Improvements in Gaiters, and in the Adjuncts thereto.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Apr., 1897-Accepted, 8th May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gaiters, and in the Adjuncts thereto.
I, JACOB BROWN, of 71 Chapel Street, Ancoats, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Gaiter Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
My object is to form a gaiter which shall be more easy to put on and self
adjusting. I accomplish this by fitting short gaiters with buttonholes by which.
the lower edges can be attached to the boot or shoe and in longer gaiters by also
combining a cloth or other foot with a stockingette calf.
The stockingette calf may be furnished with a buttonhole strip of similar
material to the foot to give rigidity and to save trouble and cost in making and
may be furnished with a similar strip round the top of the calf to attach to
knickerbockers and tbe like, this strip being left open at one point and adjusted.
once for all by means of a lace or other device.
Dated this 2nd day of July 1896.
JOHN HENRY TOPHAM,
7 South Corridor, Royal Exchange, Manchester, Agent to Applicant..
I, JACOB BROWN, of 71 Chapel Street, Ancoats, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster Gaiter Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and:
in what manner the same is to he performed, to be particularly described and.
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My object is to form a gaiter which shall be more easy to put on and self
adjusting. 1, accomplish this in short gaiters by furnishing the lower edge with.
buttonholes by which they can be attached to the boot or shoe of the wearer.
In louger gaiters I also combine a stockingette calf with a cloth or other foot.
I preferably furnish the stockingette calf with a buttonhole strip of similar
material to the foot to give rigidity and save trouble and cost in making, and also
furnish it with a similar strip round the top of the calf in which are suitable
buttonholes or other attachments to enable it to be secured to knickerbockers
and the like, this strip being left open at one point and adjusted once for all by'a
lace or other device.
Referring to the drawings sent herewith:-
Fig. 1 is a side view of a short gaiter a fitted with buttonholes 6 for attachment.
to the boot or shoe.
Fig. 2 is a side view of a long gaiter with a cloth body a and stockingette calf
or leg c, side buttonhole strip d and top buttonhole strip e tightened by lace e 2.
Fig. 3 shows a modification of my invention, the body a and calf c being formed.

page_text: of cloth and the necessary elasticity being given by a strip of stockingette f inserted
in the whole length of the gaiter.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. In short gaiters, furnishing the lower edges with buttonholes or buttons to
allow of their attachment to the boot or shoe, substantially as described and shown
herein before and in the accompanying drawings.
2nd. In long gaiters, the combination with a body of cloth, of a calf made wholly
or partially of stockingette or similar elastic material, substantially as described
and shown hereinbefore and in the accompanying drawings.
3rd. In long gaiters, formed partially of stockingette or other elastic material a
buttonhole strip or series of buttonholes round the top of the calf, for the
attachment thereto of knickerbockers and the like.
Dated this 2nd day of April 1897.
JOHN HENRY TOPHAM,
7 South Corridor, Royal Exchange, Manchester, Agent to Applicant.