Improvements in or applicable to Dresses; Bodices, Coats, Jackets, or like Articles of External Clothing having Sleeves.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th July, 1894-
Complete Specification Left, 11th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 15th June, 1895
Improvements in or applicable to Dresses; Bodices, Coats, Jackets,
or like Articles of External Clothing having Sleeves.
I, THOMAS JONES of 20 Collyhurst Street, in the City of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention
to be as follows :-
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My invention is more especially applicable to ladies' dresses and relates to a
mode of combining a pocket or pockets or receptacles therewith readily accessible
to the wearer, but which it would be impossible to pick without the act being
observed by the wearer, such pocket or pockets is designed to be used more
especially for the purse or other valuables.
The pocket or receptacle is inserted in one or both sleeves of the dress or article
of external clothing at or near the shoulder and partly under the arm more or less
as preferred,
.
The pocket is or may be arranged in the arm of the garment so as to form a
cavity or receptacle either upwards or downwards or both upwards and downwards
from the orifice or opening giving access thereto, and the lengthway of such
opening may be either in the lengthway or across the sleeve and such orifice may
be made to overlap or cover and may be held closed when access is not required and
secured by a button, stud or a spring catch or other suitable fastening, readily
secured, and released by the wearer. One side of the opening is or may be
stiffened in the lengthway by whalebone or a thin blade of steel, and the other side
may have elastic secured to it to keep it close to the stiffened side of the opening
in its normal state, the elastic giving way to the article or hand when inserted
through the opening.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Dresses, Bodices, Coats, Jackets,
or like Articles of External Clothing having. Sleeves.
1, THOMAS JONES of 20 Collyhurst Street, in the City of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Engineer, 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 is more especially applicable to ladies' dresses, and relates to o
mode of combining a pocket or pockets or receptacles therewith, readily accessible
to the wearer, but which it would be impossible to pick without the act being
observed by the wearer, such pocket or pockets is designed to be used: more
especially for the purse or other valuables.
The pocket or, receptacle.is, inserted. in one or both sleeves of the dress or article

page_text: of external clothing at or near the shoulder and spartly under the carm more or less
as preferred.
The pocket is or may be arranged in the arm of the garment so as to form a
cavity or receptacle either upwards or downwards or both upwards and downwards
from the orifice or opering giving pocess thereto, and the lengthway of such
opening may be either in the lengthway or across the sleeve and such orifice may
be made to overlap or cover. and may be held closed when access is not required,
and secured by a button, stud or a spring catch or other suitable fastening readily
secured and released by the wearer. Oue side of the opening is or may be stiffened
in the lengthway by whalebone or a thin blade of steel, and the other side may have
elastic secured to it to keep it close to the stiffened side of the opening in its
normal state, the elastic giving way to the article or hand when inserted through
the opening.
Fig. 1, is a view of one sleeve of a lady's dress showing the position in which it
is preferred to place the pocket or receptacle.
Fig. 2, is a front view showing the opening to the pocket when closed.
Fig. 3, is an edge, and Fig. 4, a side view, and. Fig. 5, is a cross section of an
arrangement to be applied to the mouth or opening of the pocket, which will keep
it closed in its position, but will give way to allow articles or the hand to be put
into the pocket and then close the mouth again when the hand is withdrawn.
Figs. 6 and 7 are views corresponding respectively to Figs. 3 and 4 of a
modification having the same object as the arrangement illustrated by Figs. 3
and 4.
Fig. 1, shows one sleeve a, of a dress.
It is preferred to place the pocket in the left sleeve of the garment (when one
only is required).
a', is the wrist part of the sleeve; a³, the hole for the arm.
The pocket is arranged by preference so that the lengthway of the mouth or
opening, is in the line of the longitudinal seam a³, of the sleeve, and with the upper
end of the mouth or opening within about half an inch from the arm hole a³, of the
sleeve.
b, represents the pocket, and its mouth or opening extends from 6 to ². The
pocket by preference comes hetween the outer material (a) of the sleeve and its
lining (a) and under the arm.
One side of the material forming the opening of the pocket is stitched to the
outer material (a) of the sleeve on one side at the seam (a³) and the other side of
the opening of the pocket is secured to the material on the opposite side of the
Beam.
From onerside of the opening inside the pocket a piece of the material 6', of
the pocket, or a stiffer material may extend inwards inside and to come over the
opening of the pocket, and against the other side of it.
This inside piece, will act as a flap or like a valve and will allow an article to
pass into the pocket, but will come in the way of its getting out except when the
hand is placed in the opening when the flap will be pushed on one side to allow
the article to pass.
The opening to the pocket is or may be secured by a button attached to one side,
and a button hole formed in the other, or by any other suitable arrangement
preferably such as can be secured and released by one hand.
Figs. 3, 4 and 5 show an arrangement for closing the opening to the pocket.
e, is a piece of thin elastic steel or other suitable metal.
It has or may have a slight flange on each side and is bent to a curve e', at each
end. An endless elastic e, of india-rubber or piece of "elastic" made endless,
extends within the flange on one side of this metal plate and over its bent ends.
This arrangement is secured in the opening to the pocket as best shewn in Fig. 5.
A part of the fabric b, of the material at the opening of the pocket on one side is
turned over the metal and elastic, and secured by stitches, (see Fig. 5) and the
fabric on the other side of the opening of the pocket is inade to cover and enclose

page_text: the elastic in like manner leaving the elastic free to stretch and contract within the
space thus formed in the material, which encloses it. The opening of the pocket is
then stitched to the opening for it in the sleeve.
Thus arranged the elastic will give way when an article or the hand is placed in
the pocket but will close the opening to the pocket when the article has passed
and the hand is withdrawn.
with
Figs. 6 and 7 illustrate the edge and flat view of another arrangement formed by
two thin slips of whalebone or elastic steel or other suitable metal f and ƒ³,
an elastic, on their exterior.
These are secured in the opening to the pocket as explained in reference to
Figs. 3, 4 and 5, one slip (f) and the clastic f, on that side being secured to the
material on one side of the opening of the pocket, and the other slip (f¹) and
elastic on that side being secured on the other side of the opening of the pocket
such arrangements acting to keep the opening of the pocket closed in its normal
state when articles are not to be put in or taken out of the pocket.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination of a pocket or receptacle with the sleeve of a garment
substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described.
2. The combination with the openings of pockets or receptacles of arrangements
or devices substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore described and illustrated
by Figs. 3, 4 and 5, and by Figs. 6 and 7 of the drawings.
Dated this Tenth day of April 1895.
PETER J. LIVSEY,
Agent.