IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF STOCKINGS AND DRAWERS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Jay, of Regent Street, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
STOCKINGS AND DRAWERS."
Sealed the 12th April 1864, and dated the 16th October 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Jay at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 16th October
1863.
I, SAMUEL JAY, of Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF STOCKINGS AND DRAWERS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the insertion into cotton or silk stockings and
drawers of a portion of woollen fabric, the object being to cause such layer or
insertion to cover any portion of the leg, thigh, or hip or back of the wearer,
and act as a protection against the effects of rheumatism or other similar
affections.
I propose to weave, knit, or otherwise insert a portion of woollen fabric in
any part of the stocking except the toe part, this insertion to be of any desired
length and width; and in like manner in'drawers I propose to insert a similar
woollen layer or fabric. By these improvements the advantage of woollen
clothing may be obtained for any particular portion of the body covered by
the above description of garments without the necessity of wearing garments
entirely composed of wool.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Jay in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th April
1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
JAY, of Regent Street,. in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Samuel Jay, Her special licence that I, the said Samuel Jay, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Jay, 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 MANU-
FACTURE OF STOCKINGS AND DRAWERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that
I, the said Samuel Jay, 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 Samuel Jay, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
My Invention consists in the insertion into cotton or silk stockings and
drawers of a portion of woollen fabric, the object being to cause such layer or
insertion to cover any portion of the leg, thigh, hip, or back of the wearer
and act as a protection against rheumatism or other similar affections and the
effects of cold weather.
In order that my said Invention may be clearly understood I proceed to
describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into
practical effect, as follows:-
I weave a woollen fabric in any desired portion of a silk or cotton stocking
or drawers (excepting the toe part), such fabric to be of any required dimen-
sions in width or length, or even completely encircling any portion of the

page_text: garment. This can easily be accomplished by the substitution or addition of
the requisite woollen warp and weft or other woollen filament during the
process of manufacture in the loom. The woollen fabric may be knitted in
the garment if desired, or it may be cut out from a piece and inserted by any
well-known means of effecting such work. By these improvements the
advantage of woollen clothing may be obtained for any particular portion of
the body covered by the above description of garments without the necessity
of wearing garments entirely composed of wool.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would remark in conclusion, that I do
not limit myself to the precise details I have described, since the same may
obviously be varied or modified by the insertion of a woollen fabric in stockings
and drawers by means different to those I have suggested, but what I claim
as my Invention and desire to be secured to me by the herein in part recited
Letters Patent is, the insertion into cotton or silk stockings and drawers of a
woven, knitted, or other woollen fabric, either during the process of manu-
facture in the loom or otherwise, or as a subsequent addition, substantially as
herein specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Jay, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Thirteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE,
Office for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square,
Charing Cross.
SAMUEL JAY. (L.S.)