Improvements in Trousers Rests or Protectors.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 15th Apr., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Trousers Rests or Protectors.
I, STRATFORD GIBBS, of 136 Soho Road, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Egg and
Butter Importer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of the hereindescribed improvements in trousers rests or
protectors which are small hook like articles adapted to be fixed to the back of the
boot heels for the trousers to rest upon and thus prevent the trousers from being
soiled or the bottom worn by touching the ground.
A trousers rest or protector constructed according to this invention is by
preference formed of cast or sheet metal or of wire and consists of an upwardly
turned hook having a shank at about right angles the said shank being screw
threaded so as to screw into the boot heel or made pointed so as to drive therein.
The said hooked part of the trousers rest is just sufficiently far away from the
boot heel to allow of the trousers resting between them and on the bottom of the
hook where the latter enters the boot heel.
When the said trousers rest or protector is made to drive into the heel it may
have two or more pointed shanks instead of a single shank so as to prevent the
trousers rest turning sideways.
At the bottom of the hook there may be a small projection in a line with the
shank which can be struck by the hammer when driving the trousers rest into
the boot heel. There may also be a shoulder formed at the base of the shank to
prevent the hook being driven in too far and to make the shank hold more
securely.
Dated this 23rd day of May 1899
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Trousers Rests or Protectors.
I, STRATFORD GIBBS, of 136, Soho Road, Handsworth, Staffordshire, Egg and
Butter Importer, 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 consists of the hereindescribed improvements in trousers rests or
protectors which are small hook like articles adapted to be fixed to the back of the
boot heels for the trousers to rest upon and thus prevent the trousers from being
soiled or the bottom worn by touching the ground.
A trousers rest or protector constructed according to this invention is by
preference formed of cast or sheet metal or of wire and consists of an upwardly
turned hook having a shank at about right angles the said shank being screw
threaded so as to screw into the boot heel or made pointed so as to drive therein.
The said hooked part of the trousers rest is just sufficiently far away from the boot
heel to allow of the trousers resting between them and on the bottom of the hook
where the latter enters the boot heel.
When the said trousers rest or protector is made to drive into the heel it may
have two or more pointed shanks instead of a single shank so as to prevent the
trousers rest turning sideways.
At the bottom of the hook there may be a small projection in a line with the
shank which can be struck by the hammer when driving the trousers rest into
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page_text: the boot heel. There may also be a shoulder formed at the base of the shank to
prevent the hook being driven in too far and to make the shank hold more
securely.
On the accompanying drawings
Figs. 1 and 2 shew a trousers rest constructed according to my invention in use
on a boot heel;
Fig. 2 shews the said trousers rest separately;
The remaining figures shew various modifications of my invention as herein
described.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures.
By an examination of Figs. 1 and 2 (which shew one of my improved trousers
rests made of wire) it will be seen that the trousers rest consists of an upwardly
turned hook part a made with a pointed shank b which is driven into the boot heel c
the trousers d resting on the bottom of the hook a between the hook and the boot
heel. The wire is bent so as to form the shoulder g at the base of the shank 6 to
prevent the hook being driven in too far and to make the shank hold more securely.
Thus the bottoms of the trousers are prevented from being soiled or worn by
touching the ground.
As before stated my improved trousers rests or protectors may be made in various
ways as illustrated by the remaining figures of my drawing to which I will now
refer. Fig. 2* shews the same trousers rest or protector illustrated by Figs. 1
and 2 but made with a screw threaded shank so as to screw into the boot heel
instead of being made to drive therein. The trousers rest or protector shewn in
sectional elevation and in front elevation by Fig. 3 has the hook part a made of
sheet metal bent to the required form and furnished with a pointed wire shank b
which is fixed to the hook part a by rivetting-or soldering or by other means the
head 6 projecting at the front to be struck by a hammer when fixing the protector;
or as shewn by Fig. 4 this shank 6 may be screw threaded; or as shewn by Fig. 5
the sheet metal hook part a may be made without a fixed shank and instead thereof
have a hole e through which an ordinary screw or nail to form the shank can be
driven into the boot heel; or as shewn by Fig. 5* the lower end of the sheet metal
hook part a may be pointed and bent at about right angles to form the shank 6 to
drive into the boot heel.
Figs. 6 and 7 illustrate another form of my improved trousers rest or protector
which is made of a piece of wire which is bent about centrally to form the top a' of
the hook part a and then brought nearly together and bent round the bottom of
the hook and bent upwardly to form the shoulder g the ends of the wire being
closed together to fix to the shank b as shewn in Fig. 6; or made into an eye fas
shewn in Fig. 7 for a separate screw or spike to pass through to form the fixing.
shank.
Figs. 8 and 9 illustrate another form of my invention in which the hook part a
is made from a sheet metal blank bent so as to form the hook part a and the
shoulder and provided with a fixed or separate screwed or drive shank b, the
hook being made with a hole h through which the separate fixing shank 6 can be
passed into the hole e when the hook part a is being fixed.
Fig. 10 shews another form of my invention also made from sheet metal and
provided with two fixing shanks 6 62 which in this case are made of pointed side
projections on the blank as shewn. Fig. 11 shews another form of my invention
made from a piece of wire jointed at both ends and bent centrally so as to form as
it were a double hook of the kind shewn in Figs. 1 and 2 with two drive shanks.
As before stated the advantage of the hook having the two shanks is that the hook
is thereby more effectually prevented from turning sideways.
In conclusion I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the precise
forms of the rests or protectors shewn upon my drawing as it will be evident that
the same may be varied somewhat without departing from the nature of my said
invention.

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 what I
claim is :-
1. A trousers rest or protector consisting essentially of an upwardly projecting
hook constructed to fix to a boot heel and at the proper distance therefrom to
support the bottom of the trousers at the back substantially as hereinbefore set
forth.
2. Trousers rests or protectors constructed in any of the several ways sub-
stantially as herein before described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings
so as to fix to a boot heel and at the proper distance therefrom to support the
bottom of the trousers at the back as herein before set forth.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.