Improvements in Wading or Fishing Stockings or Trowsers.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 25th May, 1887
Complete Left, 17th Feb., 1888
Complete Accepted, 29th Mar., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wading or Fishing Stockings or Trowsers.
I, ARTHUR SHERWOOD DOUGLAS Rubber Manufacturer, of Castle Mills, Fountain-
bridge, Edinburgh, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
According to this invention I form the outside surface of fishing stockings or
trowsers with a covering or layer of india rubber and produce a lighter, neater, more
limber and comfortable article than hitherto made. The seams are vulcanised and this
does away with the use of unvulcanised taping which is necessary to render stockings
and trowsers made from vulcanised cloth, as is customary, water proof, while the
surface being non-absorbent will dry very rapidly and stockings may at once be packed
away with other articles without the risk of injury, to themselves or those articles, that
attends the use of stockings made of double texture cloths in which one of the fabrics
is on the outside and therefore an absorbent of water and mud. Moreover owing to
the smooth surface they are subject to a much reduced water friction while standing in
or wading against a stream. I form the stockings or trowsers in the following
manner: A piece of suitable cloth such as moleskin several yards in length and one
or two yards or thereby in width is first coated with a thin layer of dissolved india
rubber (by the well known solvent process) and outside of that layer is laid (by the
same or preferably by the equally well known calender process) another and thicker
layer of india rubber which is destined to form the outside surface of the stockings.
The rubber employed in these layers or coatings is in each case prepared with sulphur
and capable of being vulcanised.
From a piece of cloth so coated pieces are cut of required form for making stockings
and these are cemented together with a solution of india rubber and sulphur susceptible
or vulcanisation.
The sole is further thickened by a piece of thin sheet rubber, and the whole outer
surface varnished or not as may be required, and the stockings are then vulcanised in

page_text: the way and by the well known modes of vulcanisation employed in the manufacture
of rubber overshoes or goloshes.
By this method of manufacture I obtain fishing stockings or trowsers with smooth
seams vulcanised throughout and with a non-absorbent surface which offers less
resistance to running water and furthermore a neater more limber and more comfortable
fitting article than those hitherto in use.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Wading or Fishing Stockings or Trowsers.
I, ARTHUR SHERWOOD DOUGLAS, Rubber Manufacturer, of Castle Mills, Fountain-
bridge, Edinburgh, 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 :-
According to this invention I form the outside surface of fishing stockings or
trowsers with a covering or layer of india rubber and produce a lighter, neater, more
limber and comfortable article than hitherto made. The seams are vulcanised and this
does away with the use of unvulcanised taping which is necessary to render stockings
and trowsers made from vulcanised cloth, as is customary, water proof, while the
surface being non-absorbent will dry very rapidly and stockings may at once be packed
away with other articles without the risk of injury, to themselves or those articles, that
attends the use of stockings or trowsers made of double texture cloths in which one of
the fabrics is on the outside and therefore an absorbent of water and mud. More-
over owing to the smooth surface they are subject to a much reduced water friction
while standing in or wading against a stream. I form the stockings or trowers in the
following manner :-A piece of suitable cloth such as moleskin several yards in
length and one or two yards or thereabouts in width is first coated with a thin layer
of dissolved india rubber (by the well known solvent process) and outside of that
layer is laid (by the same or preferably by the equally well known calender process)
another and thicker layer of india rubber which is destined to form the outside surface
of the stockings or trowers. The rubber employed in these layers or coatings is in
each case prepared with sulphur and capable of being vulcanised.
From a piece of cloth so coated pieces are cut of required form for making stockings
or trowsers and these are cemented together with a solution of india rubber and
sulphur susceptible of vulcanisation.

page_text: The sole is further thickened by a piece of thin sheet rubber, and the whole outer
surface varnished or not as may be required, and the stockings or trowsers are then
vulcanised in the way and by the well known modes of vulcanisation employed in the
manufacture of rubber overshoes or goloshes.
By this method of manufacture I obtain fishing stockings or trowsers with smooth
seams vulcanised throughout and with a non-absorbent surface which offers less
resistance to running water and furthermore a neater, more limber and more
comfortable fitting article than those hitherto in use.
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 :-
The construction of wading or fishing stockings and trowsers of unvulcanised india
rubber waterproofed cloth and afterwards subjecting them to the vulcanising process
as described.