Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 1st May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 10th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 16th Nov., 1895
We, HARRISON KEANE, Tailor, of The Hill House, Douglas in the County of
Cork, Ireland and MICHAEL GUIDER, Accountant, of 27, Grand Parade, Cork,
Ireland, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improvement in so called trees for holding distended
buckskin and other similar riding breeches when not in wear or during the
operation of cleaning, pipe-claying, and drying, so as to prevent shrinkage and
maintain them in proper shape.
Heretofore such trees have been distended by mechanical devices and have been
bulky to carry and pack for transport, and require special fitting or adjustment to
adat them to the size and shape of the breeche
The object of the invention is to provide a lighter and more portable means of
holding the breeches distended, which is self-adapting to the size and shape of the
breeches so as to more efficiently maintain them in shape.
The invention consists of pneumatically inflated trees made of rubber coated
canvas or equivalent air-tight material shaped in such manner that when introduced
and inflated within the breeches the trees will accurately conform to the shape of
the breeches and hold the same distended, means being provided for preventing the
undue distension of the inflated trees at the waist and bottoms of the legs where
the expansion of the trees is not resisted by the breeches.
Dated this 1st dov of Vov 100*
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
We, HARRISON KLANE, of The Hill House, Douglas, in the County of Cork,
Ireland, Tailor, and MICHAEL GUIDER, of 27, Grand Parade, Cork Ireland,
Accountant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the
sane is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
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This invention relates to an improvement in so-called "trees for distending
breeches (of buckskin, corduroy, and other material, such as used for hunting,
riding, and sporting purposes) when not in wear, or during the operation of cleaning,
pipe-claying and drying, so as to prevent shrinkage and maintain them in proper
shape.
Heretofore the trets used for this purpose have been actuated by mechanical
devices, which require special fitting or adjustment to adapt the trees to the size and
shape of the breeches. Such mechanically-actuated trees have necessarily been
bulky when packed for transport.
The object of this invention is to provide a means of holding breeches distended
which is not only extremely light and portable, but is self-adapting to the size and
shape of the breeches so as to more efficiently maintain them in shape.

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The invention consists of "trees capable of being pneumatically inflated, the
trees being made of vulcanized sheet caoutchouc, such as used for footballs, (or
equivalent air-tight material) so seamed and shaped that when the trees are inflated
within the breeches they will accurately conform to the shape of the breeches and
hold the same distended, means being provided for preventing the undue distension
of the inflated trees at the waist opening of the breeches where the expansion of the
trees is not resisted by the breeches.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein the pneumatic
trees are illustrated as in use, A being the trees and B the breeches. The "trees
are formed of an air-tight bag, shaped like a pair of breeches, (except that it is
closed at the waist and at the ends of the legs), an air inlet valve C being provided
for blowing up by the mouth, or for the attachment of an inflator or pump as
used for pneumatic tyres. D is a cross brace or disc of leather or other material
with button hole tabs d for attachment to the brace buttons of the breeches, the
cross brace or disc and tabs serving to ensure proper stretching of the body portion
of the breeches in the lengthwise direction to retain the air bag within the breeches
and to prevent undue distension of the air bag, besides serving as a means of
suspension from an overhead support by a loop and eye E. The trees when
deflated are inserted within the breeches, the cross brace D is attached by its
tabs d to the brace buttons of the breeches, and the air bag is then blown out, as
represented in the drawing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. Trees for distending riding and other breeches formed of a collapsible
breeches-shaped air-tight bag provided with an air inlet valve and capable of being
pneumatically inflated, substantially as specified.
2. A breeches-shaped pneumatically-inflated air-tight bag, in combination with
breeches to be distended and with means, substantially as described, of attachment
to the waist band of the breeches for ensuring proper stretching of the body portion
of the breeches in the lengthwise direction, retaining the inflated bag in position
and preventing undue distension, as described.
Dated this 10th day of October 1895.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.