Improvements in the Fastenings of Leggings.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1891-Accepted, 28th May, 1892
Improvements in the Fastenings of Leggings.
I FRANCIS RICHMOND RYDING of 157 Queen Street in the City of Melbourne
in the Colony of Victoria Wholesale Saddler 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 :-
This invention relates to legging fastenings and is designed to provide the
utmost simplicity of construction whilst retaining strength and closeness of joint.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings the invention is illustrated:
Figure 1 shows it as applied to a legging fastened in side view:
Figure 2 is a side view of it on an unfastened legging;
Figure 3 shows a sectional plan view on the line X-X in Figure 2; and
Figure 4 sectional plan view on the line Y-Y in Figure 2;
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.
A and A are the respective sides of the legging whose edges have to be
fastened. These edges I first double over and secure by a longitudinal seam B
and B down each side. Within the loop formed on the A side, I introduce a
strong pin almost the full length of the fold, and the upper end of which is
U shaped, as shown in Figure 2 by G, the short arm of the U, shown by G³,
falling outside the fold. The pin can then play in and out of the fold so as to
bring the arm G either alongside the fold or entirely above it, whilst to prevent
the pin being entirely withdrawn a kink or projection is placed on said pin at G³,
and the upper part of the fold is contracted by a seam, rivet or like device so that
the projection cannot pass it. A slit is cut in the fold on the side A, at a point
just below the lower end of the pin G, when raised as shown in Figure 2; and to
stiffen the fold below this slit a short tube, large enough to allow of the insertion
of the pin is fastened therein. D shows the slit and E the tube. On the other or
A side of the legging a stiffening rod is inserted from near the lower end up to
a tube connected to the said rod, said tube extending in continuation to the upper
end of the fold. F shows this rod and F the tube, which is long enough and
large enough to allow the arm G to slide therein as shown in Figure 1.
An eye
is secured on the rod F to project towards the side A. at a point opposite the
slit D. This eye is shown by F. H is a backing strip affixed to one side or the
other and designed to render the fastening impervious to the admission of foreign
matters. It will be readily perceived that in fastening a legging constructed as
described the pin G is drawn up to its fullest extent, the edges of A and A' are
placed together closely with the strip H behind, and with the eye F' closing into
the slit D.
The pin is then pushed down so that the lower end passes through F2 and
beyond D into the lower part or tube E whilst the upper end being the end of G'
passes simultaneously into the tube F.
In order to unfasten the legging a single notion upward of the hooked pin G
will suffice.
It is apparent that by the means described both the upper and lower ends of the
legging are locked together simultaneously.
Although the form shown in the drawings gives the greatest rigidity of joint,
modifications may be made whereby there is less rigidity whilst preserving
essentially the same mode of fastening. Thus the rod F may be shortened or
omitted É might be omitted so also might F'.

page_text: 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 I
claim: :-
1. A legging fastening operated by the raising and lowering of a single hooked
pin, one arm of which is permanently inserted in a fold constituting the edge of
one side of the legging, and the other arm of which is adapted to be inserted or
withdrawn from, a fold, on the edge of the other side of the legging substantially as
herein described.
2. The combination with the hooked pin, of the slit in the fold at one side and
the eye and the fold at the other side of the legging whereby the raising and
lowering of the pin simultaneously unfastens or fastens the sides both at top
and botton substantially as specified.
3. In combination with a fold at one edge of a legging, a hooked pin adapted
to be raised and lowered above or below a slit near the lower end of said fold but
not adapted to be entirely withdrawn from the fold substantially as set forth.
4. In a legging fastening the means of securing rigidity described consisting of
on one side a tube within the fold below the slit, and on the other side of a longi-
tudinal bar surmounted by a tube so as to reach almost the whole length within the
fold, all substantially as described.
5. The combination of eye F2 rod F and tube F all rigidly secured together
within a fold at the edge of a legging as and for the purposes set forth.
Dated the Seventh day of November 1891.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents.