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Description

(No Model.)

L. H. DAY.

METHOD OF FASTENING STIFFENING STRIPS T0 GARMENTS. No. 366,936. Patented July 19, 1887.

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BY if ATTORNEYS.

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LYMAN H. DAY, OF NEYV YORK, N. Y.,ASSIGNOR TO THE BRADLEY, VOOR- HEES & DAY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, (LIMITED,) OF SAME PLACE.

METHOD OF FASTENING STIFFENING-STRIPS TO GARMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part 01' Letters Patent No. 366,936, dated July 19, 1887.

Application filed February 7, 1387. Serial No. 226,779. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: which are integral with the main material of 50 Be it known that I, LYMAN H. DAY, of the the garment, are made to form pockets for inoit-y, county, and State of New York, have closing and holding the stiffening-strips in invented a new and useful Improved Method place, substantially as hereinafter described,

5 of Fastening stiffening-Strips to Garments, of and shown in the drawings.

which the following is a full, clear, and exact Reference is to be had to the accompanying 55 description. drawings, forming part of this specification, in

This invention, although applicable to garwhich similar letters of reference indicate corments of different kinds, is more particularly responding parts in both the figures.

designed to be used in connection with knitted Figure 1 represents a view of a female ligelastic garments-snch as those termed jerure, in part, fitted with a garment known as 60 seysworn by women and children. In such a jersey, which is represented as partly garments a lining is usually dispensed with broken away for the purpose of illustrating a as being objectionable for several reasons. stiffener or stiffening-strip andthe mode of ap- 1 Thus a lining gives increased thickness to the plying thesame to one of the seams of the gargarment, does not stretch or yield with the ment. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional View, 65 garment, and in stitching it to its place unupon a larger scale, of the seam of the garment sightly rows of stitching appear upon the outwith the stiffener applied to and inclosed byit. side of the garment. These objections and A is the garment, made without a lining the additional expense of lining more than and composed ofa series of sections or pieces eounterbalancethe main advantage which is united by scams 1). Each or any or all of 7c derived from such lining-namely, ofpreventthese seams may have the inside stiffeners, ing the garmentfrom riding up on the body of which restrain the garment from riding up the person and getting out of form and place. and serve to keep it in form and place on the My invention accordingly relates to garbody of the wearer applied to it or them; but

ments, especially garments made without a it will suflice here to describe the stiffener as 7 lining, composed of separate pieces ofniaterial applied to only one of the seams.

united by one or more seams, the free turned- 13 is the stiffener or stiffeningstrip, made 01 in marginal portions of which are stitched whalebone or any other suitable material, artogether on the inside of the garment, and in ranged to run throughout the length of the which said seams have combined with or apseam or any part thereof. 80 plied to them stiffening-strips arranged to The turned-in marginal flap-like portions (2 run in direction of the length of the seams. d of the seam are made of an increased width The invention embraces a novel method of or depth to receive the stiffener B lengthwise thus applying stiffening-strips to the seams between them and to provide for securing of the garment-,which consists in uniting each said stiffener within them by uniting the S5 stiffening-strip to its respective garmentseam turned-in marginal portions (1 d of the seam by inclosing the strip Within or between the along the opposite or both longitudinal marturned-in marginal portions of the seam and gins of the stiffener or stiffening-strip, as by 0 uniting said turned-iu portions to each other inner and outer rows of inside stitching 0/,

along the opposite or both longitudinal marthe one, 0, of which may be the usual stiteho gins of the stiffening-strip. 3y this method ing for closing the seam. After the stiffener the garment may not only be kept down and has thus been inelosed and secured within the in place on the body without having resort to turned-in marginal portions (1 d of the seam a lining for the purpose, and without exposas a pocket,-said stiffener, together with the ing on the exterior anymore scams or lines of portions (1 d of the seam, should be subse- 5 stitching than are necessary in the construcquently laid or pressed down flat upon the intion of the garment without a lining, but the side of the garment. turned-in marginal portions of the seams, Having thus described-myinvention,whatI claiin as new, and desire to secure by Letters said turned-in portions to each other along Patent, is the opposite or both longitudinal margins of IO The method herein described of fastening the stiffening-strip, substantially as specified. stiffening-strips to the seamed portions of garments, which consists in uniting each stifl'en- LYMAN ing-stri p to its respectivegarment-seam by in- VVitnes'ses: closing the strip within or between the turned- 0. SEDGWIOK,-

in marginal portions of the seamand uniting E. M; CLARK.

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