Improvements in Gaiters and Leggings.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Dec., 1899
4000
Accented 24th Nov. 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gaiters and Leggings.
I, JAMES LEIGHTON, Junior, of Beeston, in the County of Nottingham, Commercial
Traveller, and COLIN SOMERVELL, JOHN SOMERVELL, GORDON SOMERVELL, and
WILLIAM HENRY SOMERVELL, in Co-Partnership, trading as Somervell Brothers,
Boot Manufacturers, Kendal, in the County of Westmoreland, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in the construction and method of
manufacture of leggings or gaiters the object being to produce a legging which
can be readily applied and which may possess the advantages of elasticity and
appearance now obtained by the bound cloth or other material puttee used for
the protection of the leg.
In carrying my invention into effect when constructing a legging from leather
or other suitable material I secure a number of independent strips or layers
together to form a legging, instead of employing a single broad piece or vertically
arrange my independent
jointed plain piece of leather for this purpose.
strips either in straight lines or I may slant them so as to give an appearance
of a bound or spirally wound puttee. I stitch the portions or strips together,
employing either visible or invisible stitching for this purpose.
I provide button's and button holes, buckles, springs and clasps or other suit-
able fastening devices and attachments upon my improved strip jointed legging,
as at present employed upon the ordinary form of legging in common use.
I may line my legging with any foundation material when so desired, or I
may make the strip of sufficient strength in form to be independent of lining
when so desired.
Improvements in Gaiters and Leggings,
We, JAMES LEIGITTON, Junior, late of Beeston, in the County of Nottingham,
but now of Townsend Road, Harpenden, in the County of Herts, Commercial
Traveller, and COLIN SOMERVELL, JOHN SOMERVELL, GORDON SOMERVELL, and
WILLIAM HENRY SOMERVELL, in Co-Partnership, trading as Somervell Brothers,
Boot Manufacturers, Kendal, in the County of Westmoreland, do hereby declare

page_text: 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in the construction and method of
manufacture of leggings or gaiters the object being to produce a legging which
can be readily adjusted or put on and which may possess the advantages of
elasticity and appearance now obtained by the bound cloth or other material
puttee used for the protection of the leg.
In the accompanying sheet of explanatory drawings Figure 1 is a general
illustration of one form of our improved legging, and Figure 2 is a modified
form of the same.
In carrying our invention into effect when constructing a legging from
leather or other suitable material we secure a number of independent strips or
layers a together to form a legging, instead of employing a single broad piece
or vertically jointed plain piece of leather for this purpose. We arrange our
independent strips a either in straight lines as in Figure 2, or we may slant
them as in Figure 1 so as to give an appearance of a bound or spirally wound
puttee. We stitch, cement or otherwise fasten the portions or strips together,
and when stitching employ either visible or invisible stitching for this purpose.
We provide buttons and button holes b, buckles e springs and clasps or other
suitable fastening devices and attachments upon our improved strip jointed
legging, whether as at present employed upon the ordinary form of legging in
common use or otherwise. When using buckles and tabs we find it sometimes
convenient to form the end a¹ of the strips into tabs or fastening members as
shewn in Figure 1.
By this method of constructing a legging we are enabled to produce a form
which is more pliable and elastic so that it more readily fits to the shape of the
leg and retains this shape, than the usual ordinary unjointed or vertically
seamed leggings at present in use.
We may line our legging with any foundation material when so desired, or
we may make the strips of sufficient strength in form to be independent of lining
when so desired. We vary the shape of the gaiter or the legging by making
the lower portion to cover the boot or portion of the boot thus serving the
purpose of a spat, or we make the upper leg portion of the boots in the same
manner from strips or layers.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is;-
1. The improved legging or gaiter having a series of horizontally or spirally
cut strips joined or fastened together to conform to the shape of the leg sub-
stantially as and for the purpose herein before described and as illustrated in
the accompanying drawings.
2. The application to a legging or gaiter of the method of construction herein-
before described for the purpose of obtaining the shape of the leg by means of
a series of horizontally or spirally cut strips joined or fastened together substan-
tially as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 16th day of August 1000
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, and 25, Cross Street, Manchester,
Agents.