Improvements in Dress Preservers.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left. 22nd Aug. 1889-Accepted. 28th Sept.. 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dress Preservers.
I PIERRE PAUL GUILLAUME Fils ainé Manufacturer of 51 Rue du Temple in the
city of Paris, in the Republic of France do hereby declare the nature of the said
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN DRESS PRESERVERS to be as follows: :-
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The object of this invention is to obviate (in fixing the dress preserver in the dress)
the necessity of passing the needle through the waterproof material constituting a
portion of the dress preserver as the needle is thereby frequently broken in addition
to which the material becomes puckered and at the same time the punctures therein
lessen the efficacy of the dress preserver as a protector from perspiration.
I therefore provide the preserver with a strip, or band of some soft substance such
as silk, cotton or some equivalent material running all round the outer and free edges
and through these the sewing to the dress is effected in fixing the article in the
position desired.
This same band of soft substance can serve to secure the waterproof material in its
place inside the outer covering of cloth, silk or what not.
Dress preservers so constructed can be readily fixed or removed and placed in other
garments when or if so required.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dress Preservers.
I PIERRE PAUL GUILLAUME Fils ainé, Manufacturer of 51 Rue du Temple, in
the city of Paris, in the Republic of France do hereby declare the nature of my 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:
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All dress preservers at present known or used in trade no matter what may be their
constituent parts, have the following drawbacks, in fixing them to the clothing, that is
to say:
It being necessary to pass the needle through the waterproof substance, there is
great difficulty in forcing it through this material, the result being, that the needle is
often broken in the india rubber or other impermeable matter, or the point is blunted,
moreover the india rubber or other material is so punctured that its impermeability is
destroyed, and the dress preserver being puckered, becomes shrunk and consequently
a large portion of the article is rendered useless.
The object of this invention is to obviate these inconveniences, by completely
avoiding sewing through the waterproof, and other materials forming the preserver.
With this view I provide the preserver with a strip or band of some soft substance,
such as silk, cotton, or some equivalent, extending beyond, and surrounding the free
edges; and through this band the sewing to the dress is effected in fixing the
preserver in the desired position.
This band or bands may also be glued, embroidered braided, or otherwise attached
to the dress preserver; it is therefore evident that it can be attached to the dress with
the greatest facility, or removed therefrom, and placed in another garment, without
the slightest injury to the materials, of which it is composed, as the needle is never
once passed through it, consequently its properties of resisting moisture are fully
maintained throughout its whole dimensions.

page_text: The characteristic feature of the invention therefore is its provision with a border,
band, selvage or binding of some soft substance extending beyond and all round
the edges of the materials of which it is composed, so as to serve as a means of
attachment to the dress, or other article of clothing.
In the accompanying drawings a dress preserver embodying my invention is
illustrated. Fig. 1 being a front view, and Fig. 2 a transverse section taken at
the line 1-2 of Fig. 1.
a, is an outer tissue, b, being a sheet of india rubber or gutta percha, inside a,
both are independent, and are united by the border c.
To the preserver thus formed, is added the band or strip of soft material such as
cotton, silk, or some equivalent d, which is shown fixed to the outer edges of the two
parts forming the dress preserver, which are held together by the border or binding c.
Figs. 3 and 4 represent a modification of the fixing band, in this case it simul-
taneously serves to bind the material a, and waterproof substance b, the parts f and g
being united at h, leaving a projecting edge k, for attaching the preserver to the dress
by any convenient method.
This border f, g, with edge k, is eminently suitable for effecting the object desired,
viz. affording a means of attachment of the preserver to the dress without the necessity
of puncturing the waterproof material, to the detriment thereof, and distortion by
puckering, of the dress preserver.
Finally it should be observed that similar results may be effected, although under
less favourable conditions than by the use of the band d, of Figs. 1 and 2; and free
edge k, of Figs. 3 and 4.
1st by utilizing the border c Figs. 1 and 2 without doubling it, and leaving one of
its edges loose.
2nd by here and there adding, round the dress preserver a variable number of
tongue pieces which would form portions of the band d, and these would then be used
to fix the dress preserver to the garment.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1st. The novel application to dress preservers, above and below the binding c
Figs. 1, and 2, (connecting the pieces a. b.) of one or more bands d, of some soft
material, which is free and independent of, and projects beyond c, and serves to
attach the preserver to the garment.
2nd. The employment of the fixing band f. 9. Figs. 3. 4. for simultaneously binding
the parts a. b. whilst leaving a projecting edge k, by which the preserver is attached
to the dress.
3rd. Utilizing the binding c, as a means of attachment to the dress, by not doubling
it; but leaving one of its edges loose or free for the purpose of fixing it to the dress.
4th. Adding tongue pieces here and there, round the dress preserver, which would
form parts of the band d, and serve as attachments, for fixing the preserver to the
dress or other garment.
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of August 1889.
A. C. HENDERSON & Co.,
Patent Agents,
46, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, and 31, Lincoln Place, Dublin.