Improvements in Overcoats.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Mar. 1894
Complete Specification Left, 6th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 12th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Overcoats.
I THOMAS BURBERRY of Basingstoke in the County of Hants Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide an overcoat which can be used as a
saddle coat or as a walking coat and which as required can be converted into a
walking coat or a riding coat which will protect every part of the rider and the
saddle from rain.
According to my invention I make the skirt of the coat of a width suitable for
riding and provide fastenings so situated that they include between them the
amount of cloth constituting the difference in width between a walking coat or
the like and a saddle coat with sufficient material to cover the saddle so that when
the fastenings are secured together the coat is converted into one of less width the
extra cloth being concealed inside the coat. A convenient way of making the coat
is to make slits up each side of the back width or widths of the coat preferably
extending up as far as or near to the under half of the sleeve and to provide at
each side of each slit fastenings by which the siles of the slit can be secured
together when the coat is required to be used as a walking coat or other coat of
the narrower width. The sides of the slits are connected by cloth or the like
sufficient to make the coat when the fastenings are undone of a width sufficient in
a riding coat to completely protect the saddle from wet snow or the like. The
upper portion of the cloth so used as a connection may constitute a gusset or means
of connection between a widened out part of the slit under the arm.
Dated this 6th day of March 1894.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
I, THOMAS BURBERRY of Basingstoke in the County of Hants Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
My invention has for its object to provide an overcoat which can be used by
male or female as a saddle coat or as a walking coat, and which as required can
be readily converted from a walking coat into a riding coat and vice versa and
which will when used as a riding coat protect the rider and the saddle from rain.
According to my invention I make the skirt of the coat of a width suitable for
riding and I provide fastenings so situated that they include between then the
amount of cloth constituting the difference in width between a walking coat or the
like and a riding coat with sufficient material to cover the saddle and the riders
legs and so that when the fastenings are secured together the coat is converted
iuto one of less width the extra cloth being concealed inside the coat.
Pain Qul
A convenient

page_text: way of making the coat is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 of
which shews the coat as a walking coat and Figure 2 shews the same coat extended
to form a riding coat. Figure 3 is a section on the line a b Figure 1 and Figure 4
is a section on the line cd Figure 2.
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Inserted between each of the front pieces A and the back piece B of the coat
is an "insert
or gusset C, the sides or edges c² of which extend from the bottom
of the skirt up into that portion of the arm hole which is technically known as
the "scye" the top c³ of the said "insert" or gusset being made to form a portion
of the "scye" and I provide at each side of each "insert"
or gusset fastenings a¹ a²
by which the sides of each of the said "inserts or gussets can be connected
together as shewn in Figures 1 and 3 when the coat is required to be used as a
walking coat or other coat of the narrower width. The size of the "inserts or
gussets should be sufficient to make the coat when the fastenings a' a² are undone of
a width or sweep sufficient when used as a riding coat to completely protect the rider
and the saddle from wet snow or the like. Instead of the attached "inserts or
gussets as described and shewn the additional width may be formed in one with the
back piece B or with the front pieces A of the coat and fastenings a' a² be provided
at suitable distances apart to take up the additional width when required to convert
the coat into a walking coat or the like. Lappets 62 62 are provided to cover the
fastenings a a² and the seams which connect the "inserts
or gussets to the back
and front pieces of the coat.
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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 :-
1. An overcoat capable of being used either as a walking coat or as a riding
coat the skirt of which when used as a riding coat being of sufficient width or
sweep to protect the saddle at the back of the rider and also the riders legs
from wet snow or the like, the additional width of the skirt being gradually
increased from the "scye or underside of the sleeve to the bottom of the skirt
and concealed inside the coat when used as a walking coat or the like substantially
as hereinbefore described.
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2. An overcoat having "inserts" or gussets between the back piece (B) and
each of the front pieces (A) of the coat, the upper end of each "insert or
gusset extending up into the " scye or under portion of the arm hole the said
" inserts " or gussets being of suitable shape and width to give to the skirt
sufficient sweep to protect when used as a riding coat the rider and the saddle
from wet snow and the like, the said "inserts or gussets being concealed
inside the coat when used as a walking or like coat substantially as bereinbefore
described.
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3. An overcoat constructed substantially as hereinbefore described so as to be
capable of being readily converted from a riding coat into a walking coat or like
coat of narrower width and vice versa substantially as 'herein before described and
illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 6th day of December 1894.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOA,
Agents.