Improvements in the Manufacture of Coats and Jackets.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 25th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 27th Nov., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Coats and Jackets.
I, BARNETT JIMINESFSKIE, of 22, St. Jame's Dwellings, Silver Place, Regent
Street, in the County of London, Tailor, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:
My invention relates to the manufacture of over and morning coats and jackets,
and has for its object to produce well fitting garments with but very few sewn
seams.
By my invention a coat or jacket is made with but one sewn seam in each sleeve
situated beneath or behind the arm instead of two seams as now, one in front and
one behind the arm.
The sleeves are sewn with seams into the arm holes as usual: The front and
lower edges of the coat have no marginal seams as are at present formed but the
material is turned over and carried back within the coat for any suitable distance.
I may sew on the collar but I prefer to cut it out in one with the material of the
coat in order to avoid any collar seam. In my improved garment there are no
seams whatever in the back which is in one piece of material extending around
to the sides of the body at each of which there is a side seam from the arm pits to
the waist in a morning coat, and to the base in a jacket, and to the pocket in an
overcoat.
In a morning coat a seam is formed across the base of the back at the top of the
tails. The pleats also at the fails are seamless, being folded in out of the material
There are therefore but 7 sewn seams even in a morning coat, 2 in the sleeves and
2 at the sleeve holes, 2 at sides of body, across the base of back: this is about 15
sewn seams less than are found in coats as hitherto usually made.
The shape of the sleeves and body of the coat is most efficiently obtained by
damping, pressing, and shrinking as and where required, and the body part is
drawn in also when required to keep it in shape with tapes internally sewn across
or "feld in."
Doted this 25th day of January 1897
Improvements in the Manufacture of Coats and Jackets.'
1, BARNETT JIMINESFSKIE, late of 22, St. James' Dwellings, Silver Place, Regent
Street, now of 21A Noel Street, Oxford Street, in the County of London, Tailor,
5 do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to
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page_text: be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
My invention relates to the manufacture of over- and morning-coats and jackets,
and has for its object to produce well-fitting garments with but very few sewn
seams.
I will fully describe my invention in reference to the accompanying drawings in
which Figs. 1 and 2 are respectively back and front views of a morning-coat.
Figs. 3 and 4 are horizontal sections on the lines A-B, C-D respectively of
Fig. 2.
By my invention a coat or jacket is made with but one sewn seam 1, 2 in each
sleeve which is situated beneath or behind the arm, instead of two seams as now--
one in front and one behind the arm.
The sleeves are sewn with seams 3, 4 into the arm holes as usual; the front and
lower edges a, u b, b, of the coat have no marginal seams as are at present formed
but the material is turned over and carried back within the coat for a suitable
distance as shown for example at c, c, in Figs. 3 and 4. I may sew on the collar,
but I prefer to cut it out in one with the material of the coat as shown, in order to
avoid any collar seam. In my improved garments there are no seams whatever in
the back, which is in one piece of material d extending around to the sides of the
body at each of which there is a side seam 5, 6 extending from the armpits to the
waist in a morning-coat as illustrated, and to the base in a jacket, and to the
pocket in an over-coat as will be readily understood without illustration.
In a morning-coat a seam 7 is formed across the base of the back at the top of
the tails t. The pleats also at the tails are seamless, being folded in out of the
material as shown in section in Fig. 4 at e, e. There are therefore but 6 sewn
seams in an overcoat or jacket and 7 in a morning-coat, as above mentioned, viz,
two in the sleeves 1-2 and two at the sleeve-holes 3, 4, two at sides of body 5; G
and in a morning-coat one extra across the base of back 7; this is about 15 sewn
seams less than are found in coats as hitherto made.
The shape of the sleeves and body of my improved coats is most efficiently
obtained by damping, pressing, and shrinking as and where required, and the
body part is drawn in also when required to keep it in shape with tapes internally
sewn across or "feld in."
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
1 claim is:
The improved manufacture of coats and jackets substantially as herein ascer
tained and described in reference to the accompanying drawings and with the
object set forth.