A NEW ARTICLE OF FEMALE WEARING APPAREL TO BE WORN ON THE LEG
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Edmund Wilson, of Monkwell Street, in the
City of London, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW ARTICLE
OF FEMALE WEARING APPAREL TO BE WORN ON THE LEG."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Edmund Wilson-
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
13th November 1861.
I, CHARLES EDMUND WILSON, of Monkwell Street, in the City of London,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW
ARTICLE OF FEMALE WEARING APPAREL TO BE WORN ON THE LEG," to be as
follows:-
This new article is designed to be worn above the boot, and to protect the
leg between the ankle and the calf. The article consists of what I term a
leglet, in contradistinction to gauntlet, and is made, by preference, of water-
proof or glazed cloth lined or not with flannel or other textile material; it is
made to button round the leg, or it is secured by elastic webbing, which unites
the two ends or sides of the leglet. This new article not only keeps the leg
warm, but protects it from dirt and wet at that part where mostly the dress
comes in contact with it in walking. Although I prefer forming it of the
materials above named, yet it may be made of any suitable materials.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Edmund Wilson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 13th May 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
EDMUND WILSON, of Monkwell Street, in the City of London, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Charles Edmund Wilson, Her special licence that I, the said
Charles Edmund Wilson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Charles Edmund Wilson, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all 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 "A NEW ARTICLE OF FEMALE WEARING APPAREL TO BE
WORN ON THE LEG," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Charles Edmund Wilson, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Edmund Wilson, do hereby
leclare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say :-
This new article is designed to be worn above the boot, and to protect the
leg between the ankle and the calf. The article consists of what I term a
leglet, in contradistinction to gauntlet, and is made, by preference, of water-
proof or glazed cloth, lined or not with flannel or other textile material; it is
made to button round the leg, or it is secured by elastic webbing, which unites
the two ends or sides of the leglet. This new article not only keeps the leg
warm, but protects it from dirt and wet at that part where mostly the dress

page_text: comes in contact with it in walking. Although I prefer forming it of the
materials above named, yet it may be made of any suitable materials.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a view of this leglet open ;
Figure 2 is a front, Figure 3 a back, and Figure 4 a side view of the same
as it appears when fastened at the side. a is the front and 6 is the back of
the leglet; c, c, are buttons, and d, d, are loops by which it is fastened to the
leg. Figure 5 is a side view of the leglet secured by laces; it may, however,
be secured by elastic webbing or by springs. Figure 6 shows the leglet on a
leg as it appears when worn. I prefer to make. the leglets higher at back
than at front, as shown in the Drawings, but do not limit myself to this.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim the new article of
female wearing apparel to be worn on the leg, herein-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Edmund Wilson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of May, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two.
CHARLES EDMUND WILSON. (L.S.)