US1288417A - Undergarment. - Google Patents

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R. HUELS.

UNDERGARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 24, I914.

Patented Dec. 17, 1918.

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WITNESSES R. HUELS.

UNDEHGARMENT,

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 24, I914 Patented Dec. 17, 1918.

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ROBERT HUELS, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGZN'OR 'I'O STANDARD KNITTING MILLS COMPANY, A CORPORATION, OF NEW YORK.

UNDERGARMENT.

' Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 17, 1918.

Application filed November 24, 1914. Serial No. 873,682.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ROBERT Home, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borougl. of Brooklyn, in the city and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Undergarments, of which the following is a full, clear, and complete description.

My invention relates to undergarments such as undershirts, undervests and union suits, and is applicable equally to such garments whether they are to be worn by men or by women.

The object of my invention is to PI'OVldG an undergarment which can be easily and cheaply manufactured, and which will afford the greatest possible comfort to the wearer.

Heretofore, in order to give elasticity to the shoulders of the garment, use has been made of the familiar elastic shoulder, or of the newer inset shoulder. Both of these garments have the disadvantage that they are dificult and expensive to manufacture and also that they require a number of seams, and are therefore not comfortable.

By my invention I obviate all of these disadvantages and at the same time increase the elasticity of the garment at the shoulders. I accomplish this by making use of the fact that knitted fabric is very much more elastic in the direction transverse to the ribbing than it is in the direction of the ribbing. I therefore make the body of the garment of vertically ribbed material. so that it will fit snugly around the body and yield sufficiently in a horizontal direction, and I make the shoulders of horizontally ribbed material thus giving to the garment the required vertical elasticity. I also combine the shoulders and arms in such a manner that the number of seams required is greatly reduced, thus reducing the cost of manufacture and adding to the comfort of the garment.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 is a front view of my improved garment.

Fig. 2 shows a development of the yoke and sleeve portion of my garment.

Fig. 3 shows this yoke and sleeve portion in the form in which it is attached to the body portion of the garment.

Figs. 4 and 5 are front views of gar-.

ments embodying my invention but differing slightly from the garment shown in Fig. 1. Referring to Fig. 1, 1 designates the body portion of the garment which may be made from a tube of knitted material or in any other suitable Way. The top of the body portion is out, front and back, along a curved line such as that indicated at 2, 3, 4, 5, thus forming the two sleeve openings, and the piece 3, 4, 6 is cut out of the front to provide the neck opening, communicating-.with the sleeve openings. The front of the garment is also slit vertically from the neck opening to provide the customary chest opening 7 The yoke and sleeve portion 8 is cut from a single piece of material, as shown in F ig; 2. The curved edge 9, 10, of this portion is sewed to the curved edge 2, 3, 4, 5, of the back of the body portion, and the curved edges 11, 12 and 13, 14 are sewed to the edges 2, 3 and 4, 5, respectively of the front of the body portion. The sleeves are completed by the seams 15, 16, and the portion 17 forms the yoke at the back of the garment. Thus it is seen that the sleeve portions extend over the shoulders and to the neck opening so that they form not only the arms but also the shoulders of the garment, and in this particular embodiment they also form the yoke.

The sewing of the braid 18 around the neck opening prevents this opening from stretching out of shape, but does not interfere with the elasticity of the garment at the shoulders.

It is evident that the garment shown in Fig. 1 need not be out exactly as described. For instance, the seams 2, 3 and 4, 5 need not be curved, but may be angular as indicated by the broken lines, and so arranged as to give the desired slope to the shoulders and sleeves.

In Fig. 4, I have shown my invention applied to a garment of the Dutch neck type. The sleeves 22, 23, are made of two separate pieces of material and extend to the neck opening of the garment so that these sleeve portions form also the shoulders of the garment. The braid 24 sewed around the neck opening and the upper portions of the arms serve to keep the garment in shape at this point.

The garment shown in Fig. 5 is very similar to that shown in Fig. 1, and a detailed desorption of it will therefore be omitted. It differs from Fig. 1 in that the sleeves 32, 33, are made of two separate pieces of ma terial and that these sleeve portions do not extend across the back to form a yoke.

In each of the embodiments of my inven tion shown herein, the body portion of the garment is ribbed vertically, while the sleeve and shoulder portions are ribbed longitudinally of the sleeves, or horizontally at the shoulders. The vertical ribbing of the body ortion gives the snug fit and the necemary iorizontal elasticity, and at the same time prevents undue vertical stretching of the garment. The .horizontal ribbing at the shoulders, on the other hand, gives the necessary vertical elasticity to the garment and permits freedom of movement of the body and shoulders of the wearer. This vertical elasticity is of special importance when my invention is applied to union garments since considerable elasticity between the shoulders and crotch is essential to comfort. It will be noted that the manufacture of my improved garments is very simple. For example, in the manufacture of the garment shown in Fig. l, but a sin le continuous seam is required to secure t e arm and shoulder portion to the body portion of the garment, as compared With the four seams (one along each shoulder and one around each armhole) necessary at the shoulders and armholes of the ordinary garment. In the garments illustrated in Figs. 4: and 5, two shortseams replace the single continuous seam of the garment shown in Fig. 1'.

esser? This reduction in the number of seams, effected by my invention greatly reduces the labor and cost of manutacture and at the same time adds to the comfort of the garment.

While I have shown herein several embodiments of my invention, 1 have not attempted to show all the possible embodiments thereof, and it is to be understood that many changes may be made in the garments shown without departing from the spirit of my invention.

What I claim is:

An under-garment comprising a vertically 45 ribbed 'tubular body portion possessing horizontal elasticity throughout its entire length cut at the top in a curved line, both front and back, to form the neck and sleeve openings. a unitary sleeve portion secured to said body portion by a single continuous seam extending substantially around the neck and sleeve openings constituting the yoke, shoulders and sleeves of the garment, said sleeve portion being longitudinally ribbed so as to impart vertical elasticity thereto without detracting from the horizontal elasticity of the body portion.

ROBERT HUELS. Witnesses:

WALTER S. Jones, WM. M. EARL.

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