Improvements in or relating to Knickerbockers or the like for Children's Wear, and to the Suspension thereof.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 26th July, 1895
'omplete Specification Left, 25th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 30th May, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Knickerbockers or the like for
Children's Wear, and to the Suspension thereof.
I, WILLIAM HOLMES of 17 Millstone Lane, Leicester in the County of
Leicester Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to knickerbockers drawers or the like as worn by young
children and it is intended to replace the usual method of suspending such garments
by an improved method rendering them more easily removed and put on and having
other advantages from the absence of buttons formerly used.
In place of buttons and button holes for attaching such drawers or the like to
some upper or hody garment, the upper edge, waist, or waist band, of the improved
drawers is made with a suitable number of holes equally spaced or otherwise
through which an elastic band may be threaded in order to gather in the waist, the
said band having any suitable means for fastening together its ends.
The garment so gathered may be simply slipped down or off, or drawn up without
unfastening anything; whereas the band may be unfastened for removal from the
garment when the latter is washed or for any other purpose.!
Dated this 26th day of July 1895.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
Improvements in or relating to Knickerbockers or the like for
Children's Wear, and to the Suspension thereof.
I, WILLIAM HOLMES, of 17 Millstone Lane, Leicester, in the County of
Leicester, 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 relates to knickerbockers drawers or the like as worn by young
children and it is intended to replace the usual method of suspending such garments
by an improved method rendering them more easily removed and put on and having
other advantages from the absence of buttons formerly used.
The invention is illustrated in the annexed drawing where A represents the
drawers or knickerbockers.
In place of buttons and button holes for attaching such drawers or the like to
some upper or body garment or to braces, the upper edge, waist or waist band, of
the improved drawers is made with a suitable number of holes a equally spaced or
otherwise through which an elastic band 6 may be threaded in order to gather in
the waist, the said band having any suitable means for fastening together its ends,
for instance a button and button hole as at c.
The garment so gathered may be simply slipped down or off, or drawn up without
unfastening anything; whereas the band 6 may be unfastened for removal from the
garment when the latter is to be washed or for any other purpose

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is -
Knickerbockers or drawers having at the waist holes such as a, in combination
with a band 6 passed through said holes and fastened; the whole substantially as
described and illustrated.
Dated this 42 -
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agents to Applicant.