Improvements in Gaiters and Leggings Made from Textile Fabrics.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gaiters and Leggings Made from Textile Fabrics.
WILLIAM FOTHERGILL, Holbeck, Leeds in the County of Yorkshire, Woollen
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:-
Gaiters and leggings made from textile fabrics, for gentlemen and ladies' wear,
have generally been made from fabrics of a plain description, or without much
pattern or design, and in cases where a pattern or design has been put upon the
fabrics these have been invariably produced in the processes of weaving or
embroidering.
The object of my invention is to produce gaiters and leggings made from
textile fabrics, that shall have on their outer surfaces patterns or designs, the said
patterns or designs being produced otherwise than by the processes of weaving or
embroidering.
In carrying out the object of my invention I preferably weave the textile fabrics
of which I make my improved gaiters and leggings in a plain style, and dye them
in a single colour, although I do not confine myself to the use of plain woven
fabrics, dyed in a single colour, as my invention can be applied to fabrics having
a pattern or design woven into them, and also to fabrics dyed in one or more colours,
as may be required.
Upon the textile fabrics, I print required patterns or designs in one or more
colours, these patterns or designs being produced by any of the methods of printing
upon textile fabrics; I also emboss patterns or designs upon the same textile fabrics,
this being done by any of the methods of embossing upon textile fabrics.
The printed patterns or designs are preferably of a different kind to the embossed
patterns or designs, so that they form a contrast to one another. In cases where
I think it necessary, I only print patterns or designs on the textile fabrics,
leaving out the embossing, and in other cases I only emboss them, leaving out the
printing.
The textile fabrics, after being printed and embossed, I make up into gaiters and
leggings of required shapes and dimensions; the said gaiters and leggings having
patterns or designs produced in a distinct manner from those produced by weaving
or embroidering.
Another method of carrying out the object of my invention is by using textile
fabrics having a plain weave or ground, in the making up of my improved gaiters
and leggings, and after they are made up, I print or emboss patterns or designs
upon the outer surfaces of the said gaiters or leggings, by the usual methods of
printing and embossing.
Figure 1. gives an example of one of my improved gaiters, the dark squares a¹, a¹,
being the printed portion of a pattern or design, and the diagonal lines a², a², being
the embossed portions of the pattern or design.
Figure 2, gives an example of one of the gaiters, the pattern or design b, b,
being only printed, the embossing being left out, and
Fig. 3, gives an example of a legging that is embossed only, the printing being
left out, the pattern or design c', c¹, being embossed.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In the manufacture of gaiters and leggings, the employment of textile
fabrics, upon which patterns and designs have been printed and embossed as
described.
2. In the manufacture of gaiters and leggings the employment of textile fabrics
upon which patterns or designs have been printed as described.
3. In the manufacture of gaiters and leggings the employment of textile fabrics,
upon which patterns or designs have been embossed as described.
4. Improved gaiters and leggings made from textile fabrics, the said gaiters and
leggings having patterns or designs printed or embossed upon them after they are
made, as described.
Dated this 9th day of September 1896.
H. & R. THORD,
Agents for Applicant.