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US3869728A
US3869728A US480091A US48009174A US3869728A US 3869728 A US3869728 A US 3869728A US 480091 A US480091 A US 480091A US 48009174 A US48009174 A US 48009174A US 3869728 A US3869728 A US 3869728A
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    • A41F9/00—Belts, girdles, or waistbands for trousers or skirts
    • A41F9/02—Expansible or adjustable belts or girdles ; Adjustable fasteners comprising a track and a slide member

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  • ABSTRACT The waistband of trousers is made responsive, within limits, to increase and decrease of the girth of the wearer, by means of a construction in J4 o N .ml p
  • the construction is especially applied in connection with trousers made of what is commonly known as double knit fabric, where the body fabric of the trousers, by the method of manufacture of the fabric, is inherently elastic, or, at least, stretchable.
  • variable degrees of stretch may be obtained by reason of the method of manufacture of the base fabric as well as the method of cutting the fabric to provide sections which, when finally sewed together, produce the base body, and-usually the leg portions, of the trousers.
  • the fabric itself and thus the body and leg portions of the trousers, are stretchable or elastic in a pluraility of directions at least in some degree, so as to be extensible around the waist and in the seat of the wearer as well as substantially in a direction transversely of the extent of the waist.
  • FIG. I is an elevational view of a portion of a pair of trousers, shown broken away in its length, and into which certain features of the invention have been embodied;
  • FIG. 2 is an elevational view, to enlarged scale, of a portion of the trousers of FIG. 1, at the inside face of the portion including the waistband of the trousers and with parts broken away;
  • FIG. 3 is a detail cross-sectional view, to substantially an increased enlarged scale, substantially on the line 3-3 of F IG. 2;
  • FIG. 4 is an elevational view of a portion of a member which is to be used in imparting firmness and capability of elongation to the waistband of the trousers;
  • FIG. 5 is a similar view, but to a much larger scale, of a small section of such member, the section including one edge of such member;
  • FIG. 6' is a detail cross-sectional view, substantially on the line 6-6 of FIG. 5.
  • a portion 10 of a trousers construction consisting of a waistband construction l2, and a body portion 14 from which may extend leg portions 16 (only one being shown).
  • body portion 14 when body portion 14 is referred to, it is intended that it be understood that this body portion 14 may have leg portions 16 extending therefrom; however, it is to be understood that the construction to which the invention is applicable may be a skirt formation depending from such a waistband construction 12.
  • the waistband construction is the topmost portion of a pair of shorts, where the leg portions may be substantially of no considerable length.
  • waistband construction 12 In the description here, only certain details of waistband construction 12 will be emphasized; details of a waistband construction, for instance, where a fly portion (not shown) may be included, in accordance with certain desired structural purposes, will not be discussed. in substantially all details, waistband structure 12, such as is to be described, may be used to effect certain of the purposes of the invention.
  • Body portion 14 may be made of the type of fabric generally known as double knit. At the top edge of body portion 14 (see FIG. 3) is positioned a separate piece of material which may be seamed to the fabric making up body portion 14, this separate piece of material thus providing the outside face 18 of waistband construction 12. Now the fabric of body portion 14 and of waistband construction 12 may be seamed together, as at 20. In the process of manufacture, it may be found more desirable to assemble different parts of waistband construction 12 before its assembly finally is sewed together with body portion 14. For this purpose, a length of a specially designed waistband liner 22 may first be associated with fabric 24 for which the character 18 indicates the outer face.
  • a piece 26 of lining material is secured at the bottom edge 27 of liner 22.
  • piece 26 is folded back on itself.
  • Bottom edge 27 of liner 22 is located between the free ends 28 of folded piece 26.
  • Another piece 30 of lining material is folded on itself, and its free ends 32 are positioned in juxtaposition to, and so asto be substantially at the same level as are ends 28 with relation to, bottom edge 27.
  • another piece 34 is cut to be of a length substantially to be fitted together with the width of liner 22 in the manner to be described.
  • One end 36 of piece 34 is laid against the superimposed ends 28 and 32 and the nested bottom edge 27; a single line of chain stitching 37 is used to secure pieces 26, 30 and 34 to bottom edge 27.
  • pieces 26, 30 and 34 may be woven fabric, and the pieces may be cut on the bias.
  • Top free end 38 of piece 34 is folded back on itself, and laid against the down folded upper edge 40 of fabric 24.
  • End 45 of fabric 24 and portion 14 are located to be and are stitched together by seam 20 close to their end edges.
  • a single chain stitch seam 52 may be caught through piece 26 close to its folded end 54, and, as a blindstitch, engage in body fabric 14 below the seamed together portions of body fabric 14 and fabric 24.
  • liner 22 provides an anchor to hold liner 22 in place; yet, because of the inherent elastic character of chain stitch seam 52, liner 22 may function for the purpose of imparting a somewhat rigid effect transversely of waistband construction 12, while, at the same time, also imparting substantial elasticity lengthwise of waistband construction 12.
  • liner 22 includes a number of elastic strands 56 extending lengthwise of the liner. The strands are spaced apart in the width of the liner. In the instance shown, elastic strands 58 and 60 are positioned at the very edges 62 and 64 of the liner At substantially equal intervals transversely of the liner, other strands 56 are located. Strands 56 are spaced a substantial distance apart. This spacing may be variable, according to the purposes to be obtained. In a specific structure, the spacings with one-eighth inch, three-sixteenth inch, and one-fourth 7 inch.
  • interlaced network 66 consisting of thin plastic fibers 68.
  • these fibers have the form of a woven fabric, with the exception that these fibers do not follow the usual pattern of a weft of woven material, but extend angularly with relation to strands 56.
  • the result is the illustrated intermeshed network '66.
  • these fibers may be of plastic filaments, other materials may be used to produce network 66. It is important thatfibers 68 impart substantial resistance to deformation, of the substantially flat liner 22, in the final'assembly. This may not be the condition when fibers 68 are interwoven with strands 56.
  • Fibers 68 actually pass around strands 58 and 60, just as normally woven threads pass around the selvage threads of a woven fabric. However, by a process, as, for instance, by the application of heat, fibers 68 are set so as to obtain a structure which resists any attempt to distort the fibers from the relatively flat form in which network 66 finally functions in member 22.
  • waistband construction 12 will at substantially all times fit snugly around the waist of the wearer, and will resist any force which attempts to curl the waistband construction across its width.
  • a garment having an upper section intended to encircle the waist of a wearer, the garment including body fabric formed to provide the outer exposed body encasing portion of the garment, a waistband construction for the garment, the waistband construction including the upper portion of said formed body portion, a band extensible elastically lengthwise of the waistband, the band being relatively unstretchable in its width, said body fabric being folded over at its upper extremity and downwardly within the garment for a short distance to form a pocket, the upper edge of said band being fitted into said pocket, a plurality of bias cut fabric pieces, extensible means for securing the bias pieces together and to said band closely adjacent to the bottom edge of said band, one of said bias cut pieces extending upwardly from its securement positionto conceal the band and the bias cut pieces securing means, said one bias cut piece having its top edge secured to the folded over fabric, the bias cut pieces securing means being secured to said band above its bot tom edge, a second one of said bias cut pieces extending from the position of securement adjacent the bottom edge
  • the band comprising material of openwork construction where the material, when assembled as a part of the waistband, is elastic substantially only longitudinally around the waist.
  • the band comprising material of openwork construction where the material, when assembled as a part of the waistband, is elastic substantially only longitudinally around the waist, the top edge of said one fabric piece being folded, and the means for securing the one bias cut fabric piece to the folded over fabric comprising extensi' ble stitching.
  • the band comprising material of openwork construction where the material, when assembled as'a part of the waistband, is elastic substantially only longitudinally around the waist, the top edge of said one fabric piece being folded, and the means for securing the one bias cut fabric piece to the folded over fabric comprising extensible stitching engaged through the folded over fabric and also the band in the pocket.
  • the band comprising material of openwork construction where the material, when assembled as a part of the waistband, is elastic substantially only longitudinally around the waist, said body fabric being of knitted construction and being stretchable in both the length and in the width of said waistband.
  • said body fabric being of knitted construction and being stretchable in both the length and in the width of said waistband.
  • the top edge of said one fabric piece being folded, and the means for securing the one bias cut fabric piece to the folded over fabric comprising extensible stitching engaged through the folded over fabric and also the band in the pocket, and the means for securing the second bias cut piece to the body fabric being also of extensible stitching, and a third bias cut piece depending from the bias cut pieces securing means to conceal the engagement of the second bias cut piece with the body fabric.
  • the band comprising material of openwork construction where the material, when assembled as a part of the waistband, is elastic substantially only longitudinally around the waist, the openwork material being formed of plastic strands extending substantially parallel to each other with definite spaces between adjacent strands, and having filaments extending in the length of the band and engaged with the strands, the filaments themselves being positively elastic.
  • the band comprising material of openwork construction where the material, when assembled as a part of the waistband, is elastic substantially only longitudinally around the waist, the openwork material being formed of plastic strands extending substantially parallel to each other with definite spaces between adjacent strands, and having filaments extending in the length of the band and engaged with the strands, the filaments themselves being positively elastic, the strands being substantially inelastic but being of relatively nonlinear form to pro vide for limited elongation.
  • the band being substantially firm but flexible and resilient in its width.
  • the band comprising material of openwork construction where the material, when assembled as a part of the waistband, is elastic substantially only longitudinally around the waist, the top edge of said one fabric piece being folded, and the means for securing the one bias cut fabric piece to the folded over fabric comprising extensi ble stitching engaged through the folded over fabric and also the band in the pocket, the band being substantially firm but flexible and resilient in its width to resist curling of the waistband while not interfering with the movement of the body of the wearer at the waist, and normally tending to resume the substantially straight line cross-section of its width.

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