IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS FOR BUTTONS."
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Isaac Jackson and Henry David
Jackson, of 46, Castle Street, Liverpool, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS FOR BUTTONS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Isaac
Jackson and Henry David Jackson at the Office of the Commis-
sioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 24th March 1853.
We, GEORGE ISAAC JACKSON and HENRY DAVID JACKSON, of 46,
Castle Street, Liverpool, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS FOR BUTTONS to be as
follows:-
The Invention consists of combining by a chain or cord a series of
rings or hooks, each ring or hook having a spring tongue; and the
rings or hooks are fixed at intervals, according to the distance of the
holes in the garment, or are capable of sliding on the chain or cord by
means of eyes or small rings.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Isaac Jackson and Henry David Jack-
son, in the Great Seal Patent Office, on the 16th September
1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we,
GEORGE ISAAC JACKSON and HENRY DAVID JACKSON, of 46, Castle
Street, Liverpool, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of March, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said George Isaac Jackson and Henry
David Jackson, Her special licence that we, the said Georgo Isanc
Jackson and Henry David Jackson, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said George Isaac Jackson and
Henry David Jackson, our 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 King-
dom of Great Britain and Treland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS FOR BUTTONS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said George Isaac
Jackson and Henry David Jackson, by an instrument in writing under
our hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, 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 we, the said George Isaac Jackson and
Henry David Jackson, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be par-
ticularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, that is to say:

page_text: The Invention consists of combining by a chain or cord a series of
rings or hooks, each ring or hook having a spring tongue; and the rings
or hooks are fixed at intervals, according to the distance of the holes in
the garment, or are capable of sliding on the chain or cord by means of
eyes or small rings.
No. 1, represents the chain or cord with rings attached at both
ends.
No. 2, represents the chain or cord with rings attached at one end
to slide up and down.
No. 3, represents the chain or cord with rings unattached to apparel.
No. 4, represents the ring closed with button, which can be worn
with or without the chain.
No. 5, shows the ring with springs.
No. 6, shows the mode of attaching the chain or cord to garments
either by swivel, hooks, crown, or other device or fastener.
No. 7, shows the spring put inside (internally) the ring.
No. 8, shows a spring inside (underneath) the ring.
No. 9, shows the eyes to attach the chain, &c. thereto.
No. 10, little knob.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Isaac Jackson and Henry
David Jackson, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this
Sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-three.
GEORGE ISAAC JACKSON. (L.8.)
HENRY DAVID JACKSON. (L.S.)
Witness, JOHN BOLINGBROKE COOPER,
7, Rumford Street, Liverpool.