A PATTEN AND CLOG, BEING OF INPINATE UTILITY AND EASE TO SUCH PERSONS AS MAY WEAR THEM
Year: 1808

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
STEDMAN, of Horton Kirby, in the County of Kent, Farmer, send greeting.
WHEREAS His present Majesty King George the Third, in and by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-fourth day of May last past, for Himself, His heirs
and successors, did give and grant unto me, the said John Stedman, His special
licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said John Sted-
man, my executors, administrators, and assigns, and every of them, by myself
and themselves, or by .my and their deputy and deputies, servants and agents,
or such others as I, the said John Stedinan, my executors, administrators, or
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time, and at
all times thereafter during the term of years therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called England, and the Dominion of
Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A PATTEN
AND CLOG, BEING OF INPINATE UTILITY AND EASE TO SUCH PERSONS AS MAY WEAR
THEM;" in which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso obliging me, the
said John Stedman, by an instrument in writing under my hand and scal,
particularly to describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be made, and to cause the same to be enrolled
in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within one calendar month next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the
same, reference. being thereunto had, will more fully appear.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said John
Stedman, do hereby describe and ascertain the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed; by the Plan or Drawing at the
top of these Presents, and the following description thereof (that is to say) :-
The bottom or sole part of the clog is divided into two or three parts or
pieces. Plate No. 1 shews the clog in two parts; A, the fore part; B, the
hind part. The clog is made of cork, wood, or any material; but I claim
the exclusive right of using cork, as being new manufacture for clog and
pattens, either with or without my new-invented principle, as will be hereafter
described. To the forepart A are fixed the ties or a toe piece or covering of
the shoe, which may be made agreeable to the taste of the maker or wearer.
To the bind part B, round the heel from E to G, is put a piece of stiff leather
or thin plate iron or tin; it may either be nailed, screwed, or sewed, as shall
be found most convenient. This piece of leather or tin stands up about three
quarters of an inch, but it must be regulated, according to the heel of the shoe
which it is intended to receive or in compass. This piece, when made of iron
or tin, must be covered or lined with leather or some soft material to prevent
rubing the shoe or heel. The two pieces or parts A, B, is joined together by
a hinge made of any metal. Plate No. 2 shews the hinge fixed to..the two
picces A, B. C, the hinge. This hinge is fastened either with screws, nails; or
revets. To the under part of this hinge is riveted a spring or springs. Plate
No. 3 shows the spring fixed to the hinge and in action. Plate. No. 4 shows
the spring with the hinge annexed inactive. The clog should always be made
to fit the shoc, so, that when its on, it should be straight, or in the position of
Plate the 5, which shows the spring active. Plate 6 shows the position of the
clog when off the foot and the spring inactive. There must be nailed or
screwed a piece of thin leather along the joint to prevent the wet or dirt
getting to the springs, which would impede their action.
My second mode of joining the two.parts-A,-B,-and-making the clog act on my
Patent principle is, by fixing a flat spring or springs bent in a curve. . Plate 7
shows a side view, and Plate the 8 shows a perpendicular view of the spring.
One end of the spring is to be screwed or revited to part A, on the other end
to part B. of the clog. The sole of the clog may be divided into three parts or
pieces, and the spring hinge put. to each joint; or the joint nearest the toe
may have an hinge of metal or leather without a spring. The flat spring, as
above described, can be put to join the three pieces together. Plate 9 shows
. a perpendicular view of the clog with the.....That spring fixed by
. screws or rivets to each piece. The ties of the clogs may be fixed on-the too
or middle piece, or a.tic, ou each, which shall be found most convenient.
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page_text: The intent of my new Invention, and of those springs above described, are
to prevent the clog coming off the foot, to remove the usual unpleasant
clacking noise, to hinder the dirt throwing up, and to facilitate and lessen the
fatague of walking. To the sole part of my clogs, and to make them into a
patten, there are put on the under side, both on the fore and hind part, a piece
of thin plate or sheet-iron rim nearly the shape and size of the part A and B.
The depth of this piece of iron must be regulated according to the height of
the patten, from one quarter of an inch to two or three. The ends of this
piece of iron is riveted together, and there are three or four little pieces
turned down with holes made in them to scrow or nail the rim to the bottom
or sole parts. Plate 10th shows the under side of the patten. H, H, the
iron rim; within this rim is put a piece of cork nearly to fill it np. M, M,
the cork; this cork is fastened by a screw passing through it to the bottom,
or a screw or two put through the rim into the cork. The intent of this cork
is to strengthen the rim and prevent its being filled up with dirt. This rim of
sheet iron may be put to the bottom of a common clog, if required; in that
case the rim may be made in one piece, as Plate 11th. W, the inside of the
rim. This rim is to be filled with cork to prevent it's being filled with dirt.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Tenth
day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Eleventh day of June,
in the year above mentioned, the aforesaid John Stedman came before
5 our Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and everything therein contained, in form above written.
And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according to the tenor of the
Statute in that case made and provided.