IMPROVEMENTS IN TROUSERS
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry John Nicoll, of the Firm of Messieurs H. J.
and D. Nicoll, Merchant Tailors, 114 to 120, Regent Street, in the
County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TROUSERS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry John Nicoll
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 11th June 1859.
I, HENRY JOHN NICOLL, of the Firm of Messieurs H. J. and D. Nicoll,
Merchant Tailors, 114 to 120, Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
TROUSERS," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to render the fork or seat of trousers less
liable to split at that particular part, and to give a certain degree of elasticity
to that part, which affords greater ease and comfort to the wearer, and is
peculiarly adapted for horsemen or persons whose vocation causes much strain
upon that part of the trousers. At the fork or point of juncture between the
legs of trousers I propose inserting a piece of elastic material, in color
resembling that of the trouser material, which, being carefully let in, will not
readily be detected from the original material, the result being, that in rising
from the saddle, instead of the material itself resisting the strain upon the
fork or seat, the elastic material will give, and return to its former position
when the strain is removed.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry John Nicoll in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 10th December 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
JOHN NICOLL, of the Firm of Messieurs H. J. and D. Nicoll, Merchant
Tailors, 114 to 120, Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Henry John Nicoll, Her special licence that I, the said
Henry John Nicoll, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Henry John Nicoll, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN TROUSERS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Henry John Nicoll, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and
in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be
filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry John Nicoll, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the fol-
lowing statement thereof, that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is to render the fork or seat of trowsers less
liable to split at that particular part, and to give a certain degree of elasticity
to that part, which affords greater ease and comfort to the wearer, and is par-
ticularly adapted for horsemen or persons whose vocation causes much strain
upon that part of the trousers.
In order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now
proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, as follows:-
At the fork or point of juncture between the legs of trousers is inserted a

page_text: piece of elastic material, which being carefully let in will not readily be
detected from the original material, the result being, that in rising from the
saddle, instead of the material of which the trousers are made resisting the
strain upon the fork or seat, the elastic material will give and return to its
former position, when the strain is removed. This application is also well
adapted to the trousers of persons whose vocation causes any strain upon
that particular part, either from stooping, packing, and other such like
occupations.
Having now fully described the nature and object of my said Invention
of "Improvements in Trousers," and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, I would remark, in conclusion, that what I claim as my Invention
is, rendering the forks and seats of trousers elastic, and less liable to split than
trousers of the ordinary construction, in the manner and for the purpose
herein fully described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry John Nicoll, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Ninth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE,
Agent for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square,
Charing Cross.
HENRY J. NICOLL. (L.S.)