CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CON- AROOR CARE
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Richard Whitmore Luck, of the Firm of
Messrs. Luck & Sons, of Walbrook, in the City of London, Manu-
facturers, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CON-
AROOR CARE "
Sealed the 6th December 1875, and dated the 17th June 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Richard
Whitmore Luck at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with his Petition, on the 17th June 1875.
I, JOHN RICHARD WHITMORE LUCK, of the Firm of Messrs. Luck
& Sons, of Walbrook, in the Oity of London, Manufacturers, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE CONSTRUCTION & VENTILATION OF WATERPROOF GARMENTS," to be as
follows:-

page_text: The improvements consist in adapting to a short waterproof coat, and
also to trowsers worn as ordinary wearing apparel, or as a waterproof
covering for ordinary clothing, a novel form and construction of
thoroughfares or passages for air, which will give perfect ventilation to
the confined places under the waterproof coverings, but before describing t
the manner in which I carry out my improvements I would remark
that I am cognizant that methods have heretofore been adopted for
ventilating waterproof garments by means of flexible tubes, which are
not only expensive in their application but limited in their ventilating
properties; such tubes so employed are also liable to stoppages through 1
the absorbtion of moisture and extraneous matters by capillary
attraction.
In contradistinction to such an arrangement, and as according to my
Invention, I form under the armpits of the coat and about the waist of
the trowsers or other convenient parts of the dress a number of per-
forations, which are shielded externally by a flap or piece of material
covering the whole surface of the ventilating holes in the form of an
inverted pocket. The interior of these pocket containing the per-
forations are lined with a glazed waterproof material, which repels
moisture, and thereby prevents the damp or water on the outer garment 2
approaching the ventilating perforations.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent;
filed by the said John Richard Whitmore Luck in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 17th December 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, John 2
RICHARD WHITMORE LUCK, of the Firm of Messrs. Luck and Sons, of
Walbrook, in the City of London, Manufacturers, sond greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty- 8
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Richard Whitmore Luck, Her
special licence, that I, the said John Richard Whitmore Luck, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said John

page_text: Richard Whitmore Luck, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
3 Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND VENTILATION
OF WATERPROOF GARments,” upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said John Richard Whitmore Luck, my executors or administrators, by
an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Richard Whitmore Luck,
do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 :—
The Invention is designed for the purpose of constructing a novel
description of waterproof wearing apparel, which shall combine there-
with a system of perfect ventilation.
The improvements consist in adapting to a waterproof coat, and also
trowsers worn as ordinary wearing apparel, or to waterproof coats or
other garments employed as a covering for ordinary clothing, a novel
form and construction of thoroughfares or passages for air, which will
give perfect ventilation to the confined places enveloped by the water-
proof covering.
As an example of the manner in which I carry out the application of
my Invention I will describe its arrangement and the construction of
the ventilating apatures and parts in connection therewith, as applied to
any surface portion of a waterproof garment where such ventilation may
be found serviceable.
I form under the armpits of a waterproof coat, and about the waist of
waterproof trowsers, or any other place in either garment where it may
be found most convenient, a number of perforations, which form.
ventilating holes. These perforations are shielded externally by a flap

page_text: or piece of material, which is attached to the garment so as to cover the
whole perforated surface, leaving an entrance thereto from the under
side, which forms a recess similar to that of an inverted pocket. The
interior of this pocket containing the perforations is lined with a glazed
waterproof material, which may have a smooth or slightly corrugated
'surface. The nature and position of this glazed lining freely admits air
to the under side of the waterproof covering, and at the same time
prevents any damp or moisture on the outer garment approaching the
ventilating thoroughfares.
In conclusion I would remark that I am aware waterproof garments
have heretofore been ventilated by means of flexible tubes, and also by
the application of porous material having a loose waterproof covering,
but such applications have been found very imperfect, and liable by
capillary attraction to absorb moisture, therefore what I claim as new
and as of my Invention in the ventilating of waterproof garments is, 1
the shielding of perforations or porous ventilating apatures with an
external waterproof covering secured to the garment in the form of an
inverted pocket, the inner lining of which is composed of a glazed
material having a smooth or corrugated surface, which whilst freely
admitting air repels moisture.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Richard Whitmore Luck,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of
September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.
Witnessed by
ROBERT FAULKES LUCK.
JOHN R. W. LUCK. (L.S.) 2
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