An Improved Folding Clip with Riding Strap Button for Trousers Bottoms.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 17th July, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 17th Apr., 1889-Accepted, 6th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Folding Clip with Riding Strap Button for
Trousers Bottoms.
I, LIONEL PHILIP PAYNE-GALLWEY, temporarily of 1 Queen Victoria Street, in the
City of London, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved fitting to the inside of trouser ends, whereby
the circumferential hem of the trousers, when turned up over the boots, may be
secured in place, and at the same time the said fitting or clip may be utilized to carry
a button for the attachment of a riding strap.
To carry this into effect, I affix a band of metal, conveniently by sewing upon the
inner face of the vertical or longitudinal hem of the trousers.
This metal band is provided with a joint or hinge at a suitable height above the
lower edge of the trousers, so that the lower hem of the trousers may be turned up at
this point above the boot.
This hinge is fitted with a spring pressing thereon so that the hinge remains pressed
in equilibrium at the two positions only, viz. when the clip is extended in a straight
line, and the trousers are turned down, and also when the trousers are turned up and
the clip is turned over on to itself.
The lower end of the clip may terminate in a transverse band to form a T head.
A button to form a suitable attachment for a riding strap may be rivetted to the
said clip or formed therein, one clip being applied to each side of the leg of the
trousers.
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Folding Clip with Riding Strap Button for
Trousers Bottoms.
I, LIONEL PHILIP PAYNE-GALLWEY, temporarily of 1 Queen Victoria Street, in the
City of London, Civil Engineer, 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 :-
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My invention relates to an improved fitting to the inside of trouser ends, whereby
the circumferential hem of the trousers, when turned up over the boots, may be secured
in place, and at the same time the said fitting or clip may be utilised to carry a button
for the attachment of a riding strap.
In order that my invention may be the better understood, 1 now proceed to describe
the same in relation to the drawings hereunto annexed, reference being had to the
letters and figures marked thereon.
Figure 1. is a front view of my improved folding clip.
Figure 2. is a side sectional view of the same.
Figure 3. shows the application of my invention to the trousers, the hem of the
trousers being turned up.
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Figure 4. is a view of the same the hem of the trousers being turned down.
In order to carry my invention into effect, I affix a band or plate A. of metal,
conveniently by sewing or other equivalent means, upon the inner face of the vertical
or longitudinal hem of the trousers. This metal plate A. is provided with a joint or
hinge B. at a suitable height above the lower edge of the trousers, so that the lower
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page_text: hem of the trousers may be turned up at this point above the boot. This hinge B.
is fitted with a spring or a spring tongue C. pressing thereon, such spring being
fixed to the plate A. in any suitable manner, or it may be equivalently formed by
being punched out of the said plate A.
I may equivalently construct the plate A. with a spring C. out of wire preferably
of an elastic nature.
The finger or tongue D. which forms the hinge in connection with the plate A.
may be conveniently constructed of wire or sheet metal, and is provided on the
opposite side of its axis at B. with a projection E, which rests upon the spring C, so
that the said hinge romains pressed in equilibrium at two positions only, namely, first
when the clip is extended in a straight line and the hem of the trousers turned down
as shown in figures 1. 2. & 4, and, secondly, when the hem of the trousers is turned
up, and the clip is turned over on to itself, as shown in figure 3. and by the dotted
lines in figure 2.
Upon the lower end of the plate A. I fix a button F, as shown in figures 1. and 2.
which forms a suitable attachment for a riding strap G, as shown in figures 3. and 4.
This button F. may be rivetted or fixed in any equivalent and convenient manner to
the said clip A. or may be formed thereon out of the body of the plate A.
In practice I attach one of these clips to each side of each leg of the trousers on the
inside thereof.
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:-
1st. A trouser clip composed of a spring-pressed hinge, so arranged as to be in
equilibrium in its extended and folded positions only, for the purpose of retaining the
bottom hem of the trousers in an upturned position, substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
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2nd. Such a trouser clip provided with a button in combination with a trouser
strap, substantially as described.
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FELL & WILDING,
Agents for the Patentee.