Improved Life Saving Garment.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Life Saving Garment.
I, DONALD MACINTYRE, of Rosehaugh, Ross-shire, Foreman Mason, do hereby
declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object to provide an improved garment adapted for life
saving purposes at sea and which may be worn without inconvenience or discomfort
by sailors or passengers either during the day or at night.
The improved garment is made in the form of a Guernsey jacket or shirt but is
double cased or made with an inner and an outer lining of rubber cloth or other
close hardwoven material impervious to air, and it is provided with an air tube and
nozzle by means of which the casing may be inflated so as to provide sufficient
flotation for supporting the body in water. The Guernsey or jacket is formed with
the usual openings for the passage of the head and arms and it terminates at the
bottom in a waist belt to secure it to the body. Under the arms the sides are stitched
together so that inflation at that part may not take place and prevent free use of the
arms in swimming, and to ensure the free passage of air from the front to the back
air tubes are carried round under the arm pits; or the back and front parts may be
separately inflated.
1000
Dated
this 4th day
1003
January 2000
WALLACE FAIRWEATHER,
Of the Firm of Cruikshank & Fairweather,
Chartered Patent Agents,
Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agent for the Applicant,
I, DONALD MACINTYRE, of Rosehaugh, Ross-shire, Foreman Mason, 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 :-
This Invention has for its object to provide an improved garment adapted for life
saving purposes at sea and which may be worn without inconvenience or discomfort
by sailors or passengers either during the day or at night.
The improved garment is illustrated by the accompanying drawings, Figures 1
and 2 being respectively front and back views, and as shewn is made in the form of a
Guernsey jacket or shirt A but is double cased or made with an inner and an outer
lining of rubber cloth or other close hardwoven material impervious to air, and it is
provided with an air tube B and nozzle C by means of which the casing may be
inflated so as to provide sufficient flotation for supporting the body in water. The

page_text: nozzle is provided with a screw down valve to prevent the escape of air from the
garment after inflation. The Guernsey or jacket A is formed with the usual
openings D, E, for the passage of the head and arms and it terminates at the bottom
in a waist belt F to secure it to the body. Under the arms the sides are stitched
together at G so that inflation at that part may not take place and prevent free use
of the arms in swimining, and to ensure the free passage of air from the front to the
back, air tubes H are carried round under the arm pits as shewn by the dotted lines,
or the back and front parts may be separately inflated.
After inflation the tube B is turned into a pocket I provided in the front of the
garment.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
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The improved life saving garment constructed substantially as described with
reference to the accompanying drawings.