IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MAKING AND CUTTING OUT OF GARMENTS
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Barnett, of No. 5, New Street, Bishopsgate,
in the City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MAKING
AND CUTTING OUT OF GARMENTS."
Sealed the 23rd September 1857, and dated the 15th April 1857.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Barnett at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 15th
April 1857.
I, LOUIS BARNETT, of No. 5, New Street, Bishopgate, in the City of
London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MAKING AND CUTTING OUT OF GARMENTS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to coats, trowsers, ladies' riding habits, and such like
garments, and is designed for economizing materials and labor in the manu-
facture thereof. This I propose to effect by cutting the materials of such
shape as to have fewer seams than garments as heretofore manufactured. For
example, iu making a coat I cut each "fore part" and sleeve and one half of
the collar out of one and the same piece of material, and the "back" and
other side of the collar I also cut out of one and the same piece of material,
and I so connect such parts together as that the coat is reversible; and this
improved mode of making coats applies to trowsers, ladies' riding habits,
jackets, and such like articles of dress."

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis Barnett in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
15th October 1857.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
BARNETT, of No. 5, New Street, Bishopsgate, in the City of London, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the twentieth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Louis
Barnett, Her special licence that I, the said Louis Barnett, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Louis Barnett, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MAKING AND CUTTING OUT
OF GARMENTS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Louis
Barnett, 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 Louis Barnett, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the samo is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention relates to coats, ladies' riding habits, and such like garments,
and is designed for economizing materials and labor in the manufacture
thercof. This I propose to effect by cutting the materials of such shapo as to
have fewer seams than garments as heretofore manufactured. For example, in
making a coat I cut each "fore part" and sleeve and one half of the collar
out of one and the same piece of material, and the "back" and other side of
the collar I also cut out of one and the same piece of material, and if neces-
sary I so connect such parts together as that the coat is reversible; and this
improved mode of making coats applies to ladies' riding habits, jackets, and
such like articles of dress.

page_text: In order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible. I now pro-
ceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same.
into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of Drawings
hereunto annexed, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference marked.
ceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same.
into practical effect, reference being had to the illustrative Sheet of Drawings
hereunto annexed, and to the numeral figures and letters of reference marked.
thereon respectively, as follows-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 exhibits one of my improved modes of cutting out coats when the
material possesses no grain, or way of the wool, the Drawing representing one-
half of an entire coat. Figures 2 and 3 exhibit parts of another of my
improved modes of cutting out coats when the material possesses a grain, or
right and wrong way of the wool.
I now proceed to describe the manner of connecting together the divided
parts or edges of the materials, so as to produce a coat in a complete state.
As regards Figure 1, the fore part and one half of the back is produced by
sewing the edges c, c, to the edges d, d; the sleeve is formed by sewing the
edges a, a, to the edges b, b; or, instead of cutting the material as above stated,
the fore part and the skirt may be cut in one entire piece, and the back be
separately cut and connected to each fore part. The under part of the collar
is produced by sewing the edges e, f, together, a separate piece g, of the shape
denoted by the dotted lines, being connected to the material to make up
the proper length for one half of the collar. The outside of the collar and
the facings of lappells may be of one or two separate pieces of material, as
hitherto commonly practised by tailors. As regards Figures 2 and 3, one half
of the entire coat is produced by sewing the edges a, a, at Figure 2 to the
edges b, b, at Figure 3, so as to connect the fore part to the back of the coat.
The shoulder seam is produced by sewing the edge c at Figure 2 to the edge d
at Figure 3. The collar is produced by sewing the edge e at Figure 2 to the
edge fat this Figure and to the edge g at Figure 8. The outside of the collar
and the facings of the lappells may be as above stated.
I would here remark, that instead of cutting the skirt and back of this last-
mentioned coat out of one entire piece of material, the fore part and skirt may
be of one entire piece, and the back be separately cut and connected to each
foro part. It will be readily understood that the above mode of making and
cutting out coats applies also to ladies' riding habits.
Having now fully described and set forth the nature and object of my said
Invention of "Improvements in the Making and Cutting out of Garments,"
together with the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into
practical effect, I would remark, in conclusion, that I hereby declare my

page_text: Invention to consist in, and I claim, making and cutting out garments in the
manner above described and represented for the purpose of economizing
materials and labor, by having fewer seams than garments as heretofore made,
as above stated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Barnett, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE, Agent for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square,
Charing Cross.
LOUIS BARNETT. (L.S.)