Tennannu QUERALLS FOR WORKMEN AND OTHERS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Franklin Woodward, of the City and
State of New York, United States of America, for the Invention of
{Tennannu QUERALLS FOR WORKMEN AND OTHERS."
Sealed the 23rd July 1875, and dated the 15th February 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Franklin
Woodward at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with
his Petition, on the 15th February 1875.
I, HENRY FRANKLIN WOODWARD, of the City and State of New York,
United States of America, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OVERALLS FOR WORKMEN AND OTHERS," to be
as follows:
Overalls have hitherto been made with the lower or trowser portion
separate from the upper or jacket portion, and these have been sometimes
connected together to buttons. Workmen in executing their work
generally have occasion to move the body considerably, and where the
jacket and trowsers are separate the jacket works up and the trowsers
slip down, leaving the under garments exposed or protruding, and where

page_text: the buttons or similar connecting devices are employed they are liable to
be broken off or the fabric to be torn.
To obviate these defects and to produce an improved manufacture, I
form the overall with the jacket and trowsers in one. An opening is
made down the front of the garment to allow of its being easily put on
or taken off, and from the upper and lower parts being permanently
united there is no risk of separation at the waist.
In constructing the garment I cut the fabric so that the cloth extends
from the ankles up the front, and over the shoulders down to the waist
at the back, at which point there is a seam; the seam however may be 1
made on the shoulders.
The opening down the front is provided with buttons or other
connecting devices, and a waistbelt serves to draw the garment in
against the central part of the body.
Pockets are provided in the overalls, and the sleeves may be of greater 1
Or less length to suit the work to be nerformed
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Franklin Woodward in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 12th August 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
FRANKLIN WOODWARD, of the City and State of New York, United
States of America, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Henry Franklin Woodward,
Her special licence, that I, the said Henry Franklin Woodward, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Franklin Woodward, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of

page_text: Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OVERALLS FOR WORKMEN AND OTHERS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Franklin Wood-
ward, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Franklin Woodward, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement, reference being made to the Drawing
hereunto annexed, and to the lettres and figures marked thereon (that is
to say) :-
It is usual to manufacture overalls with a waistband at the upper end,
the garment itself extending only to the waist.
A shirt or jacket is generally worn in addition, and hence with
painters and other workmen who have to reach around in different
directions with the hands, the jacket works up and the overalls descend
at the waist, so that there is often an open space where cold can easily
reach the body, and persons are liable to catch cold or diseases incident
to exposure of this portion of the body.
5. Children's night garments have been made with an opening down the
back, the waist and drawers being connected together, but a garment
of this character is not adapted to workmen either in appearance or for
convenience, because the fastenings are not easily accessible and are
liable to be broken by the movements of the body.
My improvement relates to overalls made of drawers and jacket
combined, and of two main sections united at the back, opened down the
front, and provided with fastenings and a waistband and pockets. By
this construction the entire person is covered with the overall, freedom
of movement to the arms and legs is allowed for; the under garments
5 are kept clean and the body is protected from cold especially around the
waist.

page_text: In the Drawing I have represented by a perspective view the said
improved overall. The legs a and body b are made of suitable flexible
material, usually of heavy cotton goods; the same is cut out and joined
by seams so as to fit the person.
I make the entire garment except the sleeves of two main sections,
the fabric running from the neck band d to the bottom of the leg portion
or drawers a, and extending from the front connecting bands or hems e,
around to the central seam that unites these two main sections at the
back, thereby the overalls are not liable to injury because the seams are
not exposed to strain. The waistband fis preferably sewed to the fabric
at the front, and loose at the back and provided with a buckle. This
waistband serves to gather the garment about the person at the waist,
and painters can carry a dusting brush at the back.
I prefer buttons and button holes for fastening the garment together
down the front. The pockets h and k are inserted at each side of the :
front opening. The sleeves are of the character used in workmen's
jackets. The overalls made in this manner is a new and very useful
article of manufacture
Witnesses,
HENRY F. WOODWARD. (L.S.)
CHA. H. SMITH, 121, Nassau St., New York,
HAROLD SERRELL,
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