An Improved Fastener for Leggings and Articles of a like nature.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 7th July, 1896-Accepted, 22nd Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fastener for Leggings and Articles of a like nature.
I, CHARLES HENRY MACFARLANE, of Nos. 19 and 21 Swan Street, Richmond,
in the Colony of Victoria, Leather Goods Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:--
This invention has been designed mainly for use as a leggings fastener of the
type which are employed for securing the side vertical joint of leather leggings
although it will be useful as a joint fastener for articles such as gloves, corsets
or boots. The fastener is simple in construction, easily fastened and unfastened
and at the same time it makes a secure joint.
The legging or gaiter is made of leather or other suitable material and it has
a stitched fold at both edges of the joint and in each of said folds metal rods are
secured, the ends of said rods being so constructed as to form the fastening. One
of said rods has its lower end part flattened and bent at about right angles and
provided with a hole and thus forming an eyelet to receive the lower end part of
the other bar such lower end part of the latter rod being preferably smaller in
diameter than the body of the rod and forming a projecting pin or stud. The
upper end part of such rod is also employed as a stud or pin whilst the upper
end part of the first mentioned rod is flattened and bent to any suitable form in
order that it may be used as a spring tongue or catch and it has a hole in it to
receive the upper pin or stud of the other rod. If so preferred the upper spring
tongue or catch may be made of a flattened form instead of being in the form of
a loop or bow and again both the top and bottom ends of said bar may be provided
with spring or flexible tongues or eyelets in order that both may be sprung apart
to grasp the other bar between them.
The fastening will also be useful for corsets and when so used the two bars are
preferably made of flat steel in order to readily conform to the body of wearer.
Further one or more eyelet and pin catches as at present used may be attached to
the bars.
In the fastening suitable for gloves or for the side vertical joint of boots the
two rods or bars are permanently hinged together at their lower ends whilst
the spring tongue and the pin or stud at the opening end are similar to and
serve the same purpose as the corresponding parts herein before described.
Dated this Tenth day of September 1895.
CHARLES H. MACFARLANE.
W. Lloyd Wise,
46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fastener for Leggings and Articles of a like nature.
1. CHARLES HENRY MACFARLANE, of Nos. 19 and 21 Swan Street, Richmond,
in the Colony of Victoria, Leather Goods Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
O 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 has been designed mainly for use as a leggings fastener of the

page_text: type which are employed for securing the side vertical joint of leather leggings,
although it will be useful as a joint fastener for articles such as gloves, corsets or
boots. The fastener is simple in construction, easily fastened and unfastened and
at the same time it makes a secure joint.
My improved fastener will now be described aided by a reference to the
accompanying sheet of drawings, Fig. 1 of which shews it as applied to a legging
and Fig. 2 shews a fastener suitable for either a glove or for the side joint
of a boot, while Fig. 3 shews a modified form of the upper spring catch of the
fastening.
In Fig. 1A is the legging or gaiter made of leather or other suitable material
and having a stitched fold at both edges of the joint and in each of said folds
metal rods B and C respectively are secured, the ends of said rods being so con-
structed as to form the fastening. Rod B has its lower end part & flattened and
bent at about right angles and provided with a hole 1 and thus forming an eyelet
to receive the lower end part e of the bar C such lower end part being either
smaller in diameter than the body of the rod or under a collar on it and so
forming a projecting pin or stud. The upper end part e' of rod C is also employed
as a stud or catch pin, whilst the upper end part of rod B is of any suitable
form in order that it may be used as a spring tongue or spring catch or clip and
it has a hole or gap in it to receive the upper pin or stud c. If so preferred
the upper spring tongue or catch may be made of a flattened form as shown in
Fig. 2 instead of being in the form of a loop or bow as shown in Fig. 1, or it may
be in the form of a spring clip as shewn in Fig. 3 and again both the top and
bottom ends of the bar B may be provided with spring or flexible ungues,
clips or eyelets in order that both may be sprung apart to grasp the bar C
between them.
The fastoning as shewn in Fig. I will also be useful for corsets and when so
used the bars 13 and C are preferably made of flat steel in order to readily conforma
to the body of wearer. Further one or more eyelet and pin catches D as at
present used and as shewn by dotted lines may be attached to the bars B and C.
In Fig. 2 the fastening suitable for gloves or for the side vertical joint of boots
is shewn, the bars and C being in this instance permanently hinged together at
their lower ends at E whilst the spring tongue and pin or stud at the opening
and are similar to and serve the same purpose as the corresponding parts herein-
before described.
The mode of closing or securing my improved fastener is obvious as when the
leggings or gaiter or the corset is upon the wearer the lower stud c is first placed
in the eyelet and then the upper stud d' is forced under the upper spring tongue
so as to force it up until the stud passes to under the hole when the spring tongue
drops or resumes its normal position and grips the stud or the upper pine is force.l
to between the spring clips of the modified form shewn in Fig. 3. To unfasten
it the spring tongue is lifted or the clip opened and the pin e removed there-
from. Again to close the glove or boot fastener the bars B and C are pressed
together upon their hinge pin and by so doing the pin e' passes under the tongue
and engages the hole therein whilst to open it the spring tongue is lifted as befor:
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what 1
claim is,-
(L.) My improved fastener consisting of a holed spring tongue or clip as
formed at the top end and an eyelet as bat the bottom end of a rod or support
as B and said spring tongue or clip and eyelet being adapted to engage studs or
pins as and cat the ends of a rod or support ns C substantially as herein
described and illustrated in my drawings.
(2.) A spring tongue or spring clip as & having a hole as in it arranged at
oud of a rod or support in combination with a pin or stud projecting 'from a rod or
n

page_text: support forming the other half of the fastener substantially as herein described
and illustrated in my drawings.
(3.) A holed spring tongue or spring clip as & formed at end of a bar as B
which is hinged as E to another bar as C the upper end of the latter forming the
pin or stud as e¹ to engage the spring tongue substantially as herein described an
illustrated in my drawings.
Dated this 1st day of June 1896.
CHARLES H. MACFARLANE.
W. Lloyd Wise,
Chartered Patent Agent,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.