Wading trous
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 18th May, 1886.
Complete Left, 14th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 15th Mar., 1887.
I, TIMOTHY GREEN DOUGLAS of Castle Mills, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian India Rubber
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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Wading trousers as heretofore constructed, are usually made of waterproof cloth or
other waterproof material suitable for that purpose, and as they are designed
to enable the wearer to wade into deeper water than he can do with wading stockings,
they are made to come up over the loins and even sometimes as high as the arm pits,
and as the wearer may wade till the water reaches to within a few inches
of the top of the trousers, it is needful that they be made entirely water-proof
throughout their entire length. This prevents them being made with buttons and
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fly
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button holes for opening and shutting what tailors call the
trousers so necessary for facility in putting them on and off the body and for similar
indispensable and well understood uses. Further the body or part of the trousers
above the legs has hitherto been made to fit round the body like ordinary trousers
which renders the putting of them on and off the body wholly or partially, very
troublesome and inconvenient. Now the object of my invention is to overcome these
difficulties and to render wading trousers practically as convenient as ordinary trousers,
and the improvements constituting said invention consisting in putting what tailors
call a "gore
orgusset" (generally a triangular shaped piece) of waterproof cloth
or waterproof material, in front or on the back or on either side of the body of such
trousers, in one in two, or in all of such positions. These gores which may be made
of thinner waterproof material than that of the body of the trousers, are attached by
two sides watertightly or waterproofly to the heavier cloth, and the attachments are
made so that the two edges of the thicker cloth, cut or parted to receive the gore hi
any of the positions indicated may be brought together by buttons, by lacing by
buckling or by any convenient equivalent way so that when desired the trousers may
be made to fit the body as tightly and neatly as if they had been made without the
gore or gores and by undoing the buttons or other means of tightening up, the body
of the trousers will be immediately opened out wide of the body and thus give the
freedom and convenience so much desired and required for health ventilation

page_text: and comfort which cannot be had with the wading trousers hitherto in use
except with much trouble and inconvenience. It will be apparent that when the
trousers are tightened up close to the body of the wearer the gores will be folded
together. If the full intended width of the trousers be cut out of the material
employed for their construction the equivalent of the gores may be readily obtained
by bands or strips of cloth or other suitable material cemented or otherwise attached
by one edge so that any two of such bands form between them a V shaped or tri-
angular space, for the bends or strips so attached, when mounted with the tightening
up appliances may be brought together, when the material in the triangular spaces
between them will be folded together, and the upper portion of the trousers thereby
tightened round the body of the wearer.
CARPMAEL & CO.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Wading Trousers.
I TIMOTHY GREEN DOUGLAS of Castle Mills, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, India Rubber
Manufacturer 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 :-
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Wading trousers as heretofore constructed, are usually made of waterproof cloth or
other waterproof material suitable for that purpose, and as they are designed to enable
the wearer to wade into deeper water than he can do with wading stockings, they are
made to come up over the loins and even sometimes as high as the arm pits, and as
the wearer may wade, till the water reaches to within a few inches of the top of the
trousers, it is needful that they be made entirely waterproof throughout their entire
length. This prevents them being made with buttons and button holes for opening
and shutting what tailors call the "fly" or "flap of the trousers so necessary for
facility in putting them on and off the body and for similar indispensable and well
understood uses. Further the body or part of the trousers above the legs has hitherto
been made to fit round the body like ordinary trousers which renders the putting of
them on and off the body wholly or partially, very troublesome and inconvenient.
Now the object of my invention is to overcome these difficulties and to render wading
trousers practically as convenient as ordinary trousers, and the improvements consti-
tuting said invention consisting in putting in what tailors call "gore" or "gusset
(generally a triangular shaped piece) of waterproof cloth or waterproof material, in front
or on the back or on either side of the body of such trousers, in one in two or in all
of such positions. These gores which may be made of thinner waterproof material
than that of the body of the trousers, are attached by two sides watertightly or water-
proofly to the heavier cloth, and the attachments are made so that the two edges of the
thicker cloth, cut or parted to receive the gore at any of the positions indicated may be
brought together by buttons, by lacing by buckling or by any convenient equivalent
way so that when desired the trousers may be made to fit the body as tightly and
neatly as if they had been made without the gore or gores and by undoing the buttons
or other means of tightening up, the body of the trousers will be immediately opened
out wide of the body and thus give the freedom and convenience so much desired and
required for health ventilation and comfort which cannot be had with the wading
trousers hitherto in use except with much trouble and inconvenience. It will be
apparent that when the trousers are tightened up close to the body of the wearer the
gores will be folded together. If the full intended width of the trousers be cut out of
the material employed for their construction the equivalent of the gores may be readily
obtained by bands or strips of cloth or other suitable material cemented or otherwise
attached by one edge so that any two of such bands form between them a V shaped or
triangular space, for the bands or strips so attached, when mounted with the tightening
up appliances may be brought together, when the material in the triangular spaces

page_text: between them will be folded together, and the upper portion of the trousers thereby
tightened round the body of the wearer.
"The drawing annexed shews a pair of wading trousers made in this latter manner.
The trousers are cut out of the material to the full width intended and at the front
two strips of cloth are cemented on and diverge from the fork of the trousers to the
waist. One strip marked A has buttons secured to it before it is cemented on to the
material of which the trousers are formed the other marked B is attached along one
edge only to the material of the trousers leaving a flap in which button holes are
formed to button onto the buttons. As before stated other tightening up appliances
may be used instead of buttons and button holes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1.—The manufacture of wading trousers with one or more triangular or tapering
gores or gussets or their equivalents in the body part and with buttons and button
holes or other fastenings along the diverging sides of the gores or gussets by the
fastening together of which the trousers can be tightened up around the body sub-
stantially as described.
2. The manufacture of wading trousers substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated in the drawing annexed.
CARPMAEL & CO.,
Agents for the Applicant.