Apparel – Body garments – Shirts
Reexamination Certificate
1999-02-03
2001-03-20
Mohanty, Bibhu (Department: 3741)
Apparel
Body garments
Shirts
C002S243100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06202216
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a garment. More specifically, the invention relates to a garment which is suitably used especially as a sports wear jacket such as golf wear.
If an arm is raised or an upper half of a body is largely twisted while the arm is swung with a garment such as golf wear on, a large resistance may be felt in a part under the arm. In an extreme case, a bottom portion of a jacket was pulled to be exposed from trousers, which led to inconvenient disorder of the garment.
Such inconvenience may be attributed to a shape of a portion for connecting a body of a garment and a sleeve section of the jacket with each other. In other words, such a problem may be caused by a deviation in fulcrums of motion in upper and lower directions between the arm and the jacket while the arm is raised.
A fulcrum of motion of an arm for an upper part of the body is located roughly in the center of an arm hole of the garment. But a fulcrum of motion of the garment is located in a part under the arm. Such a difference in fulcrums of motion between the two may produce a feeling of resistance, i.e., pulling of a garment material in the body of a garment, when the arm is raised or the upper half of the body is twisted while the arm is swung.
For providing a jacket which enables a smooth movement to be made without any feelings of resistance, i.e., pulling of a garment material in the body of a garment like that described above, a material having high stretchability may be employed. Alternatively, an unsewn (seamless) structure made of one sheet of cloth may be utilized.
However, if a garment is made of a material having high stretchability, it is uncomfortable to wear because the garment material sticks to a body. If a garment has an unsewn structure made of one sheet of cloth, shape crumbling easily occurs. In addition, application of the material having high stretchability to general garments is limited, because it can only be used for special purposes.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide a garment which enables a smooth movement to be made with only a limited feeling of resistance, i.e., pulling of its material in a part under an arm, when the arm is raised or an upper part of a body is twisted while the arm is swung. It is another object of the invention to provide a garment which is suitably used as sports wear such as golf wear.
In order to achieve the foregoing object, a garment of the present invention comprises: a front body of a garment; a rear body of a garment; arm holes formed in upper parts of both left and right side lines, where the front and rear body of a garment are stitched together; sleeve sections fixed to the arm holes; protruded sections formed in upper parts of both side lines so as to be united with the front and rear body of a garment, where parts of the front and rear body of a garment are extended to centers of the arm holes; and slack sections formed in portions where the protruded sections and parts of the sleeve sections under arms are stitched together.
As described above, according to the present invention, the protruded sections are formed in the upper parts of the side lines under the arms where the front and rear body of a garments are stitched together, the protruded sections being united with the front and rear body of a garments, and the slack sections are formed in the portions stitched to sleeve fixing sections of the sleeve sections. Accordingly, when the arm is raised or an upper part of a body is twisted while the arm is swung, a difference in fulcrums of motion between the arm and the sleeve section is absorbed by each of the slack sections, and thereby a feeling of resistance, i.e., pulling of a garment material in a part under the arm, can be prevented.
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Mohanty Bibhu
The Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd.
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