IMPROVEMENTS IN GAITERS AND LEGGINGS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Bernard Birnbaum, of 21, New Broad Street, and
14, Blomfield Street, both in the City of London, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN GAITERS AND LEGGINGS."
Sealed the 12th January 1864, and dated the 24th July 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Bernard Birnbaum at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th July 1863.
I, BERNARD BIRNBAUM, of 21, New Broad Street, and 14, Blomfield Street,
both in the City of London, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GAITERS AND LEGGINGS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in gaiters and leggings.
For these purposes, in order that gaiters and leggings may be fastened and
unfastened with greater facility, apparatus is applied in the following
manner :-
At one edge of a gaiter or legging a narrow plate of metal or other suitable
material is applied, having thereon a series of studs or projections, the outer
ends or heads of which are larger than the stems. On the opposite edge of
the gaiter or legging is applied a sliding plate, in which there are holes suitable
for the passage of the heads or ends of the studs or projections above men-
tioned, and to each holo is formed a slot or opening of such dimensions as to
admit of their being slid on the stems of the studs or projections, but too small
for the passage of the heads.

page_text: By these means when a gaiter or legging has been placed round the
leg, and the studs have respectively been passed through the holes in the
sliding plate, applied at the opposite edge of the gaiter or legging, the
moving of the sliding plate will fasten all the studs or projections and the
gaiter or legging will be unfastened by simply moving back the sliding
plate.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Bernard Brinbaum in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
23rd January 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BERNARD
BIRNBAUM, of 21, New Broad Street, and 14, Blomfield Street, both in the
City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Iler most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Bernard Birnbaum, Her special licenco that I, the said Bernard Birnbaum,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Bernard
Birnbaum, my 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 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GAITERS AND
LEGGINGS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Bernard
Birnbaum, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 tho
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Bernard Birnbaum, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to bo particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in gaiters and leggings.
For these purposes, in order that gaiters and leggings may be fastened

page_text: and unfastened with greater facility, apparatus is applied in the following
manner
At one edge of a gaiter or legging a narrow plate of metal or other suitable
material is applied, having thereon a series of studs or projections, the outer
ends or heads of which are larger than the stems. On the opposite edge of
the gaiter or legging is applied a sliding plate, in which there are holes suitable
for the passage of the heads or ends of the studs or projections above men-
tioned, and to each hole is formed a slot or opening of such dimensions as to
admit of their being slid on the stems of the studs or projections, but too small
for the passage of the heads.
By these means, when a gaiter or legging has been placed round the
leg, and the studs have respectively been passed through the holes in the
sliding plate applied at the opposite edge of the gaiter or legging, the
moving of the sliding plate will fasten all the studs or projections, and the
gaiter or legging will be unfastened by simply moving back the sliding
plate.
And in order that my said Invention may be most fully understood, I will
proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows two views of a narrow plate of metal a, suitable for being
applied to one edge of a gaiter or legging; Figure 2 shows two views of a
sliding plate to be applied to the opposite edge of the gaiter or legging;
Figure 3 shows a gaiter or legging with a fastening arranged according to my
Invention..
The narrow plate of metal a has fixed to it three or other number of studs
or projections a¹ of the form shown by the Drawing. The plate is attached
to the gaiter by sewing it in between the two thicknesses of leather of
which the gaiter is formed, the studs a', projecting through holes in the
face. In the sliding plate bare formed a number of holes b', corresponding
with the number of studs or projections a' on the plate a, and sufficiently large
to allow them to pass through freely, and each hole & has a slot , formed
with it of smaller width than the heads of the studs or projections a', but
sufficiently wide to pass over the stems. The plate 6 is secured to the other edge
of the legging by sewing it between the two thicknesses of which the legging
is made, in the same way as the plate a is attached, except that room is allowed
for the plate 6 to slide endwise a short distance to admit of the plate 6 sliding
on the stems of the studs or projections a²; the plate 6 bas a small button b³
fixed to it, for the purpose of sliding it up or down; thus it will be seen that

page_text: when the gaiter or legging has been placed round the leg, and the studs or
projections passed through the holes 6', and the sliding plate slid down by the
button, all the studs or projections will be in the slots 63, and be by them
retained until the plate 6 is slid up, when the heads of the studs or projections
will be able to pass through the holes b', and the gaiter or legging removed
from the leg of the wearer.
In witness whereof, I, the said Bernard Birnbaum, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
BERNARD BIRNBAUM. (L.S.)