IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING AND PROTECTING THE BOTTOMS OF PANTALOONS a
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Walter Brierley of Halifax in the County of York and
Blackburn in the County of Lancaster Patent Agent, for an Invention of
" IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING AND PROTECTING THE
BOTTOMS OF PANTALOONS a communication from abroad by Rudolph Kindler
lieutenant-colonel of Reichenbach ober Lansitz, Germany
"
:
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Walter Brierley at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th August 1882.
WALTER BRIERLEY of Halifax in the County of York and Blackburn in
the County of Lancaster Patent Agent "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
SUPPORTING AND PROTECTING THE BOTTOMS OF PANTALOONS," communicated to me
from abroad by Rudolph Kindler lieutenant-colonel of Reichenbach, ober/Lansitz,
Germany.
This invention consists of an improved apparatus for preventing the back part
of the leg of trousers or pantaloons being trodden under the heel of the boot or
from being wet and soiled inside by reason of contact with mud and dirt attaching
to the heel of the boot.
The pantaloons supporter consists of a very narrow plate or blade spring, the
lower end or shank of which is fastened by means of small screws or pins to the
heel of the boot or shoe. The upper or free end of said spring bears closely to and
against the hind-part of the boot when not in use but when in use the bottom end of
the pantaloon is received and Pinched in between the boot and the spring and is
prevented touching the dirt or the soil or sliding to and fro over the heel and is
moreover by the pressure of the spring prevented from escaping from the supporter,
when the knee is bent.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Walter Brierley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
17th February 1883.
OF
WALTER BRIERLEY of Halifax in the County of York, Patent Agent "IMPROVE
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR SUPPORTING AND PROTECTING THE BOTTOMS
PANTALOONS (Communicated to me from abroad by Rudolph Kindler, lieutenant-
colonel of Riechenbach obor/Lansitz, Germany)
"
This invention consists of an improved apparatus for preventing the back part
of the leg of trousers or pantaloons being trodden under the heel of the boot or

page_text: from being wet and solled inside by reason of contact with mud and dirt attached
to the heel of the boot.
The pantaloons supporter consists of a very narrow plate, or blade spring, the
lower end or shank of which is fastened by means of small screws or pins to the
heels of the boot or shoe-The upper or free end of said plate is clear of or if a
spring, bears closely to and against the hind part of the boot, when not in use but
when in use the bottom end of the pantaloon is supported by or received and pinched
in between the boot and the spring and is prevented touching the dirt or the soil or
sliding to and fro over the heel or being trodden thereunder.
Such being the nature and object of this my said invention I will now proceed
to describe the same in detail and in order that the invention may be fully under-
stood I have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings illustrative thereof and have
marked same with figures of reference like figures denoting like parts
from being wet and soiled inside by reason of contact with mud and dirt attached
to the heel of the boot.
The pantaloons supporter consists of a very narrow plate, or blade spring, the
lower end or shank of which is fastened by means of small screws or pins to the
heels of the boot or shoe--The upper or free end of said plate is clear of or if a
spring, bears closely to and against the hind part of the boot, when not in use but
when in use the bottom end of the pantaloon is supported by or received and pinched
in between the boot and the spring and is prevented touching the dirt or the soil or
sliding to and fro over the heel or being trodden thereunder.
Such being the nature and object of this my said invention I will now proceed
to describe the same in detail and in order that the invention may be fully under-
stood I have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings illustrative thereof and have
marked same with figures of reference like figures denoting like parts
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
Fig: 1 is a side elevation of spring holder.
Fig: 2 is a back elevation of the same.
Fig 3 is a side elevation of plate holder.
At 1 is the spring holder consisting of a thin blade spring secured to the heel 2
of the boot by means of screws 3. 3. the above are specially applicable where the
trousers are worn long in the leg, such as riding trousers and effectually prevent
the bottom 4 sliding to and from over the heel and rubbing the mud and dirt from
the heel 5 inside or on the lining of the trousers-At Fig. 3 is a like contrivance
consisting of a blade or thin strip of metal 1 which is fixed as described but stands
clear of or a little distance from the heel so that the wearer can readily slip the
bottom of the trousers in or out of the supporting plate and which is better adapted
than the spring plate for trousers not worn so long or low at the heel and the
bottoms of which are liable to be raised out of the supports when sitting and the
knees are crossed-The wearer on rising can instantly slip the trousers bottom
between the heel and the supporting plate.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of this invention together
with the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect I would have it understood that what I claim as my invention is.
The apparatus marked 1 as illustrated by the drawings Figs 1. 2. 3. for purpose
and as herein described.
In Witness whereof I the said Walter Brierley have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Sixteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
Witness
HERBERT TURNER
Clerk to
Walter Brierley
Patent Agent
Halifax
WALTER BRIERLEY (L.S.)