AN IMPROVED LIFE-PRESERVING GARMENT
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to August Jünger, of Hamburg, Tailor, for the In-
vention of "AN IMPROVED LIFE-PRESERVING GARMENT."
Sealed the 21st August 1863, and dated the 24th February 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said August Jünger at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th February 1863.
I, AUGUST JÜNGER, of Hamburg, Tailor, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED LIFE-PRESERVING GARMENT," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing a garment in the shape of a cape coat
so cut and padded with ground cork, or cork shavings, or other like suitable
buoyant materials that on a person wearing it entering or falling into sea water
he shall be supported in a vertical position with his body from the waist
upwards out of the water. In other than sea water the body would sink some
few inches deeper. I divide the lining, which I form by preference of water-
proof material, into several compartments. I apply a strap to the inside of
the coat to buckle round the waist at back to be passed between the legs up
to the waist in front to prevent the garment from rising. The skirt is made
full from the waist downward, is also stuffed as the body part in compartments,
and setting out affords a sufficiently extended and buoyant surface to maintain
the wearer as above stated.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said August Jünger in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
24th August 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, AUGUST
JÜNGER, of Hamburg, Tailor, send greeting.
WHEREAS IIer most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said August Junger, Her special licence that I, the said August
Jünger, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said August Jünger, 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
LIFE-PRESERVING GARMENT," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said August Jünger, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly 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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said August Jünger, do hereby declare the
nature of the 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 had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that
is to say:
My Invention consists in constructing a garment in the shape of a cape
coat so cut and padded with ground cork, or cork shavings, or other like suitable
buoyant materials that on a person wearing it entering or falling into sea
water he shall be supported in a vertical position with his body from his waist
upwards out of the water. In other than sea water the body would
sink some few inches deeper. I divide the lining, which I form by prefer-
ence of waterproof material, into several compartments. I apply a strap to the
inside of the coat to buckle round the waist, and another strap from the waist
at back to be passed between the legs up to the waist in front to prevent the

page_text: garment from rising. The skirt is made full from the waist downward, is also
stuffed as the body part in compartments, and setting out affords a sufficiently
extended and buoyant surface to maintain the wearer as above stated.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is an outside view of the left side
of a garment constructed according to my Invention. I divide the lining into
several compartments a, a, and apply a strap 6 to the inside of the coat to
buckle round the waist, and another strap c from the waist at back to bo
passed between the legs up to the waist in front. The skirt d is made full
from the waist downwards as shewn, and is also divided into compartments e, e,
which as well as the compartments a, a, are stuffed with ground cork or other
suitable buoyant material. When the wearer is in the water the skirt sets
out as represented in Figure 2, and he is supported in a vertical position with
his body from about the waist upwards above the surface.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim constructing life-
preserving garments substantially in manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said August Junger, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twentieth day of August, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-three.
AUGUST JUNGER. (L.B.)