AN IMPROVED WRAPPER FOR TRAVELLING AND PERSONAL WEAR
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Phillip Levy, of the City of Edinburgh, Furrier
to Her Majesty, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED WRAPPER FOR
TRAVELLING AND PERSONAL WEAR."
Sealed the 15th October 1855, and dated the 17th April 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Phillip Levy at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 17th April
1855.
I, PHILLIP LEVY, of the City of Edinburgh, Furrier to Her Majesty, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED WRAPPER
FOR TRAVELLING AND PERSONAL WEAR" to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing a wrapper or garment which shall not
only protect the knees, but also the feet, legs, loins, and body as far as the
waist. For this purpose, I construct a sack or bag which extends upwards at
back in such manner that when the feet and legs are inserted therein it shall
come up to the thighs of the wearer; but I continue the wrapper upwards in
front, so that it shall come up to the waist, while the sides, which are not united
at back to a greater height than the thighs, as before named, wrap round the
loins and back, or are placed at the sides, according to the desire of the wearer.
I make these wrappers in any woollen or other suitable warm material, and
line them or not, according to circumstances, with fur or other warm soft
material.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Phillip Levy in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th
October 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, PHILLIP
LEVY, of the City of Edinburgh, Furrier to Her Majesty, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred, and fifty-five, in the eighteenth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Phillip Levy, Her special licence that I, the said Phillip Levy, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Phillip
Levy, 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 "AN IMPROVED WRAPPER FOR
TRAVELLING AND PERSONAL WEAR," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Phillip Levy, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
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 Phillip Levy, 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 thereof, reference being bad to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say :-
My Invention consists in constructing a wrapper or garment which shall
not only protect the knees, but also the feet, legs, loins, and body as far as the
waist. For this purpose, I construct a sack or bag which extends upwards at
back in such manner that when the feet and legs are inserted therein it shall
come up to the thighs of the wearer; but I continue the wrapper upwards in
front, so that it shall come up to the waist, while the sides, which are not
united at back to a greater height than the thighs, as before named, wrap round
the loins and back, or are placed at the sides, according to the desire of the
wearer. I make these wrappers in any woollen or other suitable warm material,
and line them or not, according to circumstances, with fur or other warm soft
inaterial.

page_text: Figure 1 of the Drawings annexed is a perspective view of this wrapper;
Figure 2, a perspective view of the same in use. A is the sack or wrapper,
and B the lining.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my said Inven-
tion, the improved wrapper for travelling and personal wear, herein-before
described, and represented in the Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Phillip Levy, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Fifteenth day of October, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-five.
PHILLIP LEVY. (Ls.)