US1326517A - Garment. - Google Patents

Description

J. LIEBERMAN.

GA'RMENT. APPLICATION FILED JAN. x8, 1919.

Patented Deo. 30, 1919 JOSEPH LIEBERMAN, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Application led January 18, 1919. Serial No. 271,767.

To all whom z't may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH LIEBERMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Garment, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates in general to coats and similar garments which are formed with sleeves, and which are peculiarly intended to be used in sports such as golf, or in work, which involves the throwing forward of the arms of the wearer.

The object of the invention is to make a coat in such a way that the wearer can throw his arms forward without in so doing being constrained by the tension and resistance of 1tOhe fabric of an unyielding or inelastic coatack.

A further object is the making of a coat of the foregoing character, the back of which when in use and when the wearer Jis throwing or has thrown forward his arms, will present the same appearance as that of an ordinary coat which does not embody my invention.

With the foregoing objects in view, my invention comprehends a sleeve-provided coat of the general character represented in the accompanying drawing and hereinafter described and claimed,-it being understood that the component elements which the coat comprises may be variously arranged and modified in form and method of assemblage and union, and that my invention is not, therefore, limited to the precise embodiment represented in the drawings.

For the purpose, however, of illustrating my invention, I have in the accompanying drawing represented a preferred embodiment of it.

In the drawing Figure 1 represents a rear elevation of a coat, the right-hand half portion or section of the back of which is shown as unstitched and folded down over a waist line, so as to expose to view the right-hand portion of the elastic insert which my invention embodies.

Fig. 2 represents a side elevation of a coat embodying my invention, illustrating in eX- aggerated edge outline the left-hand gore.

Fig. 3 represents in full lines a horizontal, sectional plan on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, and in dotted lines, the lateral extension of which the coat is capable; and

Fig. f1 represents a fragmentary left-hand similar horizontal, sectional plan, typically illustrating the position which the adjunc- "tive parts occupy when the insert has been extended by the throwing forward of the arms of the wearer.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings l and 2 represent, respectively, the right and the left hand halves of the coat back proper, which possess the opposite counterpart shapes of an ordinary two-part coat back, and which in the 1nake-up of the garment shown are united by a central seam 3. Of course, if desired, the back proper can be made in one piece.

l and 5 designate, respectively, the left and the right hand halves of the coat front, which are respectively extended rea-rwardly by and into the left and the righthand gores, respectively designated 6 and 7.

Patented Dec. 30, 1919.

These gores which are of the same fabric A are respectively stitched to said halves as at 8 and 9.v

l0 deslgnates an elastic insert which underlies the back proper but is not attached to said back but only, by the stitch lines 11v and 12, to the inner free edges of the respective gores 6 and 7.

This insert is made of any elastic fabric, such, for instance, as woven Jersey cloth, or of other suitable elastic material, and may be stitched as at 13, to the shoulder seams of the body of the coat, as at 14: to the collar. In the construction shown, the insert is also stitched as at l5 to the lining when the coat is lined.

This insert which underlies the back proper and is preferably by the stitch lines 11 and 12, secured to the front of thecoat, constitutes a stretching element in the nature of an entirely concealed inner back which by its capacity of being stretched or extended permtits" of the 'free forward movement of the sleeves 16 and 17 when the arms of the wearer are thrown forward, without being exposed or altering the appearance of the other and forward, yet they are preferably made of such width, circumferentiall considered, as never to be pulled Whol y out and from under the back proper or so asto expose the elastic insert, and being of the Y same material as the back proper give the visual effect of. a uniform back.

In the drawing, I have shown a belt 18 upon the coat and have also shown a lining i the 'make-up. of certain kinds of coats. The

relation of the adjunctive parts of the coat when in normal and in extended or stretched position, are typically illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4. l

It will now be apparent that I have devised a new and useful garment Which embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable, and that While I have, in the present instance, shown and described a preferred embodiment of it which in practice has given satisfactory and reliable results, it is to be understood that the embodiment is susceptible of modification in various particulars Without departing from the spirlt or scope of the invention or sacrificing any ofits advantages. Having thus described my invention, 'what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:-

1. A coat having its back formed by an elastic fabric extending substantially across the back and between the shoulders. and

forming the major portion of the back and substantially from the neck portion to the waist line and secured to juxtaposed portions of the coat, and a back panel covering said elastic fabric, secured to the coat at its top and bottom, and disconnected from the coat at its sides.

. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my namev this 17th day of January,

JOSEPH LIEBERMAN.- In the presence of- J. BoNsALL TAYLOR,

' C. D. McVAr.

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