US1432804A

US1432804A - Adjustable crotch for undergarments

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Publication number: US1432804A
Application number: US486117A
Authority: US
Inventors: Samuel F Swantees
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1921-07-20
Filing date: 1921-07-20
Publication date: 1922-10-24
Anticipated expiration: 1939-10-24

Description

S. F. SWANTEES. ADJUSTABLE CROTCH FOR UNDERGARMENTS.

APPLICATION FILED JULYZO, I92.

Patented 00t.24,1922.

Patented Get. 24, 1922., ll, l:

SAMUEL F. SWAN'I'EES, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

ADJUSTABLE GROTCH FOR UNDERGAEMENTS.

Appfication filed July 20, 1921. Serial No. 486,117.

To all whom it may concern: the buttonholes 6 fasten over the button 7 Be it known that I, SAMUEL F. SwAN'rEns, sewed on the garment, and the button 3 a citizen of the United States, residing in fastens into the corresponding one of the the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, button holes 4:. The garment may be rein- 5 have invented new and useful Improvements forced on the underside of the buttonholes in Adjustable Crotches for Undergarments, at so that they will not tear out when garof which the following is a specification, refment pulls and stretches. Likewise as to erence being had to the accompanying drawthe underside of buttonholes in the strap 2.

ings. In use, by letting out or drawing up the two 10 This invention is in the way of an adjuststraps equally at each side, the frontal crotch able crotch for undergarments. may be lengthened or shortened, to suit the After undergarments are laundered they comfort of the wearer.

have a tendency to shrink. The object of WVhile I have herein described a certain this invention, therefore, is to provide an specific method of construction of the inven- 5 adjustable crotch for the undergarinent tion, it is understood I may vary from the which can be let out if the garment shrinks, same in minor details, not departing from or taken in if the garment stretches, so as to the spirit of my invention as defined in the suit the comfort of the wearer. appended claims.

The objects are obtained by employing 00- I claim:

20 operating buttonholed and buttoned straps 1. An adjustable frontal crotch for an which are crossed and then buttoned to the undergarment having a frontal button set undergarment, thus forming a crotch which upwardly upon the garment and to one side is readily adjustable and which can be kept of the lower, frontal opening thereof, and a closed, no matter what the stretching or row of frontal button holes upon the oppo- 25 shrinking. site side of said lower frontal opening, said In the drawings: button holes being out along a line inclined Fig. 1 is a frontal. section of an undergarupwardly'and from the perpendicular; said ment constructed in accordance with this incrotch comprising a strap extended up anguvention, one strap being shown in dotted. larly from each side of said lower frontal 30 lines. opening and forming continuations of said Fig. 2 is a frontal section showing a porsides, one of said straps having a button and tion of the undergarment equipped with the the other a number of button holes, to en- 35 button and buttonholes for fastening straps. gage the said button holes and button, re-

Fig. 3 is a detail showing the construction spectively, of the undergarment. 35 of the straps. 2. In an undergarmcnt having a frontal This invention consists in providing a button set upwardly upon the garment and frontal crotch for the undergarment made to one side of the lower, frontal opening up of two straps 1 and 2, extending up anguthereof, and a row of frontal button holes larly from either side of the lower frontal upon the opposite side of said lower frontal 4 opening of the garment and forming conopening, said button holes being out along a tinuations of said sides, the strap on one line inclined upwardly and from the perside, as 1, being equipped with a frontal pendicular; an adjustable frontal crotch for button 3 which is adapted to button into the garment, same comprising a strap exany of the frontal buttonholes a cut into the tended up angularly from each side of said 5 garment 5 upon the opposite side along a lower frontal opening and forming continualine inclined upwardly and from the pertions of said sides, one of said straps having pendicular, while the strap 2 of the other a button and the other a number of button side is equipped with buttonholes 6 to enholes, to engage the said button holes and gage the button 7 set upwardly upon the button, respectively, of the undergarment.

50 garment and to one side of the lower, frontal SAMUEL F. SWVAFITEFIS.

opening; there being a similar number of Witnesses: buttonholes 6 in the strap 2 as there are CLAUDE B. Rronnr'rs,

buttonholes 4 in the garment. Anyone of lanes G. BAKER.