Improvements in Stockings.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stockings.
We, FRANCIS JOSEPH STOHWASSER, and GEORGE BIRTCHNELL WINTER, both of
39, Conduit Street, in the County of Middlesex, Merchants, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows;―
This invention relates to stockings to be used by sportsmen and others in con-
junction with knee breeches, and it has for its object a novel method of making
such stockings so that they present a very effective appearance, being made to
resemble what are well-known as Indian putties," which consist of a strip or
band of cloth or other suitable fabric or material wound helically round the leg
from the ankle up to, or nearly to, the knee of the wearer, where it is tied or
fastened by strings or other fastenings.
Such "putties" have an effective appearance, but they are difficult or trouble-
some to fit upon the leg and to fasten, and they are also liable to become more or
less loose and to require re-fastening. By the present invention we combine the
helical band or puttie" round the stocking with the stocking itself, so that
when the latter is drawn on and held in position it presents the same appearance,
or nearly so, as a stocking with a puttie" wound round it, whilst no alteration,
or adjustment, or fastening of any kind for the helical strip, is needed.
"
In order to put our invention in operation we make the stocking of wool or
other ordinary material and of suitable pattern-and round it we sew a helical
strip or band extending from the ankle to the upper part of the stocking below
the knee of the wearer. This strip may be of cloth or other woven fabric, or of
leather or other suitable flexible material, of any desired colour and design,
but preferably contrasting strongly with the material of the stocking
itself, and the upper end of the strip or band is preferably left loose and of
sufficient length to be tied round the leg and fastened by a buckle or other
fastening.
Instead of the arrangement described, the stocking itself may be woven or
made so that when completed a helical pattern of suitable colour and design is
formed in and of the substance of the stocking itself, so as to present the appear-
ance of a separate band wound helically round the stocking as above described.
The part so formed may be woven or made of greater thickness than the re-
mainder of the stocking, so that it stands up above the latter, or it may be woven
or made so that it forms a projecting rib and presents the appearance more or less
of a separate strip or band wound round as described.
We do not confine ourselves to any particular design or material or colour,
which may be varied as mayobe desired, the object of our invention being to
make a stocking which, when being worn, shall present the appearance of a
separate strip or band wound round the leg, and resembling more or less what is
known as a puttie."
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page_text: ments In Stockings.
We, FRANCIS JOSEPH STOHWASSER, and GEORGE BIRTCHNELL WINTER, both of
39, Conduit Street, in the County of Middlesex, Merchants, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement, and
accompanying drawing, that is to say; -
This invention relates to stockings to be used by sportsmen and others in con-
junction with knee breeches, and it has for its object a novel method of making
such stockings so that they present a very effective appearance, being made to
resemble what are well-known as Indian " putties," which consist of a strip or
band of cloth or other suitable fabric or material wound helically round the leg
from the ankle up to, or nearly to, the knee of the wearer, where it is tied or
fastened by strings or other fastenings.
Such "puitties" have an effective appearance, but they are difficult or trouble-
some to fit upon the leg and to fasten, and they are also liable to become more or
less loose and to require re-fastening. By the present invention we combine such a
helical band or puttie" round the stocking, with the stocking itself, so that
when the latter is drawn on and held in position it presents the same appearance,
or nearly so, as a stocking with a "puttie" wound round it, whilst no alteration,
or adjustment, or fastening, of any kind, for the helical strip, is needed.
In order to put our invention in operation we make the stocking of wool or
other ordinary material and of suitable pattern, and round it we sew a helical
strip or band of sufficiently flexible elastic material, extending from the ankle
to the upper part of the stocking below the knee of the wearer.
This strip may
be of cloth or other woven fabric, or other suitable flexible material, of any desired
colour and design, but preferably contrasting strongly with the material of the
stocking itself, and the upper end of the strip or band is preferably left loose and of
sufficient length to be tied round the leg and fastened by a buckle or other
fastening.
In the accompanying drawing, which is in illustration of our invention,
Figure 1 represents such an arrangement as that just described. a is the body of
the stocking, and b is the separate band of the same or other suitable flexible
material, of a colour or texture contrasting with the stocking a to which it is sewn
cr fastened.
The upper end of this band is shown fastened to a buckle at d.
The separate strip b may be made elastic as well as flexible.
Instead of the arrangement described, and illustrated in Figure 1, the stocking
itself may be woven or made so that when completed a helical pattern of suitable
colour and design is formed in and of the substance of the stocking itself, so as
to present the appearance of a separate band wound helically round the stocking
as above described.
The part so formed may be woven or made of greater thickness than the re-
mainder of the stocking, so that it stands up above the latter, or it may be woven
or made so that it forms a projecting rib and presents the appearance more or less
of a separate strip or band wound round as described.
Figure 2 illustrates this method of manufacture and arrangement.
a is the
body of the stocking, the material of which is so woven or knitted that a helical
strip 6 of a different colour or design, is formed upon its surface, above which it
preferably projects somewhat, as shown, so as to present the appearance of a
separate helical strip wound round the stocking, though it really forms an inte-
gral part of the latter. The helical strip or design may be formed of the same

page_text: material as the body of the stocking a, upon which it shows as simply a slightly
projecting rib of the same material and colour.
We do not confine ourselves to any particular design or material or colour,
which may be varied as may be desired, the object of our invention being to
make a stocking which, when being worn, shall present the appearance of a
separate strip or band wound round the leg, and resembling more or less what is
known as a 'puttie."
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. Stockings, in which a helical strip of flexible material is wound round the
leg of the stocking to which it is permanently sewn or otherwise attached, sub-
stantially as described and illustrated in Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing.
2. Stockings, in which a helical band or strip round the leg of the stocking is
woven or knittekl in the body of the stocking itself, such band being of dif-
ferent colour or design to the remainder of the stocking, or projecting somewhat
above the surface of the stocking, substantially as described and illustrated in
Figure 2, of the accompanying drawing.
D1 11: 11 1 Ant 1000
EDWARDS AND CO.,
65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.