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US3736597A
US3736597A US00171148A US3736597DA US3736597A US 3736597 A US3736597 A US 3736597A US 00171148 A US00171148 A US 00171148A US 3736597D A US3736597D A US 3736597DA US 3736597 A US3736597 A US 3736597A
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  • a pull-over garment particularly for infants, comprises front and back body panels joined to each other along the sides of the garment to define a body portion with a central neck opening at the top, and
  • shoulder and sleeve portions extending laterally outward from each side of the neck opening and includ ing a back part joined to the back body panel, an outer front part joined to the back part along the top of the shoulder and sleeve portions and along the bottom of the sleeve portion and having an inner edge sloping downwardly from the neck opening to the bottom of the sleeve portion, and an inner front part joined to the front body panel and underlying said outer front part, the inner front part having an upper edge extending substantially along the top of the shoulder and sleeve portions and being joined to the outer front part along only the outer end portion of such upper edge and along only the lower end portion of the mentioned downwardly sloping edge, so that the neck opening can be expanded for ease in application of the garment to an infant and is: restored to its normal configuration by outward pulling of the tops of the sleeves.
  • This invention relates generally to pull-over garments, especially for infants, and is particularly directed to improvements in pull-over garments of the type having an expandable neck opening.
  • Pull-over garments particularly for infants, have been provided with expandable neck openings, for example, as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 2,035,377, and in U.S. Pat. No. 2,51 1,809.
  • the known garments of the described type comprise a tubular, knitted body portion having a central neck opening at the top defined between overlapped front and rear strap portions which are respectively integral with the front and rear of the body portion.
  • the overlapped front and rear strap portions are secured together only along the overlapped sections of their outer edge, and inset sleeves are seamed to the remainder of the garment along the outer edges of the front and rear strap portions.
  • the described construction of a garment provides a surplicelike neck line, and the resulting neck opening can be expanded laterally or spread wide for ease in application of the garment to an infant.
  • the front and rear strap portions thereof are disarranged so that, after the application of the garment to an infant, it is necessary to manually smooth out each of the front strap portions in the desired underlying relationship to the respective rear strap portion.
  • Another object is to provide a garment, as aforesaid,
  • Still another object is to provide a pull-over garmentwith an expandable neck opening which affords increased comfort to the infant or other wearer thereof.
  • a further object is to provide a pull-over garment, particularly for infants, with a neck opening that can be expanded to an extent greater than known garments of the mentioned type for further facilitating the applicationof the garment to an infant.
  • a pullover garment particularly for infants, comprises front and back body panels joined to each other along the sides of the garment to define a body portion with a central neck opening at the top, and shoulder and sleeve portions extending laterally outward from each side of the neck opening and including a back part joined to the back body panel, an outer front part joined to the back part along the top of the shoulder and sleeve portions and along the bottom of the sleeve portion and having an inner edge sloping downwardly and outwardly from the neck opening to the bottom of thesleeve portion, and an inner front part joined to the from body panel and underlying the outer front part, the inner front part having an upper edge extending substantially along the top of the shoulder and sleeve portions and being joined to the outer front part along only the outer end portion of such upper edge and along only the lower end portion of the mentioned downwardly sloping edge, so that the neck opening can be expanded for ease in application of the garment to an infant and is restored to its smoothly
  • FIG. 1 is a front elevational view, partly broken away, of the upper portion of a pull-over garment with an expandable neck opening produced in accordance with the prior art
  • FIG. 2 is a front elevational view of a pull-over garment with an expandable neck opening in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG. 3 is a back elevational view, partly broken away, of the garment shown on FIG. 2;
  • FIGS. 4 and 5 are elevational views of two fabric pieces which are joined together to form the garment of FIGS. 2 and 3;
  • FIGS. 6 and 7 are elevational views of folded blanks which may be cut from a fabric tube to provide the fabric pieces shown on FIGS. 4 and 5, respectively;
  • FIG. 8 is a plan view of a flattened tube of fabric having a series of alternately arranged patterns thereon to define the lines along which such tube is cut to provide the folded blanks shown on FIGS. 6 and 7.
  • a pull-over garment 10 with an expandable neck opening 11 of a type that has been previously produced, for example, as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 2,035,377,. comprises a tubular body portion 12, for example, of a knitted fabric, having front and rear shoulder strap portions 13 and 14 respectively, disposed at opposite sides of neck opening 11 and which are integral with the front and back of body portion 12.
  • the front and back sections 15 and 16 of neck opening 11 are defined between front strap portions 13 and rear strap portions 14, respectively, which strap portions are of sufficient length to overlap at the front, top and back of the shoulder portions of the garment, as shown, with the front strap portions 13 underlying the respective rear strap portions 14.
  • the overlapping front and rear strap portions 13 and 14 are secured to each other only along their outer edges, for example, by means of the respective sections of bound seams 17 provided for securing set-in sleeve portions 18 to the remainder of the garment.
  • the above described construction of the known garment 10 provides the latter with a surplice-like neckline so that the neck opening 11 can be easily expanded to facilitate the application of the garment to an infant.
  • Such expansion of neck opening 11 is achieved by pressing laterally outward against the opposite sides of the neck opening and thereby at least partly withdrawing front strap portions 13 from their normal underlying relationship to rear strap portions 14.
  • the strap portions 13 and 14 remain disarranged and can be restored to their normal smoothly overlapping relationship only by individually adjusting each of the front strap portions 13 and its respective rear strap portion 14.
  • the described construction of the known garment requires time consuming adjustment of the shoulder portions of the garment after its application to an infant.
  • the known garment has the end portions of its front shoulder strap portions 113 and the corresponding sections of its set-in sleeve seams l7 disposed at the back of the shoulder regions of the garment when applied to an infant, and which may constitute a source of discomfort or annoyance to the infant lying on its back. It will also be apparent that, in the garment 10, the lateral expansion of its neck opening is limited to approximately the lateral distance between the top portions of the set-in sleeve seams 17.
  • a pull-over garment 20 with an expandable neck opening 21 in accordance with this invention which avoids the above mentioned disadvantages of the known garment generally comprises front and back body panels 22 and 23, respectively, joined to each other along the sides of the garment to define a body portion 24 having the neck opening 21 located centrally at the top thereof, and shoulder and sleeve portions 25 and 26, respectively, extending laterally outward from each of the opposite sides of the neck opening.
  • the shoulder and sleeve portions 25 and 26 at each side of the neck opening include a back part 27 (FIG. 3) and inner and outer front parts 28 and 29, respectively (FIGS. 3 and 2).
  • Each back part 27 is joined to the back body panel 23 and also joined to the respective outer front part 29 along the top of the respective shoulder and sleeve portions 25 and 26. Further, each outer front part 29 is joined to the respective back part 27 along the bottom of the respective sleeve portion 26.
  • Each inner front part 28 is shown to be joined to the front body panel 22 and to be in underlying relation to the respective outer front part 29.
  • each inner front part 28 extends outwardly along the top of the respective shoulder and sleeve portions 25 and 26 and'is joined to the respective outer front part 29 only along the outer end portion of such upper edge 30, as by the stitching 31.
  • each'outer front part 29 has an inner edge 32 sloping downwardly and outwardly from the respective side of neck opening 21 to the inner end of the bottom of the respective sleeve portion 26, and such inner edge 32 is joined to the underlying inner front part 28 only along the lower end portion of the downwardly sloping edge 32, as by the stitching 33.
  • the garment according to this invention is preferably formed of first and second fabric pieces 34 and 35 (FIGS. 4 and 5, respectively).
  • the first fabric piece 34 is shown to include the front body panel 22 which, at the central part 36 of its upper edge, defines the front of neck opening 21, and the inner front parts 28 of the shoulder and sleeve portions which extend laterally from the opposite sides of front body panel 22 and have their upper edges 30 extending laterally outward from the central part 36 of the upper edge.
  • the upper edge of fabric piece 34 is seen to be in the form of a gently undulating curve which is upwardly concave at the center and upwardly convex at the op posite sides thereof.
  • the second fabric piece 35 is seen to include the back body panel 23 which is dimensioned to be substantially coextensive with the front body panel 22 and which defines the back of the neck opening 21 at the central part 37 of the upper edge of fabric piece 35.
  • Fabric piece 35 further includes laterally extending upper portions which respectively constitute the previously mentioned back parts 27 and outer front parts 29 of the shoulder and sleeve portions and which are foldable about fold lines 38 extending laterally outward from the central part 37 of the upper edge of fabric piece 35, and preferably sloping downwardly, as shown, to constitute the top of the shoulder and sleeve portions 25 and 26 of the completed garment.
  • the inner front parts 28 of the shoulder and sleeve portions 25 and 26 are integral with the front body panel 22, and the back and outer front parts 27 and 29 of the shoulder and sleeve portions are integral with the back body panel 23.
  • the fabric pieces 34 and 35 may be obtained from suitable flat knitted fabric by wetting the latter along lines corresponding to the perimeters of such pieces, as shown on FIGS. 4 and 5. However, since the fabric pieces 34 and 35 are symmetrical about their medial lines 36 and 37, respectively, such fabric pieces 34 and 35 may be obtained by unfolding fabric blanks 34A and 35A, respectively (FIGS. 6 and 7).
  • the blank 34A consists of two superposed plies or layers of fabric each corresponding to one-half of fabric piece 34 and being foldably joined to each other along one longitudinal edge 36A.
  • the blank 35A consists of two superposed plies or layers of fabric each corresponding to one-half of fabric piece 35 and being foldably joined along one longitudinal edge 37A. As shown on FIG.
  • the folded blanks 34A and 35A and similar folded blanks 34B and 35B may be conveniently and economically cut from an elongated tube 38, for example, of circularly knitted fabric, which is flattened to provide two layers of the material joined together along the 0pposite side edges of the flattened tube.
  • the latter is dimensioned so that its width, in the flattened condition, will substantially correspond to the desired width of the front and back body panels 22 and 23 'of garments to be produced from the folded blanks 34A and 35A.
  • the patterns along which the flattened tube 38 is to be cut to form the folded blanks 34A and 35A may be inverted with respect to each other and interleaved, that is, arranged so that the portion of blank 34A which is to define the front body panel 22 is arranged alongside the portion of blank 35A which is to define the back body panel 23, and with the folded edges 36A and 37A of the blanks 34A and 35A extending along the opposite longitudinal edges of the flattened tube 38. It will be seen from FIG. 8 that a succession of the folded blanks 34A and 35A, 34B and 35B, etc., may be cut from flattened tube 38, as described, with a minimum wastage of the material of such tube.
  • the sleeve-defining portions of blanks 34A and 35A may be extended, as indicated in broken lines on FIG. 8, and cuffs may also be cut from the portions of flattened tube 38 between the successive blanks, as indicated in broken lines at 44.
  • the end of the body-defining portion of each blank may be cut precisely along the underside of the sleeve-defining portion of the other blank so that, in the completed garment formed from blanks 34B and 35B, the sides of the body portion 24 will curve inwardly at the bottom of such body portion. It will be apparent that all of the foregoing modifications serveto further minimize wastage of the fabric of tube 38.
  • continuous side seams 41 are sewn along the opposite sides of the garment to join together the respective side edges of front and back body panels 22 and 23 and also to join together the parts 27,28 and 29 along the bottoms of the respective sleeve portions 26.
  • the bottom edge portions of body panels 22 and 23 may be turned under and stitched, as at 42, to provide a finishing hem at the bottom of body portion 24, and binding or other edge finishing can be provided around the end edges of sleeve portions 26, as at 43.
  • binding or edge finishing 43 at the ends of the sleeve portions may also join the end edges of inner front parts 28 to the corresponding end edges of outer front parts 29.
  • the stitching 31 and 33 is applied.
  • the neck opening 21 1S expanded for convenient application merely by pulling laterally outward against the sides of the neck opening.
  • the latter can be made to extend fully across the shoulder portions and into the sleeve portions 26 of the garment, with the lateral expansion of the neck opening being limited only by the inner ends of the stitching 31.
  • the lateral expansion of the neck opening 11 of the known garment Ml which, as previously mentioned, is limited by the set-in sleeve seams 17.
  • the garment 20 by reason of the increased possible expansion of its neck opening 211, is more easily applied over the head of an infant.
  • the neck opening 21 is restored to its normal or contracted configuration merely by grasping the tops of sleeve portions 26 adjacent the ends of the sleeves and pulling laterally outward thereon.
  • the configuration of garment 20 at its shoulder and sleeve portions 25 and 26 and the provision of the stitching 31 and 33, as described pulling laterally outward on the ends of the sleeves at the tops thereof restores the inner front parts 2% to the normal smooth underlying relation to the outer front parts 29.
  • the restoration of the garment to its smoothly fitting configuration is easily and simply effected. Further, reference to FIG.
  • a pull-over garment with an expandable neck opening comprising a first fabric piece including a front body panel which, at the central part of its upper edge, defines the front of a neck opening and portions extending laterally from the opposite sides of said front body panel and having their upper edges extending laterally outward from said central part of the upper edge of said front body panel, a second fabric piece including a back body'panel substantially coextensive with said front body panel to define the back of said neck opening at the central part of the upper edge of said back body panel and laterally extending portions folded about fold lines extending laterally from said back of the neck opening to provide shoulders of the garment and the front and back parts of sleeves, each of said fold lines defining the top of the respective shoulder and sleeve and along which said upper edge of the respective laterally extending portion of said first fabric piece extends, said front parts of the sleeves overlying said laterally extending portions of said first fabric piece and having inner edges that diverge downwardly from said back of the neck opening, a continu' ous seam along each side
  • a pull-over garment with an expandable neck opening according to claim 1, in which'the bottom edge of each of said laterally extending portions of said first fabric piece is also secured in said. seam along the respective side of the garment.
  • a pull-over garment with an expandable neck opening according to claim 2, in which the outer end edges of each of said laterally extending portions of the first fabric piece and the respective front sleeve part are bound together.
  • a pull-over garment with an expandable neck opening according to claim 1, in which the outer end edges of each of said laterally extending portions and the respective sleeve part are bound together.
  • a pull-over garment with an expandable neck opening comprising front and back body panels joined to each other along the sides of the garment to define a body portion with a central neck opening at the top thereof, and shoulder and sleeve portions extending laterally outward from each of the opposite sides of said neck opening, said shoulder and sleeve portions including a back part and inner and outer front parts, said back part being joined to said back body panel, said outer front part being joined to said back part along the top of the respective shoulder and sleeve portions and along the bottom of said respective sleeve portion, said inner front part being joined to said front body panel and underlying said outer front part and having an upper edge which extends substantially along the top of the respective shoulder and sleeve portion and along which said inner front part is joined to said outer front 7.
  • a pull-over garment with an expandable neck opening according to claim 5, in which said inner and outer front parts are bound together along the free end edge of the respective sleeve portion.

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