Improvements in Trouser Protectors.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1886
Complete Left, 14th Oct., 1887
Complete Accepted, 15th Nov., 1887.
Improvements in Trouser Protectors.
We FRIEDRICH WILHELM RABENSTEIN and CARL GUSTAV LEHMANN, both of
Weissenfels on Säale, in the Empire of Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a trouser protector for preventing the bottoms of the legs
of trousers becoming worn and soiled at the heel and the invention has for its object
to provide a cheap and simple protector which may be readily affixed to the boot heel,
whenever required or be removed therefrom in fine weather.
The trouser protector of this invention, consists of a spur-like horn made of elastic
material and provided with a means of coupling it to a spike permanently fixed in
the boot-heel.
The head of the spike which projects from the back of the boot heel may either be
screw-threaded, the coupling socket of the spur being correspondingly threaded, or,
the head may be plain and the coupling socket be united thereto by a bayonet joint.
The spur when not in use may be carried in the pocket with the coupling socket
attached. This socket is connected to the spur by an inwardly turned flange on the
former, received in a circumferential groove in the latter. When the protector is
coupled to the spike, the head of the latter will come against the base of the spur, and
force it into tight contact with the flange of the socket, whereby a perfectly secure
connection of the spur to the boot heel is obtained.
The comparatively small head of the spike can never be in the way or cause the
trousers to catch while walking, nor can the spur, because it is made of rubber or
some other elastic material.
F. W. RABENSTEIN.
C. G. LEHMANN.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London,
Patent Agents.

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Improvements in Trouser Protectors.
We FRIEDRICH WILHELM RABENSTEIN and CARL GUSTAV LEHMANN, both of
Weissenfels on Säale, in the Empire of Germany, 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 :-
This invention relates to a trouser protector for preventing the bottoms of the legs
of trousers becoming worn and soiled at the heel, and the invention has for its object
to provide a cheap and simple protector which may be readily affixed to the boot
heel, whenever required or be removed therefrom in fine weather.
The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawing which
illustrates different methods of connecting the protector to the boot heel.
Figures 1, 2, and 3 show a mode of attachment by screw coupling and figures 4
and 5 by a bayonet joint. Figure 1 shows the protector detached from the boot heel,
figure 2 shows it attached and in section. Figure 3 shows the parts separately.
Figures 4 and 5 show views similar to figures 1 and 2.
The trouser protector of this invention, consists of a spur-like horn a made of
elastic material and provided with a means 6 of coupling it to a spike e permanently
fixed in the boot-heel.
The head of the spike c which projects from the back of the boot heel may either
be screw-threaded, the coupling socket of the spur being correspondingly threaded as
in figures 1, 2 and 3, or the head may be plain and the coupling socket be united
thereto by a bayonet joint as in figures 4 and 5.
The spur a when not in use may be carried in the pocket with the coupling socket
attached. This socket is connected to the spur a by an inwardly turned flange d on
the former, received in a circumferential groove e in the latter. When the protector
is coupled to the spike c the head of the latter will come against the base of the spur,
and force it into tight contact with the flange of the socket, whereby a perfectly
secure connection of the spur to the boot-heel is obtained.
The comparatively small head of the spike c can never be in the way or cause the
trousers to catch while walking, and this applies equally to the spur a which is made
of rubber or some other elastic material with a similar object.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is-
1. A trouser protector consisting of the spur like horn a made of elastic material,
the socket b, and the spike c, the socket being connected to the spur by the inwardly
turned flange d of the socket entering the groove e of the spur, substantially as shown
and described.
2. In a trouser protector constructed substantially as described, the employment of
a bayonet point fastening in lieu of a screw joint as specified.