AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CARRYING SECURELY RAILWAY PRO OTHER TICKETS, SO AS TO AFFORD A READY INSPECTION THEREOF
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Matthew Woodifield, Civil Engineer, of York,
Chambers, Adelphi, London, in the County of Middlesex, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS FOR CARRYING SECURELY RAILWAY
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Matthew Woodifield
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
31st August 1865.
I, MATTHEW WOODIFIELD, Civil Engineer, of York Chambers, Adelphi,
London, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS-FOR CARRYING SECURELY-RAILWAY AND
OTHER TICKETS, SO AS TO AFFORD A READY INSPECTION THEREOF," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists of a plate, cruciform, circular, or of any other con-
venient form, furnished with hooks, confining a ticket when placed thereon
on one or more edges, the other edge or edges being confined by a similar
hook or hooks attached to an elastic band or bands fastened to the plate. To,
the back of the plate is attached a button, bar, pin, band, or other convenient,
fastening by which the plate and appendage may be fixed to the apparel or
person of the wearer.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Matthew Woodifield in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th February 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MATTHEW
WOODIFIELD, Civil Engineer, of York Chambers, Adelphi, London, in the
County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Matthew Woodifield, Her special licence that I, the said Matthew
Woodifield, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Matthew Woodifield, 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 APPARATUS FOR CARRYING SECURELY RAILWAY AND
OTHER TICKETS, SO AS TO AFFORD A READY INSPECTION THEREOF," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Matthew Woodifield, 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 Matthew Woodifield, 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:-
:
This Invention consists of an. instrument, herein-after described; for carrying
securely railway or other tickets on the person. For this purpose a steel or
metallic plate is used, in length equal to the breadth of the ticket to be
secured, the two extremities of which are returned on themselves, forming
two hooks for the purpose of embracing two opposite edges of the ticket.
At right angles to their extremities, and attached to the plate by being
passed through two openings therein, is fixed an elastic band terminated at
either end by metallic hooks; the elastic band being of such a length as will

page_text: allow it to be drawn out and be made to embrace with its hooks the two remain-
ing opposite edges of the ticket. Attached to this elastic band is a line com-
municating with a bar, button, hook, loop, or strap, for the purpose of
attachment to the button, button hole, or other portion of the dress of the
wearer.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention I will proceed to
describe the manner of using the same.
It being required to secure a ticket by the aid of an instrument as above,
it should be introduced under the two fixed hooks of the metallic plate,
its top being secured by one of the hooks attached to the elastic band, the
other hook being drawn over the remaining edge; to release it it is required
but to disengage one of the hooks attached to the elastic band, when the ticket
may be withdrawn.
Although in the above description I have specified two fixed hooks as being
attached to the metallic plate and two to the elastic band, yet my Invention
includes an arrangement in which the proportions of fixed and moveable hooks
may be varied.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of using
the same, I would have it understood that what I claim is the combined
arrangement berein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Matthew Woodifield, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of February; in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
MAT. WOODIFIELD. (L.S.)