AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GAITERS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Parker, of Northampton, for the
Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GAITERS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francis Parker
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 28th December 1858.
I, FRANCIS PARKER, of Northampton, do hereby declare the nature
of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GAITERS"
to be as follows:-
This Invention consists of manufacturing gaiters in such manner as
to make them elastic, so that being made complete and not open at the
sides, they may be extended and passed over the feet, and then by
reason of introduced india-rubber the gaiters will contract and fit cor-
rectly to the upper part of the feet and ancles. For this purpose, two
fabrics, or it may be leather, are cemented together by india-rubber
cement, there being parallel strands of vulcanized india-rubber (held in
an extended state) introduced between such two fabrics or leather till
the cement is dry, when on releasing the strands of vulcanized india

page_text: rubber the fabrics or leather will pucker up. From such fabrics or
leather proper forms for a gaiter are cut, and are joined at the back
and front; the strands of vulcanized india-rubber running by preference
in a horizontal or nearly horizontal position in the gaiter.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Francis Parker in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 26th June 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
FRANCIS PARKER, of Northampton, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of December, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in
the seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Francis Parker, Her special
licence that I, the said Francis Parker, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Francis Parker, my execu-
tors, 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 "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GAITERS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Francis Parker, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, 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 the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Francis Parker, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, thereof (that is to say):-

page_text: This Invention consists of manufacturing gaiters in such manner as
to make them elastic, so that being made complete and not open at
the sides, they may be extended and passed over the feet, and then by
reason of introduced india-rubber, the gaiters will contract and fit cor-
rectly to the upper part of the feet and aucles. For this purpose, two
fabrics, or it may be leather, are cemented together by india-rubber`
cement, there being parallel strands of vulcanized india-rubber (held in
an extended state) introduced between such two fabrics or leather till
the cement is dry, when on releasing the strands of vulcanized india-
rubber the fabrics or leather will pucker up. From such fabrics or
leather proper forms for a gaiter are cut, and they are joined at the
back and front; the strands of vulcanized india-rubber running by
preference in a horizontal or nearly horizontal position in the gaiter.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed
to describe the manner of performing the same.
The fabrics or leather which I use in carrying out my Invention are
such as have before been manufactured for various purposes, the
making of which is not therefore claimed by me. They each consist
of two fabrics, or of leather, cemented together, having between them
strands or threads of vulcanized or permanently elastic india-rubber,
the strands or threads of india-rubber being held distended when con-
necting the two fabrics, or two pieces of leather, or one piece of leather
and one of fabric together, and also till the cement used in cementing
the two fabrics, or the two pieces of leather, or of leather and fabric,
together is set, as is well understood. These fabrics or the manufac-
tures of leather above described, are to be cut into the proper forms for
making up gaiters, keeping the strands or threads of india-rubber in the
fabrics or leather horizontal, or nearly so as may be, when in the
made up gaiters.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews a side view of a short gaiter; and Figure 2, a side
view of a long gaiter; these are each made of two pieces joined by a

page_text: produced by the contracting of the india-rubber run vertically. The
short gaiters have buttons fixed thereon, and a braid at c, c, to produce
a finished effect and to give the appearance of the front of the gaiter
being folded over and buttoned. The long gaiter is made without
buttons and without such appearance of folding and buttoning over,
but these details may be varied. The gaiters thus made are to be
drawn on to the foot in place of being fixed by buttoning as here-
tofore, and they will be found to set better than when made as.
formerly.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would have it understood that what I claim
is, the manufacture of gaiters herein described.
. In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Parker, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of June, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Witness,
WILLIAM BALL
Ladies Lane,
Northampton.
FRANCIS PARKER. (L.8.)