Improvements in Gaiters.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 10th Apr., 1891-Accepted, 12th May, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gaiters.
We JOHN HOLME LIMITED, Leather Merchants and Closed Upper and
Legging and Gaiter Manufacturers, of 19 Hanging Ditch, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, JOHN CREARY Foreman for the said Firm, and HAROLD
TURNER HOLME Secretary for the said Firm, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to the gaiters which are worn over boots or shoes as is well
understood. As ordinarily made the gaiters have been secured by means of
buttons.
This means of attachment does not furnish any latitude in the fitting of the
gaiter upon the ankle of the wearer.
The object of our invention is to remedy this defect.
We so form and put together the parts of the gaiter as that the upper part
which encloses the ankle shall be capable of being adjusted to the size of the ankle
so as to fit the same more accurately. This adjustment may be made each time the
gaiter is put on or not as preferred. In a construction which we consider to be
suitable the gaiter is composed of two principal parts namely a back piece and a
front piece and for a length extending upward from the bottom these parts are
united on the one side by stitching and on the other by the buttons or other
fastenings employed. The sides of the back part at the upper part of the gaiter
come over the front part and are connected by means of lacing or of eyelets and a
riband or tie or by means of buckles or adjustable fastenings which will permit the
upper part to be more or less tightly closed upon the ankle. When so formed and
provided gaiters of uniform cut and size will suit the requirements of wearers
having ankles differing in size.
Dated the 1st day of September 1893.
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gaiters.
We JOHN HOLME LIMITED, Leather Merchants and Closed Upper and
Legging and Gaiter Manufacturers, of 19 Hanging Ditch, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, JOHN CREARY Foreman for the said Firm, and HAROLD
TURNER HOLME, Secretary for the said Firm, 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 and accompanying
drawings:-
Our invention relates to the gaiters which are worn over boots or shoes as is
well understood. As ordinarily made, the gaiters have been secured by means of
buttons.
This means of attachment does not furnish any latitude in the fitting of the
gaiter upon the ankle of the wearer.

page_text: The object of our invention is to remedy this defect.
We so form and put together the parts of the gaiter, as that the upper part
which encloses the ankle shall be capable of being adjusted to the size of the ankle,
so as to fit the same more accurately.
This adjustment may be made each time the gaiter is put on or not as preferred.
In a construction which we consider to be suitable, the gaiter is composed of two
principal parts, namely, a back piece and a front piece. For a length extending
upward from the bottom, these parts are united on the one side by stitching and
on the other by the buttons or other fastenings employed. The sides of the back
part at the upper part of the gaiter, come over the front part and are connected by
means of lacing or of eyelets, or a riband or tie, or by means of buckles or
adjustable fastenings which will permit the upper part to be more or less tightly
closed upon the ankle.
When so formed and provided, gaiters of uniform cut and size will suit the
requirements of wearers having ankles differing in size.
To render our invention more fully understood, we will now proceed to describe
the same more particularly, with the assistance of the annexed sheet of drawings.
Fig. 1 is a side view of our improved gaiter on the outer or buttoned side;
Fig. 2 is a side view of the same gaiter from the inner or stitched side.
As has been already said in the preliminary description, the gaiter is composed
of two principal parts, riz. a back piece A and a front piece B. These parts are
connected at one side of the gaiter by stitching, between the points -- Fig. 2,
and by buttons a on the other side of the gaiter, or other suitable fastenings, as
shown in Fig. 1. The button-holed flap of the front piece B overlaps and is
buttoned to the edge of the back piece A as clearly shown in Fig. 1, a portion of
the overlapping flap b, being shown turned back so as to exhibit the construction
more clearly. The upper edge of the front piece B, goes beneath the edge of the
back piece A as also clearly shown by Figs. 1 and 2.
That portion of the complete gaiter which surrounds the ankle, is made so that
it can be adjustably tightened round the ankle, and this is the chief feature of our
invention. This adjusting and tightening of the gaiter round the ankle may be
effected in several ways, but a convenient mode is shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
We attach a strap or tongue c to the back part A of the gaiter on one side, and
we also attach a buckle or other holdfast d to the back part A on the other side.
The strap or tongue c is brought round the front part of the gaiter and engages
with the buckle d as clearly shown; the several holes in the strap allow of different
degrees of adjustment to suit the size of ankle of any wearer.
Instead of an adjustable strap or tongue as herein before described to tighten the
gaiter round the ankles, we might have a tongue or tab fitted to button round the
ankle as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings.
In this modification the edge e of the back part A overlaps the edge of the front
part, for the whole depth of the gaiter, and the button f to engage with the tab g
is sewn to this overlapping edge or to a projection on its edge as clearly illustrated
in Fig. 3. In a gaiter of this description the proper tightness round the ankle
might be ascertained before attaching the tab or button.
Instead of the straps and buckle or tab and button shown and described, we
might adjust the gaiters to the ankles by means of lacing or by hooks and eyes or
by ribauds or spring or snap fasteners which will effect the desired object of
holding the upper part of the gaiters more or less tightly round the ankles.
When formed in the indicated manner and furnished with the adjusting means
hereinbefore described, gaiters of uniform cut and size can be made to fit different
wearers.
The effects of our invention are, that the loose and unsightly appearance
sometimes presented by gaiters which do not fit closely to the ankles, and the
discomfort which such ill-fitting gaiters entail upon the wearer are obviated and
avoided.

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
1. The general arrangement, construction and combination of parts constituting
our improved gaiters, substantially as described and shown.
2. In gaiters of the indicated nature, the provision of the hereinbefore set forth
or equivalent means for adjusting, tightening or holding the upper part of the
gaiter more closely round the ankles of the wearer, substantially as described and
shown.
3. The improved gaiter as herein before described and set forth with reference
to Figs. 1 and 2.
4. The improved gaiter as hereinbefore described and set forth with reference
to Fig. 3.
Doted thio 0th dor of A nril 1894
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.