AN IMPROVED MEANS OF OR APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING KNAPSACKS AND PACKS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Reynolds Floyd, of Commercial Road East,
in the County of Middlesex, Artizan, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
Sealed the 3rd December 1861, and dated the 4th June 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Reynolds Floyd
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 4th June 1861.
I, WILLIAM REYNOLDS FLOYD, of Commercial Road East, in the County
of Middlesex, Artizan, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "AN IMPROVED MEANS OF OR APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING KNAPSACKS AND
PACKS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in connecting to the upper part of the knapsack or
pack, or to a strap fixed thereto, as well as to the two shoulder straps, what I
term a yoke, that is, a piece of leather or other like suitable material to fit
the upper part of the back above or in a line with the shoulders.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Reynolds Floyd in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 4th December 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
REYNOLDS FLOYD, of Commercial Road East, in the County of Middlesex,
Artizan, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said William Reynolds Floyd, Her special licence that I, the said
William Reynolds Floyd, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said William Reynolds Floyd, 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, tho Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "AN IMPROVED MEANS OF OR APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING KNAP-
SACKS AND PACKS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
William Reynolds Floyd; my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should parti-
cularly 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Reynolds Floyd, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say:
My Invention consists in connecting to the upper part of the knapsack or
pack, or to a strap fixed thereto, as well as to the two shoulder straps, what I
term a yoke, that is, a piece of leather or other like suitable material to fit
the upper part of the back above or in a line with the shoulders.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a prospective view, and Figure 2
is a plan of a knapsack fitted with my means of supporting it.
a is the yoke stitched to the knapsack and to the two shoulder straps c, c.
The yoke is perforated as shewn to allow of ventilation. The shoulder

page_text: straps c, c, are buckled to the top of the knapsack, pass through tabs d, d,
are stitched to the yoke, and, descending to the bottom, are there secured by
hooks.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the improved
means of or apparatus for supporting knapsacks and packs, substantially as
herein-before described with reference to the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Reynolds Floyd, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Second day of December, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-one.
W. R. FLOYD. (L.S.)