US1159369A - Garment. - Google Patents

Description

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Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented N ov. 9, i915.

Application filed March 6, 1913. Serial No. 752,310.

To all 107mm t may concern Be it known that l, SAMUEL N. ETTINGER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Dorchester, in the county of Suffolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented an improvement in Garments, of which the following` description, in connection with the accompanying` drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representingr like parts.

This invention relates to garments, andV more particularly to the art of making the sleeves thereof.

Heretofore, in making sleeves, considerable diliiculty has been experienced in providing sleeves of the correct length. ln a ready made coat the sleeves are apt to be either too long or too short to suit the wearer and even in coats which are made to order it is frequently found necessary to lengthen orshorten one or the other of the sleeves. This adjusting of the end of the sleeve is of considerable inconvenience since it is necessary to rip open seams and turn in or let out the sleeves and then sew the seams together again.

he principal object of the invention is to provide a sleeve construction whereby the length of the sleeves may be readily lengthened and shortened without inconvenience.

rfhe character of the invention may be best understood by reference to the following description of an illustrative embodiment thereof shown in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure l is a side view of a sleeve typifying prior constructions; Fig. 2 is a side view of an illustrative sleeve shown herein as embodying the invention, a portion of the sleeve being broken away to disclose the construction thereof; and Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing` the sleeve extended as more fully hereinafter described.

Referring to the drawing, in Fig. l is shown a sleeve constructed as heretofore has been the practice, and which comprises a body portion l, a lining 3, and a filler 5 of thin canvas or other suitable material eX- tending to the edge of the cuff. The end portion of the sleeve is turned in as at 7, and the lining is carried downto overlap this end portion to a substantial extent and is turned under as at 9 and stitched to said portion to form a finished seam. This seam is located a substantial distance in from the edge of the cuff Y stitch the lining' to this in order that the lining may not be readily visible through the end of the sleeve. If it is desired to change the length of the sleev it is necessary, forexample to shorten the sleeve, first to rip open the seam 9,.. then out off or fold in the end of the lining, fold in the inturned portion 7 farther and then turned-in portion. The rsleeve is then pressed to destroy the wrinkle formed by the previous edge of the cuff. All of this requires considerable inconvenience and labor.

eferring now to Figs. 2 and 3, there is shown ari-illustrative sleeve embodying my invention which may be readily lengthened or shortened with none of the objections above referred to. This sleeve comprises a body portion ll, a lining 13 and a stiffening filler l5. The lining is extended down substantially to the edge of the cuff and the edge portions of the outer fabric of the sleeve and the lining are turned in and sewed together to form a finished seam 17. The stiflening filler l5 preferably is carried down and terminates at the edge of the cuil". The end portion of the cuff thus formed, including the outer fabric, the lining, and the filler, are together turned in to form an adjustable internal cuff 19, as shown in Fig. 2. The sleeve is of a suilicient length to permit the turning in of this cuff a substantial distance to provide the desired eX- tent of fabric from the edge of the cuff to prevent the lining from becoming readily visible. rlhe edge of the cuff is then pressed to form a firm crease presenting a well defined edge, and thesleeve is complete. The sleeve is made somewhat longer than the usual sleeve in order that it may be adjusted to conform to the length of the arm of the wearer as desired.

If the sleeve be too long to fit the wearer the internal cud is pulled out and the sleeve is pressed to eliminate the wrinkle formed y the former edge of the sleeve. The sleeve cuil3 is then turned in a proper amount to cause the edge to conform to the arm of the wearer. The sleeve is then pressed as before to present a firm, well defined, linished edge. Similarly, if the sleeve be too short, the cuff is pulled out as before and then turned in the proper distance and pressed. Thus the sleeve is readily adjustable to provide the proper length for the arm of the wearer without the necessity of the ripping open of any seams and the restitching thereof; but, on the contrary, by the simple turning in and pressing of the internal Vcuff the sleeve may be given any length desired.

There the sleeve is applied to a ready made coat it may be placed in the sales room without turning in the cuff in the form shown in Fig. 3. When the Coat is Sold the cuil' may be turned in the proper amount to lit the wearer and the edge pressed. By this simple operation the sleeve is adjusted to the length desired. In some eases to prevent inadvertent pulling out of the cuff, as when the arm is inserted in the sleeve, its inner free end may be caught at dia-metrically opposed points to the lining of the sleeve, or said end may be basted thereto by stitching 21 as desired, although this is not indispensable.

Having described one illustrative embodiment of the invention, without limiting the same' thereto, what I ela-im as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1s:

A ready-made sleeve having a turned-in cuff of variable length, said sleeve comprising an outer fabric and ak lining of equal lengths, and permanentlyT sewed together at the outer end of the sleeve, saidfouter fabric and lining being extended beyond the normal length of the sleeve to forni an adjustable sleeveshortening-and-lengthening onli, said lining being continuous from the lower end of the sleeve to the upper end thereof, and attached only at the extreme lower end of the sleeve, and being tree from the outer ,fabric of the sleeve 'from said lower end upwardly, whereby the material may be folded inwardly to form a cuil and whereby the said lining lies wholly between both layers of the sleeve material.

ln testimony whereof, 'l have signed my name to this specification, inv the Vpresence of two subscribing witnesses. j

SAMUEL N. TFNGER.l

yWitnesses Y HENRY T. WILLIAMS, ROBERT Hf. Karmann.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

. Washington, D. C.

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