Improvements in Water-proof Garments.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Apr., 1887.
Specification Accepted, 13th May, 1887.
Improvements in Water-proof Garments.
I JOHN FRANCIS CARTER of Beverly in the County of Essex and State of
Massachusetts in the United States of America, Oil Clothing Manufacturer do hereby
declare the nature of my 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 improvements in Water-proof Garments and it is
particularly adapted for use by horse-back riders to enable the garment to be buttoned
in such a manner as to cover and extend over the pommel and cantel of the saddle
and thus protect the rider completely in a rain or snow storm; the water-proof
garment is so constructed as to be equally useful for other purposes besides horse-back
riding, simply by buttoning it up behind when it will have the appearance of an
ordinary waterproof coat as will hereinafter be more fully shown and described,
reference being had to the accompanying drawings, where Fig. 1 represents a side
elevation of the garment with the rear gore or flap extended-as used for horse back
riding; Fig. 2 represents a rear view of the garment showing it buttoned behind and
the gore or flap folded inside; Fig. 3 represents a rear plan view of the garment
showing the sides and reargore extended; and Fig. 4 represents a perspective view to
illustrate the use of the waterproof garment for horse back purposes.
Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur in the different parts
of the drawings.
A. A represent the sides of the garment which sides are divided in the rear nearly
up to the collar bas shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 and provided with longitudinal flaps a. a.
at such rear slit or division which are adapted to be buttoned together by means of
buttons at a and button-holes all all made on the respective flaps a. a, when the
garment is to be used as an ordinary water-proof coat as shown in Fig. 2. Instead of
button-holes and buttons on said flaps or edges the rear slit or division, any other well
known fastening devices may be used. To the sides of the slitted rear portion of the
garment is sewed, or otherwise united, a rearwardly extending flap or gore C as shown
in Figs. 1 and 3 said gore being of sufficient fullness to cover the cantel of a saddle
when thefront part of the coat is buttoned and made to cover the saddle pommel and
by this arrangement the saddle is covered in front and rear so as to prevent rain
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page_text: or snow from reaching it, as long as the rider is in the saddle and thus protecting
the rider fully from th inclemency of the weather. The coat can be converted into
and be used as an ordinary walking coat simply by folding the gore C inside of the back
portion as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2 when the rear slit is closed by buttoning
the flaps a. a together as shown in Fig. 2 thus preventing the rain from reaching the
body of the wearer..
d. d are the sleeves of the coat as usual, and e. is the usual breast flap adapted to
be buttoned to the other side piece when the,coat is in use; the front edges of the
coat are provided with buttons and button-holes as is usual in garments of this kind.
An other use to which the invention may be put, is to serve as a combined coat and
trousers, and for this purpose I unbutton the coat at the rear and envelop each leg
with one of the side pieces A A, the lower portions of which are then to be buttoned
round the legs of the wearer, by which arrangement the wearer of the water proof
garment is still further protected against rain or snow.
Riding waterproof garments of this kind are generally termed "Pommel stickers"
and they have heretobefore been made with triangular breast flaps extending from the
front ed
ges of the garment and adapted to be buttoned together so as to overlap and
cover the saddle-pommel of the saddle, in which the rider is seated, but such arrange-
ment is unconifortablé, clumsy and difficult to adjust, and I wish to state that I do
not claim as my invention a waterproof garment with such forwardly extending
breast flaps but having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
A coat or garment comprising the sides A A divided from the bottom upward and the
edge of each side provided with a longitudinal flap a said flaps adapted to overlap each
other and having buttons and button holes or equivalent for connecting them together,
and the unslitted gore C inserted in the divided part of the garment and terminating
below the collar and below the point where the sides are directly united, and having
its outer divergent edges connected with the longitudinal edges of the sides along the
length of the flaps, substantially as shown and described.
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