US1154842A - Garment. - Google Patents

Description

W.'P. BUTUSOV.

GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB- 6. 1915.

Patented Sept. 28, 1915.

Wmzmo Mmm-Sui on@ alumnus WTLIJIAM PAUL B'UTUSOV, OF BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-HALF TO JULIUS M. LOPEZ, 0F BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI.

GARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 28, 1915.

Application led February, 1915. Serial No. 6,518.

which the following is a specication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This inventionrelates to certain improvements in garments and an object of the invention is to provide a garment having novel and improved means w ereby the same may be inflated with convenience and facility in order to permit the same to be employed as a life saving medium should the wearer bewithin the water. v

Furthermore, it is anobject of the invention to provide a novel and improved garment including a double-walled compartment which, when inated with air, serves to give the necessary buoyancy to prevent sinking of the wearer; and it is also an object of the invention to provide a novel and improved garment provided with means whereby a supply of compressed air may be conveniently carried thereby in order that the garment may be inflated in substantially an automatic manner.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts o-f my improved garment whereby certain important l advantages are attained and the device is rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, all as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in the appended claim. In orderthat my invention may be the better understood, I will now proceed to describe the-same with reference to the accom'- panying drawings, wherein-v Figure l is a view in perspective, with partsbroken away, of a garment constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention; Fig. 2 is a viewin perspective, with the garment open and illustrating the inner portion thereof, parts being broken` away to illustrate certain details of invention; and Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view illustrating the garment in-- Hated.

Asv disclosed in the accompanying drawings, G denotes a garment of conventional cut and preferably formed of Water-proof material and having its upper portion preferably from the vwaistline to the neck band and the sleeves s thereof, double-walled to afford a compartment whereby such portions of the garment may be inflated when it is desired to employ the same as a life saving medium. The inner walls of the sleeves have their upper or inner extremities secured directly to the inner wall of the body portion of the garment proper, as is believed to be clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings. The walls of the compartment are lined with a suitable water-proof material, as indicated at l, and such lining is preferably interposed between the outer cloth ofthe garment and the dress lining thereof so' that when the compartment is deflated, the garment will giveno indication of its special use and be manipulated in a conventional manner.

As herein embodied, the compartment c has in communication therewith adjacent the neck -band of the` garment, the air valve 2 of any ordinary or preferred construction and having a projected extremity 8 withthe flow of the fluid through the tube is controlled by a valve 7 carriedby the tank 5. The valve 7 may be of any desired construction and for this reason I have illustrated in the drawings a conventional form. In practice, I find it-of advantage to have the portable tank 5 of a capacity whereby a single charge will serve to inflate the compartment c twlce. f

In referring hereinbefore and in the claims to air, I wish to be understood as referring to gas or other fluids which may be employed to inflate my device and which possesses the requisite buoyancy.

From the foregoing description, 'it is thoughtto be obvious that a garment constructed in accordance with my invention is ,I

of an extremely simple and comparatively bled, and it will also be obvious that my in- A vention is susceptible .of somefchange and modification without material departure from the principles and vspirit thereof and parts herein shown in carrying out my invention in practice.

I claim: y Y

.As a new article of manufacture, a garment including sleeves having their outer ends'open, said garment from the waist-line to the neck and the sleeves being doublewalled to afford a single compartment, the inner walls of the sleeves having their inner 'extremities secured directly to the inner walll of the body portion ofthe garment, a lining' of impervious material for the compartv1 ment, a sourceJ of. compressed air carried by In testimony whereof I hereunto aliX- my;

signature in the presence of two witnesses. WILLIAM PAUL BUTUSOV. l Witnesses: l e

J. M. LOPEZ,

R. E. SHAY.'

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