US2157422A - Corset garment - Google Patents

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S. T. METZ CORSET GARMENT May 9, 1939.

Filed Nov. 11, 1956 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 1.1.2111 I l 0 w INVENTOR.

-May 9, 1939. METZ 2,157,422

CORSET GARMENT Filed Nov. 11, 1936 2 Sheets-Shet 2 INVENTOR.

ATTORNEYS Patented May 9, 1939 UNITED STATES CORSET GARMENT Samuel T. Metz, Jamaica, N. Y., assignor to Treo Company, Inc., Jamaica, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application November 11, 1936, Serial No. 110,243

1 Claim.

My invention relates to a new and improved girdle or other garment, which encloses the waist and hips.

One of the objects of my invention is to provide a garment of the girdle or corset type which will be properly fitted at the waist portion and in which the waist portion will not bend or bulge when the body of the user is bent or twisted. Said garment is slitted at its side-lines in the waist portion of the garment. These slits are vertical in the preferred embodiment, but said slits may be defined as being longitudinal, in order to avoid limiting the invention to slits which are truly vertical.

Another object of my invention is to provide a garment of this type having side panels of improved construction.

Another object of my invention is to provide the side portions or panels of the garment with elastic or tension straps arranged so as to produce the above mentioned desirable effects.

Other objects of my invention will be set forth in the following description and drawings which illustrate a preferred embodiment thereof, it being understood that the above statement of the objects of my invention is intended to generally explain the same without limiting it in any manner. I

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the improved garment, part of the representation of the front wall of one of the side panels having been omitted, in order to show the parts more clearly.

Figs. 2 and 3 are respectively sectional views on the lines 2-2 and 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a detail inner elevation showing the inner construction of one of the side panels.

Fig. 5 is a sectional View on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

It has heretofore been proposed to shape girdles and other garments so as to conform. to the natural contour of the waist of the user. However, in garments of this type the waist portion of the garment bent or bulged objectionably, especially when the body of the user was bent to one side or the other.

As shown in Fig. 3, the garment generally comprises front and rear panels I and 2, and side panels 3 and 4. The front and rear panels can be made in the usual manner from two layers of fabric 5 and 6, and this fabric is preferably nonelastic, although I do not wish to be limited to the selection of fabrics.

The edges of the fabric layers 5 and 6 are connected by lines of stitches l and 8, and additional binding strips may be employed, similar to the binding strip shown at the top of Fig. 5 and which will be later described.

The front panel is provided with a vertical row of hookless fasteners H, which are provided with a slide 9, in the usual manner. The front panel is also provided with vertical elastic bones l0 and I004. The front panel is also provided with a strip of fabric II which overlies the inner surfaces of the hookless fasteners, and said fabric strip ll may be connected to the inner surface of the adjacent part of the garment by means of fastening devices [2, which may be hooks and eyes and the like. The bottom of the front panel is provided with an elastic tapered insert l4 which is horizontally stretchable but which has little or no vertical stretch. The rear panel is likewise provided with a tapered insert l 5 at the top thereof, and this insert I5 is likewise preferably horizontally stretchable and elastic and it has little or no vertical stretch.

The rear panel of the garment is likewise provided with short and inclined elastic members or bones l6 and lBa which are located in suitable pockets. One of these pockets I1 is shown in Fig. 1.

The side panels 3 and 4 are made of elastic fabric or material, and said fabric or material is preferably elastic only in the horizontal condition although the material of the side panels may also be stretchable in the vertical direction, if desired. Each of the side panels 3 and 4 has a vertical slit which begins at its top edge and which is spaced from its bottom edge so as to provide two top sections. The top sections of panel 3 are connected below the reinforcing strips l9 by fagoting stitches l8 and the top sections of panel 4 are connected by fagoting stitches I811.

The construction of these fagoting stitches is shown in sufficient detail in Fig. 4 and no detail description thereof is necessary, since these stitches are made by a well-known machine, which is known to the trade.

It will be noted that these yieldable fagoting stitches are spaced from the top and bottom edges of the finished side panels 3 and 4. They extend substantially from said top and bottom edges up to the widest part of the girdle, as shown in Fig. 1, so that the slits at the side-lines of the garment extend into substantially its entire waist portion. The top and bottom edges of the side panels are provided with reinforcing strips I9, which are stitched to said top and bottom edges of the side panels.

As shown in Fig. 3, the inner walls of the side panels are provided with reinforcing strips 20 and 20a. These reinforcing strips are identical in size and shape. These strips 20 and 20a are preferably made of non-elastic material and they are connected to the elastic material of said side panels by means of stitches 22. Each said strip 20 or 20a overlies the edges of the sections of a side panel 3 or 4.

As shown in Fig. 2, each of these reinforcing strips extends to the top and bottom of the respective side panel, and the upper portion of each said reinforcing strip is cut or slit so that the fagoting stitches l8 connect the inner slit edges of these reinforcing strips 20 and 20a to the adjacent separated walls of the elastic side panels.

Elastic straps 23 and 23a are arranged in two parallel series, which are inclined to each other. The upper ends of said straps are connected to substantially vertical reinforcing strips 24 which are provided at the opposite vertical edge portions of the inner walls of the side elastic panels. The reenforcing strips 24 are stitched to the side panels and to the front and rear panels. The lower ends of these elastic straps 23 and 23a are located between the reinforcing strips 20 and 20a and the elastic side panels.

As shown in Fig. 2, each of the reinforcing strips 20 and 20a has two tapered portions which are oppositely tapered. Hence the effective or free portions of the elastic straps 23 and 23a increase in length from the straps 23 and 23a at the widest parts of strips 20 and 20a, above and below said widest parts of strips 20 and 20a. Said tension straps 23 and 23a are not connected to the garment between the vertical strips 24 and the reinforcing strips 20 and 20a. They make an angle of substantially with the longitudinal axis of the garment.

The garment is cut or fashioned so as to follow the contour of the body of the garment at the iagoting stitches I8. These fagoting stitches l8 permit the corresponding side walls of the garv merit to bend very easily and without any objectionable bulges or wrinkles.

The inclined elastic straps 23 and 23a exert inner and downwardly directed pulls upon the edges of the elastic side panels which are connected to the front and rear panels so that the garment maintains the desired snug fit, and does not bend or bulge when the body of the user is bent sideways.

For convenience it may be stated that the straps 23 and 230, are oppositely inclined to the vertical axis of the garment. Said straps are preferably arranged in vertical rows, and the free portions of said straps increase in length above and below the widest parts of strips 20 and 20a.

Likewise it may be stated that the free portions of the straps 23 and 23a are in registration with each elastic panel 3 so that said free portions serve to reinforce the elastic panels. The material of said free portions may be equally stretchable with the material of the elastic panels or the material of said free portions can be more stretchable or less stretchable than the material of said elastic panels.

It is to be understood that whenever I refer to a panel in the garment, I intend. to refer to any portion of the garment, as the body of the garment may be constructed in various ways.

While I prefer to use separate straps 23 and (3a, it would not be departing from the invention if each said row of straps was replaced by a single band of elastic material since the free portion of said elastic band or means would increase in length in the manner previously indicated.

I have shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, but it is clear that numerous changes and omissions can be made without departing from its spirit.

I claim:

A garment having a panel made of elastic material, said panel having a reinforcing strip at its inner wall, said reinforcing strip being made of substantially non-stretchable material, said reinforcing strip comprising an upper tapered portion and a lower tapered portion, said portions being oppositely tapered so that the widest ponies of said reinforcing strip is intermediate the top and bottom thereof, said panel having separated edges which are connected by flexible stitches, said reinforcing strip also having separated edges Which correspond to the separated edges of the panel, said reinforcing strip and said separated edges being substantially vertical, vertical rows of reinforcing straps located on opposite sides of said separated edges, said respective rows being inclined to each other and being inclined upwardly relative to said separated edges, the lower ends of said straps being located between the inner surface of said panel and said reinforcing strip, said straps having free portions intermediate their ends, said free portions increasing in length from the junction between said tapered portions.

SAMUEL T. METZ.

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