A NEW OR IMPROVED HIGHLAND CLOAK OR CAPE, OR REVERSIBLE SLEEVELESS COAT WITH CAPE
Year: 1875

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Hendry Roger at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
4th September 1875.
I, JAMES HENDRY ROGER, of the Firm of John Roger & Son, of the
City of Glasgow, in the County of Lanark, North Britain, Clothiers, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED
HIGHLAND CLOAK OR CAPE, OR REVERSIBLE SLEEVELESS COAT WITH CAPE," to
to be as follows :-
"
or
This Invention relates to a new or improved construction and form of
reversible garment, of the class known as
"Inverness capes "
Highland cloaks," whereby either side may with facility be worn
outwards, as may be desired; and the nature of the Invention or
improvements consists in making the cloak or garment, including its
fixed duplex cape, of two kinds or patterns of cloth, capable of being
worn outwards, or of a two-sided or reversible cloth, and sewing the
body part and cape parts together at the back edge of the' sleeve holes,
in such a manner that the cape parts (which are in the form of two
segmental wings, reaching from behind the sleeve holes round to the

page_text: Iront, where they button together over
manner) can each be passed right through the sleeve hole to which it is
sewed, so as to fit 'properly on either side of the garment.
The back edge of each loose wing part above the sewed part and arm
holes is buttoned up over the shoulder close into the fold of the collar,
and the upper loose edge just below the fold of the collar is also
buttoned right round to the front by three buttons or so in each edge,
all so that a shoulder strap sewn to the garment at one end and
buttoned at the other covers the row of buttons over the shoulder, while
the collar when folded down covers the row of buttons at the top
edge.
The front part of the wings or cape proper are left loose, so as to be
thrown back when the arms require freedom, or with buttons and
button holes to button to each other over the front of the cloak, which
also buttons down the front all as usual; but in addition to this the
same double set of buttons required for securing both on the reverse
sides may be used to secure the front part of the cape to the garment,
and when desired the back loose edge of each part of the cape below the
arm holes may be buttoned to the garment by two or more special
buttons and button holes for the purpose.
Under another modification a reversible coat boby, without sleeves,
may be similarly fitted with the improved form of reversible eape, all
otherwise substantially as described in reference to the loose cloak.
· A few-of-the-advantages of this new or improved reversible cloak or
sleeveless coat with fixed cape are, the, convenience of having a
single garment suitable for two by merely reversing it, and.-at-a-very-
little-more-expense-in-labour for making than for one, and therefore
costing little more than the difference between the price of the usual
lining and the new fabric on the one side to make it reversible.
It will be understood that hooks or other equivalents may be used
instead of buttons and button holes for attaching the loose parts of the
garment.