IMPROVEMENT IN THE METHOD OF FASTENING LEGGINGS & GAITERS
Year: 1884

page_text: I, BEN EPHRAIM LAMARTINE CULPIN of Stevenage in the County of Herts.
Legging Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN
IMPROVEMENT IN THE METHOD OF FASTENING LEGGINGS & GAITERS to be as
follows:-
:-
A number of straps or loops projecting from the outer edge of the legging
quarter fastening on to studs projecting from the surface of the backquarter of the
legging.
The strap or loop has two or more holes punched for the purpose of regulating.
the fastening.
The studs are made with a small head at the top of a pin which tapers upwards
rising from a flat steel spring or busk secured on the underside of the quarter
or the studs may be made with a flat circular base like that of an ordinary bone
stud.
A great inconvenience arises from the frequent breakage of the ordinary
fastenings which happens more often in the act of fastening than in the wear of
the legging. The chief object of this invention is to provide a durable simple and
effective fastening and I claim for my method that there is less liability to breakage
in the act of fastening or during the wear of the legging than with the fastenings
now in general use. The strap or loop works on the stud as on a pivot giving.
perfect freedom to the legging without strain on the fastening.
I claim as my invention, The use of a number of straps or loops which may be
made of leather or of any other suitable material looping on to studs which may be
made of metal bone paper or other suitable material, applied to the fasteuing of
leggings and gaiters.

page_text: 1 BEN EPHRAIM LAMARTINE CULPIN of Stevenage in the county of Herts,
Legging Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN
IMPROVEMENT IN THE METHOD OF FASTENING LEGGINGS & GAITERS and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
Whereas great inconvenience arises from the frequent breakage of the ordinary
fastenings of Leggings & Gaiters I have devised a method whereby the liability to
breakage both in the act of fastening and during the wear of the Legging is reduced
to a minimum.
I use the ordinary patterns for cutting out the Leggings and on the edge of the
front quarter of the Legging (that is the edge where the button holes are punched
in an ordinary button legging) are placed a number of straps about four or five
inches apart The straps are inserted between the facing and the quarter projecting
about one and a half inches from the edge & stitched in in the ordinary way. One
or more small button holes are punched in the straps at convenient distances from
the extreme edge for the purpose of fastening & also of regulating the fastening.
On the corresponding edge of the back quarter of the legging (that is the edge
where the buttons are fastened in a button legging) I place a number of studs
corresponding to the number of straps on the front edge, these studs are placed at
a distance of about two inches from the front edge of the back quarter and are
inserted through holes punched in the back quarter being kept in their place by
a facing stitched on the underneath side of the quarter at the back of the row of
studs.
The studs are made with a small head about the quarter of an inch in diameter
at the top of a pin which tapers upwards from a flat circular base about half an
inch in diameter the pin being about three sixteenths of an inch in diameter at
the bottom & the twelfth of an inch at top. I find malleable iron to be the
cheapest material for the studs but they may be made of either bone brass or papier
machè. For the lighter kinds of leggings I use a light steel spring or busk with
the studs rivetted in at distances corresponding with the position of the straps on
the front quarter & secured by means of a facing stitched on the under side of the
quarter.
In between the edge of the front quarter and the facing I insert a light spring
which may be secured by a rivet, the legging is thus kept from gouging at the
edge between the straps without giving undue rigidity.
To fasten the legging the front edge is lapped over the edge of the back quarter
& the holes in the straps passed over the studs In the wear of the legging the
strap works on the stud as on a pivot causing a very small amount of wear.

page_text: 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 use of a number of straps or loops which may be made of leather or any
other suitable material, projecting from the edge of the front quarter of the legging
& looping on to studs which may be made of metal or any other suitable material
projecting from the surface of the back quarter of the legging, as applied to the
fastening of leggings & gaiters.
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