US993886A - Garment. - Google Patents

Description

V. M.. SCHMITZ.

GARMENT. APBLIOATION IILED SEPT. 1o, 1910.

Patented May 3o, 1911.

WITNESSES:

ATTORNEYS innrTnn sTaTas raTnnT @Tirion VALENTINE M. SCHMTZ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 3d, Miti.

Application led September 1.0, 1910. Serial No. 581,348.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that VALENTINE M. SCHMITZ, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have -invented a new and Improved Garment, of which the ioldurable in construction, which can be in-y expensively produced, in which wrinkling or puckering atthe .waist portion is avoidy ed, and which obviates the use of suspenders, straps, a belt, or other ordinary means at present used for supporting the garment. The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts to be more fully described hereinafter and particularly set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanyi ing drawings ormin a part of this specili- A -planation ofiny, invention, .it'should be,

cation, in which simi ar .characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, and infwhich` Figure l is -a perspective view showing an embodiment of my invention in use; Fig. 2 is a fragmentary, perspective viewo part of a garment having my invention applied thereto; Fig. 3' is a cross section of the part of the garment shown in Fig. 2; Fig. 4l 1s a view similar to Fig. 2,.showing a certain part which is broken away in Fig. 2; F 1g. 5 is a fragmentary, side elevation of part of a garment having a modied form ot my Ainvention applied thereto; Fig. 6 is an interior elevation of ,art of the garment having a further modified form of my invention applied thereto; Fig. 7 is aI plan of a part of the garment shown in Fig. 6; and F 1g. 8

is a plan of the section on the line 8 8 of.

Fig. 6.

Before proceeding to a more detailed eX- clearly understood that while the same is particularly useful in connection with trousers of the usual construction, it can also be advantageously employed with mens, youths, or boys knee pants, bicycle pants, riding trousers, overalls, baseball, football, and golf or other sporting' garments, as well as with skirts and the like.

While the invention is adapted for use lwith the styles of garments enumerated above, as well as others, I have illustrated the same as applied for example, to trousers of the usual type. l

Certain of the details of of the invention, and can be varied in acconstruction shown for example herewith, form no party cordance with individual preference and special conditions, without departing from the underlying spirit of the invention. Referring more particularly to the drawings, the trousers 10, have legs 11, and a waist portion 12, of the usual construction. The legs have side seams 18, at which are located the side pockets 14. 'In the preferred form of the device, the side seams, at the upper ends, form the usual darts 15. Near each of the side seams, and preferably at the rear thereof, the waist portion of the trousers is provided with openings 16 i formed at darts 17. At the openings, the

waist portion terminates in flaps 18 and 19. These flaps are formed of double thicknesses of material and are so arranged .that the members 18 are received telescopically within the members 19. The openings, theref fore, have the appearance of ordinary darts, as the outer layers of material of the naps 19 overlie the correspondino' layers of material of the fiaps 18. rlhis 1s clearly shown in Figs. l and 4.

I employ extensible members 20 consisting of preferably triangular pieces of elastic webbing or any other suitable material. lThe extensible pieces 2,0 are located at the openings lG, being sewed or otherwise secured in place betweenthe layersor thicknesses of material of the flaps 18 and 19. The eX- tensible pieces are secured' at their edges, within the fiaps 18 and 19, and render the waist portion of the trousers extensible. Owing to the telescoping arrangement of the flaps, the Waist portion can he stretched without disclosing the elastic materiai. rihis is at all times hidden by the deps.

` @in Fig-'5' I lhave shown a modified form the invention, in which the trousers 21 flaps, the ends being sewed or otherwise secured in place."

In Figs. 6,', 7 and 8, is illustrated a fu'rther modified form of the invention, 1n

which the trousers 29 have .the waist portion 30 provided with openingsl. The waist portion terminates in iiaps 32 and 33 4of the openings, the liaps being arranged to telescope as in the above-described forms of t-he invention. A strip 34 of extensible material is secured within the {iaps by sewing or in any other suitable mannen and serves the same purpose as the elements 2O and 28 before mentioned. A reinforcing elastic strip 35 is arranged at the inside of tlfe inner layer of material forming the flap 32, and

is secured at one end, between a lining 36 and the inside of the flap 32, and at the other end is fastened to the inner layer of material forming the iap 33.

-While l have preferred to fashion the gar ment with at least two openings having the extensible members, a single opening, 1f so desired, can be employed at any suitable part of the waistportion. lf necessary, on the other hand, more than two of the openings can belemployed, to distribute the elastic material more uniformly about the waist portion.

Having thus described my invention, l

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eeaese claim as new, and desire to lsecure by Letters Patent:

l. A garment having a waist portion.

formed with an opening, and having one edge of said opening extending over the other, whereby the other is concealed, and an elastic connection between said edges and concealed by said rst-mentioned edge.

2. A garment, having a waist 'portion formed with an opening, and terminating at said opening in double iaps', one of said flaps being received telescopically within the other of said flaps, and an elastic material arranged within said iaps and secured' at opposite edges to said respective flaps.

3. A garment, having a waist portion formed with an opening, and terminatingat said opening in iiaps formed from two thicknesses of material, said flaps being closed at the top and open at the adjacent edges one f of said iaps being arranged to telescope between the two thicknesses of material of the other of said flaps, and an elastic member arranged within said flaps and secured thereto, whereby said flaps serve to conceal said elastic material at all times.

et. A garment having at the waist portion thereof an opening, and terminating at the edges of said openings in flaps, one of said fiaps being double and having the other of said iiaps received telescopically therein,

and an elastic material arranged within said double flap and secured to said respective YIn testimony whereof have signed my name to this specification in 'the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' VALENTlNE M'. SClib/ITZ. vWitnesses JOHN K. BnAonvoenL, PniLrP D. Ronin-inns.

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