AN IMPROVED GARMENT OR SUIT TO BE USED AS AN OVERALL OR OTHER- WISE
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Abraham Lyons, of the Firm of A. Lyons and Company,
of Canning Place, Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED GARMENT OR SUIT TO BE USED AS AN OVERALL OR OTHER-
WISE
"
Sealed the 21st June 1878, and dated the 24th December 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Abraham Lyons at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th December 1877.
ABRAHAM LYONS, of the Firm of A. Lyons and Company, of Canning Place,
Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster. "AN IMPROVED GARMENT OR SUIT TO BE
USED AS AN OVERALL OR OTHERWISE.".
A great inconvenience attending the use of waterproof garments is, that to ensure
complete protection from wet, both a coat and trousers should be used, or the coat
be so long as to greatly impede the movements of the wearer.
With two garments it is evident that they may not always be hanging or placed
together, and time is both lost in seeking them and putting them on. Further, the
clothes ordinarily worn are often unnecessarily injured from the want of a convenient
garment which would entirely cover them, while permitting the wearer full freedom
of motion, both of body and limb.
The object of my Invention is to entirely protect the person from wet, or the
clothes from contact with anything which might soil them by means of a single
outer covering.
I propose to make my improved garment of a woollen, linen, cotton, or any,
suitable fabric, waterproofed or not according to its intended use, the trousers or leg
coverings, and the jacket or body with sleeves, being combined so as to form a
single garment, the trousers or leg coverings not being supported by braces, but
being one with the jacket or body, and I may cut this body so that there shall be
a greater thickness over the chest, the outer flap buttoning up to the shoulder; or
I may simply button the body from under the chin without overlapping, accordingly
as the garment is for protection against the elements, or simply to keep the ordinary
clothes from being soiled.

page_text: I also propose to attach a hood to or cut it out with the upper part of the water-
proof garment so as to entirely cover and protect the head, and to provide this
hood with means of drawing it more or less tight around the face.
My improved garment is illustrated upon the accompanying Sheet of Drawing,-
Figure 1 showing a waterproof garment of my Invention as worn for protection
against the elements.
And Figure 2, a garment without hood worn to preserve the ordinary clothes from
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Abraham.Lyons in the Great Seal Patent Office on 'the '24th June
1878.
ABRAHAM LYONS, of the Firm- of-A. Lyons and Company, of Canning Place,
Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster. "AN IMPROVED GARMENT OR SUIT TO
BE USED AS AN OVERALL OR OTHERWISE."
A great inconvenience attending the use of waterproof garments is that to ensure
complete protection from wet, both a coat and trousers should be used, or the coat
be so long as to greatly impede the movements of the wearer.
With two garments it is evident that they may not always be hanging or placed
together, and time is lost both in seeking them and putting them on. Further, the
clothes ordinarily worn are often unnecessarily injured from the want of a convenient
garment which would entirely cover them, while permitting the wearer full freedom
of motion, both of body and limb.
The object of my Invention is to entirely protect the person from wet, or the
clothes from contact with anything which might soil them by means of a single
outer covering.
I make my improved garment of a woollen, linen, cotton, or any suitable fabric,
waterproofed or not, according to its intended use, the trousers or leg coverings, and
the jacket or body with sleeves, being combined so as to form a single garment,
the trousers or leg coverings not being supported by braces, but being one with the
jacket or body, and I may cut this body so that there shall be a greater thickness
over the chest, the outer flap buttoning up to the shoulder; or I may simply button
the body from under the chin, without overlapping, accordingly as the garment is
for protection against the elements, or simply to keep the ordinary clothes from
being soiled.
I may also attach a hood to or cut it out with the upper part of the waterproof
garment, so as to entirely cover and protect the head, providing this hood with
means of drawing it more or less tight around the face, and I may also provide
holes or openings for ventilation in any suitable part or parts of the garment, when
made of any close or waterproofed material.
My improved garment is illustrated upon the accompanying Sheet of Drawing,―
Figure 1 showing a waterproof garment embodying my Invention, as worn for
protection against the elements.
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page_text: And Figure 2, a garment without hood, worn to preserve the ordinary clothes
from being soiled.
The double dotted lines shown in Figure 1 indicate an inner lining of airproof
material encircling the back and chest, and which can be readily inflated at the will
of the wearer by means of an india-rubber mouth-piece with screw or other suitable
valve (also shown in dotted lines), the garment being thus made life-preserving in
case of shipwreck or accidental immersion in water.
Having now described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is or may be performed, I desire it to be understood that I
do not limit myself to the use of any particular fabric or material in making my
improved garment or suit, nor to the precise shape shown on the accompanying Sheet
of Drawing, as such may be varied to suit particular circumstances and different,
tastes and that what I claim as secured to me by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is, the use of an improved garment, being a complete suit combined
in a single garment, substantially as herein-before set forth and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Abraham Lyons, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-second day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
ABRAHAM LYONS. (L.S.)