An improvement in Breeches.
Year: 1898

page_text: An improvement in Breeches.
I, HARRY HYLTON-FOSTER, of Tolworth Hall, near Kingston-on-Thames, in
the County of Surrey, Underwriter, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
This invention relates to breeches for riding, campaigning, and sporting pur-
poses generally, and has for its object to ensure a close fit under the bend of the
knee and the part of the leg which comes next to the saddle in riding, and
yet to admit of the breeches being easily put on or taken off without the pro-
vision of any slit or opening up the leg of the breeches as usual.
As there is
no slit, no buttons and button-holes are required, the disadvantages incidental
to buttons, which are liable to come off and to hurt the wearer by pressure by
or through the boot or legging, are avoided.
The breeches are so cut that the knee and calf portion shall be large enough
to give easy passage to the foot without any opening or slit as usual, the requi-
site tightness of fit under the bend of the knee being obtained by one or more
cross strap and buckle fastenings so applied to the exterior portion of the leg
(in the case of a single strap and buckle just below the knee or above and
below the knee in the case of two or more) as to gather up the superfluous
material in folds running up and down in the line of the leg on or towards
the outer side of the leg between the points of attachment to the breeches of
the strap and its buckle so that the remainder of the circumference of the
breeches at that point shall be drawn tightly around the inner side of the leg
and under the bend of the knee, where it is important to obtain a close fit
entirely free from wrinkles. The calf portion which extends below the knee
portion is made in one therewith instead of being formed of a separate piece
or band termed a continuation as usual in such breeches. This calf portion is
free to adapt itself to the size of the calf and would be covered by the top of
the boot, legging, or stocking, in the same way as the "continuation," or sewn-
on band heretofore used.
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page_text: 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 relates to breeches for riding, campaigning, and sporting pur-
poses generally and has for its object to ensure a close fit under the bend of the
knee and that part of the leg which comes next to the saddle in riding, and
yet to admit of the breeches being easily put on or taken off, and this without
the provision of any slit or opening extending up the leg of the breeches as
usual and without the use of any buttons and button-holes whereby the disad-
vantages incidental to buttons, which are apt to hurt the wearer by pressure
caused by the boot or legging and are liable to come off, are avoided.
As illustrated in the accompanying drawing forming part of this specifica-
tion, the breeches are so cut that the knee and calf portion a shall be large
enough, without the usual vertical opening or slit, to give easy passage to the
foot, the requisite tightness of fit at 6 under the bend of the knee being obtained
by one or more cross straps c and buckles d attached to the exterior portion
of the leg at points (c and d¹ respectively) situated about one-third to half the
circumference of the leg apart, so as when tightly drawn and secured to cause
the superfluous fulness of material to be gathered up in folds as at e, these
folds e running up and down in the line of the leg and being situated at the
outer side of the leg between the points of attachment c¹ d¹ of the strap and
its buckle so that these gathers or folds will be embraced or covered and flattened
by the strap and the remainder of the circumference of the breeches opposite
the strap shall be drawn tightly around the inner side of the leg and under
the bend of the knee as at b, where it is important to have a close fit
entirely free from wrinkles. If a single strap and buckle be used, it would be
situated just below the knee at the outer side of the leg as shewn, whilst in the
case of two straps one would be above and the other below the knee. The calf
portion a is made in one with the knee portion and leg (instead of being formed
of a separate piece or band termed a continuation as usual) and the portion of
it below the strap is free to adapt itself to the size of the calf and would be
covered by the top of the boot, legging, or stocking in the same way as the
continuations," or sewn-on band heretofore used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
The herein described improvement in breeches, consisting in the combina-
tion, with a knee and calf portion large enough, without a slit, to give passage
to the foot, of one or more cross strap and buckle fastenings attached to the
calf portion so as to gather the material into vertical folds at the exterior of
the leg and ensure an unwrinkled close fit at the opposite side beneath the
bend of the knee substantially as specified.
Dated this 24th day of July 1800
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
Chartered Patent Agents, 53, Chancery Lane, London.