An Improved Life-saving Oilskin Coat or Garment.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Mar., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Dec., 1890-Accepted, 3rd Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Life-saving Oilskin Coat or Garment.
I, SAMUEL ROBINSON, of 5 Prospect Grove, Gravesend in the County of Kent,
Mariner, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an oilskin coat or garment which can be inflated when
required for life saving purposes.
In appearance the coat or garment is the same as an ordinary oilskin coat or
garment but the chest, back, and shoulders are made double so as to form an airtight
chamber or chambers. A short length of indiarubber or other elastic tube opening
into the said chamber or chambers is attached at the neck or other convenient place
and provided with a suitable screw mouth piece by means of which the chamber or
chambers may be inflated.
The invention is specially intended for the use of seafaring men and others who are
in the habit of donning oilskins. The coat or garment may be used as an oilskin in
rough weather in the ordinary manner and yet when occasion requires, may be
instantly inflated and serve as a life saving garment thus obviating the necessity of
putting on a special belt or garment which is frequently inconvenient, sometimes
impracticable and adds to the weight to be sustained in the water.
Dated th: Th: I
Mh 1900
CASTLE SMITH,
Per F. W. Golby,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Life-saving Oilskin Coat or Garment.
1, SAMUEL ROBINSON, of 95 Convamore Road, Grimsby, in the County of Lincoln
Master Mariner, 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 following statement:-
This invention relates to an oilskin coat or garment which can be inflated when
required for life-saving purposes.
In appearance the coat or garment is the same as an ordinary oilskin coat or
garment, but the chest, back, and shoulders are made double so as to form an airtight
chamber or chambers. A short length of india-rubber or other elastic tube opening
into the said chamber or chambers attached at the neck or other convenient place
and provided with a suitable screw mouth piece by means of which the chamber or
chambers may be inflated.
The invention is specially intended for the use of seafaring men and others who are
in the habit of donning oilskins. The coat or garment may be used as an oilskin in
rough weather in the ordinary manner and yet when occasion requires, may be instantly
inflated and serve as a life-saving garment thus obviating the necessity of putting on
a special belt or garment which is frequently inconvenient, sometimes impracticable,
and adds to the weight to be sustained in the water.
In the accompanying drawings
Figure 1 represents an oilskin coat or garment made in accordance with my
invention, and shewing it as it would appear when buttoned up on the wearer, and

page_text: Figure 2 shews an inside view of the same coat when opened out wide; and
Figure 3 shews a vertical section of the coat when inflated.
The entire body of the oilskin coat or garment is made of canvas or other suitable
material dressed with boiled linseed oil, or otherwise made impervious to water, wet,
or moisture of any kind, in the ordinary manner. The whole of the upper part of the
garment from the neck A to the waist B or thereabouts is made double, that is to say,
an extra piece of material of proper shape is stitched or otherwise secured to the coat
proper, either on the inside or outside thereof as preferred. This extra piece of
material is secured down the front edges C along the neck A and waist B; and also
round the armholes D so that the sleeves may pass through and be secured to the
armholes in the ordinary manner, so that one airtight compartment is formed between
the coat proper and the extra piece of material. I prefer to secure the coat at or near
the waist by means of a belt such as is shewn in Figure 1 and marked G. A small
aperture is made in a convenient part of the coat or of the extra piece of material,
and in this aperture is secured the open end of a short length of indiarubber or other
elastic air and waterproof tubing E, through which the compartment may be inflated
when desired. On the other end of the tube E is an ordinary thimble, screw or other
valve F, which is unfastened when it is desired to inflate the coat or garment, and
secured again in the ordinary manner when the garment is sufficiently inflated.
I have described the coat or garment as having one compartment only, but it
obviously may have more than one compartment if desired, although I prefer to use
the form described and shewn in the drawings, as being extremely simple in
construction and easily inflated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be described I declare that what I
claim is :-
.
An oilskin coat or garment having, around the back, chest, and shoulders an airtight
compartment or compartments inflatable by means of indarubber or other suitable
tubing with screw or other valve mouthpieces constructed substantially in the manner
described and illustrated and for the purpose stated.
Datad this and day of Do
1900
CASTLE SMITH,
Per F. W. Golby,
"Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.