US701931A - Mitten. - Google Patents

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No. 70|,91`5L Patentedv lune I0, |902.l

C. C. PRATT.

MITTEN.

(Application lled Sept. 12,' 1901.)

(No Moutel.) l

UNITED STATESV PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES C. PRATT, OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF TVVO-'THIRDS TO HARRISON'W. MERRILL, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, AND JOSEPH E. METCALF, OF KANSAS CITY, KANSAS. i 'l MITTEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 7o1,931, 1ated June 1o, 1902.

Application filed September 12, 1901. Serial N- '75,129. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. PRATT, a citizen of the United States, residing-at Kansas City, in the county of Wyandotte and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mittens, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to mittens, and more especially to that classrmade from a single Io piece of material, my object being toproduce a mitten which can be manufactured quickly and easily and at a very low cost.

To this end the. invention consists in certain novel and peculiar features of construe.-

I 5 tion and arrangements of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed, and in order that it may be fully understoodreference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a plan view of the blank.

2o Fig. 2 is a side view of the mitten as completed.

In the said drawings, 1 2 designate the two side or body portions of the blank and mitten, the same being straight at their lower 2 5 ends and approximately semicircular at their upper ends. The portion 2 ,is formed with a recess 3 and just above said recess with an approximat'ely semicircular projection 4.. Portion 1 is provided with a thumb-piece 5 to 3o register withrecess 3 and with a recess 6 just above, wherein the projection 4 is adapted to fit. Portion 1 is also provided with a thumbflap 7, which' is similar to thumb-piece 5, eX- cept that it is detached at its inner end from the body portion 1 by the formation of the recess 6, as shown clearly in Fig. l, the junction of the thumb-ilap with the thumb-piece being indicatedby the centrally-located foldline 8.

In completing the mitten the blank is first folded or doubled on the central dotted line l9. Thumb-Hap 7 is then folded back upon thumbpiece 5 along the dotted line 8, and its inner curved end ts snugly in the recess 3. Finally, projection 4. is folded down uponl body portion 2 and into recess 6 upon the dotted line 10. The meeting edges of the blank are then stitched together from the wrist end 12 to the base of the thumb-piece 5, from which point mittens can be manufactured from a single piece of material which conform to the shape' of the hand and which are of great strength and durability because at the rentrant angle between the thumb and body portion there is no seam running to the tip of the thumb, a seam which is invariably one of the rst to rip in mittens.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-` 1. A mitten, constructed of a single piece of material, and'consisting oftwo portions adapted to be folded longitudinally one upon the other, one having a curved recess, a thumbpiece, and a thumb-nap integrally united to the inner margin of the thumb-piece, and having a rounded inner end produced by the formation of said recess, the other portion having a recess to receivethe inner rounded end of said iiap and a projection to enter the recess of the first named portion, stitches uniting the edges of said portions from their lower margins to the ymeetingl point of said thumb piece and flap, stitches uniting the rounded inner end of the thumb-flapnto the edge of the recessed portionjin which the rounded inner end of vsaidthpumb-lap fits, and stitches uniting theedges of 'said' portions around their forward ends and the rounded projection and recess, in which said projection fits, to the junction with the thu mb, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A mitten constructed of a single piece of material and consisting of two portions having their lower ends straight and their having a recess, a thumb-piece having a rounded outer end, and a thumb-lap having a rounded outer end and integrally united to the thumb-piece at the inner margin 0E the latter, and having a rounded inner end produced in the formation of said recess, the other portion having a recess to receive the inner rounded end of said ap and a projection to enter the recess of the first-named portion, stitches uniting the edges of said portions from their lower margins to the meeting points of said thumb piece and iiap, stitches uniting the rounded inner end of the thumb1ap to the portion containing the recess in which the rounded inner end of said thumb-Hap ts, and stitches uniting the edges of said portions around their semicircuiar ends and around the projection and recess to the junction with the thumb, al1 arranged substantially as and for the purpose set forth. In testimony whereof I aiix my signature in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

CHARLES C. PRATT. Vitnesses:

G. Y. THORPE, R. R. JOHNSTON.

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