Improvements in Gaiters or Coverings for the Legs,
Year: 1899

page_text: Improvements in Gaiters or Coverings for the Legs,
I, ERNEST ALBERT HATCILARD, of 23, Piccadilly, London, in the County of
Middlesex, Gaiter Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the gaiter or other coverings for the legs used by
sportsmen and others.
The invention is a legging made of leather or other suitable material
fastening at the bottom with two eyelet holes through which the
laces are passed and then tied in the usual way. There is also a
hook & eye attached which is used when the legging is worn with a button boot.
The legging is then wound round the leg in three convolutions & fastened at the
top with two or more buckles & straps.
ERNEST ALBERT HATCHARD,
23, Piccadilly, London, W.
I, ERNEST ALBERT HATCHARD, of 23, Piccadilly, London, in the County of
Middlesex, Gaiter Manufacturer, 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in gaiters or other coverings for the legs
such as are used by sportsmen and others.
According to my invention I make my improved gaiter or covering of leather,
canvas or other suitable material or combination of materials.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 shows by a side view one of my improved gaiters as it appears on a leg
with trousers.
Fig. 2 shows a front view of the same. Fig. 3 shows one of the gaiters laid
out flat with the outer surface upwards and Fig. 4 shows the same with the under
or inner surface exposed.
Figures 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 show, by cross sections taken on the lines a-a,
bb, cc, dd, e-e, f-f, respectively the form of the legging, shaped to fit a
leg having at the calf a fair amount of development, and adapted to follow the
contour thereof when applied to the leg.
Figs. 11 and 12 show the legging (Figs. 3 and 4) applied to a leg with breeches
and Figs. 13 and 14 show a modification in the shaft of the upper and outer end of
the legging, adapted to the use of a single set of straps and buckle attachments.

page_text: The leg covering or gaiter A is as shown made in one piece of material with a
piping or binding a around to avoid fraying out of the edges of the material, but
for the longest gaiters and certain materials it may be more convenient to make
joined pieces of material.
The gaiter A is somewhat modified as to the extent of the curvature or bellying
of the material in the direction of the lines e-e and such like lines of section,
according to the shape to be fitted.
The lines of curvature of the gaiter on both the upper and lower edges, as
from a to f on either edge, also need to be somewhat modified to suit greater or
less calf development and length of leg from knee to ankle within somewhere
about the extremes indicated by the full and the longitudinal dotted lines in
Figs. 3 and 4 but these variations are easily to be met by the adoption of a limited
variety of patterns, without departing from the essential features of the invention.
The lower end of the gaiter shown is provided with two eyelet holes a¹, a¹
designed to be secured to the lacing of the boot B at the upper part of the boot
if desired. Such lacing is convenient in that it assists in assuring the preservation
of the central position of that point in the article on the leg. The gaiter A is
then enwrapped around the leg (a left leg) from the lacing point, to left and rear
then to the front and so on around and around until the whole has been fitted with
the edges overlapping and evenly fitting the leg.
The article is then held in position by the straps a² and buckles a³ on the short
tabs or ends a¹.
The gaiter for the right leg will be formed as the reverse of the left leg gaiter
shewn, as will be well understood.
The method of securing the upper end of the gaiter about c, e and f f may be
varied, such as by the employment of a prongless buckle, or of buckles at about e
and near with a short connecting double holed strap, but the mode of fastening
shewn is simple and serves the purpose with the convenience of having no
detachable part to become lost.
Any convenient substitute form of attachment may be used instead of the eyelet
holes, such as a hook, spring stud-fastening such as are commonly used on gloves,
purses and the like, the object being to provide if desired a simple removable
attachment between the boot and the gaiter.
Such improved gaiters are essentially simple to use, lasting and comfortable not
being liable to break in the mid portions if bent or subjected to excessive strain as
stiffened and rigid sheet leggings or gaiters are liable to do, and not being liable
to hurt the muscles of the leg when kneeling, as in the present invention the
convolutions of the gaiter have a tendency to ride up and down slightly so as to
adapt themselves to strains and variations of the enclosed muscles and substance
of the leg.
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 improved construction and use of a gaiter for the leg of a sportsman or
other person, of leather, canvas or other suitable pliant but comparatively non
extensible material, adapted to be enwrapped around and fitting to the leg by a
limited number of convolutions, conveniently shown as three in number, and
fastened by suitable buckles and straps or other equivalent means of fastening,
substantially as described herein and shown by the drawings.
Dated the 11th 1
T
1000
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London,
Agents for the Applicant.