USRE14019E - Ijnion suit - Google Patents

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M. M. HENDERSON.

UNION SUIT.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 28. I915} Reissued Nov. 23, 1915. 14,01 9.

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M. M. HENDERSON.

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APPLICATWN FILED JULY 28.1915,

Reissued Nov. 23, 1915.

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MABKJUQHENDEBSON, OF NOBWALK, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR- TO HENDERSON ERVIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

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Specification of Reissued Letters Patent. Reissue d N 23 1915 Original No. 1,070,340, dated August 12, 1913, Serial No. 780,577. Application for reissue filed July 28,

. 1915. Serial No.42,445.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MARK M. HENDERSON,

a citizen of the United States, and resident of Norwalk, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Union Suits, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to union suits of non-elastic material and my improvements provide means whereby free body movement of the wearer is allowed without applying tension to the material of the garment,

A further feature of my invention'comrises the provision of 7 mg which fastens up at the side of the leg, and which, when closed forms a single, continuous complete covering for the rear parts.

In order that my invention may be clearly comprehended and explained in detail I have included in the drawings diagrams of the several patterns or portions used in constructing the garment, as well as views of thecompleted union suit. Thus:

Figure l shows the i pper back ortion; Fig. 2 the right front; ig. 3 the le t front; Fig. 4 the waist band; Fig. 5 the right leg, and Fig. 6 the left leg. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of a completed garment. Fig. 8 is an enlarged, detail rear view, and Fig. 9 a complete rear view.

It being the urpose of my invention to afford full free om of body motion without straining any portion of a union garment of non-plastic material I- have resorted to a certain construction of the garment portions,

both' above and below the waist band,

whereby, without the exercise of tension upon the band or other portions of the garment, a fullness of material is' provided which accommodates itself to all such movements, allowing perfect comfort to the wearer at all times.

In Fig. 1 will be seen the fullness a,which,

as gathered in and sewed to thewaist band 1) provides the fullness c at the back ofthe garment, above the waist band which allows the wearer to stoop or bend forwardly with all freedom, without putting strain upon any part of the garment.

he front portions, as in Figs. 2 and 3, are correspondingly cut as at d d, allowing a fullness in front which can be increased or diminished according to whether the model is for persons of greater or less corpulency.

a sanitary flap open- It willbe noted that while extra material is allowed back and front in the upper garment port1on-, .to provide the fullness referred to, the material at the opposite sides extends down to the waist band without sur- P S- The drawers portions, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 haveeach the upper fullness of material as at e f, which as sewed'to the waist band,'co1 ncides with the fullness c and d over the intervening waist band, said drawers port1ons having no surplus material at their s1des where they aline with the sides of the upper garment portion, which also have no surplus material. Thus, at these side portlons, which may be designated by the letter g, the waist band forms a connector between upper and lower parts of the garment which are without fullness at these designated points. At these parts 9 the garment may be said to pivot or hinge in the various fiexings of the body, while the waist band malntains its true circular position about the wearers 'waist, because no strain can come upon its several parts in such movements.

The side of one drawers leg is separated in a vertical line from the lower end of the trunk to the waist band, as at h, and is proupon any part of the garment.

Owing to the construction indicated the waist band is. not influenced or shifted in any part thereof from its central position through the body movements because the fullness of material above and below said band and confinedthereby compensate for 1 such movements, as is obvious. It will be I noted that'the retention lines or seams, as i of the upper garment portion are shorter than either back or front portions, and have their junction with the drawers portions, over the waist band, at the points g; or where no fullness of material exists either strain is cation of the drawers side opening lawhich is ina vertical linea short distance back from a vertical line in the true center of the outer side of the drawers leg,'where it comes under the, sphere of influence of the fullness of material provided, whereby no imposed upon thefastenings of said side opening when the wearer is bending or sitting. y v

'As shown in the patterns of Figs. 2 and 3 the front portions of the garment can be extended in the manner indicated by dotted lines j, to increase the girth of'the garment for corpulent wearers, this extension of material cooperating with the upper and lower fullnesses of material previously referred to. On account of the loose -fit.-of the union suit about the wearer, the fullnesses' provided, and the general construction thereof; is allowed and, because of the facility with 'which the garment maybe shifted about perfect freedom of movement therein,

thrown back and, the entlre rear parts con veniently exposed, all without the application of tension'to I'claim: 1. A union suitof non-elastic material consisting ofa body and drawers portions 29th day'of any part of the garment.

connected together by a waistband, said body and drawers portions respectively having only front and back fullnessesof material at a point immediately above and below the waistband, said suithaving a central front opening with fastening means and a separate and independent opening with fastening means extending from the bottom of one drawers leg, at its outer side, upwardly to the waistband, forming a rear or seat flap.

2.'A union suit of non-elastic material consisting of a body and drawers portions connected together by a waistband, said body and drawers portions respectively having only front and back fullness of materialat a point immediately above and below the Waistband and confined thereby, and said suit having a front opening with fastening means.

y '3. A union suit garment consisting of non-elastic materialand'comprising a body portion, a drawers portion, and a waist-band connecting said portion's, the bodyportion being provided with a fullness in the back immediately above the waistband and confined by said waistband and the side seams of the garment.

' Signed at New York, in the county of New York, and State of New York, this June, 1915. MARK M. HENDERSON. Witnesses:

LOU'ISE ENDERLE,

THOMAS A. Him.

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