An Improvement in Combination Garments.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 10th June, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 6th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 11th Apr., 1896
An Improvement in Combination Garments.
I, OSCAR ZIMMERLI of Aarburg, Switzerland, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to a device in connection with combination garments by
means of which the lower part of the abdomen is protected from cold, the device.
serving also as a suspender.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings Figure 1 is a front view and Figure 2 a.
back view of a combination garment with my invention applied thereto.
On the front of the garment is fixed a flap a which passes between the legs and
is secured at the back part of garment covering the opening at the fork throughout
its length.
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The flap a may be fixed permanently at one of its ends and be secured at the
other by buttoning or otherwise in such manner that it can be unfastened when.
required. The permanently fixed end may be at the front of the garment and the
buttoned or otherwise detachable end at the back as shown in the drawings, or
vice versa as may be preferred.
The opening at the fork being covered by the flap a the lower part of the
abdomen is protected from cold, and the arrangement of the flap enables it
to serve also as a suspender for the private parts of a male wearer of the
garment.
Dated this 10th day of June 1895.
I, OSCAR ZIMMERLI, of Aarburg, Switzerland, 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 :-
This invention relates to a device in connection with combination garments, by
means of which the lower part of the abdomen is protected from cold, the device
serving also as a suspender.
Referring to the sheet of drawings accompanying my Provisional Specification,
Figure 1 is a front view, and Figure 2 a back view of a combination garment with
my invention applied thereto.
On the front of the garment is fixed a flap a which passes between the legs, and
is secured at the back part of the garment, covering the opening at the fork
througbout its length. The flap a may be fixed permanently at one of its ends,.
and be secured at the other by buttoning or otherwise, in such manner that it can.
be unfastened when required. The permanently fixed end may be at the front.

page_text: of the garment and the buttoned or otherwise detachable end at the back, as shown
in the drawings, or vice versa, as may be preferred.
The opening at the fork being covered by the flap a, the lower part of the
abdomen is protected from cold, and the arrangement of the flap enables it
to serve also as a suspender for the private parts of a male wearer of the
garment.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of this invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
In a combination garment, the improvement which consists in the employment
of the flap a, substantially as described with reference to the aforesaid drawings.
Dated this 6th day of March 1896.
O. ZIMMERLI,
Per W. H. Beck,
115 Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.