Improvements in Fishermen's Overalls.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fishermen's Overalls.
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I, WILLIAM CORDINER, of H4 Boddam Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Grocer's
Assistant, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention to be as follows:-
This Invention has reference to and comprises improvements in the mode of
manufacturing fishermen's or sailors' overalls or waterproof trousers usually of
oilskin or the like, for the purpose of preventing the water entering within them;
by forming them without any front or side openings.
The overalls would be shaped much in the usual way but would be provided with
a waistband extending all round without a break and much wider than would be
required to fit the wearer's waist. The front part of the trousers would be fitted
with an adjustable gusset piece sewed to the waist band and to the cloth forming
the two legs of the trousers all so that when this gusset piece is, folded over a
double ply of the waistband would also be folded over. This doubled over part
of the waistband would be provided with a button or other fastening device
at its end for the purpose of securing it in one of several buttonholes in the
front of the waistband so as to contract the waistband to the required tightness
to keep out water.
This construction may be effected by cutting the cloth of one leg in front
straight up to the waistband and cutting the cloth of the other leg with a triangular
part at top, widening out towards the top and sewing a gusset piece between the two
leg pieces. Instead of cutting the one leg with the triangular piece, this may be a
separate piece sewn on or both leg parts may be cut straight and be joined by a
larger gusset piece. The seat of the trousers would have an extra thickness of
material sewn thereto.
Dated 14th Day of January 1807 ·
Improvements in Fishermen's Overalls.
I, WILLIAM CORDINER, of H4 Boddam Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Grocer's
Assistant, 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 in writing, reference being made to the accompanying
drawings
This Invention has reference to and comprises improvements in the mode of
manufacturing fishermen's or sailor's overalls or waterproof trousers usually of

page_text: oilskin or the like, for the purpose of preventing the water entering within them,
by forming them without any front or side openings.
And in order that my said Invention my be properly understood I have
hereunto appended a sheet of explanatory Drawings illustrating a pair of overalls
and details of construction.
Referring to Figure 1 of these Drawings.
The overalls A would be shaped much in the usual way but would be provided
with a waistband A' extending all round without a break and much wider than
would be required to fit the wearer's waist. The front part of the trousers would
be fitted with an adjustable gusset piece B sewed to the waist ban A¹ and to
the cloth forming the two legs A2 A3 of the overalls all so that this gusset piece B
is folded over, a double ply of the waistband would also be folded over.
doubled over part of the waistband would be provided as shown with a button C
at its end for the purpose of securing it in one of several button holes C' in the
front of the waistband A so as to contract the waist band to the required tightness
to keep out water, or a buckle and strap or other fastening device may be
employed.
This
The construction may be effected as shown in Figures 2 and 3 by cutting the
cloth for each leg A² A with a triangular part 62 and 63 at its upper part and
joining these parts by a seam at 64 a seam being formed at the folded over edge 65.
Or the cloth of one leg may be cut in front straight up to the waistband and the
cloth of the other leg cut with a triangular part at top, widening out towards the
top and sewing a gusset piece between the two leg pieces. Instead of cutting
the cloth for one or both legs with the triangular piece, this may be a separate
piece sewn on or both leg parts may be cut straight and be joined by a larger
gusset piece. The scat of the overalls would have an extra thickness of material D
sewn thereto to strengthen them.
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:-
First. Fishermen's overalls or trousers constructed all substantially as herein
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Second. Fishermen's overalls or trousers formed with an endless waistband and
gusset piece or pieces all substantially as and for the purposes herein described
and illustrated by the accompanying Drawings.
Dated the 24th August 1897.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.