US1679206A - Undergarment - Google Patents

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July31, 1928.

J. H. CROSSINGHAM UNDERGARMENT Filed Jan. 19, 1925 AT TORN EYS Patented July 31, 1928. v v UNITED STATES nuns 1r. cnossmcm, or eanmaivrown, rnmvsrnvamn.

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Application filed January 19, 1825. serial No. 8,336.

The present invention relates to knitted undergarments and more especially to so.

called union suits, and has for its principal ment and organization of the instrumental1t1es as herein shown and described.

For lllustrative purposes the undergarobject to provide a new and useful underment has been shown as being of the so-called 8 garment arranged to provide elasticit laterally of the garment below the nec band; to provide elasticity in an up and down direction at the rear neck portion and upper shoulder portion and to provide elasticity for the arm pit portions of the garment whereby a very desirable freedom and stretching of the garment ad acent the shoulder portions of the body of the wearer without inconvenience of binding and whereby a perfect fit of the arrnent upon the body of the wearer is o tamed. In order to accomplish the desired result, use is made of a yoke of-elastic knit fabric inserted in the body of the garment and having its wales horizontally or at right angles to the wales of'the body ofthe garment and having an arm pit gusset t he wales of which are arranged at an 1nclination to the wales of both yoke and body portion ofthe garment.

The invention consists of the novel construction hereinafter described and finally claimed.

The nature, characteristic features and scope of the invention will be more fu lly understood from the following descript on taken in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, and in which:

Fig. 1, is a View in perspect ve representing a human figure clothed with an undergarment embodying features of the invention.

Fig. 2, is a view in front elevation of the garment.

Fig. 3, is a fragmentary view in plan 11- lustrating the. directions of the wales ofthe oke.

y Fig. 4, is a fragmentary view of the underside of an arm pit portion of the garment; and Fig. 5, is a View hereinafter referred union suit type although, obviousl the construction about to be describe maybe adapted to any desired type of undergarment. Referring specifically to the drawing the union suit consists of the-body portion 1,

leg portions 2, yoke 3, including the arms 4, and gussets 5. The body 1 of the garment is made of an elastic knit fabric having its wales extending in a vertical direction and provided at the front median line with the usual closing flaps 6 having buttons for fastening the fiaps'together. The body 1 is provided with an inserted yoke 3 also made of an elastic knit fabric the wales of which run in a horizontal direction, that is, ap proximately at right an les to the wales of the body 1. The yoke l ias a portion of its lower edges both at the front and garment rear secured to the body 1 by lines of substantially horizontally arranged lines of stitches 7. For a portion of its extent the yoke is secured together along its lower edges by a line of stitches 8 to provide the sleeves 4. The intermediate portion of the yoke has secured thereto by a line of stitches 9 an arm pit gusset 5 which gusset at its opposite edge 15 secured by a line of stitches 10 to the body of the garment. The gussets are each formed of elastic knit fabric and the wales thereof extend at an inclination to both the wales of the yoke and the wales of the body. The yoke is provided with the usual neck band 11. The stitches 8, 9, 77, 9, 8, from arm extremity to arm extremity, as shown at the garment front in Fig. 2 and in the rear as shown in. Fig. 5, extend in a horizontal direction upon a substantially straight line.

An undergarment of the character above described thus provides adjacent the upper body, shoulder, neck, and arm portions a maximum amount of elasticity both horizontally and vertically and in an arc of a circle, which is highly desirable especially when used by athletes when freedom of the arms and shoulders of the human bodies are prime factors. By'means of an undergarment as above described various shoulder and arm movements of the wearer may be accomplished with perfect freedom and without the inconvenience of binding especially at and adjacent the arm pits of the present wearing garment.

It will now be apparent that I have devised a Irovel and useful construction which embodies the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the in vention and the above description and while I have in the present instance shown and described the preferred embodiment thereof which has been found in practice to give satisfactor and reliable results, it is to be understoo that the same is susceptible of modification in various particulars without departing from the spirit or see e of the invention or sacrificing any of its ao vantages.

Having-thus describedmy invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A knitted garment comprising a one piece body provided with vertical wales, which body extends upwardly to the neck-opening at the garment front and nearl to the neckopening at the garment bac a narrow, transverse seamless yoke the wales of which are horizontally extended, said yoke bein shaped to fit the neck-opening and arrange between the upper ends ofthe body and secured thereto by lines of stitches, said yoke being extended across the garment at the rear of the neck-opening, said yoke being extended to form integral sleeve portions, and seamless arm pit gussets each substantially of the configuration of an isosceles trapezium, the wales of which gussets are arranged at an inclination to both the wales of the body and the wales of the yoke, said yoke being connected to said body and said gussets at the front and rear by lines of stitches, the stitches at the garment front extending from the neck-opening to the sleeve ends, and the stitches at the back extending entirely across the back to the sleeve ends, said gusset-s being connected by. lines of stitches extending vertically from points below the body top to said yoke, and horizontally across the gusset top to said yoke, from points short of the sleeve ends to said vertical lines of stitches.

JAMES H. CROSSINGHAM.

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