US889877A

US889877A - Garment.

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Publication number: US889877A
Application number: US41318308A
Authority: US
Inventors: Samuel Greenes
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1908-01-29
Filing date: 1908-01-29
Publication date: 1908-06-02
Anticipated expiration: 1925-06-02

Description

IPATENTEDIJUNE 2, 1908.

S. GREENES.

GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 29, 1908.

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SAMUEL GREENES, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK.

GARMENT.

Application filed January 29, 1908.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, SAMUEL GREENEs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Poughkeepsie, in the county of Dutchess and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Garment, of which the follow ing is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to garments, my more particular purpose being to produce a garment provided with openings so secured by fastenings as to render the size of the garment, to some extent, adjustable at will, and so arranged that the garment is reversible, presenting to the eye a constructional difference in appearance when viewed upon one of its sides, as com ared with the view presented from the ot er side.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation showing the garment upon the person, and so worn that the lacing cords are visible and may be manipulated from the outside of the garment for the purpose of increasing or decreasing the size of the garment; Fig. 2 is a fragmen- 'tary elevation showing the back of the garment, and also showing the garment so turned that the lacing cords may be seen from the outside; Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary plan of a portion of the garment, showing the same as folded so as to form an opening covered by a plait, and further showing the lacing cord for adjusting the size of the opening; Fig. 4 is a diagrammatic section through the upper portion of the garment, showing how the lacing cords are distributed in order to enable the operator to vary, within limits, the size of the garment, this view further showing how the plaits are concealed inside the garment when it is desired to show the cords outside of the same; and Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary section through one of the plaits and the embroidered lacing holes disposed adjacent to opposite edges of the plait.

The body of the garment is shown at 6, the neck portion at 7, a hood at 8, this hood being mounted upon the upper portion of the garment for the purpose of partially encompassing the wearers head, and at 9 is a cape Specification of Letters Patent.

, of the garment.

Patented June 2, 1908.

Serial No. 413,183.

connected permanently with the body portion. At 10 are plaits made by folding the body portion back upon itself, as indicated in Fig. 5, the folds 11 being sewed and pro vided with worked holes 18 for receiving a lacing cord 12, as will be understood from Figs. 3 and 5. The folds 11 are thus separated by an opening 6 and by loosening or tightening the cords 12 the folds 11 may be allowed to move apart or be drawn toward each other, as the case may be. This renders the garment adjustable within wide limits.

The neck portion 7 is not changed, and the bottom portion, because it hangs loosely, can readily accommodate itself to persons of different sizes, but the upper portion of the garment, adjacent to the wearers shoulders, may be extended or contracted at will by simply changing the tightness of the cords 12.

As there are four different openings 6, the effects of adjusting the garment are dis tributed equally upon four different portions That is to say, the garment, as a whole, may be adjusted Within wide limits, yet no particular opening 6 need be changed greatly in size, for the reason that there are several such openings and the spacing may be rendered equal in all of them, At '14 isa plait in the back of the garment.

This garment is reversible. When worn 'as indicated in Fig. 1, the cords 12, being upon the outside, are visible. If, however, the garment be turned, the plaits 1.0, being upon the outside, conceal the cords 12. This gives the garment a different appearance according as one side or the other may be worn outwardly.

The appearance of the plaits 10 presents such a marked contrast to the appearance of the cords 12 laced through the worked holes 13, that the garment, for many purposes, serves practically as two distinct garments.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

In a garment, the combination of a body portion folded upon itself so as to form a number of plaits, said plaits being spaced substantially equidistant, said garment being provided, adjacent to each of said plaits, with a plurality of holes disposed upon opposite sides of the plait, and a lacing member In testimony whereof I have signed my threaded through said holes for the purpose name to this specification in the presence of of contracting and enlarging said garment at tWo subscribing Witnesses.

the plaits, said garment being reversible so SAMUEL GREENES. 5 that when Worn in one position said lacing Witnesses:

member is visible,- and When Worn in another JANE S. B. HARRIS,

position said lacing member is concealed. SALLIE B. FLEMING