Improvements in Waistcoats.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 9th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 18th Apr., 1896:
Improvements in Waistcoats.
I ANNIE GRASBY, of 54 Stowell Street, Weaste Salford, in the County of
Lancaster, Tailoress, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention for improvements in waistcoats has for its principal object to
construct a waistcoat with pockets or receptacles so arranged that the possibility
of picking them is greatly reduced while they are at the same time readily
accessible to the wearer.
In one design of waistcoat constructed according to this invention a piece of
suitable fabric is stitched or otherwise secured to the back of either front part of
the garment so as to form a large pocket or receptacle access to which is had.
through a suitable side opening beneath the armhole, and inside this pocket, and
secured to either the front or back part thereof, are one or more smaller pockets.
as desired.
It will thus be seen that in order to obtain access to the smaller pockets the
hand must first be passed through the opening into the larger containing pocket..
All the pockets may be provided with buttons for securing them, and holes may
also be provided inside and outside of the garment for the watch pocket in order.
to prevent the watch from being snatched.
Dated this 5th dar of December 1895.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents..
Improvements in waistcoats.
I ANNIE GRASBY, of 17 Beech Avenue Church Road, Urmston, late of
54 Stowell Street, Weaste Salford, in the County of Lancaster, Tailoress 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:-
This invention for improvements in waistcoats has for its principal object to.
construct a waistcoat with pockets or receptacles so arranged that the possibility
of picking them is greatly reduced while they are at the same time readily
accessible to the wearer.
In the accompanying two sheets of illustrative drawings:
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a waistcoat having pockets arranged according to.
this invention, and Fig. 2 is an elevation of one side of the same, laid flat.
A piece of suitable fabric a is stitched or otherwise secured to the back of either
front part of the garment so as to form a large pocket or receptacle the size of
which is limited by stitching 6 shown in dotted lines, and access to which is had
through a suitable side opening c beneath the arm-hole d, and inside this pocket,
In
and secured to either the front or back part thereof are smaller pockets e.
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the illustration three such pockets are shown but it will be obvious that any desired
number may be provided.
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It will thus be seen that in order to obtain access to the smaller pockets the
band must first be passed through the opening c into the larger containing pocket.
All the pockets may be provided with buttons for securing them, and the holes f
may also be provided in the front and back parts of the garment to allow of the
passage of a watch chain or cord in order to prevent the watch from being
snatched.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A waistcoat constructed with containing pockets inside which smaller pockets
are arranged substantially in the manner described.
2. The arrangement and construction of waistcoats substantially as described
with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 9th day of March 1896.
⚫ WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.