Improvements in Sleeping Bags.
Year: 1899

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Improvements in Sleeping Bags.
We, FRANCIS JOSEPH STOHWASSER and GEORGE BIRTCHNELL WINTER, both of
39, Conduit Street, Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex, Merchants, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows;
Our invention relates to what are known as sleeping bags used by soldiers
and others when sleeping in the open air or in tents; the sleeping bag enclosing
the person using it, so that he is kept warm even in cold climates, and is protected
from rain and weather. It has for its object a novel method of making such
sleeping bags, so that they are very easily used, the thickness of covering can
be varied by the occupant, they can be easily opened out and extended for the
purpose of airing or drying them, whilst they can when desired be used as sacks
or cases to contam clothes or other articles, and they are simple, light, cheap,
and durable.
The improved sleeping bag consists of a rectangular sheet of cloth, or suitable
fabric, preferably waterproof. This sheet is of suitable. size, ordinarily about
six feet by nine feet-so that it can be conveniently folded into three thicknesses
about six feet by three, and it may be made in one piece or of three pieces sewn
or otherwise fastened together.
When one of the side pieces or parts is folded over upon the central part, its
free edge is buttoned, hooked, or laced, to the other side of the central part,
and a bag is thus formed open at both ends, into which the person, using it gets;
to facilitate which a part of the fold between the two parts described, at the end
which is to form the head, is left open, and when the person using it has got into
the bag, this side opening is buttoned, hooked, or laced together. At the other,
or foot, end of the bag, a flap or extension of the central part of the bag is
provided, which is turned or folded over upon the end of the side or part which
has been folded down upon the central part, and its edge is buttoned, hooked,
or laced to the latter, so as to close the end of the bag, and cover and protect the
feet of the sleeper.
The third, or outer, part of the sheet, can either be left extended or rolled up,
without being used; or it can be folded over upon the part which has been
folded over and fastened to the edge of the central part as already described,
So as to provide an additional thickness to cover the sleeper. when
greater warmth is required; or it can be folded down below the central part so
that the sleeper lies upon two thicknesses instead of one only.
In either of the two last cases, its free edge can be buttoned or hooked to the
other edge of the bag.
On the central part at the open or head end of the bag, a thickness of fabric
may be sewn, open at one or both ends, which serves to receive spare clothes
or other articles, so that it serves as a pillow for the sleeper.
Dated thin 10th drie of October 1800

page_text: Improvements in Sleeping Bags.
We, FRANCIS JOSEPH STOHWASSER and GEORGE BIRTCHNELL WINTER, both of
39, Conduit Street, Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex, Merchants, 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 follow-
ing statement and accompanying drawings, that is to say:-
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Our invention relates to what are known as sleeping bags, used by soldiers
and others when sleeping in the open air or in tents; the sleeping bag enclosing
the person using it, so that he is kept warm even in cold climates, and is protected
from rain and weather. It has for its object a novel method of making such
sleeping bags, so that they are very easily used, the thickness of covering can
be varied by the occupant, they can be easily opened out and extended for the
purpose of airing or drying them, whilst they can when desired be used as sacks
or cases to contain clothes or other articles, and they are simple, light, cheap,
and durable.
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The accompanying drawings are in illustration of our invention.
Figure 1 shows the material of which the sleeping bag is made, stretched out
Figure 2 shows it folded together in a condition to be used.
The improved sleeping bag consists of a rectangular sheet a, b, c, d, of cloth, or
suitable fabric, preferably waterproof. This sheet is of suitable size,-ordinarily
about six feet by nine feet-so that it can be conveniently folded along the
lines e, f, and g, h, into three thicknesses about six feet by three, and it may be
made in one piece or of three pieces sewn or otherwise fastened together.
When one of the side pieces or parts B is folded over upon the central part A,
its free edge a, b, is buttoned, hooked, or laced, to the other side g, h, of the central
part A, and a bag is thus formed open at both ends, into which the person using
it gets, to facilitate which a part of the fold between the two parts described A
and B. at the end which is to form the head, is left open as shown at D, and
when the person using it has got into the bag, this side opening is buttoned,
hooked, or laced together. At the other, or foot, end of the bag, a flap or
extension E of the central part A of the bag is provided, which is turned or
folded over upon the end of the side or part B which has been folded
down upon the central part (as shown in Figure 2), and its edge is buttoned,
hooked, or laced to the latter, so as to close the end of the bag, and cover and
protect the feet of the sleeper.
The third, or outer, part C of the sheet can either be left extended, or rolled
up (as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 2), without being used; or it can be
folded over upon the part B which has been folded over and fastened to the edge
of the central part as already described, so as to provide an additional thickness
to cover the sleeper when greater warmth is required; or it can be folded down
below the central part A so that the sleeper lies upon two thicknesses instead of
one only.
In either of the two last cases, its free edge can be buttoned or hooked to the
other edge of the bag.
On the central part at the open or head end of the bag, a thickness F of fabric
may be sewn or formed, which can be turned loosely down upon the end of the
part A to which its free end is buttoned or fastened so as to form a case, open
at one or both ends, which serves to receive spare clothes or other such articles,
as shown in Figure 2, so that it can serve as a pillow for the sleeper.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is:-
1. A sleeping bag, consisting of a rectangular sheet, folding when required
into three thicknesses, the fold between the centre part and one of the side parts
being separated for a sufficient distance down from the upper end, the separated
parts being fastened together after the occupant has entered the sleeping bag,
and the outer edge of such side part having means for attaching it to or near the
other edge or fold of the centre part on which it is folded, the other side part
being either left extended, or being folded over above or below the centre part,
substantially as described and illustrated.
2. In combination with the sleeping bag described and claimed in Claim 1,
a flap or extension upon the central part, at the foot end of the bag, which is
folded over so as to close the end of the bag and cover the feet of the sleeper,
and can then be fastened to the upper side part, substantially as described and
illustrated.
3. In combination with the sleeping bag described in Claim 1, the flap at the
head end of the bag, which can be folded over and its edge fastened to the central
part of the bag, so that when filled with spare clothes or other such articles, it
serves as a pillow for the sleeper, substantially as described and illustrated.
1
1000
EDWARDS AND CO.,
Chartered Patent Agents, 65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London.
Agents for the Applicants.