US2523175A - Sport garment - Google Patents

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P 1950 l. E. YATES- 2,523,175

SPORT GARMENT Filed April 14, 1948 v JNVENTOR.

Tnvme E. YATES Patented Sept. 19, 1950 1, Irving: E. mes, New York; N. assign to Gilmar Shirt Gm, Ind, New York-,N. Y.

Application April 14, 1e4sgseriai No. 21-;646

This invention relates to e aims to provide anovel and valuable garment especially well adapted to bef'abricated as a m'ans sport shirt.

As preferably embodied, the invention provides .s "and usefulii'nmovements arm nts, and, more particularly,

6 Claimsi o1; e r-28 a 'shirttlike garment, having a fly front of unique 1 kind. In this connection, the frontpor'tion of the garment is made of two sections completely separable aloriga lineobliquely extending from the top of the garment down to near the bottom thereof. Said line'is substantially straight; and

the' garment is out according to a pattern such that the tops of said two sections are so locatedas to meet'at a point laterally offset from the vertical center line of thegar-m'ent front, asunder'one of the two frontally dependent tabs of a turned down attached collar, and the points onsaid=sec= tions markin the bottom of said obliquely exe tending line are so located as to meetata por= tion of the garment somewhat above the bottom thereof and further offset fromf said vertical center line than the offsetting of the top of said obliquely extending line from said vertical line.

A slide fastener is used for closing saidsection's along said obliquely extending line, between the top and the bottom thereof, which bottoml ris ideally located for allowing a single auxiliary fastening means, as a button and ,buttonhole, a

snap fastener, or the like, to be employed below the bottom of the said obliquely, extending line, for completing the securementof said sections in a way to coact with the slide fastener inspreading V the front of the garment smoothly yet-comfortably over the front ofthe torso of'the wearer while acting properl to close the garment, at the portion thereof below the bottom of said obliquely extending line; r i I In order to obtain the advantages Just mentioned, and at the same time to have the garment present an appearance suggestive of a slip-over blouse, rather than an ,open front shirt, and incidentally to conceal the fact that a slide fastener is present, a special construction is provided in connection with the slide; fastener; that is, in addition. to the two tapes, which in a slidefastener usually carry the coacting fastener teeth spaced therealong, with one such tape secured as by stitching along the openable side of one of the said front sections of the garment and the other such tape secured as by stitching along-the open- "able side of the other of said sections, a striplike plural-ply structure, including apaneli of thefabric of which the garment is made, is

carried by one: of said-sections and arranged 65 thereohinsueh manner that while the garment is on the wearer-said plural-ply structure with said gamer-outermost, overlies and entirely conceals theislide fastener.- Nevertheless, the arrange--v ment is such that" the entire frontof the garment maybe quickly opened; from top to bottom, for

removing the garmentifrom the body of the wearer and for substantially flat spread to facilitate per-feet laundering.

Said plural-ply structure includes also a panel for underlying. and projecting laterally beyond theslide fastener, and isxc'arried by the section other than the section carrying the panel mene tioned in the last preceding paragraph. For holding said underlying panel to flat; smooth and comfortable disposition; there is provided a second auxiliary'fastening means, as a snap fastener; with one element thereof on the upper portion of said underlying panel and with the complementary element ofsaid fastener on the upper portion ofthesection carrying said overe lying panel. a

For further comprehensionofthe invention,

and'of the objects andadvantages thereof; reference willbe hadto the-following description and accompanyingi-fdrawings; and to the appended claims in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth; n ;In the accompanyingdrawings formingama: terialpart of this disclosure:

Fig. 1 shows in front elevation an embodiment of v the invention; as now favored,- with the aforesaid-garment sections partially open near the bottom ofthe-garment; V p p Fig. 2,is a'viewa-similarto Fig; 1, but with said front sections-fully closed.

g FigzBisa fragmentary perspective view, show ing-theupper part of the garment, with said front section's partially, open near the top of the garment. i V g Fig; 4 is a fragmentary rear elevation. I

Fight? is an enlarged detail view, being asec- .tionotaken on'the line 5=5 of Fig. 2

Fig. 6 is anqenlarged horizontal sectional View 45, I Referring to the drawingsmore in detail, the

taken'onthejline 6 -6;of;Fig.' 2.

garmentT shown, byway of example, includes a 'reanuppersection lll arear lower section I0 a pai-rfof sleeves Il -i! Leach-with anopenable cuff 12'," and aturned down'collar I4, is completed byialarger front section 15" and a smaller and complementary frontsection I6. The garment is out according to a pattern such that the front there'of isropenable and olosable alongf a- 'straight line; by, respectively, opening and closing the slide fastener aforesaid. Said line at its top is to one side of the front vertical center line of the garment. Referring to Fig. 3, such point, on the section I5, is indicated at IT, and such point, on the section [6, is indicated at H. The aforesaid tapes for carrying the coacting teeth of the slide fastener are suitably secured as by stitching to the facing edges of the sections l5 and Hi; the tape thus carried by the section l5 being marked l8 and its teeth l9, and

the tape thus carried by the section [6 being marked 28 and its teeth 2l.

way along the tapes l8 and 20, to open and close the slide fastener, will be noted in Fig. 3. The slide fastener may be arranged on the garment either so that the slider 22 is slid upward for closing the garment, or downward for effecting such closure. As indicated in Fig. 3, the arrangement of the slide fastener is preferably such that the slider 22 is slid upward to effect a closure, and so, of course, downward, to open the garment.

Since the garment should be wholly openable at its front, that is, all the way from the top to the. bottom thereof, for an advantage already stated, the type of slide fastener used is the familiar one which allows complete separation of the two teeth-carrying tapes and which, therefore, has the tapes equipped, as indicated as 23 and 24 in Fig. 1, with temporarily interlockable male and female pieces. In this connection it may be explained that, in order clearly to show in Fig. 1 the section I5 considerably rolled back at its bottom in the vicinity of said pieces 23 and 24, the slide fastener is here illustrated as though it could have been and had been closed, without interlocking said pieces, and merely. from a point well above the latter up tothe top of the garment.

From the bottom ends of the sections I5 and I6 continue downward into vertically extending edge portions 28 and 21.. At these vertically extending'edge portions 28 and 21, the edges of the material is folded back beneath the back faces of the. sections l5 and [6, as shown in Fig. 6. Reenforcing strips 44 and 45 of buckram, or other similar reenforcing material, are disposed between the adjacent faces of the sections l5 and I6 and the folded back edge portions of these sections l5 and I6. Snap fasteners 25 and 26 are provided on the vertically extending edge portions 21 and 28 for releasably securing the edge portions together. As shown in Fig. 6, the cooperative snap fasteners are only mounted through the reenforcing strips 44 and 45 and the folded back edges of the edge portions 2'! and 28, so that when the fasteners are engaged they are entirely hidden from view, both inside and outside of the garment. Stitches are engaged through the overlapped layers of material including the reenforcing strips 44 and 45 for securing the reenforcing stripsin position. If desired, the fasteners 25 and'26 could be replaced with a single button on onesection' engageable with a button hole in the other section.

The fastener 25 is carried by the aforesaid plural-ply structure, the aforesaid panel of which is marked 29; while'the fastener 26, as the other and complementary element of the snap fastener 25, is carried by the section l6 where the latter is overlapped by the lower portion of the flap 29 when the front of the garment is fully closed. This flap, as will be. noted from Fig. 1, has a diagonally extended main upper length in parallelism with the lineof teeth [9 of the tape l8 the slide fasteners,

and a lower, minor vertically extending length at about the midpoint along which the button 25 or equivalent is placed; said minor, lower length being coextensive with the lower vertically extending edge 28 of the section 15. The point of merger of said two lengths of the flap 29 is approximately at the line around the garment which would be at the waist level of the wearer of the garment.

Desirably there is present, in addition to the flap 29, a flap 30, this carried by the section l6,

and long enough to be substantially coextensive I e I with the tape l8 on said section, and so to prevent The key or slider 22, movable in the familiar any part of the slide fastener from contacting the body of the wearer of the garment.

Referring now particularly to Fig. 5, it will be observed that the flap 29 at the portion thereof here shown, that is, along the main upper length thereof extended in parallelism with the line of teeth IQ of the tape I8, is integral with the section [5, and is folded on itself at 3! to provide a two-ply flap; that the flap .38, a fabric piece separate from the section 5, is also folded on itself, at 32, to provide a two-ply flap; that an additional fabric strip 33, along each of its opposite sides given a lapped edge seam 34 or 35, is interposed between the tape I8 and the main portion of the section l5; that the section I6 is given a lapped edge seam 36 at the location of the tape 20, this seam somewhat wider than the seam 34; that the seam 35, at the location of the tape I8, is also somewhat wider than the seam 34; that a line of stitching 31 looks together both plies of the flap 29, the tape l8, and the strip 33 at the two-ply portion of the latter established by its seam 35; and that a line of stitching 38 looks together the section l6 at the two-ply portion thereof established by the seam 36, the tape 20, and the two plies ofthe flap 30 at a point across the latter remote from its fold line 32. Also, it will be observed that, beyond the stitching 38, and in a direction away from the fold line 32, the inner ply of the flap 30 is projected beyond the strip 33 and the tape 20, and, well beyond the later, is given a narrow lapped edge seam 39 like the seam 34.

The relationship of and coaction between the Various sheet members of the plural-ply structure just described, and existent as a single composite such structure when the slide fastener is closed, are such, it has been found, as will attain, while the garment is being worn, at once all the objectives of providing a blouse-like appearance at the front of the garment, of snugly flatly pocketing the closed slide fastener, of securing an ideal frontal drape of the garment, of always fully covering and concealing the presence of the slide fastener, of holding the flap 29 to flat, smooth and unwrinkled spread diagonally of the front of the garment, and, at the Same time, of preventing the outer surface ofsaid flap from projecting noticeably above the portion of the section [5 immediately adjoining said flap. The other of the auxiliary fastening means aforesaid, the one second-mentioned, is shown in Fig. 3 as incorporating a single snap fastener one of the complementary elements of which is carried, as at 40, by the panel 30, and the other of which elements is carried, as at 4|, by the section l5.

The new garment may include a pocket or pockets; for instance, such a breast pocket as that indicated at 42,'which is shown as provided 'with a top closing flap 43. 7

While I have illustrated and described the preferred. embodiment of my invention, it is to be a'pointpffset from-the ver'tic'al center lin'e of the front of the garment down to a point above the bottom ofthe garment, a slide fastener "extended along said line with one of the teeth-carriers of said fastener secured to one of said sections and the other teeth-carrier secured-to the othersection, both'of said sections -below the bottom of said slide fastener having substantially vertically extending edges both shorter than said line, said sections being so shaped that with the slide fastener closed, the marginal portions of said sections at their last-named edges overlap, and a releasable fastening means partially carried by each of said marginal portions, there being an elongate flap carried by each of said sections, each such flap substantially coextensive with the teeth-carrier onthat section and projected beyond said teeth-carrier toward the other section, one of said flaps partially laterally underlying the teeth-carrier on its section and the other of said flaps partially laterally overlying the teeth-carrier on its section, said overlying flap being integral with the fabric of its carrying section, and being longitudinally folded onitself to establish a two-ply flap structure with the free end of the overlying flap having botlrits plies overlying the teeth 'ca-rrier on its section, and thereb'e'ing an auxiliary fabric strip underlying saidteethcarrier, said two plies of the last-namedflap, the last-named teeth-carrier, and said auxiliary fabric 'strip being connect'ed by a line of stitches pass-ing throug h said two-plies of the last named flap, the last-named teeth-carrierand said auxiliary strip, said auxiliary strip being longitudinally marginally folded on itself to provide -a two ly subdivision thereof and said stitches passing through both of said plies.

3. All open-front shirt-like garment, comprisinga-front portion which includestwo portions separable along a lineextending diagonally from a' point offset from theverticalcenter line of the frontal the'garment down to a point above the bottom ofthe garment, a slide fastener extended along said line with one of the teeth-carriers of said fastener secured to one of said sections and the other teeth-carrier secured to the other section, both of said sections below the bottom of said slide fastener having substantially vertically extending edges both shorter than said line, said sections being so shaped that with the slide fastener closed, the marginal portions of said sections at their last-named edges, overlap and a releasable fastening means partially carried by each of said vertically extending edges, said vertically extending edges of both sections have their edge portions bent back and upon themselves, reenforcing means engaged between said edges and the bent back edge portions, and said fastening mean being mounted through said reenforcing means andthe contacting faces of said overlapped vertical edges.

flap on the inside of the last-named section, said overlying flap having both its plies overlying the teeth-carrier on its section and there being an auxiliary fabric strip underlying said teeth-carrier, said two plies of the last-named flap, the last-named teeth-carrier, and said auxiliary fabric strip being connected by a line of stitches passing through said two plies of the last-named flap, the last-named teeth-carrier and said auxiliary strip.

2. An open-front shirt-like garment, compris- 1 ing a front portion which includes two portions separable along a line extending diagonally from a point offset from the vertical center line of the front of the garment down to a point above the bottom of the garment, a slide fastener extended along said line with one of the teeth-carriers of said fastener secured to one of said sections and the other teeth-carrier secured to the other section, both of said sections below the bottom of said slide fastener: having substantially vertically extending edges both shorter than said line, said section being so shaped that with the slide fas tener closed the marginal portions of said sec tionsat their last-named edges overlap, anda releasable fastening means partially carried by each of said marginal portions, there being an elongate flap carried by each of said sections, each such flapsubstantially coextensive with the teeth-carrier on that section and projected beyond said teeth-carrier toward the other section, one of said flaps partially laterally underlying the teeth-carrier on its section and the other of said flaps partially laterally overlying the teeth-carrier on its section, said overlying flap being integral with the fabric of its carrying section, and being longitudinally folded'on itself to establish a two-ply flap structure with the free end of the ,fiap on the inside of the last-named section, said 4. An open-front shirt-like garment, comprising a front portion which includes two portions separable along a line extending diagonally from a point offset from the vertical center line of the front of the garment down to a point above the bottom of the garment, a slide fastener extended along said line with one of the teeth-carriers of said fastener secured to one of said sections and the other teeth-carrier secured to the other section, both of said sections below the bottom of said slide fastener having substantially vertically extending edges both shorter than said line, said sections being so shaped that with. the slide fastener closed, the marginal portions of said sections at their last-named edges, overlap and a releasable fastening means partially carried by each of said vertically extending edges, said vertically extending edges of both sections have their edge portions bent back and upon themselves,'reenforcing means engaged between said edges and the bent back edge portions, and said fastening means being mounted through said reenforcing means and the contacting faces of said overlapped vertical edges, said reenforcing means comprising strips of buckram stitched in position between said edge and said bent back edge portions and coextensive with said vertically extending edges.

5. In an open-front shirt-like garment, a front portion formed with a front opening extended diagonally from a point at the top thereof offset from the vertical center line of the garment to a point above the bottom of the garment, means for holding said diagonally extended front opening closed, said front portion below said front opening having substantially vertically extending edge portions which are overlapped when the front opening is closed, said edge portions being doubled back upon themselves, reinforcing strips 7 inserted between the adjacent faces of said edge portions and their doubled back parts, and fastening means for releasably connecting together said edge portions.

6. In an open-front shirt-like garment, a front portion formed with a front opening extended diagonally from a point at the top thereof offset from the vertical center line of the garment to a point above the bottom of the garment, means for holding said diagonally extended front opening closed, said front portion below said front opening having substantially vertically extending edge portions which are overlapped when the front opening is closed, said edge portions being doubled back upon themselves, reinforcing strips inserted between the adjacent faces of said edge portions and their doubled back parts, and fastening means for releasably connecting together said edge portions, said fastening means 8: comprising complementary snap fasteners mounted on said edge portions intermediate of their top and bottom ends.

IRVING E. YATES.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2,002,306 Berlin et a1. May 21, 1935 2,010,349 Cooper Aug. 6, 1935 2,428,198 BrOhard Sept. 30, 1947 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 74,967 Austria Nov. 25, 1918

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