US1152484A - Union garment. - Google Patents

Description

J. E. BURKE.

UNION GARMENT. APPLICATION FILED JAN-24.1912.

1,152,484., PatentedSept. 7, 1915.

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COLUMBIA PLANOORAPH CO.,WASH|NOTON, D. C.

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ApplicationnledJanuary24,1912. Serial Nata-3,133.

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' garments sometimes called combination or which said object union suits, the objectbeing to provide a garment of the class, set forth whichshall have an opening extending from the, neck down the front, under the crotch and up the back to a point near the waistline, but which of said opening may be temporarily closed or retained in overlapped relation to each other throughout their. entire length and thus prevent exposure of the person of the .wearer of said garment.

l/Vith this object in view, my invention consists in certain features construction and of novelty in the arrangement of parts by and certain other objects, which will hereinafter appeaiyare attained all as fully set forth in the specification and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of a garment embodying my invention, a portion of the front of said garment being broken. away to more clearly show the construction thereof. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the garment shown in Fig.

1 with a portion thereof broken away and showing the crotch in'section. Fig. 3 is a detail front elevation of the garment illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 showing the lower part opened. Fig. 1 1s a v ew similar to Fig. 3 illustrating a modified form of my invention.

, ing leg portions 8 and 9.; 10*and 11 con-- Like numerals refer to like partsthrouglr 3 outthe several views of the drawings In the drawings, 6 isvthe front and 7 the rear of the bodyof an under garment havstitute edges of an opening in said garment formed during the construction thereof and extend from the neck down the front into the inner seams thence upwardly at the back to preferably near the waistline. A gusset or flap 13 is secured to the edge 11 from a point 14 at the hack of said garment upwardly a point 12,

a point 18 'point12 at the rear 7 of said garment, thence downwardly along most point 19 of said opening in the inner leg seam of the leg t) and of the leg portions 8 and 9,

(see Figs. 1, .3 and 4).

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Specification of Letters Patent;

erably substantially above the crotch of said garment; second flap or gusset 17 is secured along the edges of said openings from on the edge 10, upwardly, to the the edge 11 to the lowersub stantially oppo the leg 8, thence said 'garmentto a site to the point 15' of upwardly at the front of point 20 whichis preferably substantially 1s so constructed or formed that. the edges the same distance above the crotch as. the point16onthe opposlte edgeof said openwhen the tan-ant is closed uwfiap's' 13 and 17 areadapted to overlap each other for I relation to each other adjacent to the crotch and front portions of said garment being hereinafter described.

A facing or button stay 22 is secured .to one of the edges preferably 10 from the neck thereof downwardly to the point 16 which is the juncture of said edge with the edge of the flap 13, thence along the edge of said flap to the point 23, which is preferably slightly beyond and at the rear of the crotch of said garment. To the opposite edge 11 or along the margin thereof is secured a fac ing 24: which extends from the neck of said garment downwardly to the point 20 which is the intersection of said edge with the flap 17, thence along to a point 25, said facingbeing preferably coextensive with said button stay and adapted to be secured to saidbutton stay by detachable means, preferably tonholes 27 on'said button stay and facing respectively,; the lowermost button 28 of said series of buttons'being located at the. front and at one side of the crotch of said garment which is formed by said flaps button 28 and the buttonhole 28, it will be seenthat said flaps 13 and 17 will be firmly retained in their overlapped relation and alongsaid edge to the point12,'thence downwardly along the edge 10 into said inner .legseamsto ;a p.oint-15, thence upwardly along, said edge 10' and terminating at a "point 16 thereon, said point 16 being pref- By the use of the consisting of'a series of buttons 26 and but- I 1 5 manently stretched-5 and thus provide "all the. advan- ,tages attained byagarrnent having a per? 7 closed crotch, but in addition rprow 7 v viding'a garment which may.beope'nai, if 1 so desired,from saidneck down the front I ,to the points 1 L'and'l 8 at the rear of said garment.

1i} 7 Beferringinowft Fig; 10 and 11 are [the edges of a garment similar infconstrucftion to; the garmentjshown in Fig. 8, 'and'13 and 17; are flaps-identical in construction.

with the fiaps13 and-17 illustrated in Fig.

FA button stay 29 feXtends v-from the neck of said garment downwardly alongthe edge 7 V '10"j t o and beyond the point1'6' to a point 30 on' said edge 10, while to the opposite a, edgealong "the'margin 'thereof'is a facing 31 -extending fdownwardly along, the edge 11 to the point which isjthe juncture of said {edge 11 with the edgefof the, flap 17 thence ialon'g thej'edg'e of said flap and terminating at the point 32, which is preferablyibeyond 1 and; at the rear of theicrotch ofsaid gar- V ment formedbyith'e flap 1 7. The serieslof buttons 33,33 are preferably'connected to said 'bu't'to'n'stay 29and engage a series of l buttonholes 34,34: the facing 31, and

when said buttons engage said butt onholes said crotch will be temporarily closed.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire by Letters Patent to seoureis:

A union garment having an opening extending down the front to the rear and terminatingat a point in the back near the waistline, overlapping flaps substantially coextensive in area secured at one of their edgesto opposite sides ofsaid opening from said point inthe back to pointsat the front substantially above the crotch, and means to detachably secure the front edge of one of said flaps to themargin of the body portion of said garment" at the front thereof and to which the other of said flaps is secured, at points at one side of the crotch of said garment along one inner leg seam thereof and at a substantial distance from the edge of said other flap. v i

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing'witnesses,

JAMES E. BURKE.

Witnesses: V

WILLIAM W, BURKE,

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