Improved Trouser Protector.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 10th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 25th May, 1889
Improved Trouser Protector.
We, DOUGLAS ATWELL of 5 Bennett Street Fitzroy Square. London, W., Wine
Merchant, and CHARLES LONGBOTTOM HINDLE of 22 St. Marys in the City
of York, Publisher, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our invention has for its object to produce a simple, light and effective protective
guard for the inside of the bottoms of trousers, in substitution of the strip of leather
or other protective material usually employed for this purpose, which latter when
saturated with moisture during wet weather, not only increases the weight of the
trousers and causes great discomfort to the wearer, but, from the tendency of the
protective materials hitherto employed to retain moisture, there is always a liability
to rot and destroy the trouser cloth.
In carrying out our invention we form a protective guard of wire of any
suitable
diameter, plain or spiral as may be desired, and bent into a series of convolutions,
the ends of said wire serving as holdfasts to secure the device to the part of the
bottom of the back of the trousers which otherwise during the act of walking would
come in contact with the ground. The guard is provided in the centre with one or
more extension pieces and is fitted to trousers so as to extend a little below the
bottoms thereof, thus preventing-when the wearer is walking-the trouser bottoms
coming into contact with the ground; or, the guard may be formed in two
parts two of the ends being twisted together to serve as a hinge to the, centre of
said guard.
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By the employment of the improved guard above described the bottoms of trousers
are at all times kept from the ground, and whilst contact and friction between the
cloth and the heels of the boots of the wearer is prevented, by virtue of the flexibility
and elasticity of the guard, the shape of the bottoms of the trousers is maintained
the same under all conditions and circumstances.
The wire which we employ in accordance with our invention is preferably coated
with a film of any suitable substance with a view to prevent corrosion of the metal,
such for instance as gutter percha, india rubber, japan varnish or the like.

page_text: As a substitute for wire in the construction of our improved guard, we may cut,
stamp or otherwise form the guard of sheet metal, the metal during the process
of stamping being corrugated if desired, and the device finally treated in the
manner described in the preceding paragraph with a view to prevent corrosion of
the metal.
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JAMES
STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, W.C.,
Agent for Applicants.
Improved Trouser Protector.
We DOUGLAS ATWELL of 5 Bennett Street, Fitzroy Square, London, W. Wine
Merchant, and CHARLES LONGBOTTOM HINDLE of 22 St. Marys in the City of York,
Publisher 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 :-
Our invention has for its object to produce a simple, light and efficient protective
guard for the inside of the bottoms of trousers, in substitution of the strip of leather
or other protective material usually employed for this purpose, which latter, when
saturated with moisture during wet weather, not only increases the weight of the
trousers and causes great discomfort to the wearer, but from the tendency of the
protective materials hitherto employed to retain moisture, there is always a liability to
rot and destroy the trouser cloth.
In carrying out our invention we form a protective guard of wire of any suitable
diameter, plain or spiral as may be desired, and bent into a series of convolutions,
the ends of said wire serving as holdfasts to secure the device to the part of the
bottom of the back of the trousers which otherwise during the act of walking would
come in contact with the ground.
The guard is provided in the centre with one or more extension pieces and is fitted
to trousers so as to extend a little below the bottoms thereof; thus preventing-when
the wearer is walking the trouser bottoms coming into contact with the ground;
or, the guard may be formed in two parts, two of the ends being twisted together to
serve as a hinge to the centre of said guard.
By the employment of the improved guard above described the bottoms of trousers
are at all times kept from the ground, and whilst contact and friction between the

page_text: cloth and the heels of the boots of the wearer is prevented by virtue of the flexibility
and elasticity of the guard, the shape of the bottoms of the trousers is maintained
the same under all conditions and circumstances.
The wire which we employ in accordance. with our invention is preferably coated
with a film of any suitable substance with a view to prevent corrosion of the metal,
such for instance as gutta percha, india rubber, japan varnish or the like.
As a substitute for wire, in the construction of our improved guard, we may cut,
stamp or otherwise form the guard of sheet metal, the metal during the process
of stamping being corrugated if desired, and the device finally treated in the
manner described in the preceding paragraph with a view to prevent corrosion of
the metal.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what wo
claim is :-
The device herein described to serve as a protection for the bottoms of trousers
comprising a guard of wire or sheet metal bent into a series of convolutions the ends
of same being inserted in and serving as holdfasts to the material composing the
trousers, substantially as herein set forth.
JAMES
STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers,
20, High Holborn, London, W.C.,
Agent for Applicants.