An Improved Legging, and Method of and Means for Fastening the same.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Legging, and Method of and Means for Fastening the
same.
I, ARTHUR EDWIN BISHOP, of 24, Duke Street, Cardiff, Saddler, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:--
This invention relates to leggings and legging fastenings.
According to this invention, the legging is made without buttons, button-holes
or eyelet holes. It is a wrapper of leather or other suitable material and is
adapted to be placed around the leg of the wearer, the edges to overlap to an
extent depending on the size of the wearer's leg. The fastening is effected by a
pair of straps which are sewn to the legging front, one on each side of the devision.
One of the straps is fitted at the free end with a buckle, and the other has
holes for the buckle pin. In fastening the legging on the leg of the wearer, the
straps are crossed in front over the division and are then re-crossed at the back.
Thereafter, they are brought again to the front and buckled together near the
legging top.
The legging is preferably made of leather which has been so prepared and
hardened that it requires no stitching or lining to assist it in maintaining its
proper shape.
Dated this 17th day of October 1898.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Chartered Patent Agent, Bristol.
An Improved Legging, and Method of and Means for Fastening the
same.
I, ARTHUR EDWIN BISHOP, of 24, Duke Street, Cardiff, Saddler, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to leggings and legging fastenings.
According to this invention, the legging consists of a wrapper of leather, or
other suitable material, adapted to be placed around the leg of the wearer, the
edges overlapping to an extent depending on the girth of the wearer's leg. The
fastening is effected by a pair of straps which are either sewn or pivotally con-
nected to the legging; one on each side of the division.
One of the straps is fitted at the free end with a buckle, and the other has
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page_text: holes for the buckle pin. In fastening the legging on the leg of the wearer, the
straps are crossed in front over the division and are then re-crossed at the back.
Thereafter, they are buckled together near the legging top.
The legging is preferably made of leather which has been so prepared and
hardened that it requires no stitching or lining to assist it in maintaining its
proper shape.
Referring to the accompanying drawing, Fig. 1 represents a front view of my
improved legging, Fig. 2 a side view, and Fig. 3 a back view.
The legging a, which is made without buttons, button-holes or eyelet holes,
consists of a wrapper of leather or other suitable material. The material of
which it is preferably made is leather which, by rolling and tempering or other-
wise treating, has been so hardened that it requires no stitching or lining to assist
it in maintaining its proper shape. When placed upon the leg, one edge of the
legging overlaps the other. Attached at opposite points to the legging a are
straps b, b. The attachment may be made by sewing, but it is preferred that the
attachment be made by means of rivets or pins -Fig. 2-on which the straps
have freedom to turn. The attachment is thus pivotal in character. The strap b
is fitted with a buckle d, the pin of which takes into holes provided in the strap .
In securing the legging on the leg, the straps are crossed in front over the division.
At the back the straps are re-crossed. Thereafter, the straps are buckled together,
as shown. Loops e and f are provided to assist to keep the straps b, b in place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I would have it under-
stood that I do not broadly claim a legging without buttons, button-holes, eyelet
holes or other edge or like fastening, but what I claim is :-
An improved legging such as a having attached thereto a pair of straps such
as b, b, connected each at opposite points and adapted to be crossed in front
and re-crossed at back and to be buckled together at top, substantially as herein-
above described with reference to the accompanying sheet of illustrative
drawings.
Dated this 13th day of July 1899.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Chartered Patent Agent, Bristol.