Improvements for Preventing Trouser-knees Bulging or Losing their Shape During Wear.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 19th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION..
Improvements for Preventing Trouser-knees Bulging or Losing
their Shape During Wear.
GEORGE RODENHURST STOKES 67 Piccadilly Hanley Staffs. Tailor do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In the present invention 1 seek to prevent the bulging or losing shape at the
knees of, Trousers, Pants, Pantaloons, Breeches or knickerbockers as known to
the Tailoring business; during the wear or strain to which these garments are
subject arising from the many attitudes in which the lower part of the human body
is placed, during stooping, riding, driving or any other sitting posture. Roughly
speaking my invention may be said to consist in the placing a piece or pieces of
any adaptable material, on the inside of Trousers, Pants, Pantaloons; Breeches
or knickerbockers, opposite or in a position to be opposite the knee of the wearer
of the said garments, and as much above, below & on either side the knee centre
as from time to I may think fit. The said adaptable material to be attached to
the said Trouser knees by any means I think fit, that is to say can be stitched,
gummed or any other adhesive can be used, to attain such attachment to any of
the fore mentioned garments.
As to shape, form, position, or number of pieces of material employed in forming
this preventative, I reserve the right to any position and form, and in some cases may
employ one piece of material in others two or more pieces combined, and attached
to each other, in any position and by any means I think fit.
Dated this 3rd day of March 1880
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements for Preventing Trouser-knees Bulging or Losing
their Shape During Wear.
I GEORGE RODENHURST STOKES, of 67 Piccadilly Hanley Staffordshire 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 the present Invention I seek to prevent the bulging or losing shape at the knees
of trousers, pants, pantaloons, breeches, knickerbockers, or other articles of wearing
apparel, owing to the strain at this part arising from the many attitudes in which
the lower part of the human body is placed during stooping, riding, driving or under
other circumstances. Briefly, this Invention consists in placing a piece or pieces of
any suitable material such as cloth, canvas, linen or the like, on the inside of trousers,
pants, pantaloons, breeches or knickerbockers opposite or in a position so as to be
opposite the knee of the wearer and as much above, below, and on either side the knee
centre as required. The said material to be attached to the knee portion of the
article of wearing apparel by any convenient means such for instance as by stitching,
gumming or by any other similar suitable method.
The preventative device according to my Invention as shewn at Figure 1 of the
accompanying explanatory sheet of drawings, comprises a central portion or body A
of any one suitable material; or, such body portion may be made up in two or three
pieces of the same or different material or materials. The extension pieces, strips or
straps B are stitched, gummed or otherwise attached to the side seams of the trousers
or other garment so as to bring the body portion A opposite and in front of the knee
of the wearer. The top edge a of the body or central portion A may also be
.מ.

page_text: conveniently affixed to the material of which the garment is composed to serve as a
means for preventing the foot of the wearer becoming entangled, on insertion in the
leg of the trousers, with the said upper edge a or other portion of the preventative
device A, B ; or, under certain conditions and with the same object in view, a strip or
strips of elastic or tape may be secured to or formed with said upper edge a and
attached to the garment. In Figure 2 the body portion A of the device is formed
octagonal in shape, the strips or straps B radiating from the centre as shewn, being
secured to the material of the garment as above described. The preventative article
constructed as above described is lesser in width than the inner circumferential
distance from seam to seam of the knee portion of the leg of the trousers, aforesaid,
consequently when the wearer assumes a sitting or stooping posture the preventative
device A, B, takes the whole of the strain usually felt at the knee point of the
trousers and thus effectually prevents the material of which the latter is formed
bulging or bagging at the knees as formerly.
Although I have hereinbefore stated my Invention is applicable primarily as a
preventative to bulging at the knees of trousers, it may with equal facility be adapted
to other portions, and be employed in connection with other articles of wearing
apparel, such as jackets, coats or the like, under which latter applications it would be
employed to prevent the sleeves bagging or bulging at the elbows.
I wish it to be also understood that I do not confine myself to the exact shape or
form of the device herein specified and shewn, neither do I restrict myself to the
material or materials employed, or to the number and arrangement of the fastening
strips or straps aforesaid, as these will vary according to the different uses to which
the Invention may be put.
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: :-
First-
-A device for preventing the bulging or bagging at the knees of trousers
and other articles of wearing apparel substantially as herein set forth.
Second In a device such as that referred to in the preceding claim, the
combination of a body or central portion A. of suitable material with the fastening
straps or equivalents B substantially as and for the purposes specified.
Dated this Sixteenth day of November 1889.
JAMES STEVENSON,
Gray's Inn Chambers, 20, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.