IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO CAPES. PALETOTS. OVERCOATS AND OTHER SUCH LIKE GARMENTO " CAPES, PALETOTS. ATS AND OTHER SUCH LIKE MENTS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Emary, of Regent Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Tailor, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO
CAPES. PALETOTS. OVERCOATS AND OTHER SUCH LIKE GARMENTO
"
CAPES, PALETOTS. OVERCOATS AND OTHER SUCH LIKE GARMENTS"
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said John Emary at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declaration, on
the 22nd April 1865, pursuant to the 9th section of the Patent Law
Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN EMARY,
of Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex, Tailor, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO CAPES, PALETOTS,
OVERCOATS, AND OTHER SUCH LIKE GARMENTS," and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement (that is to say):-
This Invention relates to certain "Improvements applicable to Capes,
Paletots, Overcoats, and other such like Garments," and consists in attaching
inside the garment and below the collar or neck a supplementary band or strap
of similar fabric to the garment, or of leather, silk, or other convenient fabric.
This band or strap is provided at the extremities with a button-hole or other
fastening for the purpose of securing the garment to the body of the wearer

page_text: when the ordinary fastenings are undone or left loose with a view of allowing
the garment to fall back behind the shoulders, so as merely to cover or be
suspended from the back of the wearer. By this means the necessity of
entirely removing the garment and carrying the same on the arm when the
temperature requires only a partial covering is avoided, or if during exercise
the wearer finds a close garment unnecessarily warm he has simply to loosen
the ordinary fastenings in the same manner. About midway between the
attachment and the extremities of the band or strap a button-hole is formed
on such band, and corresponding buttons are sewn to the interior of the collar
piece of the garment, in order to limit the extent to which the garment may fall
open or back.
The Invention is also applicable to capes, mantles, cloaks, and other such
like outward garments for ladies' wear.
The collars of the garments may be extended at one end for the purpose of
forming a tab or tongue piece to lap over and fasten to the opposite end of the
collar.
In the accompanying Drawing I have shewn two views of a cloak or capo
with my Invention adapted thereto. Fig. 1 is a view of the inside of the cape or
cloak, shewing the supplementary band or strap a secured thereto by sewing or
otherwise; Fig. 2 represents the same garment as worn when the ordinary
fastenings b, b, are loosened and the garment is thrown back; the supple-
mentary band or strap a may be fastened in front by means of buttons
and button-holes, or by hooks and eyes, strings, or otherwise, but buttons
and button-holes as shewn in the Drawing will be found most convenient.
Having now described my Invention of "Improvements applicable to Capes,
Paletots, Overcoats, and other such like Garments," and having explained
the manner of carrying the same into effect, I claim as my Invention, the
adaptation to garments such as those above mentioned of a supplementary
band or strap, whereby the garment can be held in place on the body of the
wearer, while at the same time it can be thrown back off the shoulders so as
to give room for the use of the arms, as herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Emary, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, the Twenty-second day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
JOHN EMARY. (L.S.)