IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESERVING TROUSERS FROM DIRT AND WEAR, AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOB."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Augustin Ligabue, of the City of Paris, in the Republic
of France, Tailor, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESERVING
TROUSERS FROM DIRT AND WEAR, AND IN APPARATUS THEREFOB."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Augustin Ligabue at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th June 1880.
AUGUSTIN LIGABUE, of the City of Paris, in the Republic of France, Tailor.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESERVING TROUSERS FROM DIRT AND WEAR, AND IN
APPARATUS THEREFORE."
The object of this Invention is to preserve the bottom of the legs of trousers from
dirt and wear. The apparatus employed for this purpose consists of a thin metal or
other band or ribbon in form of a spur; this band is connected to the trouser leg
either by sewing through holes made for the purpose, or it is fixed by means of
movable pins held in bearings mounted on the band.
Hero and there, at equal distances, are supports to keep the trousers from the
ground; an equal number of hemispherical buttons corresponds with the supports,
which latter either screw into the buttons or fix into them by spring fastening.
The supports may also be in the form of springs.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Augustin Ligabue in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 21st
December 1880.
AUGUSTIN LIGABUE, of the City of Paris, in the Republic of France, Tailor.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN PRESERVING TROUSERS FROM DIRT AND WEAR, AND IN 5
APPARATUS THEREFORE."
The subject of the present Invention is a simple contrivance somewhat in the
form of a spur, and which consequently I term "the civil spur," whose object is to
preserve the lower portion of the legs of trousers from dirt and wear; this is
effected by preventing the trouser legs touching the ground, so as to obviate any 1
absorption of mud or wet, and at the same time avoid friction on the heel.
The apparatus merely consists of a fine metallic ribbond or band forming the
principal part or body, to which is added supports, which may be removed, when
desired, with case.
In order to conform with tho law and prevent imitations I have here annexed 1
Drawings illustrating the principle, with slight modifications to which the
Invention is susceptible without departure from the original notion.
The same letters of reference indicate like parts shown in the several Figures, of
which Fig. 1 represents a spur of the description referred to, Fig. 2 being details
of the same; a is the metal band or ribbond; are small holes for fixing it to the
trouser legs; these apertures may be replaced by the pin c, which is movable and
forms part of the mounting, as shown Figs. 3 and 4.
This ribbond also bears (as shown in the Drawings) hemispherical buttons d, in
number equal to that of the supports e, which may be variable.
The hemispherical buttons may be fixed to the supports by means of screws; this:
method of screwing, however, may be replaced by a pin fixing by means of a spring,
as shown by Figs. 5 and 6.
Finally, I claim as my Invention the apparatus herein described, consisting of a
metal band in form of a spur, furnished with supports connected to the band either
by buttons and screws or by spring catches, as herein before mentioned, and as
illustrated by the accompanying Drawings; the object of the said apparatus being
to keep the trouser legs from the ground, and by this means prevent their
absorbing the mud and wet, and also preventing friction on the heel, thus
preserving this part of the trousers from wear.
In witness whereof, I, the said Augustine Ligabue, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
A. LIGABUE. (L.S.)