US1092809A - Union suit or combination-garment. - Google Patents

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E. H.DAVIS0N m1, L. DUMMER'. L UNION SUIT 0R COMBINATION GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED N0 "].Q,1912.

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vPausentel Apu, 7, 1914 A CORPORATION.

Loaasoa. yI Y osIERY COMPANY,

Sp ecicaton of Letters Patent.

UNION SUIT OR COMBINATION-GARMENT.

Patented apr. t, ieri.

Application filed November 9, 1912. Serial No. 730,354.

To all wliom it may concern:

Be it known that we, EDWARD H. DAVI- soN and EDWARD L. DUMMER, citizens of the United States, residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Union Suits or Combination-Garments, of which the following is a specification. y

ur invention relates to `improvements in lunion suits or combination garments, and

the objects of our improvements are ease and comfort of the wearer with freedom from undue strain onthe seams ofthe suit, and otherwise rendering the suit more durable. lIn the accompanying drawing:`r Figure 1 is afront View of a union suit constructed in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same; Fig. 3 is a broken off rear lview of the samewith the drop seat let down. Fig 4 is a broken oli'rear view ofthe unionsuit as slit in the seat and legs `ready for having theV drop seat and its gussets secured thereto.' Fig. 5 is a plan View of the smaller gusset. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the combined flap and larger gusset. Figs. 7, 8 and9 are broken olf views of the suit on a form showing the seat or flap let down, whilethe belt is drawn 'together in front, the iap closed while the belt is detached in front,. and the flap closed and the belt drawn taut at the front, respectively.

Our improvement is applicable to union' suits made yin any ordinary manner from either woven orv knitted fabric. As shown our suit is made from knitted fabric which is first made into an ordinary union suit provided with a s11t`or opening lnthe seat A edge edges free with a special form and is also slit from the crotchA down on 'the legs as illustrated in Fig. 4a If the suit isfashioned `knit the slit will have a selvage but/if i'r hemmed to p;operly finish the edges. In'- stead of attaching ordinary laps to the edges of the material at the back' we leave the said suitable finish and provide of dropseat which is attached as hereinafter describedf` .The drop seat 10 we prefer to make fashioned knit with swallow tail gusset points v11 at its lower end and we form the junction 12 of the two points in the form of a curved loop a`s shown in Fig.,g6, instead of having thel as to enlarge the suit through the is cutl it may be bound orA 'at each end inner edges meet within an angle. Within the swallow tail we secure a smaller gusset 13 that comes to a provided with a curved extension 14; on one edge of its middle portion as shown in Fig. 5. This smaller gusset 13 which is set in the crotch of the suit is preferably made of point at each end and heavy material instead of making it of two thicknesses asgussets for the seat have sometimes been made. After the Vdrop seat and gussets have been prepared as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 we secure the smaller gusset 13 within theswallow tail points by securing the curved extension 14 and adjacent edges to the inner edges of the gusset points o f the .drop seat. We then secure the combined flap and gussets to the suit as prepared in Fig. 4, by securing the inner edges to the edges of the slit in the drawer legs as at 15, Figs. 1 and 3, and their outer edges to outside of the legs beyond the edges of the slit as at 16, Fig. 2 and securing the edges of theslit in the legs to the body of the gusset points as at 17, Fig. 2. The gussets as thus formed are made full` enough so crotch and seat at the front of the suit as well as at the rear, 'thus point where there is usually the most strain. By making the seam at the edges of the gussets with a curved extension of a loop form instead. of a straight seam at the crotch wel avoid any `possible cross strain that can pull lengthwise of the seam, whereby the strain cornes on the elastic body of the material and not directly upon an inelastic seam. We'thus avoid all-'liability of breaking the threads in this seam of the gusset.

At the upper edgeon'fl the drop seat We secure a short belt 18 and provide the same with a button hole 19 for conthe buttons 20 on the suit near necting--it to In order to make the upper edge the hips.

any" button directly at the back we provide the suit with belt extensions 21 secured by their ends to thel suit at each side, the but ton 20 herein before named being secured t'o the said ends. These belt extensions are provided with a plurality of .button holes by which they may be secured to a central but' tonl 22 at the front for drawing the ends giving ample room at the y of the drop'seat t the'back 'neatly without of the cornplete belt together to-make it taut and bring the upper edge of the drop seat closely within'the hollow'` of the back as shown in Fig. 9. When the belt is thus drawn taut to properly lit the wearer it is optional whetherhe will unbutton thebelt both in front and at the hips or at the hips only, when it is -desired to let down the drop seat. l

I We claim as our invention v l. In a union suit having the back above the waist closed and below the Waist slit to form an opening and the legs slit for the of the gussets extended across the crotch on a loop like curved line.

2. In a union suit having a drop seat, a short belt at the upper edge of the said seat with a button hole at each -end and a pair of belt extensions having take up devices at their front ends, and buttons ton their opposite ends whereby the short belt at the upper edge of the drop seat may be connected with the said extension to form a complete belt.

3. In'a knit garment, a gusset embodied therein and having the general form of a lozenge with a .rounded extension in the middle of 'its length at the junction of two side edges. f K- EDWARD H. DAVISON. EDWARD L. DUMMER.

Witnesses:

E. M. BRANDT, EMiL H. R. VoGEL.

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