An Improvement in or Applicable to Coats, Overcoats, Macintoshes, and other similar Garments.
Year: 1897

page_text: Complete Specification Left, 20th May, 1898-Accepted, 2nd July, 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or Applicable to Coats, Overcoats, Macintoshes,
and other similar Garments.
I, LAZARUS MISTOVSKI, of 59, Miller Street, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Waterproof Garment Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to coats, overcoats, macintoshes and other articles of
wearing apparel, the collars of which are occasionally turned up as a protection
against bad weather, and are provided with a strap or the like to secure the same
close against the throat, and the invention consists of the means hereafter described
for disposing of the strap when not required.
For this purpose I prefer to make the strap in the form of a plain tab so
fastened to the one end of the collar of the coat or other garment that it can be
pulled across and be buttoned or otherwise secured to the other end of the collar,
or it can be turned back and lie concealed beneath the collar; and, in order to
keep it in the latter position, I make a suitable slit or slot in the underpart or
lining of the collar in such a position that the free end of the tab or strap can be
pushed through the slit or slot and sufficient of the said tab will be held between
the collar and its lining to keep the strap concealed by the collar when not turned
up, and preferably almost as much concealed even when the collar is turned up.
When required the free end of the strap or tab can be easily pulled from
between the collar and lining.
An Improvement in or Applicable to Coats, Overcoats, Macintoshes,
and other similar Garments.
I, LAZARUS MISTOVSKI, of 59, Miller Street, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Waterproof Garment Manufacturer, 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 relates to coats, overcoats, macintoshes and other articles of
wearing apparel, the collars of which are occasionally turned up as a protection
against bad weather, and are provided with a strap or the like to secure the same
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page_text: close against the throat, and the invention consists in the means hereafter described
for disposing of the strap when not required.
The invention will be readily understood from the following description on
reference to the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 showing the collar a of a garment
turned up and secured by a strap b and Fig. 2 shewing the same with the strap b
out of use.
I prefer to make the strap in the form of a plain tab as shewn so fastened
to the one end of the collar a of the coat or other garment that it can be pulled
across and be buttoned as illustrated on Fig. 1 or otherwise secured to the other
end of the collar, or it can be turned back as illustrated on Fig. 2 and lie con-
cealed beneath the collar; and, in order to keep it in the latter position, I make a
suitable slit or slot c in the underpart or lining a* of the collar a in such a position
that the free end of the tab or strap b can be pushed through the slit or slot c
and sufficient of the said tab will be held between the collar and its lining to
keep the strap concealed by the collar a, when not turned up, and preferably
almost as much concealed even when the collar a is turned up, as seen at Fig. 2.
When required the free end 6* of the strap or tab 6 can be easily pulled from
between the collar a and lining a*.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
:-
A collar for a coat or other outer garment having a strap to secure its ends
together (when turned up) and a slot in the lining through which the free end
of the strap may be passed, substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
described.
Dated this 18th day of May 1898.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
Agents for the Applicant, 4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.