Improvements in Devices for Protecting Trousers against Mud.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 17th Feb., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Protecting Trousers against Mud.
A communication from D. VANDEN DRESSCHE, of Rue du Progres, Brussels, in
the Kingdom of Belgium.
I, Alfred JuliIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex,
Chartered Patent Agent, 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 has for its object to provide an effectual protection for the lower
extremities of the trousers against stains from mud and rain.
The trouser-protector or, as the inventor prefers to call it, "Paracrotte" consists
essentially of a hook fitted on to the counter or heel of the boot or shoe. The
bottom of the trouser-leg is inserted in this hook which holds it up and prevents its
descending so low as to be stained by the wet and mud of the street. This hook
or "Paracrotte" may be applied in various different ways to the boot as will be
seen from the accompanying drawings.
Figures 1, 2, and 3 illustrate a system in which the hook is bent in the form of a
spring and fixed in a pocket or sheath made in the counter of the boot.
Figure 1 shows the back of the boot with the pocket or sheath, prepared for the
reception of the spring-hook or "Paracrotte."
Figure 2 shows the mode of construction (bending) of the hook, the central part
forming a spring in order that it may be held firmly in the pocket or sheath.
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Figure 3 shows a side view of the boot with the spring-hook or "Paracrotte ” in
the pocket, as shown in dotted lines.
In lieu of a pocket or sheath, the spring-hook may be fixed in a simple claw.
Figures 4 and 5 show the hook respectively in front and side view as simply
sewn on the boot, either outside or between the leather and the stiffening piece of
the counter.
Figure 6 shows a system of fastening the "Paracrotte" or spring-book by means
of an elastic band fastened by a buckle. The elastic band is passed through two
openings in the back-plate of the hook, and is applied outside of and over the
boot, the buckle closing over the front of the boot.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A trouser-protector consisting of a hook bent in the form of a spring engaging
either in a sheath or pocket or in a simple claw provided in or on the back or
counter of the boot substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 12, and 3
of the accompanying drawings.
2. A trouser-protector consisting of a hook sewn on the back or counter of the
boot substantially as described and illustrated in Figures 4 and 5 of the accom-
panying drawings.
3. A trouser-protector consisting of a hook through holes in the back plate of
which an elastic or equivalent band is passed encircling the boot and closing by
means of a buckle in front of the foot substantially as described and illustrated in
Figure 6 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 15th day of January 1894.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.