US360851A - Water-proof garment - Google Patents

Description

(No-Modl.) K

.YF. CARTER.l WATER PROOF GARMENT.

Patetegr 12, 1887.

V'IC

,A llNirnn STATES' PATENT GFFICE.

JOI-IN'F.CAR'IER, OF BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS.

WATER--PRO'OFA GARMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Batent No. 360,851, dated April 12, 1887. Application filed September 29, 1886. Serial No. 214,820. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

y Be itknown that I, JOHN-F. CARTER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Beverly, in the county of -Essex and `State of' Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tater-Proof Garments, of

'which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in water-proof garmdilts, and it is particularly adapted foruse by horseback riders to enable the garment to be buttoned in such a manner as to cover and extend over the pommel and cantle of the saddle, and thus protect the rider completely in a rain or snow storm. The water-,proof garmentis so constructed as to be equally useful for other purposes besides horseback riding simply by buttoning it up behind, when it will have the appearance of an ordinary Water-proof coat, as will hereinafter be Y more fully shown and described, reference being'hadto the accompanying drawings, where- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the garment, with the rear gore or liap extendedv view to illustrate the use of the water-proof garment for horseback purposes.

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur on the different parts of the drawings.

A A represent the sides of the` garment, which sides are divided in the rear nearly up to the collar b, as shown in Figs, 1,2, and 3, and provided with longitudinal flaps a a at such rear slit or division, which are adapted to be buttoned together by means of buttons a' a and button-holes Ma" made on the respective laps a a when the garment is to be used as au ordinary Water-proof coat, as shown in Fig. 2.

Instead of buttons and button-holes on said` liaps or edges of the rear slit or division, any other well-known fastening devices may be used.

To the sides of the slitted rear portion of the garment is sewed or otherwise united .a

rearwardly-extending ap or gore, C, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3,'sai`d gore being of sufficient fullness to cover the cantle of a saddle when the front part of the coat is buttoned and made to cover the saddle-pommel, .and by this ar.- rangement the saddle is covered in front and rear, so as to prevent rain or snow from reaching it as long as the rider is in the saddle, and thus protecting the rider fully from the inclemency of the weather.

The coat can be converted into and be used as an ordinary walking-coat simply by folding the gore C inside of the back portion, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2, when the rear slit is closed by buttoning the flaps a a together, as shown in Fig. 2, thus preventing the rain from reaching the body of the wearer.

d d are the sleeves of the coat, as usual, and e is the usual breast-flap, adapted to be buttoned to the other side piece when the coat is in use.- vided with buttons and button-holes, as is usual in garments of this kind.

Another use to which the invention maybe put is to serve as a combined coat and trousers; and for this purpose I nnbutton the coat at the rear and envelop each leg with one of the side pieces, A A, the lower portions of which are then to be buttoned around the legs of the wearer, by which arrangement the wearer of the water-proof garment is still further protected against rain or snow.

Vater-proof garments of this kind are generally termed pommel-slickers,7 and they have heretofore been made with triangular breast-flaps extending from the front edges of the garment land adapted to be buttoned together so as to overlap and coverv the pommel of the saddle on which the rider is seated; but such arrangement is uncomfortable; clumsy, and difficult to adj ust, and I wish to state that I do not claim as my 'invention `a Water-proof garment with such forwardly-extending breast-flaps.

I am aware that a coat or garment has heretofore been composed of two slitted or divided back breadths of normalV size above, with the skirts increasing in width from the top toward y the bottom, and two front breadths, one upon each side, attached to the back breadths, such back breadths being provided, respectively, with a button-loop and button-strap for trans- Ihe front edges of the coat are proforming the garment from a Walking-coat into ariding-eoat. Such construction I therefore disclaim. 1

What I wish to secure by Letters Patent and claim is A coat or garment comprising the sides A A, divided from the bottom upward, and the edge of each side providedwith a longitudinal ap,a,said laps adapted to overlap each other, and having buttons and button-holes or equivalent for connecting them together, and the unslittcd gore C inserted in the divided part of the garment and terminating below the collar and below the point where the sides are directly united, and havingits outer divergent 15 edges connected with the longitudinal edges of the sides along the length of the flaps, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subzo scribing witnesses, on this 25th day of September, A. D. 1886.

JOHN F. CARTER. Witnesses:

ALBAN ANDRN, E. J. TORREY.

Images