Improvements in Devices for Preventing Coats from Sagging and Keeping them Closed Across the Chest without their being Buttoned.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 9th May, 1899-Accepted, 24th June, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Preventing Coats from Sagging and
Keeping them Closed Across the Chest without their being
Buttoned.
A communication by DAVID NABLE, of Parkes, in the Colony of New South
Wales, Tailor.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester,
both in the County of Lancaster, 118, New Street, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, and 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide an adjustment for coats which will
prevent them from sagging and will keep them closed across the chest without
their being buttoned.
The adjustment consists of a pair of light flexible strips of spring material
(such as whalebone, steel or other suitable substance) sewn or otherwise fastened
to the inside of the coat extending from the edge of the arm hole where the
sleeve joins the body of coat to the lower point of the lappet on each side termi-
nating at or near the top button or button-hole of the coat. Preferably the
springs would be fastened between the coat material and the lining. When the
coat provided with this adjuster is put on the hang the weight of the coat material
bends the strip springs to the contour of the chest but as they are incapable of
bending in any direction they hold the front of the coat in its proper position
and prevent the falling away and sagging to which coats without such adjust-
ment are liable. This improvement will also have the effect of preserving in a
coat when old the stylish hang and fit of a new garment and will also to a great
extent prevent a coat from going out of shape about the neck and shoulders
through being wet or through being carelessly folded or otherwise creased and
as the cost of inserting the adjustment is practically nothing it will be found of
universal utility.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1898

page_text: Improvements in Devices for Preventing Coats from Sagging and
Keeping them Closed Across the Chest without their being
Buttoned.
A communication by DAVID NABLE, of Parkes, in the Colony of New South
Wales, Tailor.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester,
both in the County of Lancaster, 118, New Street, Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, and 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,
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:-
The object of this invention is to provide an adjustment for coats to prevent
their sagging and which will keep them closed across the chest without their
being buttoned.
This adjustment consists of one or more strips of light flexible spring material
sewn or otherwise fastened on the lining facings or material of the coat or
between the coat and the coat material extending from the edge of the arm-
hole, and if desirable also from the base of the collar to the lower point of the
lappet on each side terminating respectively at or near the top button and
button-hole of the coat. When a coat provided with this adjustment is put on,
the weight of the coat material bends the springs to the contour of the chest but
as they are so constructed and secured as to be incapable of bending in any
other direction, they hold the front of the coat in its proper position and prevent
the falling away and sagging to which coats unprovided with these adjustments
are liable after having been some time in use.
To clearly explain the nature of this invention the accompanying drawings
are now referred to in which the line A represents the edge of the arm-hole.
B the lappet shown straightened out as it would be before the collar is attached
to the coat. C the top button or button-hole. E the line of the coat to which
the collar is sewn and F the spring attachment.
In Figure 1 the spring is shown in the form of a single strip extending from
the arm-hole to at or near the top button hole.
In Figure 2, two springs are shown occupying the same position but of a
different form, to that shown in Figure 1 and in Figure 3, two separate spring
strips are shown, one extending from the arm-hole A and the other from the
line of the collar E, both meeting at or near the top button C. And in Figure 4,
two separate springs are shown extending from arm-hole to at or near the
bottom of lappet and top button. The springs used in these adjustments could
preferably be flat and thin and would either be sewn into a textile covering
which would in turn be secured to the coat lining or they would be pierced by
small holes through clips, or threads could be passed for the same purpose. The
springs may be placed either higher or lower than shown in the four figures
according to shape of coat to be made and may be placed either above or below
the first button or button hole.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is: -
A coat adjustment consisting of one or more pairs of springs suitably covered
and secured by clips or threads on the lining facings or material of the coat or
between the lining and facings of the coat and, the coat material substantially
as described and as illustrated in the drawings.
73 1 1
1000
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.