An Improvement in Vests and other Garments.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 29th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Vests and other Garments.
I ALEXANDER HARRIS VALDA, of 4, Cecil Cottages Albion Road Twicken-
ham, in the County of Middlesex Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is the construction of vests, chest & lung protectors
& other garments of detachable layers of flannel or other suitable material which
are held together by buckled elastic webbing, or other suitable means, the layers
being of such a texture that the casting off of one might be hardly perceptible to
the wearer.
Dated this 29th day of November 1893.
ALEXANDER HARRIS VALDA.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Vests and other Garments,
ALEXANDER HARRIS VALDA 4 Cecil Cottages, Albion Road Twickenham
(Middlesex, County of) 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:-
The object of this invention is the construction of vests chest and lung protectors
and other garments of detachable layers of flannel or other suitable material, the
layers being of such texture that the casting off of one would hardly be perceptable
to the wearer. To understand the nature of my invention imagine that the same
amount of material used in ordinary wollen vests is made to form two three or more
separate ones and they are afterwards put on a dummy figure and the edges which
have been formed with corresponding button or eyelet holes are held together with
suitable fastenings such as studs buttons laces or otherwise you would then have a
vest of the same amount of material with the valuable additional qualities of
shedding or throwing off attaching or recovering layer by layer. This being the
principle of my invention it is obvious that to annex a list of modifications with
drawings in detail would be superflous considering the garment can be made in any
suitable shape or form. The following is a sleeveles under garment with no seams
or openings in the front or back but having them at the sides, this I construct
of say five layers of suitable flannel or material cut to form the back and
five layers cut to form the front down each side of the layers also each extremity
forming the collar are button holes or slits formed to receive a piece of elastic
webbing on each end of the webbing a button is attached. It will be readily
perceived that when the layers are connected by passing the above mentioned elastic
webbings with the buttons through the holes or slits the buttons lying on the out-
side a most comfortable garment is the result the layers of which can be thrown off
or replaced with the greatest ease the edges or layers may be serrated or otherwise
finished to prevent fraying also the button holes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I wish it thoroughly under-
stood I do not confine myself to any particular shape, or form of garment, so
long as it embraces the principle of my invention or to any particular material,
[Price 8d.1

page_text: number of layers used in a garment or any particular method of fastening, I declare
that what I claim is-
1. The formation of vests and other garments of detachable layers of suitable
material so woven and of such a texture that one by itself would not suffice as a
covering against cold the layers being connected precisely and for the purpose
herin set forth and described.
2. The formation of a garment composed of back and front detachable layers of
material with the openings at the sides with suitable fastenings precisely and for the
purpose herin set forth and described.
Dated this 28th day of August 1894.
ALEXANDER HARRIS VALDA.