Improvements in Leggings and Gaiters.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Jan., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 1st May, 1893-Accepted, 22nd July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Leggings and Gaiters.
JOHN EDWARD NOTT BARNES, 70 Mercers Road, Tufnell Park, London, N.,
Draughtsman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved legging, a combination legging and gaiter,
and a combination legging and mud guard, and has for its objects the protection of
the lower part of gentlemen's trousers and upper and back parts of their boots from
mud and wet, the prevention of trousers becoming baggy at the knees, the securing
of the rear part of bottom of trousers hanging close to the ankles, and at the same
time providing for efficient ventilation.
The device may consist of three parts; the first part is a legging covering the leg
of the trousers; the second being a flap or flaps at rear of ankle; and the third,
which covers part of the boot, may be an ordinary gaiter, or a modification of the
same; or the device may consist of two parts only, a legging and a flap.
The legging part may be made of any suitable material or materials, but preferably
of the same cloth as the trousers over which it is worn. I may arrange a spring
clip fastening, or an arrangement of hooks and eyes, so that the two long edges of
legging, when fastened, only just come in contact with each other, without any
overlapping of the principal material, though may provide an underlap of thin
material, or of the lining in cases where the legging is lined; or the edges may
overlap and be fastened by any ordinary method. The legging is preferably made
of sufficient width to prevent the necessity of the trousers being creased down their
length. I may provide thin narrow strips of whalebone, clastic metal, or of other
suitable stiffish material, such as leather, down each side of the legging, and which
may or may not form part of the spring clip fastenings, or to which the spring clip
or other fastenings may be attached.
The method of fastening the legging to the trouser leg is preferably by means of
a metal spring clip at each side of the legging, the free blade of which, at or near,
the top of legging is made of small section so that it can be inserted into an eyelet
hole formed in the seam of the trouser leg. The eyelet holes in seams of trousers
may have a piece of lining inserted round them inside the trouser leg, and can be
formed at any required distance below the knee according to the height of the
legging to be worn. Thus the whole weight of the legging is sustained by that
part of the trouser leg near the top of legging, which is obviously not the case
where a spring clip with two long blades is used to clasp the legging to the trouser
leg from the bottom upwards. My method of fastening the legging to the trouser
leg, tends therefore to prevent the trouser legs from becoming baggy at the knees.
The flap, in the case of a legging and flap only, secures the rear part of bottom
of trousers hanging close to the ankles, by fastening the leggings round them.
the cases of a combined legging and gaiter and combined legging and mud guard,
the flap or flaps join the bottom of the legging to the gaiter or mud guard at their
rear, while leaving a space in the front for ventilation. The flap or flaps may be
a continuation of the same material or materials of either the legging or the gaiter
or of both, or may be made of any other suitable material. One continuous flap
may be used, or there may be a separate flap to both the legging and the gaiter, in
which latter case I provide an arrangement for fastening them together, either of
spring clips and eyelet holes, or of any ordinary method, such as buttons and
button holes; or there may be a flap to the legging part only, with an arrangement
or fastening it to the gaiter.
In any case the fan or fans may be made with or without horizontal folda
ID

page_text: The gaiter or mud guard may be made of any of the materials ordinarily
employed in their manufacture or may be of the saine material or materials as the
legging part, or as the flap..
Dated this 18th day of January 1893.
JOHN EDWARD NOTT BARNES.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Leggings and Gaiters.
1,JOHN EDWARD NOTT BARNES, of 41 Huddleston Road, Tufnell Park, London, N.
Draughtsman, 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 :-
My invention relates to leggings and has for its objects, the protection of the
lower parts of gentlemen's trousers and, in some cases, the upper and back parts of
their boots also, from mud and wet, without causing the trouser legs to be tightly
creased, the securing bottom part of trouser leg, at rear and sides, hanging close to
the ankle, while providing means for efficient ventilation and tending to prevent
the trouser legs from becoming baggy at the knees.
The device may consist of three parts; the first part being the legging proper,
covering the lower part of the trouser leg; the second part being a flap at rear of
ankle, and the third part may be an ordinary gaiter or spat or a modification of
the same, covering the back part of the boot only, known as a mud-guard; or the
device may consist of the first and second parts only.
To illustrate my invention I have annexed a sheet of drawings, throughout the
several views of which like letters indicate like parts.
Figure 1 is an inside view of a legging, when open and laid out flat, wherein
A and A' are respectively the front part and rear part of the legging proper,
which is made of any suitable cloth or material or materials, waterproofed or
otherwise, and of sufficient width to avoid having to tightly crease the trouser
leg over which it is worn; B is the flap which may be a continuation of the
material or materials of the legging proper, or may be made of any other
suitable material; attached to it is a strap or piece of elastic and button with
which to fasten it over the ankle; buttonholes may or may not be formed in it,
with which to fasten it to corresponding buttons provided on an ordinary gaiter
or spat when the legging is worn over a separate spat. Whichever way the
flap is fastened over the ankle it will be turned up inside, so as to cover the
rear part of bottom edge of trouser leg. C and D are the two parts of the side
fastening, each of which consists of a thin strip of metal, preferably steel, and
furnished with hooks and eyes respectively; small holes may be forined in them
to allow of their being stitched to the legging, or they may be preferably, bound
or partly covered with kid, leather, cloth or other suitable material and attached
to the legging in any convenient manner; E is a thin metal strip, attached to
the inside seam of legging, furnished near its top with a hook or clip F of
springy metal and by means of which the legging is suspended from an eyelet-
hole formed in the inside seam of trouser leg. The part of side fastening D is
furnished, near its top, with a hook F', which is complementary to hook Fin
shape and purpose, a corresponding eyelet hole being formed to receive it in the
outside seam of trouser leg.
Figure 2 is a view of the outside half of the legging as worn over the trouser
leg, shewing, in dotted lines, the position of the flap B, turned up so as to
cover the rear part of bottom edge of trouser leg G, and fastened round the
ankle, thus securing the bottom part of trouser leg at rear and sides hanging
close to the ankle, and preventing mud being splashed up onto the inside of

page_text: back part of trouser leg, while, at the same time, an open space is left in front
for ventilation.
Figure 3 is a vertical cross section through the legging and trouser leg, shewing
the hooks F and F¹ each inserted in its respective eyelet hole in seam of trouser
leg G.
Figures 4 and 5 are enlarged views of the two parts of side fastenings C and D
respectively, from which it will be seen that the lower hook Z is made longer
than the upper hook Y, so as to avoid having to insert both hooks simultaneously
into their respective eyes X when fastening the legging. It is obvious that in the
case of three or more pairs of hooks and eyes being used, this principle can be
carried out by making each hook below the top one longer than the one immediately
above it.
Figure 6 is an inside view, to the same scale as Figures 4 and 5, shewing part of
outside seam of trouser leg with legging attached. His an eyelet hole in which is
inserted the hook F¹. Part of the trouser leg is broken away to shew the hook Y
fastened into its eye X.
Figure 7 is a sketch, to the same scale as Figures 4 and 5, of the upper part of
metal strip E, shewing hook F.
Figures 8 and 9 are respectively an inside view of legging when open, with a
spat Jattached to flap B, and a view of the outside half of same as worn over a
trouser leg. In these two views I have shewn ordinary fastenings, to the leggings
proper, of buttons and buttonholes, but I still retain the hooks F and F¹ for the
purpose of suspending the leggings to the trouser leg in the manner hereinbefore
described.
In Figures 1, 2 and 3 the two long edges of legging are shewn so as to meet,
when fastened, without overlapping; but, when desirable, an underlap of thin
material may be provided.
In any form of the legging the fastenings C and D, of Figures 1 and 2, may or
may not be used, but, in every case, the hooks F and F are attached to the legging
for the purpose previously specified, and where the said fastenings C and D and
the metal strip E are dispensed with, thin narrow strips of whalebone, leather or
other suitable stiffish material may or may not be provided in their place, and to
which the said hooks F and F may or may not be attached.
The eyelet holes in seams of trouser leg may have a piece of lining inserted
round them inside, and they can be formed at any required distance below the
knee, according to the length of the leggings to be worn.
By this method of suspending the legging with hooks from eyelet holes in the
seams of trouser leg, the weight of the legging is borne by that part of the trouser
leg immediately below the knee, and tends therefore to prevent the trouser leg
becoming baggy at the knee.
Figure 10 is a view of the bottom part of outside half of legging as worn over
the trouser leg, shewing a modification of my device. All parts of the legging,
with the exception of the flap B, may take any of the forms hereinbefore
described, but the short flap B, has no horizontal fold when legging is worn, and,
instead of being fastened round the ankle, is strapped round the heel of the boot
of wearer, under the instep.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A legging which, when worn, is suspended by hooks from eyelet holes in the
seams of trouser leg, in the manner substantially as hereinbefore described.
2. In combination with the legging the use of a flap which, when worn, is turned
up inside, so as to cover the rear part of bottom edge of trouser leg, and which is
fastened round the ankle, or to a spat, in the manner substantially as hereinbefore
described.

page_text: 3. In combination with the legging and flap, the use of a spat or mud-guard in
the manner substantially as herein before described.
4. In combination with the legging the use of a flap which has no horizontal
fold, and which is strapped under the instep of boot or shoe of wearer in the manner
substantially as hereinbefore described.
T
J. E. NOTT BARNES.