An Improvement in Ventilating and Protecting Fur Garments.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application. 18th May, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 3rd July, 1896-Accepted, 8th Aug., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Ventilating and Protecting Fur Garments.
We, HENRY WILLIAM LANE, Warehouseman, and WILLIAM HENRY SMITH
and HERBERT MARSHALL SMITH, trading as George Smith and Sons, Wholesale
Furriers, all of 10, Watling Street, in the City of London, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to provide efficient means of ventilating body
garments of sealskin and other fur, and of protecting the fur from injury by
perspiration beneath the arm-pits.
With this two-fold object in view the body and sleeve portions of the garment
are waterproofed beneath the arm-pits by the application to the back of the skin
of thin sheet guttapercha or equivalent material which is caused to adhere to the
skin and is itself covered by an adherent layer of sarsenet or other light fabric or
the skin is protected by the intervention of any suitable waterproof material,
provision for ventilation being in either case made by punching holes both through
the skin and the protective waterproof interlining and inserting eyelets which
although buried in, and for the most part covered by, the fur so as to be concealed
from view, maintain through passages which afford free ventilation.
The lining of the garment is also provided with ventilation holes which may
or may not correspond in position with those in the skin and which may be eyeletted
by the same eyelets passing through both skin, waterproof interlining, and lining,
or which may be separately eyeletted by metal eyelets or by overcast stitching, the
stitches being preferably cast over metal rings which ensure a neatness of shape and
finish of the holes not otherwise obtainable, the rings if used being applied at the back
of the lining so as to maintain a sufficient interval between the lining and the
protective interlining to allow of ventilation in case the holes in the skin and lining
are not directly opposite each other.
Deted this 10th day of May 1806
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
An Improvement in Ventilating and Protecting Fur Garments.
We, HENRY WILLIAM LANE, Warehouseman, and WILLIAM HENRY SMITH
and HERBERT MARSHALL SMITH, trading as George Smith and Sons, Wholesale
Furriers, all of 10, Watling Street, in the City of London, 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 efficient means of ventilating body
garn ents of sealskin and other fur, and cf protecting the fur from injury by
perspiration beneath the arm-pits.
With this two-fold object in view the body and sleeve portions of the garment
are both waterproofed and eyeletted beneath the arm-pits, as illustrated in the
accompanying drawing forming part of this specification wherein Figure 1

page_text: represents a portion of the body part of the garment just beneath the arm-hole as
viewed from the fur side and Figure 2 represents the same portion as viewed from
the inner side part of the lining being supposed partly stripped off to shew the
waterproofed and eyeletted skin portion.
To the back of the skin A we apply a piece of thin gutta-percha or equivalent
waterproof material which is caused to adhere to the skin and is itself covered by
an adherent layer of sarsenet B or other light fabric. Provision for ventilation is
made by punching holes both through the skin A and the protective waterproof
interlining B and inserting in the holes so punched, metal eyelets C which maintain
through passages which afford free ventilation notwithstanding that these eyelets
are burred in and covered by the fur so as to be concealed from view, as appears
in Figure 1.
The lining D of the garment is also provided with ventilation holes which may
or may not correspond in position with the eyelets C in the skin and which might
be eyeletted by the same eyelets C passing through both the skin, the waterproof
interlining, aud the lining. It is however preferred that the holes E in the
lining D should be separately eyeletted by overcast stitching, the stitches being
preferably cast over metal rings e as shewn in the detail face and sectional views
Figures 3 and 4, so as to ensure a neatness of shape and finish of the holes not
otherwise obtainable, the rings e being applied at the back of the lining so as to
maintain a sufficient interval between the lining D and the protective interlining B
to allow free ventilation when, as in the example shewn, the eyelets C in the skin
and the eyelets E in the lining are not directly opposite each other.
It will be understood that the underside of the sleeve adjacent to the arm-hole
is ventilated and waterproofed in the way described for the body part.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The herein described means of ventilating beneath the arm-pits, and protecting
from perspiration, body garments of sealskin and other fur.
2. The herein described means of ventilating body garments of sealskin and other
fur, which consists of eyeletted holes in the skin concealed externally by the fur and
eyeletted holes formed as described in the lining of the garment and coinciding or
not with those in the skin as specified.
Dated this 2nd day of July 1896.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.