Improvements in Riding Coats and other Overcoats.
Year: 1891

page_text: שעות JUMI
DEPUTETUATION.
[Communicated from abroad by GEORGE WILLIAM REEKS, of 137, Elizabeth
Street, Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, Manager of a Sheep
Station.]
Improvements in Riding Coats and other Overcoats.
1 HENRY EDWARD NEWTON of the Office for Patents, 6 Bream's Buildings,
Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, 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 of improvements in wearing apparel relates principally to top or
overcoats made of waterproof material, and used for riding purposes, but the
invention will also apply to riding coats as well as to top or overcoats generally.
Riding coats having skirts or tails present a radical defect, which causes con-
siderable inconvenience to the equestrian, inasmuch as the skirts or tails due to the
movements both of the horse and the rider, work under the seat of the rider, and
cause discomfort. This discomfort is greatly increased when the rider is out in bad
weather, as the front and back pommels of the saddle become exposed to the rain,
the water runs off the coat onto the saddle, and the saddle becomes saturated with
moisture, to the excessive inconvenience of the rider, and perhaps danger to his
health.
It is the object of the present invention to obviate these inconveniences, which is
effected by splitting the coat a little further up at the back than usual, say, as far
as the bottom of the back, and inserting a gore or gusset, so that the tails or skirts
of the coat may be spread out, and caused to lie easily and permanently over the
rump of the horse.
The insertion of the gusset will prevent the front of the coat from being strained,
and will permit the rider to pull the front of the coat forwards, so as to enable him
to cover the front pommel and his thighs and knees with the coat.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a back view of a coat made according to this invention, shewing the
slit
up the back buttoned up, and the attachment of the gore or gusset to the skirts
exhibited in dotted lines.
Fig. 2 is also a back view, but with the slit open and the gore or gusset exposed
to view as it would be when lying over the rump of a horse.
Fig. 3 is a plan view of the lower part of the skirt of a coat, shewing the position
the gore or gusset would occupy when the back slit is closed and buttoned up.
A is the coat. B B are the Haps of the back slit, which may be buttoned up by the
buttons bb. The dotted lines in Fig. 1 shew the lines of attachment of the gore or
gusset to the skirt of the coat. C is the gore or gusset itself. When the horseman
mounts his steed, the slit being unbuttoned will open wide, the skirts extending
down the flanks of the animal, but with the gore or gusset extending smoothly over
the rump.
The crupper will thus be covered, and the back of the saddle will be
kept dry. The gore or gusset will also enable the horseman to pull the coat around
his front parts, so as to cover the front pommel of the saddle and his thighs and
knees. The slit may, if desired, extend far up the back of the wearer, and the
gore or gusset be made larger in proportion, so as to cover more of the horse, and
allow more room for the wearer within the coat.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me from
abroad, I declare that what I claim is :-
A gore or gusset introduced between the tails or the two halves of the skirt of a
coat in the manner and for the purposes herein set forth.
Dated this 5th day of May 1891.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.