Year: 1887

page_text: I, MATTHEW BROWN SCOTT, of 116 Saint Vincent Street. Glasgow, Lanarkshire,
Tailor and Clothier, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement in writing reference being had to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say:
This Invention has reference to a new or improved construction of chest and body
protector or waist-coat, for being worn by persons, Gentlemen, Ladies, or Children in
lelicate health or with weak chests and who require such protectors; and which
besides being inexpensive gives greater comfort than such protectors or garments
have done as heretofore constructed.
And in order that the nature and novelty of my said Invention and the manner of
performing or carrying the same into effect or practice may be properly understood
I have hereunto appended an explanatory Drawing, representing an inside perspective
view laid open of one modification of chest and body protector or waist-coat garment
as suitable in shape for a man or boy and constructed in accordance with the
improvements of my invention.
Referring to this Drawing:-According to my invention the garment is cut and
shaped out of two ply of light fabric, preferably flannelette or a light fabric with a
soft cotton woolly surface forming the outer and inner sides of the garment with a
thickness between them of sheet parchment paper or vegetable parchment, all to the
shape of the chest and body of the person by whom it is to be worn in the character
of a vest or waist-coat with front and back at A A¹ as shown in the Drawing without
sleeves or neck, and sewn much in the same manner as vests with shaping seams up
the sides at A2, and joined and sewn over the shoulders at A", opening up the front
with a row of buttons and button holes at A" A³. The two plies of fabric for the back
and front would be cut together in the usual manner of the same shape, and have a
piece of the same shape cut out of a web or sheet of light parchment paper or
vegetable parchment of the ordinary kind used and sold for useful purposes in
packing and preventing alimentary substances from getting injured by moisture, or
the parchment paper may be placed between the cloth and cut to the same shape as
the cloth at the same time, and all three plies be based or pinned together ready for

page_text: subsequent stitching in the sewing machine in the usual manner of a three ply
garment. The edges a of the whole fabric would be doubled in all round and stitched
as shown, or braiding may be stitched round the edge a instead of this doubling in
and stitching.
One or more ventilating covered overlapping slits or openings, might be formed in
the backs, and braided at the edges with a sewn on band outside covering the slit,
as shown at B, while the front would be ventilated through the buttoned up opening
at A, A³, and the upper part would be ventilated through the arm holes B¹ and
neck aperture B2, and the whole garment would be quilted or cross stitched with wide
stitching as indicated at a', a², to secure the cloth and parchment paper. together, and
prevent it from bagging and rattling, and make it lie better to the body than it
could if the three plies were left loose. This garment is intended to be worn on the
body between a light flannel shirt or semmit and an outer dressed shirt, and it has
been found to give quite a comfortable warm feeling to the skin without the feeling
of close or warm perspiration. These chest or body protectors or vests are made as
described and shown in all sizes and shapes to suit men, women, and children, and
although "Flannelette" has been mentioned as preferred yet woollen fabrics might
be used on one or both sides of the paper parchment placed and sewn in the centre in
accordance with the main feature of this Invention.
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 :-
First. The manufacture of chest and body protectors or under vests or garments of
two plies of soft cotton or fine woollen fabrics with a ply of parchment paper or
vegetable parchment placed and sewn between them all substantially as herein
described in reference to and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Second. A chest and body protector or garment, made and sewn with two plies of
soft cotton or fine woollen fabrics and a ply of parchment paper or vegetable parch-
ment placed and sewn between them, all substantially as herein described in reference
to and shown in the accompanying Drawings.
Dated this 16th day of December 1887