US2033065A - Rubber bathing suit - Google Patents

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US2033065A
US2033065A US18522A US1852235A US2033065A US 2033065 A US2033065 A US 2033065A US 18522 A US18522 A US 18522A US 1852235 A US1852235 A US 1852235A US 2033065 A US2033065 A US 2033065A
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James J Galligan
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Uniroyal Inc
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41—WEARING APPAREL
    • A41D—OUTERWEAR; PROTECTIVE GARMENTS; ACCESSORIES
    • A41D7/00—Bathing gowns; Swim-suits, drawers, or trunks; Beach suits
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S264/00—Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
    • Y10S264/72—Processes of molding by spraying

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  • This invention relates to rubber suits and more particularly to rubber bathing garments having a portion such as a trunk portion adapted to fit closely around and cover the torso of the wearer.
  • Various types of bathing suits made primarily of sheet rubber material have recently found decided and increasing favor.
  • Various types of materials such as smooth sheet rubber and different kinds of single and multiple plied crinkled surfaced sheet rubber have been used in their manufacture.
  • the styles of bathing garments have invariably included a portion such as a trunk portion adapted to fit closely around and cover the torso of the wearer, and which may or may not have a skirt over the same.
  • the trunk-portion forms a part either integral with or merely attached to a top or upper portion
  • difficulty has been found by virtue of the trunk portion retaining large amounts of water which may seep in during swimming or which becomes entrapped by virtue of adjusting the suit under water, allowing the water to come between the trunk and body of the wearer.
  • the material surrounding the leg openings of the trunk closely confines the upper portion of the legs of the wearer and hence any water that might get into the trunk portion will not of itself flow down through the leg openings.
  • the upper portion of certain types of bathing suits having separate trunk and upper portions will entrap water if the bottom edge fits too closely against the body of the wearer.
  • the inclusion of large amounts of water in the bathing suit provides a larger resisting surface in swimming and hence somewhat lessens the speed and ease of making progress through the water.
  • the body In diving, the body will at times so strike the surface of the water that water will rush inside the bathing garment and produce a distinct drag on the suit as the body goes through the water to completion of the diving operation.
  • the present invention relates to rubber bathing suits having perforations therein whereby the above referred disadvantages incident to the present types of imperforate rubber bathing suits are eliminated and at the same time a bathing garment is produced which allows the body to readily breathe through the suit.
  • the accompanying drawing illustrates various embodiments of the invention in which With the various In general, there are two methods of carrying 10 out the present invention,
  • the suit may be made up entirely of the imperforate rubber sheet stock in the usual manner as by cutting out the various parts in the desired pattern and adhesively joining them by pressure and vulcanizing, or by first vulcanizing the sheet and then joining the cutout parts by cement.
  • the suit after assembly may be perforated with a pre-determined design in the various portions as desired. With the trunk portion, it is preferred to perforate the material in the front and rear parts, while other portions of the garment may be perforated as desired.
  • the perforations permit easy ingress'and egress of water so that no resistance to swimming is obtained by virtue of being entrapped in the suit while under water. Also any water that may be in the trunk portion as the bather comes out of the water will readily fiow through the perforations to provide a. suit that adapts itself closely to the body of the wearer.
  • Another general method of carrying out the present invention is by building up the bathing garment in the usual manner from sheet material which has been perforated in a predetermined design.
  • the material may be perforated in various ways as by mechanically perforating the unvulcanized, or partially or completely vulcanized sheet stock before assembling.
  • the rubber sheet material, whether assembled before or after the perforations are formed therein, may 40 be ofcalendered rubber or single or multiple ply crinkled material, or it may be of the direct deposit of solids of rubber latex, thereby giving greater strength to the material.
  • sheet stock deposited directly from rubber latex In utilizing sheet stock deposited directly from rubber latex,
  • the perforations may be formed in the sheet simultaneously with the formation ofthe sheet.
  • the rubber latex may be spread on an engraved or patterned surface and the excess latex wiped from the protruding portions of the surface thereby forming perforations in the finished sheet corresponding to the protruding portions of the deposition surface.
  • alternate layers of latex and coagulant may be sprayed on to an open work fabric material or a negative of such a material whereby the latex will deposit on the impervious portions of the backing and the spray will go through the perforations in the backing forming a perforate sheet.
  • FIG 1 illustrates a bathing suit with perforations in the finished garment in a predetermined design.
  • the bathing garment of Figure 1 comprises a trunk portion I and a separate top portion II which may be removably secured to the trunk portion by means of snap 12.
  • the bathing suit illustrated in this figure is assembled in the ordinary way from an impervious sheet stock either smooth or crinkled or having a design in the surface and made as desired. After assembly, the suit is mechanically perforated in a predetermined design, the trunk portion being shown more in detail in Figures 2 and 3. As shown in Figures 2 and 3, the front and rear parts respectively of the trunk have perforations I3 in the desired outline found most effective for releasing entrapped water and at the same time retaining desired parts of the trunk imperforate.
  • Perforations on the rear part of the trunk permit water entrapped in the trunk to be released while swimming under water while the perforations in the front portion are effective together with those in the rear portion for immediately discharging entrapped water when emerging from swimming.
  • the upper portion l I may likewise be perforated as shown in Figure 1 at I 4 in any predetermined design, thereby preventing the upper portionfrom retaining water if the lower margin of the same is drawn tight against the body.
  • the perforations in the suit also permit free breathing of the body and help to dry the inside of the suit after the bather has come out of the water.
  • Figure 4 illustrates a second type of garment in which the material itself is perforated before assembly in the finished garment.
  • the bathing suit shown in Figure 4 is a one-piece garment I 5 comprising a perforate material as illustrated in detail in Figure 5.
  • the material simulates closely an open work fabric material such as lace, and may be produced by spreading latex on an engraved backing having relief portions corresponding to the desired perforations, removing excess latex from the top of the relief portions and drying the deposit.
  • the preferred method, however, of making such a rubber sheet material is to alternately spray latex and a chemical coagulant, such as acetic acid, on to an open workfabric material, such as a lace fabric,
  • impervious portions of the backing and the spray will pass through the perforations in the backing without webbing over the same, thereby forming a material such as shown in Figure 5 having performation of the sheet by the direct deposition of solids of rubber latex provides a much stronger material and one in which with adequate safety, the perforations may be nearer together and of larger size.
  • the perforations may be nearer together and of larger size.
  • Such imperforate pieces may be secured to the material of the garment in the same manner that the material of the garment is secured to itself during manufacture of the garment, that is by pressure and curing if the material is uncured prior to assembly or by means of rubber cement or the like if the garment is assembled after curing. It has been found, however, that with the perforate material at present utilized in such bathing suits and as illustrated in Figure 5, a piece of similar perforate material may be secured to the garment where it is desired to cover the perforations and sufficient of the perforations are thereby covered over without appreciably destroying the surface appearance of that side of the garment having the re-enforcing material thereon. Of course the perforations of the reenforcing material in such case should not register with the perforations of the material of the garment proper.
  • a sheet having predetermined positioned perforations therethrough may be formed by spreading rubber latex on the perforated deposition backing having holes in the deposition surface through which a gas may be forced and heating the latex on the backing and forcing a gas through the perforations or holes in the backing and through the drying latex to form permanent perforations in the rubber sheet which after drying may be detached from the deposition backing.
  • a bathing garment may be made by depositing latex on a backing which has the various parts of the finished garment laid out together with the perforations in the desired portions whereby after producing the sheet on the backing, the portions may be cut to the pattern imparted on the detached sheet and the perforations formed in the sheet will eliminate the necessity for perforating to the desired design in the finished garment as illustrated in Figure 1.
  • a perforated trunk portion with an imperforate top portion either integral with or separate from said top portion. It is also within the scope of this invention to utilize a separate perforated trunk under an imperforate rubber bathing suit, or under the usual bathing suit of textile fabric, such trunk being preferably more abbreviated than the one shown in Figures 2 and 3 to form more of a. supporter under the visible portions of the bathing suit. Such supporter may also be used under a perforate bathing suit as above described to form a separate auxiliary portion thereof.
  • latex or rubber latex in the description and claim is intended to designate broadly coagulable dispersions of elastic materials including artificial dispersions of rubber or rubber-like materials as well as natural latex eeeeee v :i
  • a rubber bathing garment inciuding e trunk portion nevi a crotch and leg openings there in for the introduction of the legs of the wearer, the material surrounding said opening adapted to closely confine the upper portion of the Begs of the wearer, said garment being composed of sheet material of the direct deposit of solids of rubber latex, and having e multiplicity of pen iomticns therein, at least in the trunk portion to minimize or permit release of Walter entrapped between the garment and the wearer.

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US18522A US2033065A (en) 1935-04-27 1935-04-27 Rubber bathing suit
FR797660D FR797660A (fr) 1935-04-27 1935-11-12 Procédé de fabrication de pellicules ou feuilles de caoutchouc perforé ou pourvu de saillies, produits obtenus par ce procédé et costumes de bain en caoutchouc perforé
GB5011/36A GB461161A (en) 1935-04-27 1936-02-19 Improvements in or relating to rubber bathing suits
DEI54842D DE675062C (de) 1935-04-27 1936-04-24 Badeanzug aus Kautschukplatten
NL77566A NL42447C (me) 1935-04-27 1936-04-27

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