US1170272A - Union garment. - Google Patents

Description

w. K. JONES.

' UNION GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 11, 1915.

1,170,272. Pat ented Feb. 1, 1916.

William KJoneS TED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM KETCHUM JONES, OF WICHITA, KANSAS.

UNION GARMENT.

more particularly to a garment of this gen'- eral character wherein are combined overalls and jacket; and it is an object of my invention to provide a novel and improved garment of this general character wherein the jacket is provided at its back with a depending skirt adapted to overlie the seat flap of the garment and adapted to be secured to said seat flap independently of the fastening means for maintaining the seat flap in closed adjustment.

The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts of my improved union garment whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device is rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, all as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined .in the appended claim.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure 1 is a view in perspective illustrating a union garment constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention in applied position; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of my improved garment with the seat fiap in open adjustment and the skirt of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 1 1, 1915. Serial No. 33,572.

portion or jacket-of my improved garment and 2' the nether portion or overalls and 3 Patented Feb. 1, 1916.-

denotes the seat flap of the garment adapted to be maintained in closed adjustment through the medium of the fastening members 4 carried thereby and adapted to coact with the button-holes 5 arranged along each of the side openings 6.

The back 7 of the jacket or body portion of my improved garment is provided with the depending skirt 8 adapted to overlie the seat flap when in closed adjustment and of a width less than the width between the side seams or openings 6 of the nether portion of the garment and the'free corners of said skirt are provided with the button-holes 14 adapted to coact with the fastening members 9 secured to the seat flap adjacent the lower extremity thereof and at a point intermediate the side seams or openings 6 and the hip ockets 10 whereby it will be readily observe that the depending skirt may be effectively secured to or released from the flap without the. necessity of interfering in any way with the fastening means for maintaining the seat flap inclosed adjustment. It will also'be perceived that by buttoning the skirt 8.between the side openings 6 and the hip pockets 10, the user has the advantage of having the flap or skirt button down and at the same time has free access to the thought to be obvious that a union garment constructed in accordance with my invention is of an extremely simple and comparatively inexpensive nature and is particularly well adapted for use by reason of the convenience and facility with which it may be assembled,

and it will also be obvious that my invention f tice.

Iclaim: I a

A union garment comprising a body portion and a nether portion, said nether portion being provided with a seat opening, and a seat flap provided with a pocket and the jacket portion provided at its back with a depending skirt adapted to overlie the seat flap and the mouth of the pocket, said skirt being of a width less than the width ofrthe seat opening and having its sides terminating inwardly of and in spaced relation relatively to the side slits of the nether portion as afforded by the seat opening, fastening means for the seat flap, and co-acting fastening means carried by the seat flap adjacent its inner end and between the pocket and the sides thereof, at points below the top of the pocket and by the skirt adjacent its free corners, whereby said skirt may be secured to the flap in overlying relation, said co-acting fastening means being independent of the fastening means for the seat flap.

In testimony WhereofI hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM KETCHUM JONES.

Witnesses:

CHAS. F. SoHELL, ANNA VINCENT.

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