IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU- FACTURE OF CLIPS, SLIDES, OR FASTENINGS FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER LIKE PURPOSES.
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Ward Jones, of Holloway, in the County
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF CLIPS, SLIDES, OR FASTENINGS FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER LIKE
PURPOSES.
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Sealed the 13th August 1875, and dated the 18th February 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Ward Jones at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 18th February 1875.
I, JOHN WARD JONES, of Holloway, in the County of Middlesex, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF CLIPS, SLIDES, OR FASTENINGS FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND OTHER
LIKE PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of clips,
slides, or fastenings employed for the purpose of closing and securing
the front or side openings of boots and shoes, such clips, slides, or
fastenings embracing and drawing together the two sides of the opening
when slid over it. Several of these clips, slides, or fastenings are

page_text: connected together at suitable distances apart by a cord or chain, one
end of which is attached to the lower end of the opening of a boot or
shoe, the other end being secured when the opening is closed by passing
over hooks, studs, or other contrivances arranged on each side of the
top parts of the opening.
Heretofore clips, slides, or fastenings of this character have been cast,
made, or formed out of solid metal by cutting out the grooves for the
edges of the opening to slide in, but according to my improvements such
clips, slides, or fastenings are made from sheet metal which is sunk or
pressed into form by means of male and female dies and closing or 1
shaping tools, some of which are similar to those employed for making
metal buttons from discs of sheet metal.
In carrying out this part of my improvements I first stamp or cut out
blanks of suitable form from sheet metal, which are afterwards sunk by
means of male and female dies, the edges being then turned over to 1
finish the clip or slide in suitable closing and finishing tools.
According to another part of my improvements I cast clips, slides, or
fastenings of this description of malleable metal with a core in such
manner that the sides or parts forming the clip can be turned over after
being cast.
These clips, slides, or fastenings may also be employed for securing the
edges of gaiters or for other like purposes where the two flexible sides of
any article are to be held together or separated when required.
2
By means of my improvements clips, slides, or fastenings of this
character are greatly reduced in cost, being also much lighter and far 2
more suitable for being applied to the above purposes than heretofore.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Ward Jones in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 18th August 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN WARD 3
JONES, of Holloway, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of February, in the year

page_text: of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five; in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Ward Jones, Her special license
that I, the said John Ward Jones, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said John Ward Jones, 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
THE MANUFACTURE OF CLIPS, SLIDES, OR FASTENINGS FOR BOOTS, SHOES, AND
OTHER LIKE PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said John Ward Jones, 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 John Ward Jones, 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:—
This Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of clips,
slides, or fastenings employed for the purpose of closing and securing
the front or side openings of boots and shoes, such clips, slides, or
fastenings embracing and drawing together the two sides of the opening
when slid over it in the manner described in the Specification of Letters-
Patent granted to Saxon John Maccarthy, bearing date the Tenth day
of October, 1868, No: 3114. Several of these clips, slides, or fastenings
are connected together at suitable distances apart by a cord or chain, one
end of which is attached to the lower end of the opening of a boot or
shoe, the other end being secured when the opening is closed by passing
over hooks, studs, or other contrivances arranged on each side of the
two parts of the opening.
Heretofore clips, slides, or fastenings of this character have been cast
made, or formed out of solid metal by cutting out the grooves for the i

page_text: edges of the opening to slide in, but according to the first part of my
improvements such clips, slides, or fastenings are made from sheet metal,
which is sunk or pressed into form by means of male and female dies
and closing or shaping tools, some of which are similar to those employed
for making metal buttons from discs of sheet metal.
In carrying out this part of my improvements I first stamp or cut out
blanks of suitable form from steel metal, which are afterwards sunk by
means of male and female dies, the edges being then turned over to
finish the clip or slide in suitable closing and finishing tools.

page_text: These clips, slides, or fastenings may also be employed for securing
the edges of gaiters or for other like purposes where the two flexible
sides of any article are to be held together or separated when required.
By means of my improvements clips, slides, or fastenings of this
character are greatly reduced in cost, being also much lighter and far
more suitable for being applied to the above purposes than heretofore.
1 Having thus described the nature of my Invention and the manner of
performing or carrying the same into practice, what I claim is,―
First. The manufacture of clips, slides, or fastenings for boots, shoes,
and other like purposes from sheet metal, substantially in the manner
herein-before described and represented by Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the
Drawings hereunto annexed.
Secondly. I claim the manufacture of slides, clips, or fastenings of
this character by casting them substantially in the manner and for the
purposes herein-before described and represented by Figure 5 of the
Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Ward Jones, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of August,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
five.
Witness,
J. G. TONGUE,
Patent Agent,
34, Southampton Buildings,
Chancery Lane, W.C.
J. W. JONES. (L.S.)