A NEW OR IMPROVED COMBINED GARMENT
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Pasco Barrett, of Commercial Road East, in
the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "A NEW OR IMPROVED
COMBINED GARMENT."
".
Sealed the 11th August 1865, and dated the 14th February 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Pasco Barrett
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
14th February 1865.
I, ROBERT PASCO BABRETT, of Commercial Road East, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW
OR IMPROVED COMBINED GARMENT," to be as follows:-
I
This Invention relates to the manufacture of a new or improved garment,
combining in one article as complete a covering for the body as is afforded by
a jacket or coat and trowsers, and if desired including a covering for the head.
propose to form a jacket or coat body with sleeves, and to connect thereto
by a seam at the waist a pair of trowsers; the front of the jacket or coat and
trowsers being open and provided with buttons and button holes or other
fastenings, so that the garment may be readily applied to the wearer and
fastened. A neck band or collar piece is attached at the proper place, and is

page_text: fastened in front, and to this may be attached a hood extending upwards to
the back of the head and terminating in a cap. In some cases I propose to
insert around the waist a band of elastic or yielding material, and likewise a
similar insertion vertically up the back of the garment for the purpose of
facilitating the yielding or stretching of the garment during the position of the
body when stooping or otherwise. Eyelet holes may be let in the fabric
under the armpits or at the fork of the trowser part for the escape of per-
spiration. In some cases I propose to form an opening at the back of the
trowsers, and to attach a flap at the lower part thereof, which flap may be
buttoned or fastened at the waist, a lappet may then be attached to the waist
above the flap and hang down around the waist or part thereof so as to
conceal the fastening and upper portion of the flap. This garment may be
made of any desired fabric according to the purpose for which it is to be used,
it may be made of brown holland for labourers or for gardening use; it may
be composed of flannel or fancy material for dressing or morning use, or of
serge or flannel for bathing dresses for male and female wear; it is adapted
for cricketers, sportsmen, or yachtsmen; or it may be made of waterproof
fabric for mariners, watermen, firemen, and others exposed to weather, and
for a variety of other useful purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Pasco Barrett in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 14th August 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
PASCO BARRETT, of Commercial Road East, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Robert Pasco Barrett, Her special licence that I, the said Robert
Pasco Barrett, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Robert Pasco Barrett, 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 Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for

page_text: "A NEW OR IMPROVED COMBINED GARMENT, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Robert Pasco Barrett, 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 Robert Pasco Barrett, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This Invention relates to the manufacture of a new or improved garment
combining in one article as complete a covering for the body as is afforded
by a jacket or coat and trowsers, and if desired including a covering for the
head. I propose to form a jacket or coat body with sleeves, and to connect
tbereto by a seam at the waist a pair of trowsers, the front of the jacket or
coat and trowsers being open and provided with buttons and button holes or
other fastenings so that the garment may be readily applied to the wearer and
fastened. A neck band and collar piece is attached at the proper place, and
is fastened in front, and to this may be attached a hood extending upwards to
the back of the head, and terminating in a cap. In some cases I propose to
insert around the waist a band of elastic or yielding material, and likewise a
similar insertion vertically up the back of the garment for the purpose of
facilitating the yielding or stretching of the garment during the position of the
body when stooping or otherwise. Eylet holes may be let in the fabric under
the armpits or at the fork of the trowser part for the escape of perspiration.
In some cases I propose to form an opening at the back of the trowsers,
and to attach afflap at the lower part thereof, which flap may be buttoned or
fastened at the waist, a lappet may then be attached to the waist above the
flap and hang down around the waist or part thereof so as to conceal the
fastening and upper portion of the flap. This garment may be made of any
desired fabric according to the purpose for which it is to be used; it may be
made of brown holland for labourers or for gardening use; it may be composed
of flannel or fancy material for dressing or morning use, or of serge or flannel
for bathing dresses for male and female wear; it is adapted for cricketers,
sportsmen, or yachtsmen, or it may be made of waterproof fabric for mariners,
watermen, firemen, and others exposed to weather, and for a variety of
useful purposes. Where waterproof fabric is employed for use on ships or
boats I propose to adjust a flexible tube in front of the body, such tube

page_text: having a mouth-piece whereby the garment may be inflated and be rendered
capable of sustaining the wearer in water in the event of accident.
I claim the manufacture or formation of the new or improved combined
garment substantially as and for the purposes specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Pasco Barrett, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE,
Office for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square,
Charing Cross.
R. P. BARRETT. (L.S.)