IMPROVE- MENTS IN SAFETY GARMENTS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN SAFETY GARMENTS." -A communication from abroad by André
Selincue of Havre France
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald
Brooman at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 23rd May 1863.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SAFETY GARMENTS," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in making safety coats and trousers of two thick-
nesses of oiled cotton, silk, or like suitable waterproof material to save the
wearers from drowning. The whole garment except the sleeves of coats is
separated by sewing or cementing it into compartments, with access for the air
to circulate all over the interior of the garment between the two thicknesses;
and to allow of the introduction of the air, an air valve with mouth-piece similar
to those used for air cushions is inserted in some convenient part of the garment.
As well as a protection against drowning the garments will be found serviceable
as affording protection against wet, damp, and cold.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 23rd November 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of May, 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 beirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said
Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors, admi-
nistrators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN SAFETY GARMENTS," (communi-
cated to me from abroad by André Selingue, of Havre, France), upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their,
or one of their hands and seals, should particularly 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 immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, 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:-
This Invention consists in making safety coats and trowsers of two thick-
nesses of oiled cotton, silk, or like suitable waterproof material, to save the
wearers from drowning. The whole garment except the sleeves of coats is
separated by sewing or cementing into compartments, with access for the air
to circulate all over the interior of the garment between the two thicknesses;
and to allow of the introduction of the air, an air valve with mouth-piece
similar to those used for air cushions is inserted in some convenient part of

page_text: the garment. As well as a protection against drowning the garments will be
found serviceable as affording protection against wet, damp, and cold.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a front view; and Figure 2, a
side view in section, of a safety coat made according to this Invention.
The coat is, as before stated, made of two thicknesses of waterproof material
a, b; c is a mouth-piece and valve in front of the collar f, through which air is
introduced between the two thicknesses, the whole garment except the sleeves
is separated into compartments as represented by the dotted lines, the arrows
indicate the course taken by the air when introduced through the mouth-piece.
The sleeves d are also formed of two thicknesses of waterproof material, but are
not inflated in order that the wearer may have free use of his arms.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim making safety
coats and trowsers of two thicknesses of oiled cotton, silk, or like suitable
waterproof material between which air is introduced through an air valve or
otherwise, and made to circulate all over the interior of the garment in manner
and for the purpose herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of November, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three..
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.S.)