A. New or Improved Overcoat or Driving Coat.
Year: 1888

page_text: Complete Specification Left, 9th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 21st Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A. New or Improved Overcoat or Driving Coat.
I HENRY REES-PHILIPPS of No. 13 Berkeley Street Piccadilly in the County of
Middlesex Manager of Inventors' Agency Limited do hereby declare the nature of
this Invention to be as follows :-
Overcoats or driving coats as ordinarily made very imperfectly protect the wearer
or driver in case of rain or storm. The meeting part of the two edges of the body
and skirt is more or less open or exposed to the weather and rain especially when
accompanied by wind sooner or later gains access to the lower part of the body and
legs of the wearer.
The object of my invention is to remedy the defect in overcoats or driving coats
referred to, and consists in constructing the front parts of the overcoat or driving coat
in the manner hereinafter described whereby the wearer or driver is effectually
protected against the access of rain in front even in a violent storm.
In constructing an overcoat or driving coat according to my Invention I make the
two edges of the coat at the upper part of the coat overlap and button as close as
convenient under the chin. At a distance of five or six inches below the top of the
coat (that is about five or six inches below the chin when the coat is in use) I give to
one of the sides of the coat preferably the left hand side such a breadth that it
overlaps the other side so far as to cover the whole front of the body and legs of the
wearer the edge of the overlapping side terminating at the side of the wearer that
is immediately under the arms. By means of a vertical row of buttons and button
holes the overlapping side of the coat may be secured in position and unbuttoned
at pleasure. A cape or flap on the breast of the coat at the overlapping side covers
the top edge of the overlapping part and effectually prevents the entrance of rain at
that part.
The great extent of the front part of the coat affords facilities for the addition of
many pockets to the coat.
I make my new or improved overcoat or driving coat preferably of water repellant
material or of waterproof material but the said coat may be made of any material
which is or may be conveniently employed in the making of overcoats or driving
coats.
Dated this 17th day of November 1888.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Overcoat or Driving Coat.
I HENRY REES-PHILIPPS of No 13 Berkeley Street Piccadilly in the County of
Middlesex Manager of Inventors' Agency Limited do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to he particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Overcoats or driving coats as ordinarily made very imperfectly protect the wearer
or driver in case of rain or storm. The meeting part of the two edges of the
body and skirt is more or less open or exposed to the weather and rain especially when
accompanied by wind sooner or later gains access to the lower part of the body and
legs of the wearer.
The object of my invention is to remedy the defect in overcoats or driving coats
referred to and consists in constructing the front parts of the overcoat or driving
coat in the manner hereinafter described whereby the wearer or driver is effectually
protected against the access of rain in front even in a violent storm.

page_text: In constructing an overcoat or driving cont according to my invention I make
the two edges of the coat at the upper part of the coat overlap and button as close as
convenient under the chin. At a distance of five or six inches below the top of the
coat (that is about five or six inches below-the chin when the coat. is. in use). I give to
one of the sides of the coat preferably the left hand side such a breadth that it
overlaps the other side so far as to cover the whole front of the body, and legs of the
wearer the edge of the overlapping side terminating at the side of the wearer that is
immediately under the arm. By means of a vertical row of buttons and button holes
or other suitable fastenings the overlapping side of the coat may be secured in position
and unfastened at pleasure. A cape or flap on the breast of the coat at the overlapping
side covers the top edge of the overlapping part and effectually prevents the entrance
of rain at that
part.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings represents an inside elevation of an
opened out overcoat or driving coat made according to my invention and Figure 2
represents the same closed and buttoned up or fastened as worn on the person
Figure 3 represents a section of Figure 2 across the skirt.
It will be seen by an examination of Figure 1 that the two sides of the coat are
not symmetrically arranged on either side the middle line between the sleeves a a
but the left side of the coat marked c has such a breadth that when the coat is
buttoned up or fastened the said side c overlaps a portion of the side and covers the
whole front and legs of the wearer the overlapping side e terminating at the side of
the wearer immediately under the right arm (see Figure 2).
The manner in which the broad sido c overlaps the other side 6 is best seen in the
section Figure 3. The edge of the overlapping sido c on its inner face is furnished
with a row of button holes at ee and above the row of button holes are loops or
eyes fff. Near the edge of the other side 6 of the coat and on the outer face
thereof is a row of buttons gg for engaging with the button holes ee and at the
upper part of the side bare three hooks h h h³ for the loops f f f on the side c
to respectively engage with or hook upon. The coat is buttoned close under the chin
by the button and button hole i k. A capel indicated in dotted lines in Figure 1 and
shown partly broken away in Figure 2 may be combined with the coat but the said
cape constitutes no part of my invention.
In buttoning up or fastening the coat it is first buttoned under the chin by the
button and button hole at ik and the upper part of the overlapping side e of the coat
is next fastened by engaging the loops fff" on the said side c with the respective
hooks hhh on the other side 6 of the coat. The skirt part of the overlapping side
is next fastoned to the other side by the buttons gg and button holes e e as represented
in Figure 2.
In order to protect the horizontal crossing part m of the overlapping side c of the
coat and the pocket n at that part when the coat is buttoned up I use the flap p
on the breast of the coat (see Figure 1) the said flap p passing over the top edge of
the said crossing part m and covering the mouth of the pocket n and thereby preventing
the entrance of rain at the said edge and pocket.
In order to ensure the production of a very efficient waterproof joint between the
fastened edges of the two sides of the coat I prefer to employ the arrangement
represented in section in Figure 4 and elevation in Figure 5 or that represented in
section in Figure 6 and elevation in Figure 7. In the arrangement represented in
Figures 4 and 5 a fly or concealed front at q is made at the edge of the side 6 of the
coat that is the material is made double at that part and the buttons g are. connected
to the inner portion of the double or fly front 9 and button holes are made in the
outer portion of the.double or fly front q. The edge of the overlapping side c of the
cout is formed with the usual button holes e the. edge of the said side passing between
the double portions of the fly front as represented. In buttoning the coat the
buttons pass through the button holes both in the edge of the side c and the outer
portion of the fly front as seen in the section Figure 4.
In the arrangement represented in Figures 6 and 7 both the edges of the sides bc
of the coat are made double and each portion of the double edge of the side a has

page_text: a button hole made in it the buttons secured to the inner portion of the double parts
of the side 6 passing through the three bottom holes after the double edges of the
two sides of the coat have been engaged together as represented in the section
Figure 6.
Although I have represented a coat made according to my invention in which the
left hand side forms the overlapping side yet the right hand side of the coat may form
the overlapping side with the same effect. The great extent of the front part of the
coat affords facilities for the addition of many pockets to the coat. I make my new or
improved overcoat or driving coat preferably of water repellant material or of water-
proof material but the said coat. may be made of any material which is or may be
conveniently employed in the making of overcoats or driving coats.
Coats made according to my invention are specially useful for riding and when used
by female riders rain is effectually prevented from running into their laps.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as
my invention :-
A new or improved overcoat or driving coat in which one of the sides of the coat is
made of such a breadth that when the coat is buttoned up or fastened it overlaps the
other side so far as to cover the whole of the front of the body and legs of the
wearer the edge of the overlapping side terminating immediately under the arm
substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings
also preventing the entrance of rain at the top crossing edge of the overlapping side
by means of a flap substantially as described and illustrated also the arrangements
hereinbefore described and illustrated in Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the accompanying
Drawings for producing a waterproof joint at the meeting edges of the two sides of
the overcoat or driving coat.
Dated LN: AL
Ad 1000
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.