Safety Riding Habit Skirt.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Feb., 1893-Accepted, 9th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Safety Riding Habit Skirt.
JOHN SCHEU 29 South Molton Street Oxford Street London in the County
of Middlesex Tailor do hereby declare the nature of. this invention to be as
follows:-
To be cut in six pieces may be cut in less or more No. 1 called the front piece
which hangs from the waist as long as the rider wishes it.
Piece No. 2 to be cut to the length of the bend of the knee & then joined with
piece No. 1 to form a place for the knee on the right side. On to the so called
joined seam a flap or knee-cap (which is called piece No. 3) in length of about
9 inches more or less as required to be sewn from the knee upwards & on the other
side of piece No. 2 which is open; to sew as many pieces of elastic as may be
required to hook or button round the thigh of the right leg on to the so called
(piece No. 3) the flap or knee cap.
Piece No. 4 which is also joined on to piece No.-1, but below the knee the
length required & goes half round the calf, & on this said piece is a stirrup of
elastic which loops in the heel of the right boot.
Picce No. 5. to be joined on to piece No. 2 as far down as where the elastics
starts from. The said piece No. 5 has as many darts starting from the waist as
required to form a seat. The other side of piere No. 5 is cut longer than the
(said piece No. 5 which is joined on to piece No. 2) in proportion to the front
length; which forms an opening between pieces No. 4 & 5. The said piece No. 5
has on one end of the opening, an elastic stirrup which loops round the heel of the
left boot.
Piece No. 6 to be joined on the longer side of piece No. 5, & the other side of
piece No. 6 to be joined on piece No. I the so called front piece, with the exception.
of an opening or a placquet hole the length required. This complete the whole
skirt.
Dated this 5th day of December 1892
JOHN SCHEU.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Safety Riding Habit Skirt.
JOHN SCHEU Tailor 29 South Molton Street London in the County of Middlesex
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 :---
The safety riding habit skirt is a riding skirt in its way to prevent the skirt from
becoming entangled with the pommel of saddle in case of a fall & therefore renders
it as a safety riding habit skirt.
The safety of the said invention is the knee cap & the opening of the skirt by
the right leg.
The safety riding habit skirt is to be cut in six pieces (but it may be cut in a
greater or lesser number).
Piece No. I called the front piece has a dart from waist to knee forming a part
of the knee.
Piece No. II to be cut to the length of the bend of the knee and when joined
with piece No. I finishes the forming of the knee.
In piece No. III one side is cut longer than the other. The shorter side is

page_text: joined on to piece No. II and has as many darts starting from the waist as required
to form a seat.
At the bottom of joined pieces Nos. II and III of which No. II is the longest,
elastic tabs with button holes or loops are sewn; as many as may be required;
which go round the thigh just above the knee the tabs are sewn on piece No. II,
and fasten on to piece No. VI which is called a flap or knee cap.
:
At the bottom of the shorter side of the piece No. III are two pieces of elastic
web, about three inches in width at the bottom, and about four inches in length;
more or less, as may be required. One piece of this elastic web is joined on the
seam of No. II and III pieces, the second piece next to it in No. III; each piece
finishing into a point. The bottom end of piece No. III which is not joined is
furnished with a looped piece of elastic which loops on to the heel of the left boot
when on horseback.
Piece No. 1V (one side of which is joined on piece No. III) is joined to piece
No. 1, with the exception of an opening or placket hole the length required. The
pieces No. IV and No. I may be cut in one piece with the exception of cutting in
an opening or placket hole the length required.
Piece No. V is to be joined on to piece No. I on the same side as where pieces
No. I and II are joined together at the places marked E. E. on plates V and I,
but below the knee. The piece V has on the top at the extreme end a button hole
or other fastening, to button or fasten over on to piece No. III when off the
horse. When on horse back it is untastened and goes round the calf of the right
leg and has an elastic loop where required to loop on to the heel of the right
boot.
Piece No. VI is called a flap or knee cap made without darts or with darts to
form the knee; the straight side is sewn inside on the dart on piece No. I upwards
the other side has the fastenings which go round the thigh by the knee corresponding
with the tabs sewn on the longest piece of No. II.
The plates are marked with corresponding letters a. a. b. b. to show how they
are to be joined.
Plate VII is the safety riding habit skirt complete, showing the opening.
When on horseback the lappet or knee cap No. 6 goes round the thigh of the
right leg, above the knee and fastens by means of tabs T. T. or any other fastening.
The lappet or knee cap No. 6 is sewn on to the inside of the habit near where the
knee will come, as directed in the instructions.
Piece No. V
horseback, goes round the calf of the right leg, and has
two elastic loops 1. 1. one to loop on to the front of the right boot, and the other
on to the heel of the same foot.
When not on horseback, piece No. V is fastened on to button No. 7, thus
covering up the opening.
On piece is also an electic loop L 3 to go on the heel of the left foot.
Plate VI shows the right side of the safety riding habit. Piece No. I is at
the left hand side and joins piece No. II at the dotted line a. a. Piece No. II
joins piece No. 111 at the line b. b. Piece No. 1 joins piece No. IV. at the
line c. c. and piece No. IV joins picce No. I on the left side at the dotted
line d. d. N N. are pieces of elastic web.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is.
The novelty that the under part of the skirt does not go over the pommel as in
the ordinary skirts so leaving the rider quite free in case of accident.
The invention of the knee cap and the opening of the skirt by the right leg,
JOHN
SCHEU,
29, South Molton Street, Oxford Street, London, W.