US1178755A - Union undergarment. - Google Patents

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J. C. SCOTT. UNION UNDERG'ARMEYNT.

APPLICATION FILED DEC.17, 1912.

Patented Apr. 11, 1916.

@SHEETS-SHEET 1.

J. C. SCOTT.

umom UNDERGARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED D'EC. I7, 1912. I 1,1?8j55, Patented Apr. 11,1916.

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Inventor mzzw' A r Attorneys J. C. SCOTT.

UNION UNDERGARMENT. APPLICATION FILED DEC- 17. 1912.

1,178,755. Patented Apr. 11,1916.

Wicnesses Inventor v o Attorneys JAM'Es oscorr, or ronrsivroucm, OI-YIIO, ASSIGNOR'TOUN'ITEE KNITWEAR coMrAnr,

OF ORISKAN'Y FALLS, NEW YORK, a 'CO'RPORATIONP UNION UNDERGARMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patell ted Apr. 11 1916.

Application filed December 17, 1912. Serial 10.737306.

To all whom it may concern p Be it known that 1, JAMES C. Soon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Portsmouth, in the county of Scioto and 5 State of Ohio, have invented a new and use:

ful Union Undergarment, of which the following. isa specification.

The present 1I1V6I1t1OI1 aims to provide an undergarment of the type hereinafter described, havmg a seat flap and a gusset of novel form, the gusset and the seat flap being disposed in a novel relation with respect to each other and .with respect to the body portion of the garment. I

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of partsand in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of inven tion can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention. a

In thedrawing:-Figure 1 shows the invention in front elevation; Fig. 2 is a rear elevation; Fig. 3 is a rear elevation, the seat flap being lowered; Fig. iis a plan of the seat flap; Fig. 5 is a plan of the gusset. Fig. 6 is a rear elevation showinga modified form of the mvention; and Fig.7 isarear elevation showinga still further modification. v V

In carrying out the invention there is provided a seat flap, shown in outline in Fig. 4, the seat flap being denoted by the numeral 1. The seat flap 1 is provided with p curved lateral edges 2 and 3. The upper edge 5 of the seat flap 1 is upwardly in-, clined, from the upper end of the edge 2 to the upper-end of the edge 3,. asshown in Fig. 4. The seat flap 1 is provided with upwardly converging lower edges 6.

The upwardly converging lower edges 6' of theseat flap 1 are engaged in the leg seams? adjacent the crotch, as shown at 8. I

The curved lateral edge 2 of the flap '1 is connected with one side portion 9 of the garment, along a seam 10.. TheedgeB of the seat flap is engaged. with the 'other'side portion 11 of the garment between points 3? and?) along the seam 12. -The edge 5 and the upper portion of. the edge 3 of the seat fiap'l are free, so that the upper, righthand portion of the seat fiapmay beturned down,

as shownin Fig. 3, along a lineconnecting e the upper endof the edge 2 with the lower end of the free-portion of the edge 3 at 3*, forming aposterior opening. Thefree corner" of'the seat flapl may be provided with a buttoneholej 14, adapted to'engage either one off-a pair of buttons 15, mounted upon the trunk portion. of the garment. Ob viously, any other suitable means may be provided for upholding the, seat'flap 1, and for permitting the slack in the seat flap to betakenup.

The invention further includes a pointed gusset 16-, shown inv outline in Fig. 5. The gusset 16 comprises curved ,edges 17 which convex away from the median line of the garment, the median line passing through the apex 1 8 of the gusset.v The lower edges of the gusset16 converge upwardly toward the median-line of the gusset, as shown at gaged in the upper portions of the-seams, 10 and 12, so that the edge ,2,, and the edge 3 between the points'3 and 3 of the seat flap 1 and the lowerportions oftheedges 17 of the. gusset 16 have a: common connection with the side portions 9 and11of the garment, as clearlyindicated in Fig. 2.

The garment, at the front, may be pro-f ing in the rear of the garment, one edge of-the seatflap, indicated by the numeral 52, I

being secured; to the garment. The other edge of the seat flap is free above the point indicated approximately by the reference nuindicated by the numeral 54 is horizontally disposed in the present instance, andbuttons 55 are provided for engaging the upper,

right hand corner of the seat flap.

In the Seat p is ndicated by a;

19. The edges 17 ofthe gusset 16-are enmerali53. The upper edge of the seat flap,- 1 .0 r

59 of the seat flap slants downwardly and to the right and buttons 60 are provided for upholding the free corner of the seat flap.

The inclined upper edge of the seat flap, indicated at 5 is of importance. Owing to this construction,the upper ends of the lateral edges of the seat flap are not in horizontal alinement, and consequently, the garment is free to stretch transversely, between the upper ends of the lateral edges of the seat flap.

Special attention is directed to the converging edges 17 of the gusset. The body portion of the garment is slit longitudinally in the back, and when the edges 17 of the gusset are connected with theedges of the slit, the gusset and the seat flap will not bind across the lower portion of the body of the wearer when the wearer assumes a sitting posture, this binding being peculiarly noticeable where a gusset of an ordinary construction, having its edges straight, is mounted in the slit at the rear of the garment. In the construction shown in this application, a perfect adjustment of the seat flap and of the gusset to the body of the wearer is provided. Further, owing to the fact that the seat flap and the gusset are connected with the body portion of the garment along curved lines, the seams fit properly around the lower portion of the body of the wearer and there is no binding of the garment, at the seams, upon the body.

Those forms of the invention which appear in Figs. 6 and 7 make manifest the fact that the garment may be constructed successfully without the use of the gusset. In fashioning the garment as shown in Figs. 6 and 7, the entire garment is cut fuller and is concaved under the seat flap. The garments shown in Figs. 6 and 7 are of slightly simpler form than the garment shown in Figs. 1 and 2, but the garments of Figs. 6 and 7 require a slightly greater amount of material, owing to the waste involved in making the garment fuller.

In all forms of the invention, the upper edge of the seat flap terminates below the waist line, at any suitable point between the waist line and the crotch, it being obvious that if this construction were departed from, the seat flap could not be operated successfully.

It will be entirely obvious that the seat flaps shown in Figs. 6 and 7 may be employed in connection with a gusset, as shown in Fig. 2, and, with equal propriety, the seat flap shown in Fig. 2 may be employed without the gusset.

As stated hereinbefore, the garment is slit in its rear to define an opening located adjacent the median line of the garment, the opening being expanded to give the garment fullness at the hips. The pointed gusset 16 is materially larger than the slit or opening in Fig. 2 and at 59 in Fig. 7

gusset being secured to the and the convexed edges of the gusset are secured to the garment along the edges of the opening. Attention is directed, further, to the specific form of the seat flap 1 and to the manner in which a portion of one lateral edge of the gusset and a portion of one lateral edge of the seat flap are secured, by a common seam, to the rear portion of the garment as indicated in the broken away part of Fig. 2 of the drawings.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A bifurcated union garment provided in its rear with a symmetrical opening having oppositely concaved edges which approach each other at the upper and lower ends of the opening; a one-piece gusset com prising oppositely convexed edges secured to the garment along the concaved edges of the opening and merging to-form a point at the top of the gusset, the lower edge of the gusset being spaced above the lower edge of the opening; and a seat flap comprising diverging lower edges and oppositely convexed lateral edges, the diverging edges being secured in the leg seams of the garment and one of the convexed lateral edges being secured throughout its entire length to the garment along one of the concaved edges of the opening, the other of the convexed lateral edges of the seat flap being secured throughout a portion of its length to the garment along the other of the concaved edges of the opening, the upper edge of the seat flap and the remaining portion of the last specified lateral edge being free, the gusset extending upwardly above the upper edge of the seat flap.

2. A bifurcated union garment provided in its rear with a lens-shaped opening; a gusset; and a seat flap overlapped upon the gusset, the gusset and the seat flap being provided, each, with oppositely convexed edges; both of the convexed edges of the garment along the edges of the opening, one of the convexed edges of the seat flap being secured throughout its length to the garment along one of the concaved edges of the opening, and the other of the convexed edges of the seat flap being secured throughout a portion of its length only to the garment along the other of the concaved edges of the opening.

3. A bifurcated union garment provided in its rear with a lens-shaped opening, and a seat flap closing the said opening; the seat flap being provided with oppositely convexed edges, one of the convexed edges of the seat flap being secured throughout its length to the garment along one of the concaved edges of the opening, and the other of the convexed edges of the seat flap being secured throughout a portion of its length only to'the garment along the other of the concaved edges of the opening.

i. A bifurcated union garment provided in its rear with a lens shaped opening; a gusset; and a seat flap overlapped upon the gusset, the gusset and the seat flap being provided, each, with oppositely convexed edges; both of the convexed edges of the gusset being secured to the garment along the edges of the opening, one of the convexed edges of the seat flap being secured throughout its length, to the garment along one of the concaved edges of the opening, and the other of the convexed edges of the seat flap being secured through a portion of its length only, to the garment along the other ofthe concaved edges of the opening, the gusset upstanding above the upper edge of the seat flap.

5. A bifurcated union garment provided in its rear with an opening located adjacent the median'line of the garment, the opening being expanded to give the garment fullness at the hips; a pointed gusset materially larger than said openlng and having convexed lateral edges which are secured to the garment along the edges of the opening;

and a seat flap having its lower edge secured in the crotch seam of the garment, the seat flap comprising convexed lateral edges, one

of which is secured throughout a portion of its length only to the garment along one edge of the opening thereby to define a movable upper corner in the seat flap, the other of the convexed lateral edges of the seat flap being secured throughout its length to the garment along the other edge of the opening and throughout the upper portion of its copies of this patent may be obtained for the gusset to five cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. G.

length having a common. connection with the gusset upstanding above the point of and a means the upper edge of the seat flap;

for securing the movable corner of the seat flap to the garment.

6. A bifurcated union garment provided in its rear with a slit located in the median line of the garment, the slit being expanded to give fullness at thehips and to define a posterior opening; a pointed gusset materially larger than the slit and having convexed lateral edges which are secured to the garment along the edges of the slit; and a seat flap cooperating with the gusset.

the said edge of the opening, a

7. A bifurcated union garment provided in its rear with a slit located in the median line of the garment, the slit being expanded to give the garment fullness to define a posterior opening; a pointed gusset materially larger than the slit and having convexed lateral edges which are secured to the garment along the edges of the slit;

and a seat flap cooperating with the gusset,

the gusset upstanding above the upperjedge of theseat flap, thereby to permit a transat the hips and verse yielding of the gusset above the upper edge of the seat flap and independentlyof the seat flap. o

In testimony that lclaim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

- v JAMES C. SCOTT.

Witnesses;

MARGARET R. MGQUAIDE, WM. E. CRIoHToN.

Commissioner of Patents,

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