Improvements in Combined Knickerbockers and Trousers for Cycling or other Purposes.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 16th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 15th pr., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combined Knickerbockers and Trousers for
Cycling or other Purposes.
1, EDMUND BRÜCKNER, of Häberlstrasse 19, Munich in the Empire of
Germany, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
The object of the present invention is to provide a garment for cyclists or others
which may be worn like knickerbockers or as trousers, and at the same time allow,
by means of a special arrangement of being pulled up to the knees and kept in that
position. The trousers thus shortened assume the appearance and features of a
well shaped knickerbockers and they thus offer the advantage that a cyclist,
pedestrian or other person wearing them may transform them into either shape
convenient for his purpose.
Along each seam inside of both legs of the trousers runs a string the latter being
sewed on to the bottom or foot end and passing through rings along said seams up
to about the height of the knees where it may pass through to the outer surface of
the legs of the trousers. At that point there is a locking device which receives
the string and is adapted for fastening or loosening the latter, as the case may be,
by means of a movable angle lever or clip. To prevent the string from getting
disengaged from said locking device, and therewith from the above mentioned
rings, its upper end is provided with a button.
In order to conceal this locking and adjusting device, the material along the
seams may be doubled the upper layer of which covers said device. The longi-
tudinal seams are interrupted at that place to permit access to the device when the
trouser legs are pulled up.
When the trouser legs are to be pulled up the clip is unclosed and the string
pulled, the legs of the trousers will form folds between the rings rising from the
lower part of the leg. Having then locked the clip, that part of the string which
has been pulled out is concealed by passing it back into the slit.
Each leg of the trousers is provided with two clips as described i.e. one for each
longitudinal seam.
Instead of this arrangement any other provision may be made for fastening the
string after pulling up the legs of the trousers.
Dated this 19th day of June 1895.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
Improvements in Combined Knickerbockers and Trousers for
Cycling or other Purposes.
I, EDMUND BRÜCKNER of Haberlstrasse 19, Munich in the Empire of
Germany, Merchant, 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 object of the present invention is to provide a garment for cyclists or

page_text: others, which may be worn like knickerbockers or as trousers, and at the same
time allow, by means of a special arrangement of being pulled up to the knees and
kept in that position. The trousers thus shortened assume the appearance and
features of a well shaped knickerbockers and they thus offer the advantage that a
cyclist pedestrian or other person wearing them may transform them into either
shape convenient for his purpose.
The left part of the annexed drawing represents a view in partial section of this
improved combined knickerbockers and trousers as used for ordinary purposes,
while the part on the right shows the same in the form of knickerbockers.
Along each seam e inside of both legs of the trousers a runs a string b, the latter
being sewed on to the bottom or foot end at c and passing through rings d along
said seams up to about the height of the knees, where it may pass through to the
outer surface of the legs of the trousers. At that point there is a locking device f,
which receives the string b and is adapted for fastening or loosening the latter as
the case may be, by means of a movable lever angle or clip g. To prevent the
string from getting disengaged from said locking device and therewith from the
above mentioned rings its upper end is provided with a button h.
The locking device may be of any suitable kind that will nip or grasp the
string.
In order to conceal this locking and adjusting device, the material along
the seams may be doubled, the upper layer of which covers said device. The
longitudinal seams are interrupted at that place to permit access to the device
when the trouser-legs are pulled up.
When the trouser-legs are to be pulled up, the clip is unclosed and the string b
pulled, the legs of the trousers will form folds between the rings d rising from the
lower part of the leg. Having then locked the clip, that part of the string which
has been pulled out, is concealed by passing it back into the slit.
Each leg of the trousers is provided with two clips as described, i.e. one for each
longitudinal seam; instead of this arrangement any other provision may be made
for fastening the string after pulling up the legs of the trousers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
-claim is:
Improved combined trousers knickerbockers, having strings passing along the
longitudinal seams of both legs, slits arranged at a suitable height in said seams
for handling the strings to pull, tighten or loosen the same and locking devices or
clips for keeping the strings in place for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 16th day of March 1896.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents for Applicant.