Improvements in Leggings, Gaiters, and similar Articles of Wearing Apparel.
Year: 1899

page_text: .Date of Application, 2nd Aug., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Feb., 1900-Accepted, 31st Mar., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Leggings, Gaiters, and similar Articles of Wearing
Apparel.
I, JOHN HENRY LEGG, of Ellerdale, Ashcroft, Cirencester, in the County of
Gloucester, Legging Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to leggings, gaiters and similar articles of wear-
ing apparel whether made with or without seam, and its object is to provide
same with simple and efficient means of fastening, so that the legging, gaiter or the
like may be quickly and securely adjusted in position, and when so secured the
fastening shall be out of sight, a neat and elegant appearance being thus obtained.
I will describe the invention as applied to a legging, for which it has been
specially designed.
Along one of the edges of the legging to be secured, I provide on its inside
edge eyelets, loops or holes. This I arrange preferably by sewing or otherwise
attaching a flap or strip of leather or other suitable material along the whole
length of the legging on the inner side thereof, or, as will be readily under-
stood, this flap may be in one piece with the legging. I also provide corre
sponding eyelets, loops or holes on the other side of the legging (or on a similar
flap or strip attached thereto) but on the outside. To the bottom of one side
of the legging, inside same, secure a strap, lace or the like, and to the top
of the legging at a suitable point outside same I attach a buckle or other suitable
device such as a button or a stud.
The strap or lace is passed alternately through the holes on the sides of the
legging, and is brought out through an eyelet at the top and either fastened
there or passed round the top of the legging, and secured by the buckle or other
device before referred to. When thus secured, the only visible portion of the
fastening will be the small buckle or stud or the like and the portion of the
strap or lace passing round the top of the legging.
It is obvious that instead of employing one strap or lace as above described,
two may be employed, the one being laced through the holes or eyelets as before
described and fastened in any suitable way to a separate strap or lace passed
around the top of the legging and secured thereto.
It will also be understood that the strap or lace, may if desired be run in from
the top to the bottom of the legging instead of from bottom to top. It will
then be fastened at the bottom.
If desired also the flap or flaps above referred to may be dispensed with, and
the lace or strap will then be passed through holes in the legging itself, and
in this case it will of course be visible from the outside.
1000

page_text: Improvements in Leggings, Gaiters, and similar Articles of Wearing
Apparel.
I, JOHN HENRY LEGG, of Ellerdale, Ashcroft, Cirencester, in the County of
Gloucester, Legging Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has reference to leggings, gaiters and similar articles of wear-
ing apparel whether made with or without seam, and its object is to provide
same with simple and efficient means of fastening, so that the legging, gaiter or the
like may be quickly and securely adjusted in position, and when so secured the
fastening shall be out of sight, a neat and elegant appearance being thus obtained.
I will describe the invention as applied to a legging, for which it has been
especially designed.
Along one of the edges of the legging to be secured I provide on its inside
edge eyelets, loops or holes. This. I effect preferably be sewing or otherwise
attaching a flap or strip of leather or other suitable material along the whole
length of the legging on the inner side thereof, or, as will be readily under-
stood, this flap may be in one piece with the legging. I also provide corre-
sponding eyelets, loops or holes on the other side of the legging (or on a similar
flap or strip attached thereto) but on the outside. To the bottom of one side
of the legging, inside same, I secure a strap, lace or the like, and to the top
of the legging at a suitable point outside same I attach a buckle or other suitable
device such as a button or a stud.
The strap or lace is passed through the holes on the two sides of the legging
alternately and is brought out through an eyelet at the top and either fastened
there or passed round the top of the legging, and secured by the buckle or other
device before referred to. When thus secured, the only visible portion of the
fastening will be the small buckle or stud or the like and the portion of the
strap or lace passing round the top of the legging.
It is obvious that instead of employing one strap or lace as above described,
two may be employed, the one being laced through the holes or eyelets as before
described and fastened in any suitable way to a separate strap or lace passed
around the top of the legging and secured thereto.
It will also be understood that the strap or lace, may if desired be run in from
the top to the bottom of the legging instead of from bottom to top. It will
then be fastened at the bottom.
In the accompanying drawings which illustrate how my invention can be
applied to a leather legging,
Figure 1 is a front view of the legging.
Figure 2 is a cross section of the same on the line A-B of Figure 1, and
Figure 3 is a side elevation partly in section on the line C-D of Figure 1.
The legging shown is made to fasten in the front of the leg, but it may also
be made to fasten at the side of the leg.
The legging 1 is cut down the front and the edges 2, 3 of the division are
made to overlap, the edge 3 being on the outside of the front, as shown.
Along the whole length of the inside of the edge 3 there is attached by
sewing or by other means a flap or strip of leather 4 which is formed with holes
or eyelets 5.
Corresponding eyelets 6 are formed in the edge 2 of the legging.
Near the bottom of the edge 3. on the inside of the same. is secured one

page_text: end 7 of a strap 7, and to the top of the legging, on the outside of the edge 2
there is attached by means of a strip 8 a buckle 9.
The strap 7 is passed alternately in and out through the corresponding eye-
lets 5, 6 in the flap or strip 4 and in the edge 2 (as shown more clearly in
Figure 3) and from the top pair of eyelets 5, 6 it is carried up along the inside
of the edge 2 to near the top of the legging where the strap 7 is brought out
through an eyelet 10 formed in the edge 2. The strap 7 is then passed round
the top of the legging through guide loops 11, 12, 13 attached to the outside
of the top of the legging. From the last loop 13 the end 7 of the strap is
secured by means of the buckle 9.
When thus secured, the only visible portion of the fastening will be the
buckle 9 and the portion of the strap 7 passing round the top of the legging.
It is obvious that instead of employing one long strap 7 as shown, two shorter
straps might be employed the one (7) being passed through the eyelets 5, 6 and
10 as before described and then fastened in any suitable way to a separate
strap passed around the top of the legging through the loops 11, 12 and 13 and
secured thereto, by a buckle or othewise.
If desired the strap 7 may run from the top to the bottom of the legging,
instead of from the bottom to the top, the strap 7 will then be fastened at the
bottom.
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. In leggings, gaiters and the like, a strip or flap formed on or attached to
the inside of the overlapping edge or side of the legging, a set of eyelets, loops
or holes in or on the said strip or flap, a corresponding set of eyelets, loops or
holes in or on the other edge or side of the legging, a strap, lace or the like
attached at one end to the inside of the legging at hotton or top and adapted
to be laced through the eyelets, loops or holes at the two edges of the legging
alternately and a buckle or device to which the other end of the strap or lace
can be secured, substantially as and for the purpose herein before described.
2. A legging, gaiter or the like constructed as shown in the accompanying
drawings and herein before described.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1900.
J. C. MEWBURN & ELLIS,
55 and 56, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.