US805259A - Sweater. - Google Patents

Description

No. 805,259. PATENTBD NOV. 21, 1905.

' E. H. BROWN.

. SWEATER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 6, 1905.,

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EVERETT H. BROWN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO LEICESTER AND CONTINENTAL MILLS COMPANY, OF GERMANTOWN, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF NEIV JERSEY.

SWEATER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1905.

Application filed June 6, 1905. Serial No. 263,916.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EVERETT H. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sweaters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to knit garments of the variety commonly known as sweaters. These are of two classes, namely: those-with a high continuous collar encircling the neck of the wearer and those with a rolling collar shaped much after the fashion of a coat-collar, not continuous around the neck and not covering the front of the throat of the wearer. My improvement is predicated on a sweater of the latter class, and in these the collar is usually double-ply, is knitted separately from the body portion of the garment, and afterward united thereto by a looping-machine.

My invention consists of improvements in the collar portion wherebyitis provided with a flap-piece, with means to adjustably fasten it in position so that the same garment may at pleasure of the wearer be converted into a garment with an open or rolling collar or when desired be worn as a garment with a practically-continuous collar.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is an elevation of a detached section of the body and collar of the garment with a flap of the collar in closed position. Fig. 2 is a like view with the flap of the collar folded under and showing the collar converted into the usual open collar. Fig. 3 is a like view of the detached collar portion before it is looped onto the body portion of the garment, and Fig. 4:is a section on the line 4. 4 of Fig. 1.

Referring now to said drawings, 1 is the body portion of the sweater, made of knit fabric, as usual, the knitted stitches of which it is composed running vertically, as indicated by the hatch-lines. It is so shaped in knitting as to provide a slotted opening central of the breast portion and extending to the neck-line thereof. This slotted opening is preferably V-shaped. The collar (shown detached in Fig. 3) must correspond in exterior edge outline with the slotted opening in the body portion and is knitted separately therefrom.

This collar consists of a knitted band composed of the neck part 2, with the oppositelydisposed breast portions 3 and 4 folded around frontwise and extending downward preferably in such manner that their extremelower edges will not only meet, but overlap each other in register. The breast portion 3 of the collar is provided wit-h a flap 5, preferably knitted integral therewith, said flap being shown of triangular shape and arranged relatively to the breast portion 3 and intermediate the length of the latter in order that the horizontal short side of the triangular flap shall be coincident with the plane of the lower edge of the rear portion 20f the collar. In width the flap5 is so proportioned as to supply an edge portion 6, which will extend underneath the inner edge of the part A of the collar, as indicated by the dotted lines in Figs. 3 and 1. Means are provided to removably fasten the flap 5 to the edge portion 4 of the collar, such as the spring-buttons and correspondingretaining-eyes. (Indicated at 7 7 in Figs. 1 to 3 and in section on Fig. 4.) The complete collar portion of the garment (shown in detached view in Fig. 3) is then united to the bodv portion 1 of the garment by looping the outer edges of the parts 3 and A and the lower edge of the part 2 in the usual way to the corresponding edges of the body fabric. The garment thus constructed enables the wearer to fold under the flap 5, as indicated in Fig. 2, thus converting the collar into an open rolling collar, or to button the flap 5 to the edge portion t of the collar, converting the latter into practically a continuous collar and also covering the breast of the wearer.

The collar portion, Fig. 3, is preferably made double ply, as shown in Fig. 4, in order as Well to give thickness to the neck portion 2 as to give more or less rigidity to the breast portions 3 and A and flap 5 that they may better preserve their shape and form. In such case, however, it would be difficult to fold the double-ply flap 5 under the double-ply edge portion 3. Hence in knitting the parts 3 and 5 I provide for dropping asingle line of knitted stitches coincident with the line of the fold of the flap, as indicated at 8in other words, making the knitted fabric single ply at the connecting part 8, which not only obviates the difficulty stated, but supplies a foldifnigdline, which insures an even and sightly Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a knitted sweater comprising a body portion having a substantially V-shaped slotted opening central of the breast portion and extending to the neck-line, the combination therewith of a collar united thereto and composed of a rearward neck portion and oppositely-disposed breast portions, one of which is provided with a folding flap adapted to fill the space between the breast portions of the collar and extend to a line coincident with the neck portion thereof.

2. In a sweater comprising a knitted body portion having a \I-shaped opening central of the breast portion, of a collar corresponding in exterior edge outline with said opening, and united to the coinciding edges thereof, said collar havinga rearward neck portion and oppositely-disposed breast portions, one of the latter having a folding flap adapted to register with the opposite breast portion, with means to removably secure it thereto.

3. In a sweater comprising a knitted body portion having a \l-shaped opening central of the breast portion, of a knitted double-ply collar corresponding in exterior edge outline with said opening and secured to the coinciding edges thereof, said collar having a rearward neck portion and oppositely-disposed breast portions, one of the latter being provided with a flap united thereto by a single-ply line of knitted stitches to adapt it to be folded on said line. I

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my signature this 25th day of May, A. D. 1905.

EVERETT H. BROWN.

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