Improvements in Cycling Skirts.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycling Skirts.
I, JOHN SIBBALD of 7, Great George Street, Hillhead in the County of the City
of Glasgow, North Britain, Buyer, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention
to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in cycling skirts and has for its object
to construct these in such a manner as to allow the rider the full use of her limbs
without any of the leg being exposed and at the same time to have the appearance
of an ordinary walking skirt when the rider is not on her machine.
In carrying out my Invention I make the skirt with a slit or opening up the
front and back and on one side of each slit there is a row of buttons with a
corresponding number of button holes on the opposite side-or hooks and eyes may
be used. When the wearer is not mounted on her machine these slits or openings
are kept closed by the buttons or hooks already referred to, but when she is about
to mount the cycle the buttons or hooks are simply undone, and each side of the
front slit is buttoned or hooked to each corresponding side of the back slit round
the legs of the wearer thereby having all the advantages of a divided skirt, but
without as already explained exposing any of the leg of the rider and so having a
more graceful appearance. The skirt is so devised that the buttons or hooks are
out of sight when it is used as a walking skirt.
A further advantage is that from the design of the skirt there is little chance
of it getting entangled with the wheel and causing accidents as the ordinary skirt
so frequently does.
In place of the buttoning or hooking already referred to, lacing might be
used.
It is to be understood these skirts are applicable to all or any class of bodice or
iackets
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cycling Skirts.
I, JOLEN SIBBALD, of 7, Great George Street, Hillhead, in the County of the City
of Glasgow, North Britain, Buyer, 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:--
My Invention relates to improvements in cycling skirts and has for its object
to construct these in such a manner as to allow the rider the full use of her limbs

page_text: without any of the leg being exposed and at the same time to have the appearance
of an ordinary walking skirt when the rider is not on her machine.
In order that my Invention may be properly understood and readily carried into
effect I have hereunto appended two sheets of Drawings of which
Figure 1 is an enlarged view of part of the front of a skirt constructed according
to my improvements and Figure 2 is a similar view of part of the back.
Figure 3 is view of the front of the skirt as a walking skirt, while
Figure 4 is a similar view of the back.
Figure 5 is a view of the front of the skirt as knickers previous to mounting the
machine, or after dismounting, while
Figure 6 is a similar view of the back.
Figure 7 is a view of the front of the skirt while cycling, while
Figure 8 is a similar view of the back.
In carrying out my Invention, I make the skirt A with a slit or opening B up
the front and a similar slit or opening B¹ up e back and on one side C of each
slit there is a row of buttons 1) with a corresponding number of buttonholes E on
the opposite side or hooks and eyes may le used. When the wearer is not
mounted on her machine F, and the skirt is used as a walking skirt, these slits
or openings B and B are kept closed by the buttons D or hooks already referred to,
as seen more particularly in Figures 3 & 4, but when she is about to mount the
cycle F the buttons D or hooks are simply undone, and each side of the front slit
is buttoned or hooked to each corresponding side of the back slit round the legs of
the wearer thereby having all the advantages of a divided skirt or knickers, but
without as already explained exposing any of the leg of the rider and so having a
more graceful appearance, as seen more particularly in Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8.
The skirt, as will be observed from the Drawings, is so devised that the buttons
or hooks are out of sight when it is used as a walking skirt.
A further advantage is that from the design of the skirt there is little chance
of it getting entangled with the wheel and causing accidents as the ordinary skirt
so frequently does.
In place of the buttoning or hooking already referred to, lacing might be
used.
It is to be understood that these skirts are applicable to all or any class of bodice
or jackets.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said In-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
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Cycling skirts constructed substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore
described and illustrated on the accompanying sheet of Drawings.
Dated this 17th day of May 1897.
BOTTOMLEY & LIDDLE,
154, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicant's Patent Agents.