A New or Improved Combined Cyclist's Trousers Clip and Protector.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1896-Accepted, 5th Dec., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Combined Cyclist's Trousers Clip and
Protector.
We, ALBERT EDWARD LOWENTIAL, of The Leatheries Limited, of Nos. 1 and 2
Cregoe Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manager of the said company, and
ALBERT GEORGE WALKER, of No. 11, Bodle Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, in the
County of Northumberland, 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 :-
This invention consists of the herein described new or improved combined cyclist's
trousers clip and protector which is designed to serve the two purposes of a clip to
hold the bottom of the trousers folded round the cyclist's ankles and to protect the
near sides of his trousers from grease or dirt by rubbing on the cranks or other
parts of the machine..
Our combined trousers clip and protector consists of a metallic band like spring
clip, adapted to clip round the cyclist's trousers just above the ankle, and a leather
or other pad fixed to the said clip and adapted to fit against and protect the near
side of the trousers.
Our said invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawing on which Fig. 1
shews our combined clip and protector in use on the cyclist's right leg; Fig. 2 is
a general view of the said clip and protector as seen from the inside and Fig. 3 is a
similar view of a slightly modified form of the same.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures.
A is the metallic spring band and B is the leather, or celluloid or other pad fixed
thereto. The spring band A is by preference made from strip spring steel bent to
a circular or oval form like some other well known trousers clips and by preference
made with the ends a' a² overlapping so as the better to fit round legs of various
sizes. The pad or protector B is cut from leather or other suitable material
preferably about an oval form as shewn the spring clip A being fixed transversely
across it by any convenient means, as by being threaded through holes 6' cut in the
pad B as shewn in Figs. 1 and 2, or by the spring clip A being threaded through a
channel formed by sewing or otherwise fixing a cross band across the pad B
as shewn in Fig. 3; or the spring clip A may be fixed to the pad or protector B
by any other convenient means as for instance by rivets or by sewing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
1. The combination with a metallic spring band clip, adapted to clip round the
trousers above the ankle, of a pad or protector fixed to said clip and adapted to fit
against and protect the near side of said trousers, substantially as herein before set
forth.
2. The combination of the metallic spring band clip A and the pad or protector B
fixed together and adapted for use in the manner substantially as herein before
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 13th day of October 1896.
CHARLES BOSWORTH XETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.