AN IMPROVED COMBINED GARMENT FOR GENTLEMENS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Gustave Adolph Rothholz and Morris Rosenthall,
both of No 14, Goulston Street, Whitechapel, in the County of Middlesex,
for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED COMBINED GARMENT FOR GENTLEMENS'
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Gustave Adolph Rothholz
and Morris Rosenthall at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 28th January 1861.
We, GUSTAVE ADOLPH ROTHHOLZ and MORRIS ROSENTHALL, both of No 14,
Goulston Street, Whitechapel, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED COMBINED GARMENT FOR
GENTLEMENS' WEAR," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of garments for gentlemens' wear
known as "Inverness capes," by forming the flaps of the cape in two pieces,
secured to the back or sides of the overcoat, and when not in use can be
passed through openings made in the back of the coat and secured to the
inner part of the collar by hooks, catches, buttons, or other suitable fastenings;
by these means the garment may be worn as an ordinary overcoat, or in
cold or foul weather the cape may be drawn from the inside and secured
beneath the outer collar by any suitable adjustment.
We propose forming a vest of the same or other material in such a manner
that the fronts may lie flat upon the inside of the coat, forming the facings
thereof when not required for use, but when intended to be used as a vest or
waistcoat it can be detached from the front of the coat and buttoned in front

page_text: in the usual manner, the sides of the vest being secured to the side of the
coat.
Thus the garment may be worn as an ordinary overcoat, or an Inverness
coat, or a coat and vest, or a coat, cape, and vest, the whole being in one and
the same garment.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Gustave Adolph Rothholz and Morris Rosenthall in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 27th July 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GUSTAVE
ADOLPH ROTHHOLZ and MORRIS ROSENTHALL, both of No. 14, Goulston Street,
Whitechapel, in the County of Middlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Gustave Adolph Rothholz and Morris Rosenthall, Her special licence, that
we, the said Gustave Adolph Rothholtz and Morris Rosenthall, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such other as we, the said Gustave Adolph
Rothholtz and Morris Rosenthall, our 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
night make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED COMBINED GARMENT FOR GENTLEMENS' WEAR," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Gustave Adolph Rothholtz and Morris
Rosenthall, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, 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 we, the said Gustave Adolph Rothholtz and Murris
Rosentball, do hereby declare the nature of our 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 :-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of garments for gentlemens' wear

page_text: known as "Inverness capes," by forming the flaps of the cape in two pieces
secured to the back or sides of the overcoat and when not in use can be
passed through openings made in the back of the coat, and secured to the
inner part of the collar by hooks, catches, buttons, or other suitable fastenings,"
by these means the garment may be worn as an ordinary overcoat, or in cold
or foul weather the cape may be drawn from the inside and secured beneath
the outer collar by any suitable adjustment.
In order to explain our said Invention as completely as possible, we now
proceed to describe the best means we are acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect, as follows:-
We form a vest of the same material as the coat (or other suitable material)
in such a manner that the fronts may lie flat upon the inside of the coat,
forming the facings thereof, or concealed under the facing of the coat when
not required for use. But when intended to be used as a vest or waistcoat
it can be detached from the front of the coat and buttoned in front in the
usual manner, the sides of the vest being secured to the side of the coat.
Thus the garment may be worn as an ordinary overcoat, or an Inverness
cape, or a coat and vest, or a coat, cape, and vest, the whole being in one
and the same garment.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention for "An Improved
Combined Garment for Gentlemens' Wear," and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, we would remark in conclusion that what we claim
as our Invention is the construction of garments to be combined in the
manner described for the purposes herein fully set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Gustave Adolph Rothholtz and Morris
Rosenthall, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-fifth
day of July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one.
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Witness;
ALEX. PRINCE,
GUSTAV ADOLPH ROTHHOLZ. (L.S.)
MORRIS ROSENTHALL.
(L.S.)
Agent for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square,
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