AN IMPROVEMENT IN DRAWERS OR PANTALOONS
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
DRAWERS OR PANTALOONS." A communication from abroad by Moritz Krickl,
of the City, County, and State of New York, United States of America.
Sealed the 24th May 1878, and dated the 31st December 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville Clark at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st December 1877.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent. "AN IMPROVEMENT IN DRAWERS OR PANTALOONS." [A communication
from abroad by Moritz Krickl, of the City, County, and State of New York, United
States of America.]
The object of this Invention is to produce in one garment a suspensory and also a
pair of drawers or pantaloons, and the Invention consists in making the drawers or
pantaloons with a flat and broad crotch, which will serve as a suspensory.
Heretofore, the garments, herein above named, were usually made with a sharp
crotch formed by a seam which extends from the front to and along the back. Such
garments are actually detrimental to health in crowding the crotch upwards in the
form of a sharp ridge, and they aid in the production of such diseases as rupture
and the like. They are constructed upon a comparatively irrational plan, as they fail
to support and protect the parts that should be supported.
In the improved drawers of this Invention, the crotch is formed of considerable
width of fabric that extends from the one leg to the other, and which during wear
constitutes a sort of suspensory bag. By this simple construction, which may be
produced by cutting the front and back portions of the drawers or pantaloons,
without reference to the legs, from a continuous piece of fabric, which is made broad
at the middle, a crotch properly rounded from back to front is produced and one
that will during wear be properly folded into a suspensory bag.

page_text: For men on horseback, as well as on foot, this improved suspensory crotch will
be very convenient, because being made in one piece with the drawers or pantaloons
it will dispense with the necessity of using a separate suspensory and series of straps
thereto pertaining.
The drawers may be made without legs if desired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the-conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th June 1878.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent. "AN IMPROVEMENT IN DRAWERS OR PANTALOONS."
A com-
munication from abroad by Moritz Krickl, of the City, County, and State of
New York, United States of America.
The object of this Invention is to produce in one garment a suspensory and
also a pair of drawers or pantaloons, and the Invention consists in making the
drawers or pantaloons with a flat and broad crotch, which will serve as a sus-
pensory.
Heretofore, the garments, herein above named, were usually made with a sharp
crotch formed by a seam which extends from the front to and along the back. Such,
garments are actually detrimental to health in crowding the crotch upwards in the
form of a sharp ridge, and they aid in the production of such diseases as rupture
and the like. They are constructed upon a comparatively irrational plan, as they
fail to support and protect the parts that should be supported.
In the accompanying Drawing,-
Figure 1 is a face view of the improved suspensory drawers or pantaloons,
showing the same applied.
Figure 2 is a plan of the pattern for the improved suspensory drawers; Figure 3
is a face view of the same before application.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the Figures.
In the improved drawers A, the crotch a is formed of a considerable width of
fabric that extends from one leg to the other, as shown in Figure 3, and which
during wear constitutes a sort of suspensory bag, as indicated in Figure 1. By this
simple construction, which may, as in Figure 2, be produced by cutting the fron tand
back portions of the drawers or pantaloons, without reference to the legs, from a con-
tinuous piece of fabric, which is made broad at the middle, a crotch properly rounded
from back to front is produced, and one that will during wear be properly folded
into a suspensory bag, as in Figure 1.
For men on horseback, as well as on foot, this improved suspensory crotch will
be very convenient, because being made in one piece with the drawers or pantaloons
it will dispense with the necessity of using a separate suspensory and series of straps
thereto pertaining.
The drawers may be made without legs, as in Figure 2.

page_text: Having described the nature of the said Invention and the manner of performing
the same,
I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent is, the drawers or pantaloons made with the
suspensory crotch, substantially as herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.