Improvements in Fishermen's Overalls.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 24th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 14th Feb., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fishermen's Overalls.
We, THOMAS WEST, Senior, and THOMAS WEST, Junior, both of Buchan-
haven, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Oilskin Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of our invention to be as follows:-
This invention has reference to and comprises a new or improved mode of
manufacturing fishermen's or sailors' over-all oilskin, cotton, linen, or canvas
trousers, mainly for the purpose of making them reversible, that is, so that either
side can form the front or back of the over-all trousers, and thus make them wear
much longer and be more convenient than those heretofore in use.
According to our improvements we form the overall trousers which extend
from the waist to some little distance below the knees, in two main parts with no
seams on the sides of the legs, but cut out of the cloth doubled up the sides in a
straight line, with a seam on the inside edges of each leg, having these edges cut,
before sewing, in a slight concave line widening out upwards towards the crutch
part across the thighs or haunches; and with a seam in the centre of the front and
bak body part from the waist down to the wide crutch part, and having the edges
✓✓ eviously cut also before sewing, widening out in a concave curve to the crutch.
These centre seams are formed by the edges of the two opposite pieces forming the
body part and give great fulness in the centre both on the front and back across
the haunches, so that the trousers can be reversed, the fulness at the crutch passing
to the back whichever way the trousers are drawn on. A double parallel or nearly
parallel waist band is afterwards sewn all round without openings, fents, or slits by
its lower edges to the upper edges of the body part of the trousers sewn and
formed as previously described. Large buttons are sewn on the back and front of
the waist-band at different short distances from the sides where are secured double
ended binding straps of either canvas or leather, with button holes on each end to
button and take up the sides of the trousers either towards the back buttons or the
front buttons to tighten the trousers at the waist to the size of the party wearing
them. The trousers are all sewn and put together as described out of the clean
new canvas or cloth and saturated with the linseed oil and dried before the buttons
are sewn on.
Dated the 1st April 1890.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fishermen's Overalls.
We, THOMAS WEST, Senior, and THOMAS WEST, Junior, both of Buchan-
haven, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Oilskin Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of our invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement in writing,
reference being had to the accompanying drawings, that is to say:-
Our invention has reference to and comprises a new or improved mode of
manufacturing fishermen's or sailors' over-alls or trousers of oilskin, cotton, linen,
canvas or other equivalent waterproof material, the same on front and back, mainly
for the purpose of making them reversible, that is, so that either side can form the
front or back of the over-all trousers, and thus make them wear much longer and
be more convenient than those heretofore in use.
And in order that our said invention and the manner of performing or carrying
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page_text: the same into effect or practice may be properly understood, we have hereunto
appended an explanatory drawing in which
Figure 1 represents a perspective front or back view of a reversible fisherman's
'over-all" as made complete according to our improvements. And Figure 2 is a
side view or half of the over-all' as folded, to show the shape each of the two
parts A A¹ of the garment is cut to form the over-all.
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Referring to said drawings:-By our improvements we form the over-alls or
trousers, which extend from the waist to some little distance below the knees in
two main parts A, A' without seams on the outsides A" of the legs, but cut out
of the cloth, doubled up at these two sides A" in a straight line, with a seam at A'
on the inside edges of each leg, having the edges cut before sewing, in a slight
concave line widening out upwards towards the crutch part a across the thighs or
haunches, and with a seam at A in the centre of the front and back body parts A A¹
from the waist down to the wide crutch part a joining the top of the two seams A³
and having the edges previously cut also before sewing, widening out in a concave
curve to the crutch part a, as seen particularly in Figure 2. These centre seams
at A are formed by the curved cut edges of the two opposite pieces A. A¹ formi
the body part, and giving great fulness in the centre across the crutch from a to
both on the front and back across the haunches so that the over-alls or trousers < .n
be reversed, the fulness at the crutch a passing to the back whichever way the
trousers are drawn on over the hips. A separate doubled parallel or nearly
parallel waist band B is afterwards sewn all round without openings, fents or
by its lower edges over the upper edges a² of the body parts A A of the trou
on both sides, these body parts being first sewn and formed as previously describe
Or this band B may be otherwise modified and secured as by making the body
parts A A' come up to the top of the band B and sewing the band to these at its
top and bottom edges 1,11. The lower ends of the legs at a would preferably be
made of the selvedges of the cloth, but they might be hemmed or doubled up on
the inside, as ordinary trousers are, when this is preferred. Large buttons are
sewed on the back and front of the waist-band B at different short distances from
the sides of the band where are secured double ended binding straps 6 of
leather or canvas with button holes on each end to button and take or double up
the sides of the over-alls or trousers either towards the back buttons or the front
buttons b, as shown doubled and buttoned up on the right hand side of Figure 1,
to tighten the trousers round the waist of the party wearing them. These o
alls or trousers are all sewn and put together as described out of the clean new
canvas or cloth and then highly saturated or coated with the linseed oil and dried
to make them thoroughly waterproof, before the buttons and straps
sewn on.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
First. Fishermen's or sailors' over-alls or trousers made reversible, or the same
on front and back, of oilskin, cotton, linen, canvas or other equivalent waterproof
material, so that either side can form the front or back of the over-all or trousers,
substantially as herein described in reference to and shown by the accompanying
drawings.
Second. The herein described_mode_of_manufacturing fishermen's_or_sailors
over-alls or trousers in two main parts and secured together so as to be reversible,
and either side form the front or back, substantially as set forth, and shown in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated the 23rd December 18an
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.