Improvements in Dress Preservers.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1886
Complete Left; 10th Feb., 1887
Complete Accepted, 11th Mar., 1887.
[Communicated from abroad by PIERRE PAUL GUILLAUME Fils aîné, Manufacturer,
of the City of Paris, in the Republic of France.]
Improvements in Dress Preservers.
I ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON of 46 Southampton Buildings Holborn in the county
of Middlesex and 31 Lincoln Place Leinster Street Dublin, Patent Agent do hereby
declare the nature of the said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN DRESS PRESERVERS to
be as follows:-
In place of the customary oil silk, flannel and so forth usually placed under the
arms of dresses, a spongy tissue is employed which will absorb moisture and so remove
unpleasantness from the person, and so rendering its use healthy to the wearer.
The tissues employed for this purpose are looped fabrics, the loops being more or
less close, velvet surfaced materials, such as terry velvet, plush, cotton, silk wool or
other like materials.
The velvet or looped surface may be on one or both sides; in the latter case surfaces
of like material may be used, or they may be of different substances.
The dress preservers are made of two pieces of the spongy tissue cut of any desired
form and dimensions, and lined inside with a sheet of india rubber, quite independent
of the tissue to which it is connected by binding it round its edges with galloon or
other binding.
Or the inside surfaces may be coated with a layer of some impermeable matter such
as gutta percha, caoutchouc and so forth.

page_text: improvements in Dress Freservers.
I. ARTHUR CHARLES HENDERSON of 46 Southampton Buildings Holborn in the
county of Middlesex, and of 31. Lincoln Place Leinster Street, Dublin Patent Agent,
do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN DRESS
PRESERVERS, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
In place of the customary oil silk, flannel and so forth usually placed under the
arms of dresses, a spongy tissue is employed, which will absorb moisture, and so
remove unpleasantness from the person of the wearer.
The tissues employed for this purpose are of a spongy absorbent nature, these
consist of looped fabrics, the loops being more or less close, velvet surfaced materials,
or velvet with long or short pile, cut or not, and either silk or cotton; or bath
towelling, the velvety or looped surfaces being on one or both sides of the material.
This novel application of the spongy materials referred to have the advantage of
absorbing perspiration, whilst they are soft to the touch, without generating heat, and
are as absorbent as flannel without like it provoking perspiration.
This spongy absorbent material is cut of any desired form, in two independent
pieces, between which a thin sheet of india rubber, or gutta percha is placed, so that
each of the inner surfaces is lined with this material.
Or the dress preserver may consist solely of the two pieces of spongy material
referred to, without the waterproof lining.
One of the pieces is of smaller dimensions than the other.
At the upper part only, they are connected by a seam, and when so united the
edges are bound with galloon or some equivalent binding.
The dress preserver therefore consists of two separate or independent parts united
together at the top by a seam.
In the accompanying drawings Fig. 1 shows a dress protector of the description
embodying my invention, Fig. 2 being an end view of the same, a. and are the two
separate pieces of the spongy absorbent material referred to, stitched together at the
top by a seam c―d.
These may
One of these pieces, that , is of smaller dimensions than the other a.
consist simply of the spongy material as already mentioned, or they may be lined
with a sheet of thin india rubber or gutta percha f, Fig. 2, and also visible where
marked a Fig. 1. These two independent pieces whether lined with the gutta percha,
or india rubber lining or not, are bound round the edges with galloon, or other binding
as shown at g.

page_text: The dress preservers thus completed consist of two distinct parts a, and b, united
at the top only by the seam c-d. so as to form two flaps that can be lifted one from
the other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is.
The construction of dress preservers made of spongy, looped or velvet piled material,
of the description herein referred to, the said looped or piled surface being on one or
both sides or faces of such material. The two parts a, and of which it is formed being
independent of each other, and one smaller than the other, and lined or not with a
thin sheet of india rubber or gutta percha, the separate edges being bound round as
shown in the drawings by the letters g. g.
A. C. HENDERSON.