US1214893A - Overcoat. - Google Patents

Description

F. A. BUTLER.

OVERCOAT.

APPLICATION FILED APR-24.1916.

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Application filed April 24, 1916.

2'0 aZZ whom 2'5 may concern:

Beit known that T, Fnnons A. BUTLER, a

citizen of the, United States, residing at lowing Dan'vers, inthe county of Essex and State ofl/[assachusetts have invented certain Improvements, in .Overcoats, of which the foldescription, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings indiratinglikc parts in the single figure.

This invention relates to overcoats, ulsiels, reefers and similar outside garments hereinail'er, for convenience, referred to generically as overcoats, and which are designed to be worn in very cold weather. The invention has forits chief object to de vise a garment of this general type which will afiord the wearer greater protection against cold than do garments of this kind as usually constructed.

The manner in which it is proposed to accomplish this object, and the various features of the invention, will be readily understood from the following description of one embodiment thereof, reference being made to the single figure or" the accompanying drawings, which shows in elevation the inside of an overcoat constructed in accordance with this invention.

The overcoat shown in the drawings is constructed in the usual manner, except that it has a short loose skirt or flap 2, secured to the inside thereof in position to encircle the body of the wearer. The upper edge of this skirt is sewed, or secured, in any suitable manner to the inside of the coat from a point about where the lining begins on one side to about the point where it ends on the opposite side. This arrangement leaves two free end portions a and b of the skirt, which may be fastened together at the front of the coat by means of buttons 4 on one of these y end portions and corresponding buttonholes I wearers 6 provided for them in the other end portion. The upper edges of these two end parts, a and Z), are also provided with buttonholes 8 and 9 by which they may be fastened 0n buttons 10, secured to the inside of the coat just above the end portion 6. For the purpose of securing the lower or free edge of the skirt 2 snugly about .the body this part ofthe skirt is hemmed to receive a draw string 12, or ian equivalent fastening device.- In the construction shown a very flexible belt, pro- Spec ification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 6, rain Serial in. 93,251.

vided with a buckle 14, is used forthis purpose.

The garment of course is put on in the usual way and the ends a and b of the skirt .2 are secured together by entering the buttons i in the buttonholes 6, so that the skirt entirely encircles the wearers body. he upper edges of the end portions a and b of the skirt are then secured to the inside of the overcoat by buttoning them on the buttons 10, using the buttonholes S and f) for this purpose. The draw string, or belt 12, is then pulled up and fastened, thus securing the lower, or free edges of the skirt, snugly about the wearers body. Since the upper edge of this skirt is now secured for substantially its entire length to the inside of the overcoat while the lower edge is fast'ned tightly around the wearers body, I

and windy weather provided some means is employed to keep 1; 1s air from being displaced by cold air, or in other words, to prevent an interchange of the air around the body. The skirt 2 performs this function. It is a well known fact that teamsters,

rangers, woodsmen and others exposed to.

very severe weather find that the warmth of an overcoat is increased by wearing a belt arojmd it.

The reason undoubtedly is that just given; and the construction provided by this invention produces this efiect more efficiently and at the same time afi ords greater freedom of movement and avoids the clumsiness' caused by wearing a belt around a heavy overcoat.

The skirt 2 obviously should be made of some soft fabric or other suitable material which will not permit too free a How of air through it. Theskirt may be located at any height in the coat which the wearer finds convenient; but preferably should be outside garments, and other expedients reseinbling this invention broadly, have been proposed heretofore, the arrangements of this character with which I am familiar have all proved either relatively expensive or too cumbersome to ,be used to any great extent. I regard the extreme simplicity of the construction herein disclosed, and the fact that it adds only a trifling cost to the expense of manufacture of the garment, as important features of this invention.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim asnew and desire to secure by Let- -ters Patent of the United States is:

1. An overcoat having a short skirt constructed to encircle the wearers body and secured at its upper edge to the inside of the coat, the other edge of said skirt being region of the hips, one edge of said skirt being secured to the inside of the overcoat in the region between the hips and the arm holes, and the other edge of said skirt being free, a flexible fastening means for securing said free edge of the skirt snugly about the body of the wearer, said skirt having ends at the front of the overcoat, and means for fastening said ends together.

3. An overcoat having a short loose skirt constructed to encircle the Wearers body, and secured at one edge to the inside of the coat, theother edge of said skirt being free, means for securing said free edge snugly about the wearers body, said skirt having free end portions at the front of the overcoat and means for fastening said portions together and to the overcoat.

In testimony whereof I- have signed my name to this specification.

FERGUS A. BUTLER.

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