Improvements in Breeches and Knickerbocker-breeches.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 12th Sept., 1890-Accepted, 22nd Nov., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Breeches and Knickerbocker-breeches.
HENRY HUNTSMAN & BENJAMIN FRANCIS HENRY HUNTSMAN, trading as Breeches
Makers at 126 New Bond Street, London, W., do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
"
The invention consists in making what are technically called the "strappings
and "knee-bands" of breeches & of knickerbocker breeches in one piece, either
without a legseam, or with a legsean, according to the formation of the leg & the
material to be used, thus enabling the seam where the "strappings" would otherwise join
the "knee-bands to be dispensed with, and rendering unnecessary that the material
of which the body & legs of the breeches are made should be extended underneath the
"strappings," so as to get rid of the plaits which are formed at the inside of the leg
at the knee-join when mounted.
We claim making & cutting the "strappings" and "knee-bands" of breeches and
of knickerbocker breeches in one piece either with or without a legseam to them.
Dated thin 32nd day of December 188a
HENRY HUNTSMAN.
BEN. FRANK HUNTSMAN.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Breeches and Knickerbocker-breeches.
We, HENRY HUNTSMAN and BENJAMIN FRANOIS HENRY HUNTSMAN, trading as
Broeches Makers, both at 126 New Bond Street London W. 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 invention consists in making what are technically called "the strappings" and
"the kneebands" of tight-fitting, or loose knickerbocker breeches, in one piece, either
without a leg scam, or with a leg seam according to the formation of the leg & the
material to be used, thus dispensing with the seam where "the strappings" would
otherwise join "the kneebands," and rendering unnecessary that the material, of
which the body and legs of the breeches or knickerbocker breeches are made, should
be extended underneath " the strappings," so as to get rid of the plaits which are
formed at the inside of the leg at the knee-joint when mounted in the saddle.
To accomplish this, the breeches are cut in curved lines at a, b, & a, d, as shewn in
the Figures 1, 2, 4, 5.
Should a leg seam not be used, the kneebands & strappings are cut in one piece,
as shewn in Fig. 3, and the edges a, b, & b, c, in Fig. 3 are joined to the edges a, b,
& b, c in Fig. 1, and the edges a, d & d, e, in Fig. 3 are joined to the edges a, a, & d, e,
in Fig. 2.
When a leg seam is used, then Figs. 4 & 5 are cut the same as Figs. 1 & 2, but
the strappings & kneebands are cut, as represented in Figs. 6 & 7-Then the
edges 9,&f, h, in Fig. 6, nre joined to the edges g, ƒ, &ƒ, h, in Fig. 7,—when so
adjusted the edges a, g, in Fig. 7, and b, c in Fig. 6 are joined to the edges a, b,
& b, c, in Fig. 4, and the edgos a, d, & d, e, in Fig. 7 are joined to the edges a, d, & d, e
in Fig. 5-thus completing the breeches in either alternative.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
The cutting & making the strappings & kneebands of breeches or knickerbocker

page_text: breeches in one piece, either with or without a leg seam to them, as shewn in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 21st day of Octoho 1800
HENRY HUNTSMAN.
B. F. H. HUNTSMAN.