IMPROVE-. MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND GAITERS OR LEGGINGS COMBINED
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ferdinand Perron, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer,
and Alphonse Bonnardot, Merchant, both of No. 82, Boulevard
Sébastopol, Paris, France, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Ferdinand Perron
and Alphonse Bonnardot at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 30th September 1872.
We, FERDINAND PERRON, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, and ALPHONSE
BONNARDOT, Merchant, both of No. 82, Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris,
France, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention of "IMPROVE-.
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND GAITERS OR LEGGINGS COMBINED," to.
be as follows:—
This Invention consists in the combination with an ordinary boot of
a gaiter or legging, of which the latter forms a part by its connection to
the vamp or upper leather just below and in front of the instep and
above the heel, so that there is no friction at this part of the foot as is

page_text: the case with the ordinary independent leggings, and obviates the
employment of straps, springs, or other contrivances as means of con-
nection and fastening.
The gaiter or legging is cut in a single piece of leather, canvass, cloth,
or other suitable material so as to avoid seams, and adapts itself to the
form of the foot and leg by its mode of fastening, which consists of a
number of buttons, hooks, or catches arranged on either side of the
opening of the gaiter disposed in a triangular form, over and round
which in a zig-zag manner is passed an elastic cord or lace which fastens
at the top. By this mode of construction the trousers can either be 1
placed inside or outside at the discretion of the wearer, it being mercly
necessary to lace less closely, the gaiter being cut of such a form and
dimensions to admit of so doing without interfering with its general
harmony of appearance, and as above stated forming part of the boot.
All wet, dust, or dirt is effectually excluded, as the gaiter is seamless,
and consequently gives greater solidity and durability thereto, whilst at
the same time it economiscs labour.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Ferdinand Perron and Alphonse Bonnardot in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 27th March 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, FERDI-
NAND PERRON, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, and ALPHONSE BONNARDOT,
Merchant, both of No. 82, Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris, France, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of September, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto us, the said Ferdinand Perron and
Alphonse Bonnardot, Her special licence that we, the said Ferdinand
Perron and Alphonso Bonnardot, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as we, the said Ferdinand Perron and Alphonse
Bonnardot, our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all

page_text: times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE ManufACTURE OF BOOTS AND GAITERS OR
LEGGINGS COMBINED," upon the condition (amongst others), that we, the said
Ferdinand Perron and Alphonse Bonnardot, our executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under our, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of
the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW ŸE, that we, the said Ferdinand Perron and Alphonse
Bonnardot, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement and accompanying
Drawings, that is to say :—
This Invention consists in the combination with an ordinary boot of
a gaiter or legging, of which the latter forms a part by its connection to
the vamp or upper leather just below and in front of the instep and
above the heel, so that there is no friction at this part of the foot as is.
the case in the ordinary independent leggings, and obviates the employ-
ment of straps, springs, or other contrivances as means of connection
and fastening.
The gaiter or legging is cut in a single piece of leather; canvass, cloth,
or other suitable material so as to avoid seams, and adapts itself to the
form of the foot and leg by its mode of fastening, which consists of a
number of buttons, hooks, or catches arranged on either side of the
opening of the gaiter, disposed in a triangular form, over and round
which in a zig-zag manner is passed an elastic cord or lace which fastens
at the top. By this mode of construction the trousers can either be
placed inside or outside at the discretion of the wearer, it being merely
necessary to lace less closely, the gaiter being cut of such a form and
dimensions to admit of so doing without interfering with its general
harmony of appearance, and as above stated forming part of the boot.
All wet, dust, or dirt is effectually excluded, as the gaiter is seamless,
and consequently gives greater solidity and durability thereto, whilst at
the same time it economises labour.

page_text: Fig. 1 is an illustration of the above system; a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i,
are the buttons, hooks, or otherwise, and j is the elastic lace. Fig. 2 is
the same, admitting of any suitable mode of fastening, and is suitable
for the army, hunting, or travelling.
Having thus described our Invention, what we claim and desire to
secure by Letters Patent is, the construction of a combined boot and
gaiter cut in a single piece of leather or other material, avoiding scams,
connected to the vamp and extending above the heel so as to avoid
friction at this part, as shown by the Drawings, the gaiter fastening by
an clastic or other lace passing over buttons, hooks, or otherwise in the 1
manner and for the purposes as herein set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Ferdinand Perron and Alphonse
Bonnardot, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-
fifth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-three.
E. HÉBRÉ,
82, Boulev. Sebastopol.
FERDINAND PERRON. (L.S.)
ALPHONSE BONNARDOT. (L.S.)