therewith and with other Garments.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1887
Complete Left, 21st Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 24th Feb., 1888
therewith and with other Garments.
1. HERBERT LEWIS, of 21 Saint Mary's Street, Bridgenorth in the County of Salop,
tailor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
According to the first part of this invention a waistcoat is formed without a fold or
collar, the neck being cut to any desired shape. A collar piece is formed with a part
to button inside the neck of the waistcoat, and with a part or parts to turn down so as
to form a collar. The waistcoat may thus be worn, alternatively, with or without a
collar, as desired.
According to the second part of this invention the back of a waistcoat is formed
with a box plait having eyelet holes on each side and laced with elastic laces to draw
the edges of the plait towards one another. The waistcoat is thus, whilst always
fitting properly, able to yield freely to the movements of the body.
According to the third part of this invention the watch pocket for a waistcoat, or
other garment, is furnished with a shade formed as an inside flap sewn at the ends, and
an opening is formed through the shade for the passage of the watch chain, or guard.
The watch is withdrawn from the pocket by inserting the thumb and forefinger into
the pocket and drawing out the watch, and not by pulling upwards at the chain or
guard as is usual, the chain or guard being pulled downwards through the shade as
the watch is withdrawn from the pocket. This pocket affords great protection against
the watch being stolen from the person, as the shade prevents the watch from being
drawn up by the chain or guard, and, if any attempt is made to steal the watch, the
sudden pull at the fabric of the garment will give such timely notice as will generally
result in the capture of the pickpocket. In order to prevent any chance of a watch,
not connected with a chain or guard, falling out of the pocket as the garment is
thrown down loosely, the pocket may be continued upwards behind the shade, in
which case the watch would simply be jerked into the upper part of the pocket
instead of being thrown out.
According to the fourth part of this invention a special arrangement of secret
and safety pocket is employed with a waistcoat or other garment, preferably on the

page_text: inside thereof.
This arrangement consists of two pockets in the thickness of the
garment, arranged as the pockets of an ordinary purse, and of a third pocket which
acts as a flap to the inner pocket and is itself inserted within the outer pocket. This
flap pocket is itself open at the top, and would, when inserted in the outer pocket,
naturally bo supposed to be the only pocket, in the position in which it occurs, and 5
the secret and safety pocket could not be got at except by first drawing out the flap
pocket from the pocket into which it had been inserted.
Dated this Twenty-first day of April 1887.

page_text: Improvements in Waistcoats and in Pockets for Employment
therewith and with other Garments.
I, HERBERT LEWIS of 21 Saint Mary's Street Bridgenorth in the County of
Salop, tailor, 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 (that is to say) :-
In describing this invention reference will be made to the accompanying drawings
and the letters of reference marked thereon.
The first part of this invention is illustrated by Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings
herewith, of which figure 1 is a front elevation and figure 2 a back elevation of a
waistcoat with my improvements applied thereto. According to this part of the
invention the waistroat is formed without a fold or collar, the neck being cut to any
desired shape. A collar piece a, the half of which only is shewn in the illustrations,
is formed with a part to button inside the neck of the waistcoat by mans of
buttons bete, and with a part or parts to turn down so as to form the collar. The
waistcoat may thus be worn alternatively with or without a collar as desired: and
collars of different shapes may be worn with the same waistcoat.
The second part of this invention is illustrated by figure 2 of the drawings here-
with. According to this part of the invention the back of a waistcoat is formed with.
a box plait c, having eyelet holes d d etc., on each side, and is laced with an elastic
lace e e etc. to draw the edges of the pliit towards one another. The waistcoat is
thus, whilst always fitting properly, able to yield freely to the movements of the
body.
The third part of this invention is illustrated by figures 1 and 3 of the drawings
herewith, of which figure 3 is a detached vertical section, to an enlarged seale, through
the watch pocket hereinafter described.
According to this part of the invention the watch pocket for a waistcoat or other
garment, is furnished with a shade f formed as an inside flap, preferably sewn at the
ends, and an opening g is formed through the shade for the passage of the watch
chain. or guard. The watch is withdrawn from the pocket by inserting the thumb
and fore-finger into the pocket and drawing out the watch, and not by pulling
upwards at the chain or guard as is usual, the chain or guard being pulled downwards
through the holo g in the shade as the watch is withdrawn from the pocket. This
pocket affords great protection against the watch being stolen from the person, as the
shade prevents the watch from being drawn up by the chain or guard; and, if any
attempt is made to steal the watch, the sudden pull at the fabric of the garment will
give such timely notice as will generally result in the capture of the pickpocket. The
shade is, preferably, made deeper at the middle than at the sides to give additional
security against the watch being surreptitiously drawn from the pocket. In order
to prevent any chance of a watch, not connected with a chain or guard, falling out

page_text: of the pocket as the garment is thrown down loosely, an upward extension of the
pocket may be formed from behind the shade f, in which case the watch would
simply be jerked into the upward extension of the pocket instead of being thrown out.
This combination of a shade and upward extension of the pocket may be employed
even where it is not desired to pass a cbain or guard through the shade.
The fourth part of this invention is illustrated by figures 1, 4 and 5 of the drawings
herewith, of which figure 4 is a vertical section through the safety pocket hereinafter
described with the flap pocket raised up, and figure 5 a corresponding view to
figure 4, but with the flap pocket shewn closed in. According to this part of the
invention a special arrangement of secret and safety pocket is employed with a
waistcoat or other garment, preferably on the inside thereof. This arrangement
consists of two divisions ik, arranged as the pockets of an ordinary purse, and a
flap m which is inserted within the outer division i (that is the division that is nearer
to the wearer when the pocket is on the inside of the garment) to close the inner
division. This flap m may be itself formed as a pocket, as shewn, open at the part
which is at the top when the pocket is inserted within the outer division i, so that
when in such position its interior may be readily accessible, and, in such case, when so
inserted, the pocket m appears to an ordinary observer to be the only pocket, in the
position in which it occurs in the garment. When the flap or pocket m is inserted
within the division i the inner division cannot be got at except by first drawing out
such pocket from the division i. If the flap m bo not formed as a pocket, but simply
as a flap fitting within the pocket i, the pocket will usually be regarded by an
ordinary observer as the only pocket, in the position in which it occurs in 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
1. The means. substantially as herein described. by which a waistcoat may be worn
alternatively with or without a collar, and consequently with collars of various shapes
if desired.
2. A waistcoat formed with a box plait having eyelet holes on each side and laced
with an elastic lace, substantially as described for the purpose set forth.
3. A watch pocket for a waistcoat, or other garment, furnished with a shade behind
which the chain or guard passes to the watch, substantially as described for the
purpose set forth.
4. In combination with a watch pocket furnished with a shade of the character
described, an upward extension of such pocket, substantially as herein described, for
the purposo set forth.
5. A secret and safety pocket for a waistcoat, or other garment, substantially as
herein described, consisting essentially of an inner and outer division and of a flap
(which may itself be formed as a pocket) capable of being closed into the outer
division.
1000
STEPHEN WATKINS,
Wolverhampton and Walsall,
Agent for the Applicant.