described the nature and object of our said Invention of
improvements in the manufacture of pinafores and bibs for children, together
with the manner in which the same is to be performed, we would remark in
conclusion that what we claim as our Invention intended to be secured to us
by the herein in part recited Letters Patent is, the manufacture of pinafores
and bibs for children in the manner and for the purpose herein described
and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Wilson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
THOMAS WILSON. (L.S.)
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE, Patent Agent,
4, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross.