Year: 1897

page_text: I, CHARLES THORNHILL, of The Crescent, Castle Bellingham, Ireland, a retired
Colonel of the Royal Regiment of Artillery do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows;-
To do away with the necessity for carrying seperately springs catches or other
appliances at present in use for contracting the legs of ordinary trousers over the
ankles, by an arrangement, which will effect this purpose without altering the
appearance of the trousers, when worn ordinarily. Preferably in the following
manner.
Attach to the inside of each of the legs of a pair of ordinary trousers a small
tab, with button hole, and button to retain it in its place when not required, also
When the trousers are worn
a second button at a suitable distance from the first.
When it is
in the ordinary manner no change of any sort is visible as in Fig. 1.
desired to contract trousers over the ankle, turn them up as shown in Fig. 2,
when the tab A and the buttons B and C become visible, undo the tab A from the
button B fold the trouser over and button the tab A to the button C as shown in
Fig. 3.
CHAS. THORNHILL,
Colonel:
I, CHARLES THORNHILL, of The Crescent, Castle Bellingham, Ireland, a retired
Colonel of the Royal Artillery, 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:-
The object of my invention is to provide in connection with trouser legs means or
devices for contracung them at the ankles, such devices not being seen, when the
trousers are worn in the ordinary manner, but seen when the trouser legs are con-
tracted. For this purpose I provide on the inside of the trouser leg and at or near
the bottom of the same an attachment in the form of a tab which at one end is
permanently or detachably united to the trouser leg and at the other end is provided
with a button hole, and I provide a corresponding button on to which it can be

page_text: buttoned, and ordinarily is so and I provide in addition thereto another button
at such a distance from the tab that when the trouser leg is turned up at the
bottom, the tab can be buttoned on to the said other button so that the trouser leg
is thereby suitably contracted as for bicycling or for dirty or wet walking.
By a reverse equivalent arrangement the tab may be provided with a button and
two button holes formed in the trouser leg either formed in the pleat itself or in a
piece of leather.or other material sewn on to it. Instead of button and button hole
fastening devices I may use hooks and eyes or other equivalent fastening devices
of such a form as not to become undone in use.
Fig. 1 of the drawings accompanying my Provisional Specification shows the
outer side of a right trouser leg in ordinary use, when the inside tab is not visible.
Fig. 2 shows the trouser leg turned up with the tab sewn on at A which is the
preferred place and buttoned on to the button B; it also shows the additional
button C.
Fig. 3 shows the trouser leg contracted over the ankle, the tab being buttoned
on to the button C.
For the sake of ready sale and application of the device I may affix the tab
and the two buttons to a strip of thin leather or other suitable material so as to
form one article therewith and which is sold ready and suitable for being sewn on
to the trouser leg in the place indicated. This strip of leather may also extend
to the back of the leg so as to keep the wet and dirt from the bottom of the trousers.
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:-
1. Attaching to the inside of a trouser leg, at or near the bottom of same one
end of a tab and providing two buttons, one serving for buttoning on to it the other
end of the tab when the trousers are worn in the ordinary manner, and the
other button serving for buttoning on to it the said other end of the tab when the
bottom part of the trouser leg has been turned up and contracted, all substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
2. As an article of sale and for ready application to the inside of a trouser leg
at or near the bottom of same a strip. of leather to which are affixed a tab and
two button as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this Twelfth day of July 1808
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.