Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 14th June, 1887.
Specification Accepted, 15th July. 1887.
I, ALBERT HENRY KING, of the City of Brooklyn, State of New York, United
States of America, Gentleman, 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 relates to a blanket of rubber or other material and provided with an
attachment, by means of which it may be worn as an overcoat. The blanket is of
rectangular shape and the attachment is secured to the center of one of its longer
sides. It may be folded back upon the blanket and held in place by a button, to be
thus out of the way, if the blanket is to be used in its usual way. But when the
device is to be worn as an overcoat, the attachment may be drawn over the head, to
constitute a hood.
The invention is intended to be applied to army blankets, but may be applied to
blankets generally.
It consists in the various features of improvement hereinafter more fully pointed
out.
In the accompanying drawing: Fig. 1 is a face view of my improved combined
blanket and overcoat, showing the hood folded upon the blanket.
Fig. 2 is a similar view with the hood turned outward.
Fig. 3 shows the device when worn as an overcoat.
The letter a represents a blanket made of rubber or other material and of
rectangular form. It is provided with the usual grommet or eyelet holes and
adapted to all the uses to which a blanket is usually put, including army uses. To the
center of one of the long sides of blanket a there is hinged a hood, consisting of a
front flap and a rear flap 6 both preferably of triangular form and connected at the
sides, but disconnected at the front, to afford an opening for the introduction of the
head. The hinge is produced by a short strip of fabric c projecting over and secured
to blanket a and to rear flap b. This strip, c, is considerably shorter than flap band
thus the right and left ends of the hood are entirely disconnected from the blanket as
shown.
To properly hold the hood upon the blanket, when the latter is to be used as a
blanket proper, I attach a short strap e having a button hole, to flap 6 that may be

page_text: buttoned to button e' upon blanket a. A second button is secured to the inner
side of flap to engage a button hole fon flap 61, and which serves to connect the
two open ends of the flaps b, b¹, and to thus close the hood. In fig. 1 the flap b¹ is
shown to be slightly turned, along its disconnected edge, to expose this button and
button hole.
It will be seen that by buttoning flap b to flap 6' and that by then folding the
hood upon the blanket and securing it by button e' the hood will be held upon the
face of the blanket and will thus permit the blanket to be put to all of its ordinary
uses.
In order to permit the blanket to be used as an overcoat I attach a strap g to
blanket a at one side of hinge c and adapted to ongago a buckle g' at the other side of
such hinge.
To the flap 6 of the hood there is secured a strap / adapted to engage one of a pair
of buttons secured to the other side of such flap.
Now, to change the blanket into an overcoat, the buttons et f¹ are opened, the
blanket is thrown over the shoulders and the hood is drawn over the head. By
means of straps g h the sides of the blanket and the ends of the hood are respectively
drawn together to protect the body and face of the wearer.
By having the two ends of the hood disconnected from the blanket a such ends
may be raised up to surround the chin and may also be lapped over one another in
front of the face as in fig. 3.
If desired the device may be worn as an overcoat, with the hood folded back, but in
that case the head will be unprotected.
In order to attach the loose ends of the hood to the blanket a when the hood is
folded back upon the blanket as in fig. 1 and prevent their flapping, I employ a
button attached to blanket a and adapted to engage button hole of strap h such
strap passing through a loop 11 as shown.
The opposite side of the hood is secured by button h¹ and button hole i. If desired
the hinge strap c may be replaced by lacing or similar device.
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 combination of a blanket a with a hood connected to blanket a at its center
but disconnected at its ends, so as to leave the ends of the hood free to be folded over
each other substantially as specified.
2. The combination of blanket a with a hood consisting of flaps & b¹ and connected
to blanket a by strip c shorter than such flaps and with buttons and button holes
adapted to close the hood and secure it to the face of the blanket substantially as
specified.
3. The combination of blanket a with a hood connected thereto at its center only,
and with the fastening devices 9 9 adapted to join the sides of the blanket and with
fastening devices adapted to join the ends of the hood substantially as described.
4. The combination of a blanket a with a hood secured to the center of its longer
side and having disconnected ends, and provided with the following fastening devices
e e¹ f f g g¹h h³ hand i substantially as and for the purpose described.
Dated this 14th day of June 1887
HERBERT J. ALLISON,
Agent for the Applicant.