A Garment suitable for use as a Short or Long Coat, a Cloak, or " Inverness Cape.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1893-Accepted, 1st July, 1893 .
COME DEIE DI ECIFICATION.
A Garment suitable for use as a Short or Long Coat, a Cloak, or
"
Inverness Cape.
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I, ANTON SAPPEL, of the firm of J. G. Sappel, of 5 Auenstrasse, Munich, in
the Empire of Germany, Clothing Manufacturers, 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 :-
In order to satisfy the requirements of sportsmen, tourists and others in providing
a garment by the use of which the carrying of several separate overcoats may be
avoided, while the wearer or owner is equally protected against every change of
weather, this invention consists in a combined article of clothing hereinafter
described.
This garment, particularly when worn by tourists or travellers, is preferably
made of very light and yet strong porous waterproof cheviot, tweed or other similar
rough unfulled cloth and is usually worn in form of a short coat of good fit so as
not to be distinguishable from ordinary so called covert or similar coats.
Without
the wearer needing to take this coat off, it may be readily converted by some
slight manipulations into a longer coat suitable for travelling, driving, etc., or into
"Inverness" cape. Likewise in special cases, for instance when used by cyclists,
the cape of the "Inverness" may be unbuttoned and used independently of the
coat or the latter may be worn without the former.
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This combined article of clothing can be made in two ways, one of which only is
illustrated in the annexed drawings. The difference between both methods is how-
ever very slight, depending on the circumstance whether it is to be worn in travelling
in the country or in towns and will be described hereinafter.
The garment consists of three special and peculiarly combined parts, namely the
coat or jacket proper A A, a prolonging portion or skirt B B attached or connected
to it, and the cape C C.
Fig. 1 shows the garment when folded together in a manner described hereinafter
for use as a short coat while Fig. 2 shows its inside.
When the garment is to be worn in this form of jacket, it is put on like any
ordinary jacket, buttoned, and like every other article of clothing adjusted to the
form of the body in order to show a good fit and easy wear.
As shown in Fig. 2, upon the lower part of the jacket is a flat bipartite piece of
stuff, forming the prolongation or skirt B B. This piece is fastened just above
within the lower edge of the jacket by means of hooks and eyes a a a, one of which
is shown on a larger scale in Fig. 9, and when folded up is fastened above on the
buttons bbby the aid of loops.
To transform the short coat or jacket into a long coat, it only needs to be
opened, to unfasten by hand the button fastening bbb to allow the part B to
fall down.
By this manipulation a long coat is produced as shown in Fig. 3. The fastenings
and loops must of course not project at any point and should therefore be inserted
sufficiently far inside of the edge of the stuff. If the coat is to be transformed
into an
"Inverness," after the skirt is let down as aforesaid the collar is pulled
up as in Fig. 3 so that the loops ccc become visible. This collar is along its
centre nearly up to both ends separated from the jacket by an incision, but is
however held secured along its whole length by the buttons and loops c c c so that
when turned down as in Fig. 1 no inconvenience arises in its wear. The buttouing

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at ccc is now undone, and also the back straps d, the hands are then passed into
the slit under the collar from the outside, between the neck of the jacket and the
neck of the wearer so as to obtain hold of the cape C C lying folded in the jacket
(see Fig. 2) and also by means of its collar (outwardly projecting through the slit)
buttoned on the buttons c c c. If then without undoing this buttoning of the cape
to the collar the cape is pulled up uniformly on the right and left through the
slit as shown in Fig. 4 while the head of the wearer is held inclined a little
forward, the cape may be entirely pulled out and left to fall over the shoulders.
It is then unfolded laterally and buttoned at the front if desired, thus converting
the garment into an "Inverness" cape (Fig. 5). The cape is secured at the front
of the neck by two buttons and is of such a length as to conceal the lower edge
of the jacket.
This cape may also be completely unbuttoned and be worn
independently of the remainder of the garment as in Fig. 6.
When the "Inverness" cape is to be retransformed into a jacket, it is spread
out flat, with the inside upwards, the cape is drawn back from outside through the
collar slit and first entirely spread out over the jacket, thus its (the capes) inside
is likewise directed upwards, while its outside lies upon the jacket. It is then
folded together as in Fig. 7, in order that it may not detract from the good fitting
of the jacket by bulging outward. This is effected by gripping the cape above
and below at one of the seams ee (Fig. 6) and then turning the front side flap
underneath this seam. The other side front flap is turned over in the same way,
thus both front flaps of the cape lie, folded inwardly up to the seams e e, between
the jacket and the back part of the cape.
After
The folded cape is now again taken above and below at the seam e of one of
the turned back wings, which is now doubled inwardly toward the middle line of
the cape; the other side being subsequently folded in the same manner.
these four foldings the cape lies as shown in Figs. 7 and 8 and in this position
the three buttons bbb lie in a straight line. The middle part of the folded cape
is now folded or carried a little upwards so that its buttons lie about at the same
height as those attached to the jacket, while the under edge of the cape lies even
with the under edge of the jacket. The corners of the skirt B B are then turned
inward as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 8, hooked to small loops, and theu the whole
skirt turned upwards and again buttoned to the buttons bbb of the jacket and the
cape, so that all three component parts are now firmly connected together, however
without causing the back part of the jacket to bulge in irregular folds.
By use of this combined garment the inconvenient carriage of several overcoate
is avoided. If rain commences, the jacket is converted into an "Inverness" cape
and this latter offers a sufficient protection against bad weather. When weather
clears or when the wearer arrives at his destination the wet parts may be completely
removed and dried, while the jacket itself remains dry and its wearer free from
influence of damp.
The second method of making this garment differs from that above described in
the connection of the prolongation B B with the jacket; this is not fixed by
holdfasts of any kind but both are made in one piece, this skirt cannot then be
taken off.
This latter kind is therefore more suitable to be worn in towns or in such places
where in any weather at any moment shelter or cover can easily be found.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
An improved combined garment convertible into a jacket or short coat, long
coat or an "Inverness" cape, consisting of a jacket A A with a prolongating part or
skirt B B attached or fixed thereto and capable of being folded up, a cape C C
detachable from the jacket and transferable to inside or outside through a slit

page_text: provided between back and collar of the jacket, the said cape being also suitable
for separate use, the whole substantially as herein described.
Dated this 1st day of June 1893.
R. HADDAN,
Herbert Haddan & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, Agent for Applicant.