AN IMPROVEMENT IN WEARING APPAREL
Year: 1859

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Davies, of No. 1, Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn,
in the County of Middlesex, and No. 28, St. Enoch Square, in the City
of Glasgow, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN WEARING APPAREL." -A communication from abroad
by Gabriel Jean Julien Laury, of Paris, in the Empire of France.
Sealed the 29th November 1859, and dated the 4th June 1859.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Davies at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 4th
June 1859.
I, GEORGE DAVIES, of No. 1, Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of
Middlesex, and No. 28, St. Enoch Square, in the City of Glasgow, Civil
Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN WEARING APPAREL," (a communication from
abroad by Gabriel Jean Julien Laury, of Paris, in the Empire of France,) to
be as follows:-
The Invention relates to a sort of sheath or case adapted to male or female
wearing apparel, and intended to dispense with the necessity for spectacle and
other cases or sheaths, and other analogous articles.
The Invention consists in the addition to the coat, waistcoat, trowsers, gown,
or other article of dress, of a sort of narrow sheath, case, or small pocket,
independent of the ordinary pockets, and serving to contain articles of value,

page_text: which it is not desirable to confound or mix with the other articles carried in
the ordinary pockets, each article having its separate sheath, case, or pocket.
It is proposed to replace the ordinary spectacle or eye-glass cases, and other
similar loose cases or sheaths, by cases or sheaths applied or attached to the
interior of openings made in any convenient part of the garments. These
sheaths or cases may be made of any suitable material, and may either have
openings independent of the ordinary pockets, or they may be attached to the
interior of the ordinary pockets; and may, if preferred, be made of india-
rubber or other elastic material, or have a band of elastic material round the
opening.
It will be evident that several of these small sheaths or cases may be applied
to the interior of an ordinary pocket without materially decreasing the interior
capacity of the pocket itself; and thus valuable or fragile articles may be kept
perfectly safe and distinct from the ordinary contents of the pockets.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Davies in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd
December 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
DAVIES, of No 1, Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex,
and of No. 28, St. Enoch Square, in the City of Glasgow, Civil Engineer and
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Davies, Her special licence that I, the said George Davies,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Davies, 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 Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN WEARING APPAREL," (being a communication from abroad by Gabriel Jean
Julien Laury, of Paris, in the Empire of France, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said George Davies, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and

page_text: seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said In-
vention, 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 George Davies, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement in writing, that is to say:-
This Invention relates to a kind of sheath, case, or interior pocket, adapted
to either male or female wearing apparel, and intended to dispense with the
necessity for spectacle and other cases or sheaths, and other analogous articles.
The Invention consists in the addition to the coat, waistcoat, trousers, gown,
or other article of dress, of several narrow sheaths, cases, or small pockets,
independent of the ordinary pockets, and serving to contain valuable or fragile
articles which it is not desirable to mix or confound with the other articles
carried in the ordinary pockets, each article having its own separate sheath,
case or pocket.
It is proposed to replace the ordinary spectacle or eye-glass cases, and other
similar loose cases or sheaths, by cases or sheaths applied or attached to the
interior of openings made in any convenient part of the garments. These
sheaths or cases may be made of any suitable material, and may either have
openings independent of the ordinary pockets, or they may be attached to the
interior of the ordinary pockets, and may, if preferred, be made of india-rubber
or other elastic material, or have a band of elastic material round the opening.
It will be evident that several of these small sheaths or cases may be applied
to the interior of an ordinary pocket, without materially decreasing the
interior capacity of the pocket itself; and thus valuable or fragile articles may
be kept perfectly safe and distinct from the ordinary contents of the pockets.
By placing the openings of these different sized sheaths or interior pockets
a little below the opening of the ordinary pocket, there will be no need to
cover them in any way, as they will not be visible, and being made of elastic
material, or having elastic bands at their openings, it is evident that the
papers, instruments, or other articles which they contain cannot fall out on
taking off the garments, as frequently happens.
By lining the interior of these sheaths or pockets with silk, or other soft
material, the glasses will be kept always polished by the friction produced by
the movement of the body, or they may be rubbed on the interior of the pocket
before being withdrawn. They may, (if preferred,) be further secured by a
button or other fastening. These sheaths, cases, or interior pockets may be

page_text: very simply formed by a piece of material sewn. either to the interior of the
garment or to the pocket itself, and divided into different compartments by
stitching the two together, so as to make small sheaths or cases of various
sizes, according to the size and form of the various articles to be carried in
them. In the sheaths or cases thus made, spectacles, eye-glasses and other
articles may be placed, without their ordinary loose sheaths or cases, each in a
separate and distinct compartment from the others; for instance, papers or
letters may be carried in one, pen or pencil case in another, cigar case in a third,
and so on, and besides their being thus kept from injuring each other, the
elastic material will retain them in their places, and any article can be at once
selected and withdrawn from its particular sheath or compartment without the
trouble of a search, and all this without materially diminishing the capacity of
the interior of the pocket itself.
Having now described the nature and object of the said Invention of "An
Improvement in Wearing Apparel," together with the manner of carrying the
same into practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that I claim as the
Invention communicated to me by the above-named Gabriel Jean Julien
Laury, the adaptation to the pockets or other convenient parts of garments of
small interior pockets, sheaths, or cases, in the manner and for the purposes
herein-before particularly set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Davies, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
GEORGE DAVIES. (L.S.)