US1869918A - Pajamas - Google Patents

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Aug. 2, 1932. c, SCHRANK 1,869,918

PAJAMAS Filed Oct. 22. 1931 Patented Aug. 2, 1932 UN1TEDSTATES PATENT @FFICE MAX 0. SCHRANK, or nnrnenro v, new JERSEY PAJ'AMAS Original application filed November,

This invention relates to pajamas and particularly to the pants or trousers thereof. An object of the invention is to provide such a arment, that is a garment of a trousers type, with legs which will be so large at the bottom that the garment when worn will have the appearance of a full skirt and yet fit snugly about the waist or body so that the appearance will beneat or trim and comm fortable and be free from looseness or fullness about the waist. Such a garment especially commends itself to women and girls.

My invention consists in whatever is described by or is included within'the terms or scope of the appended claim.

This application is a division of my application for Patent No. 1,831,? 69 which issued November 10, 1931.

In the drawing the invention is illustrated as embodying in the pants or trousers member of a suit of pajamas and in such draw- Fig. 1 is a perspective View of a garment embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the waist and legs separated, dotted lines being shown between the separated parts to indicate the points of their connection with the waist;

Figs. 3 to 6 are respectively detail views of the parts or members from which the garment is made.

Describing in detail what is shown in the drawing, there is a waist portion, 10, and a pair of legs, 11, the bottom of the waist and the top of the legs being sewed together on a seam, 12, which at the front follows substantially the groin of the body. The waist is formed to fit trimly or snugly t0 the corresponding part of the body and from the seam, 12, each trousers leg flares downward and outward, each leg is effect being the frustum of a cone with a base of considerable diameter so that when the garment is worn the full and indeed the flaring efiect of a skirt is produced.

The waist is made of two pairs of complementary blanks, 13, and 14:, Fig. 2, the blanks of a pair being respectively back and front and of opposite or reverse contour, each having two straight edges that extend at sub- 1930, Serial No. 493,383, Patent No. 1,831,769, dated November 10, Divided and this application filed October 22,1931. Serial No. 570,428.

stantially a right angle and which respectively form the top and outer side and two curved edges which converge and meetat a blunt end, 15, the two curved edges being respectively the point of union with the top of the appropriate leg and forming the seam, 16, which extends through the crotch and on a median li ment. T

room or space at the crotch to avoid discomno at the front and back of the gar he blunt ends, 15, assure suflicient fort. The straight side edges of the blanks of a pair are joined by a seam, 17 that eX- tends only a short distance from the groin seam, 12, they being unj oined from that point to the top so as to provide a side slit or placket for putting on and removing the opening garment and at the slit or placket thus provlded, a strip or placket piece, 18, is sewed at each edge such strip being formed from a blank that is folded transversely at. midlength to T0 constitute the placket slit bottom.

At one side of the placket is a row of buttons,

ton holes,

a limited and at the other side complementary but 20, so that the garment is secured in range of a certain size as to waist be capable of sufficient waist adjustment to suit persons of different waist measures within that size.

'This I accomplish by making the back parts, 13, at the upper edge stretchable from a normally contractedcondition to suit the waist measurements of persons larger than the contracted waist measure of the garment. It for provi is equally important that the means 5 ding such adjustment be such that the portion of the waist of the garment which is acted upon by the elastic shall at all times present a smooth, neat appearance and lie ing or rolling which besides being unsightly would an sure on the body. facture must be taken into account. achieve all these things by the construction ert a localized and annoying pres- Again economy of manushown in the drawing which comprises a band or considera to one on strap, 21, of inelastic .material of ble length and a short section or elastic, webbing 22, stitched each at one end d of the band, 21, and at the other end being stitched to the waist portion of the garment adjacent the placket. The strip or band with the elastic ends is enclosed in a hem or tunnel, 23, with lines of stitching adjacent the upper and lower edges of the strip or band. Vhatever puckering exists by reason of the contraction of the elastic sections is of very limited extent at each side while for the most part, the waist at the back lies smooth and fiat and without any tendency to curl or twist or roll.

The inelastic strip, 21, may be a foldedover piece of cotton,.or other inexpensive material between the overlying portions of which at the ends, the ends of the elastic are in circuit.

Simply by way of illustration and without being limited to the dimensions in practice, the contraction by the normal contraction of the elastic sections is about an inch less than the normal Waist size of the garment and it will stretch or expand to about two inches above that normal size and thus give approximately three inches of ad justment for each side.

The blank shown in Fig. 4 from which each leg is made is a sector which is substantially a semi-circle with the central portion. re moved so that when the straight edges which form the diameter are secured together in a seam, 24, the funnel or frustum-cone shape legs, 11. will result.

It will be evident that the garment shown in the drawing fulfills all the conditions which it is stated hereinbefore is the object of the invention to achieve. The garment thus produced is trim, neat and comfortable being free from objectionable fullness at the waist and due to the full skirt effect is comfortable about the legs and stylish.

What I claim is As an improvement in apparel suitable for outside Wear, a garment having a waist portion with a placket at each side that opens from the top downward, means for securing each placket in a closed. position, a hem forming a tunnel that extends from the rear edge of one placket to the rear edge of the other placket across the waist portion at the back, and a short normally contracted piece of elastic webbing situated in the tunnel adjacent each placket with its forward end terminating at and secured adjacent the rear edge of the placket and the rear end of each piece of webbing being secured in the tunnel, the portion of the garment at the waist between the rear ends of the two opposite pieces of webbing being inelastic and by the opposing pull of the two pieces of webbing when the two plackets are secured in closed position, being maintained in a smooth condition against the back of the wearer and the portion of the garment at the waist that reaches from the forward edge of one placket to the forward edge of the other placket besignature.

MAX 0. SCI-IRANK.

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