New or Improved Garter for Cyclists.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Aug., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 3rd May, 1898-Accepted, 18th June, 1898
New or Improved Garter for Cyclists.
I, THEO FICKER, of 2n Canalstrasse, Leipzig, Germany, Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The present invention concerns a garter for cyclists which advantageously sub-
stitutes the breeches now in use. This garter allows the cyclist to ride at any
time and with any ordinary costume, without having to change trousers or to
make use of trouser clips which are very ungraceful. With this garter the
cyclist can attend to his business or make an excursion without having to put
on a pair of short breeches, he can change his trousers into cycling breeches or
vice versa on the spur of the moment.
This garter is fixed like the ordinary garter which it can eventually substitute,
below the knee, by means of a buckle, then the trousers are turned up and the
edges fixed into hooks and afterwards turned down. If it is necessary to turn the
trousers up higher it suffices to make another plait and fix it into the hooks or
clasps. This garter, consequently, allows the trousers to be lengthened or
shortened at pleasure moreover it saves the trousers, leaves no plaits and offers
an economy of time and money.
L. DUVINAGE,
Agent for Applicant.
I, THEO FICKER, of 21 Canalstrasse, Leipzig, Germany, 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 present invention relates to a garter for cyclists, allowing the transfor-
mation of ordinary trowsers into short breeches having the appearance of those
actually in use.
This garter enables the cyclist to ride at any moment without being obliged
to change his trowsers, or to use trowser-clips which give him an ungraceful
appearance and form creases.
Owing to this garter the cyclist can attend to his business and pay visits in an
irreproachable costume; all he has to do is to detach the trowser legs from the
garters and let them fall, which is done instantaneously, then to continue his
journey he proceeds with the contrary operation; those garters may, at the same
time serve to keep the stockings from falling.

page_text: In the annexed drawing a mode of execution of this garter is given as an
example.
Fig. 1 is a developed view of the garter.
Fig. 2 shows the garter fixed and holding the trousers.
This garter is composed of an elastic band A, for instance a woven ribbon con-
taining threads, to the ends of which two leather bands are fixed, one of which B
is provided with a buckle C at its extremity, the other, forming the band D of
the buckle, is supplied with several holes; moreover elastic hooks E are fixed to
the ends of the bands B 1) connected with the elastic band.
The way of employing these garters is very simple and easy to understand: it
suffices to fasten the garter above the knee by introducing the band D into the
buckle C which holds it, taking care that the hooks E are placed on each side of
the leg and have their branches turned upwards (Fig. 2), then the lower edges
of the trowser-leg are fixed into the two hooks E and the trowsers are drawn so
as to form a plait below the garter. To pull the trowsers higher it suffices to
make another plait and fix it in the hook.
This garter consequently allows the lengthening or shortening of the trowsers
at pleasure, and avoids the formation of creases which are not only ungraceful,
but also tend to tear the cloth.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
The above described garter for cyclists comprising the combination of an
elastic band with at each end a leather strap provided the one with a buckle and
the other with holes to fasten the garter to the leg and hooks fixed to the leather
straps in proximity of the elastic band, for keeping a plait formed in the trowser
legs so transformed in short breeches.
To this and da of 1900
L. DUVINAGE,
Patent Agent, 8, Rue des Princes, Brussels, Belgium.