Improvements in and relating to the Pockets of Garments.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 8th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 14th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Pockets of Garments.
We, HENRY FRANCIS WELLS and ALBERT WILLIAM PYKE trading as.
Wells & Pyke both of 22, Bishopsgate Street Without in the City of London,
Tailors, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This our invention relates to improvements in garments and more particularly to
pockets for the same and the object of our said invention is to form the said
pockets in such a manner that the wearer of the garment shall have access to
a pocket in a garment which is intended to be worn underneath the said outer
garment.
We
To this end our invention consists in providing the pockets of the said outer
garments with an internal opening through which the hand of the wearer may be
passed so as to enable the pockets of the under garments to be reached.
prefer to make the pockets of the said outer garments double and provide an
opening from the inner one through which the hand may be passed. We do not
confine our invention to the use of a double pocket as the opening may be made
through the inner face of the garment from a single pocket, and our invention is
also applicable to each of the several pockets of a garment at will.
Our invention will be found particularly adaptable for coats as by the adoption
of our invention the watch pocket in a waistcoat will be accessible without
unbuttoning the coat and an article may be inserted or abstracted from the pockets
in a pair of trousers through the outside hip pockets of a reefer jacket in like
manner.
Our invention is applicable to any description of garment and we do not wish to
confine the application of the same to any particular article.
Dated this 14th day of September 1892.
REGINALD W. BAKKEK,
Applicants' Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to the Pockets of Garments.
We, HENRY FRANCIS WELLS and ALBERT WILLIAM PYKE trading as
Wells & Pyke, both of 22, Bishopsgate Street Without, in the City of London,
Tailors, 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 our invention relates to improvements in and relating to the pockets for
garments, and the object of our said invention is to form the said pockets in such
a manner that the wearer of the garment shall have ready access to a pocket in a
garment which is intended to be worn underneath the outer garment.
To this end our invention consists in providing pockets of the said outer
garments with an internal opening through which the hand of the wearer may be
passed so as to enable the pockets of the under garments to be reached without
unfastening the said outer garment. We prefer to make the pockets of the said
outer garments double and provide an opening from the inner one through which
the hand may be passed. We do not confine our invention to the use of a double
pocket as the opening may be made through the inner face of the garment from a
single pocket and our invention is also applicable to each of the several pockets of
a garment at will,

page_text: In order that our invention may be more readily understood reference is made to
the accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1, illustrates a portion of a garment with our invention applied thereto.
Figure 2, being a transverse section showing the position of the several
openings.
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In the said figures is illustrated a double pocket A, B, respectively. a is the
opening of the outer face of the garment which may be covered by the usual flap.
b is an opening from the outer to the inner pocket and c is an opening formed
through the lining of the garment the said opening c being covered by a flap c
Thus it will be seen that the hand may be passed right through the openings a, b, c
and access thereby obtained to the pocket of the garment worn underneath the
garment to which the invention is applied. The flap c' may be secured by a button
or other fastening either upon the lining of the coat or other garment to which our
invention is applied or the said fastening may be. attached to the division between
the inner and outer compartments of the said pocket... When the flap c¹ is fastened
in the manner last mentioned the inner compartment B of the said pocket is
available for use as an inner or skirt pocket.
Our invention will be found particularly adaptable for.coats as by the adoption
efour. invention the watch pocket in a waistcoat will be accessible without
unbuttoning the coat and an article may be inserted or abstracted from the pockets
ina pair of trousers through the outside hip pockets of a reefer jacket in like
manner..
a Qur invention is applicable to any description of garment and we do not wish to
confine the application of the same to any particular article...
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner. the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is
is.
1. In a garment, the use of a double pocket having an opening formed through
thefinner face of a garment to afford access to a pocket of an under garment,
substantially as and for the purpose.described..
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2. The method of forming pockets in a garment substantially as and for the
purpose described and illustrated.
Dated this Eighth day of December 1892.