Certain Improvements in Trousers and other similar Garments.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 14th Oct., 1895-Accepted, 11th Jan., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Certain Improvements in Trousers and other similar Garments.
We, Toм COOKE SMITH, of No. 2, Church View, Kendal, in the County of
Westmoreland, Mill Manager and Designer, and ARTHUR WILLIAM GUNSON,
of 2, Church View, Kendal, aforesaid, Assistant Mill Manager, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to certain improvements in trousers and particularly
striped trousers and other similar garments, and its object is to prevent or reduce
the liability of these garments to become "baggy at the knees and to generally
make them more elastic and enable them to more readily recover their original
shape or more permanently retain it.
For this purpose instead of "cutting" trousers with the warp of the cloth
approximately lengthways or parallel to the leg we "cut" them so that the warp
runs diagonally across or more or less at an angle of forty-five degrees to the
length of the trouser leg. By this means the maximum of elasticity is obtained,
and when the cloth is woven a suitable width the trousers may be "cut with
economy therefrom. Furthermore very effective designs may be readily produced
in fabrics in which the stripe or pattern runs at an angle across the "piece" instead
of longitudinally with it.
Dated this 10th day of January 1895.
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DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Agents.
DEL DOITTUATION.
Certain Improvements in Trousers and other similar Garments.
We Toм COOKE SMITH, Mill Manager and Designer, ARTHUR WILLIAM
GUNSON, Assistant Mill Manager, both of West End View, Ravensthorpe, in the
County of York, late of 2, Church View, Kendal, in the County of Westmoreland,
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 :-
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This invention relates to certain improvements in trousers and particularly
striped trousers, riding breeches, knickerbockers, and other similar outer garments,
and its object is to prevent or reduce the liability of these garments to become
baggy at the knees and to generally make them more elastic and enable them
to more readily recover their original shape or more permanently retain it.
For this purpose instead of "cutting trousers with the warp of the cloth
approximately lengthways or parallel to the leg we "cut" them so that the warp
runs diagonally across or substantially at an angle of forty-five degrees to the
length of the trouser leg. By this means the maximum of elasticity is obtained,
and when the cloth is woven a suitable width the trousers may be "cut" with
economy therefrom. Furthermore very effective designs may be readily produced
in fabrics in which the stripe or pattern runs at an angle across the "piece"
instead of longitudinally with it.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
A pair of trousers, knickerbockers, or riding breeches in which the warp of the
fabric from which they are made lies substantially at an angle of forty-five degrees
to the legs.
Dated this 12th day of October 1805
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Bradford, Patent Agents.