US2053256A

US2053256A - Drawers

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Publication number: US2053256A
Application number: US3414A
Authority: US
Inventors: Gurney Edmund
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1935-01-25
Filing date: 1935-01-25
Publication date: 1936-09-08
Anticipated expiration: 1953-09-08

Description

1 Sept. 8, 1936. I jig 2,053,256

DRAWERS Filed Jan. 25, 1955 1 2 Shets-Shet 1 Edmund Gurney E. GURNEY Sept. 8, 1936.

DRAWERS Filed Jan. 25, 1935' 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 i/dmund Gurney Patented Sept. 8, 1936 znsazss unire raras errant cries Edmund Gurney,

Long Beach, Calif.

Application January 25. issaseriai-no. 3,414

1 Claim. (01. 2- 224) jacent the seam betweenthese elements at the This invention relates to wearing apparel and particularly to mens drawers of the type commonly termed shorts.

A broad obj cct of the invention is to increase the durability of garments, the major portions of whichiare made of relatively inexpensive materials.

- A more specific object is to so reinforce a pair of drawers that they can be constructed of material having relatively low resistance to tearing and still give "-goodservice, 1

: Themanner in which the foregoing objects are achieved, together with other objects and features of the invention, will now be explainedwith reference to the drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a front view of a pair of drawers constructed in accordance with the invention;

Fig. Zis a rear view of the same garment;

Fig. 3is a plan view of a reinforcing element used to strengthen thefly and crotch of the garment;

Fig. lis a-pl anview of another reinforcing element employed on the opposite fly to that on which the element shown in Fig. 3 is employed;

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the front portion of one of the side panels of the garment;

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the front portion of the other side panel of the garment; and

Figs. 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 illustrate the successive steps involved in sewing together the elements shown in Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6, in making the garment.

As generally constructed, mens shorts are composed of either two or three pieces. Thus the garment shown in the drawings comprises three main pieces consisting of a left side panel I, a right side panel 2 and a rear panel 3. ner in which these three elements are combined, considered as units, is well known and is clearly illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2.

The garment disclosed diifers from prior known garments in that the rear panel 3 is bias cut so that the threads of this piece run diagonally instead of vertically and horizontally, as in the

side panels

5 and 2. I have found this construction to be of great advantage in that the bias cut panel 3 affords resilience in a circumferential and in a vertical direction, which permits the garment to yield sufiic'iently in response to movements of the wearer to prevent tearing strains: which might otherwise result.

Another novel feature of the garment disclosed in Figs. 1 and 2 lies in reinforcing

elements

4 and 5 which extend along the fly margins of the side panels I and 2 and reinforce the material adcrotch of the garment; The reinforcing elements t and '5 greatly increase the resistance of the garment to tearing. at the crotch by virtue of the fact that'they'are individually sewn to their associated 5 side panels l and 2, respectively, prior joindei'. of the latter.

The shape of the reinforcing elementli prior to its incorporation into the garment is shown in Fig. 3 and the shape of the reinforcing element 4 is shown in Fig. 4. The margins of these elements t and 5 correspond in shape to the margins of the side panels l and 2, respectively, the latter being illustrated-in Fig. 6 and Fig. 5, respectively. The reinforcing element 5 is first secured to the side panels Zby' laying the element 5 on the panel 2, as shown in Fig.7, and sewing the two together closely along the margin, as shown at I. Thereafter the parts are reversed by folding them back about 'ther seam l andagain stitching the two together at the stitching 8 shown in Fig. 9. It will be observed that the stitching 8 follows very closely the margin of the reinforcing element 5 except along the length (d) in Fig. 9, at which point the stitching is preferably spaced about a quarter of an inch inwardly from the margin for a purpose to be described.

The reinforcing element 5 is similarly attached to the side panel I of the garment first by stitching the two together along their outer margins, as shown at 9 in Fig. 8, then reversing the parts about the seam 9 and stitching them together all around the margin, as shown at l!) in Fig. 10.

The two units, one comprising the side panel 2 and its reinforcing element 5, as shown in Fig. 9, and the other comprising the side panel and its reinforcing element 4, as shown in Fig. 10, are then combined by stitching them together along the length (a), as shown in Fig. 11. During this sewing operation the inwardly spaced stitching 8 on the panel 2 serves as a guide to the operator, the edge of the corresponding portion (a) of the panel i being maintained close to the stitching 8 over the corresponding portion (a) of the panel 2 during the sewing operation.

Following the joinder of the side panels I and 2 to each other at the crotch, as shown in Fig. 11, the two parts are sewed to each other and to the rear panel 3 to complete the garment in accordance with well established practice which is too well known to those skilled in the art to merit detailed description. Observation of the seams of the completed garment as shown in Fig. 1 is sufficient to inform any tailor how the remaining seams of the garment are formed.

to the I have determined by careful investigation and experiment that the crotch is the weakest point of a garment of the type described and that the garment is much more apt to tear or rip apart adjacent the upper end of the crotch seam (as indicated at (a) than anywhere else. By reinforcing this area in the manner described with the reinforcing

strips

4 and 5, the strength of the garment at this point of weakness may be so greatly increased that the side panel portions I and 2 of the garment may be made of very inexpensive material while at the same time yielding a garment that is actually stronger and more durable than those made in accordance with former practice from much stronger materials.

Still another feature of the invention resides in the use of buttonholes H positioned in the waistband of the garment for attaching the garment to the suspender buttons of the trousers of the wearer. I preferably provide at least two or more buttonholes II on each side of the gar ment, as shown in Fig. 1, to permit adjustment to take care of varying spacing between the suspender buttons on different trousers.

' Still another feature of the invention resides in the use of'tape loops l2 (Fig. 2) in combination with buttons I3 for providing an adjustment of the waistband dimensions of the garment. It has been common practice heretofore to provide tapes which would be tied together for reducing the waistband, or elastic inserts. I have found that it is highly desirable in a garment of this general type to provide additional fullness below the waist by inserting'darts I 3' at the waistband. I have found that the loops l2 may be attached to the waistband with practically no additional labor by sewing the ends of the loop into the folds of the darts I3 at the time the latter are formed. Thereafter substantially the only additional labor required is to attach the buttons I 3 and this can be done very inexpensively.

As a result of the various features described in and the invention is therefore to be limited only as set forth in the appended claim.

I claim:

The method of stituting the opposite sides of the fly of a crotch fitting garment to each other and to a pair of reinforcing strips extending along the fly margins of the panels, consisting of positioning each of said reinforcing strips on its associated panel member with their fly edges in registration and joining the front panels con sewing them together closely adjacent their fly edges, then reversing each strip and panel about said sewn edge, then sewing each strip to its associated panel along each edge of the strip of.

stitching closely adjacent the margin of the reinforcing strip except along that portion of the margin of one strip which is to be overlapped by the other panel when the two are sewn together, the stitching along said portion being spaced from theedge a distance slightly greater than the overlap of the other panel, whereby the stitching serves as a guide to gauge the amount of overlap when the panels are later sewed together, and thereafter sewing each panel as a unit with its associated reinforcing strip to the other panel, the reinforced portions of the panels overlapping each other adjacent the crotch of the garment.

EDMUND GURNEY.