An Improvement in Dressing Gowns.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 28th Mar., 1891
An Improvement in Dressing Gowns.
I, DAVID OSOSKI, of 396, Mile End Road, London, E., Dressing Gown
Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improvement in dressing gowns, which, as at present
made, afford inadequate protection to the wearer's chest and legs, especially the
latter, when the wearer is seated, owing to the skirts being liable to gape in front.
This deficient protection is liable to make itself felt, especially in the case of an
invalid who, on getting up from bed, trusts to the dressing gown alone as a
protection from cold. If, as is often the case, a convalescent leaves the bed to sit
in a chair, the dressing gown has often to be supplemented by a wrap, to cover the
chest, and a shawl or rug, to protect the knees and legs from cold, these parts of the
person being almost wholly left without protection by the dressing gown. Now,
the object of my invention is to avoid the necessity of resorting to anything but
the dressing gown itself, and to combine, so to speak, in a single article, a dressing
gown, a chest protector, and a rug, the combined article presenting in appearance
that of an ordinary dressing gown, except that it more effectually conceals the
undergarments and screens the person which is, in itself, a desideratum.
According to my invention, the dressing gown is provided with overlapping front
portions which are symmetrical or exactly similar to one another in shape and
extend the whole length of the gown from the neck band to the bottom, the one
overlapping the other and being secured by buttons or other fastenings. There is
thus a double thickness of material over the whole front of the person, the said
overlapping front portions being of such shape and dimensions that when the wearer
is seated they do not separate and expose the legs as does an ordinary dressing
gown.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this
Specification, wherein Figure 1 shews the dressing gown as worn, and Figure 2
shews developed in the flat.
The two parts A B of the front are joined, by vertical side seams, to the back
and are cut of such width and shape (shewn more clearly in Figure 2) that they
will overlap each other to, say, the extent of the full breadth of the body from top
to bottom, that is to say the edge a of the left or overlapping part A extends from
a point a¹ over the right shoulder near the neck, in a straight vertical line down to
the point a² at the bottom, whilst the edge 6 of the right or underlying part B
extends from a corresponding point 6' to the point 6, the distance between the
edges ab representing the amount of overlap of the two parts A B, which is
preserved whether in the standing or sitting position. The dressing gown is
provided with a deep collar, with the usual pockets, and belt.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-

page_text: such shape and dimensions as to overlap each other, and form a double covering for
the whole front of the person, as described.
Dated this 12th day of Februar 1891
D. OSOSKI.
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Patent Agents.