A New or Improved Device for Exhibiting Trowsers in Tailors' Shop Windows.
Year: 1892

page_text: Cate of Application, 9th Mar., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 7th Nov., 1892-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Device for Exhibiting Trowsers in Tailors'
Shop Windows.
I, ERNEST ALBERT WATTS, of 353 York Road, Battersea, in the County of
Surrey, Tailor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
In dressing their shop windows tailors frequently hang a number of pairs of
trowsers over a rail at the back of the window. Now to make these trowsers set
nicely, it is customary to line the lower parts of each leg with some stiffening
material which acts to keep the ends of the legs open and nicely rounded, as if they
were in wear. It is obvious that the great drawback to this method of shaping the
trowsers is that they have to be specially made for the window, and that it is
practically impossible to show a pair of ordinary stock trowsers to their full
advantage in the window. Furthermore, it is often difficult to dispose of trowsers
stiffened in this manner.
Now the object of this invention is to provide a device that may be applied
to ordinary trowsers to render them fit for the window without special prepara-
tion other than the application of the herein before mentioned device.
In carrying this invention into practical effect I provide two plates of metal
or other suitable material and connect them together by a band of steel or other
suitable clastic material. The said plates are bent or curved so as to have an
approximately semi-circular end elevation, and attached to the elastic band in
such a manner that when the said band is bent so as to bring its ends parallel
to one another, the two curved plates meet at their edges and form as it were,
a metallic cylinder or cone."
In use the device is doubled or bent as just described and inserted in the end
of the leg of a pair of trowsers. The elastic band or spring in attempting to
resume its normal straight condition drives outward the curved plates, which,
It will be
bearing against the trowsers maintain them in the desired form.
readily understood that the device may be instantly removed from the trowsers
and the same sold or put into stock.
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CASTLE SMITH,
Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Device for Exhibiting Trousers in Tailors'
Shop Windows.
I, ERNEST ALBERT WATTS, of 353 York Road, Battersea, in the County of
Surrey, Tailor, 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 :—
In dressing their shop windows tailors frequently hang a number of pairs of
Now to make these trousers
trousers over a rail at the back of the window.
set nicely, it is customary to line the lower parts of each leg with some stiffening
material which acts to keep the ends of the legs open and nicely rounded, as if they
were in wear. It is obvious that the great drawback to this method of shaping the
trousers is that they have to be specially made for the window, and that it is
practically impossible to show a pair of ordinary stock trousers to their full

page_text: advantage in the window. Furthermore, it is often difficult to dispose of trousers
stiffened in this manner.
Now the object of this invention is to provide a device that may be applied to
ordinary trousers to render them fit for the window without special preparation
other than the application of the herein before mentioned device.
In carrying this invention into practical effect I provide two plates of metal or
other suitable material and connect them together by a band of steel or other
suitable elastic material. The said plates are bent or curved so as to have an
approximately semi-circular end elevation, and attached to the elastic band in such
a manner that when the said band is bent so as to bring its ends parallel to one
another the two curved plates meet at their edges and form, as it were, a metallic
cylinder or cone.
In use the device is doubled or bent as just described and inserted in the end of
the leg of a pair of trousers. The elastic band or spring in attempting to
resume its normal straight condition 'drives outward the curved plates, which,
bearing against the trousers maintain them in the desired form. It will be readily
understood that the device may be instantly removed from the trousers and the same
sold or put into stock.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood and carried into
practice, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompany-
ing sheet of drawings illustrative of my said invention. Of these Figure 1 is a plan
view of the device constructed according to my invention; Figure 2 a view shewing
the same bent into shape for inserting into the trouser end, and Figure 3 a section
taken across the line x, y, Figure 2. Figure 4 shews a modified arrangement of my
invention.
As shewn in the drawings this device consists of two plates a bent or curved so
as to have an approximately semi-circular end elevation. These plates are attached
to one another by a band of steel or other suitable elastic material b.
Owing to the tendency of the elastic band b to resume its normal position or
form, which approximates to a straight line, the plates a are driven apart by a
pressure depending upon the strength of the clastic band itself and made to bear"
upon the inside of the trousers and so fill them out and show them off to their best
advantage.
The elastic band may sometimes be formed as a spiral spring as shewn at
Figure 4, or of any other suitable shape.
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 I
claim is:
A device for filling out the end of the legs of trousers intended for exhibition
in the windows of tailor and other shops, consisting of two curved plates united
by a suitable elastic band, bar, or spring, that shall tend to drive the plates
apart when the same have been brought together substantially as and for the
purpose herein before set forth and described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
Dated this 7th day of November 1802
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CASTLE SMITH,
Invention " Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.