Apparel – Nether garments – Bifurcated
Patent
1995-11-13
1997-05-20
Crowder, C. D.
Apparel
Nether garments
Bifurcated
2234, 2 781, 2 70, 2405, A41B 902
Patent
active
056302320
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to nether garments and is particularly applicable to tubular knit undergarments.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Men's underwear generally takes the form of long drawers or shorts. Shorts may be either boxer type which are normally cut from woven fabric and sewn to the desired configuration, and briefs which are generally made from knitted fabric so as to be form-fitting. Briefs may be either cut from flat fabric and sewn together to form the desired configuration or formed from knitted tubular fabric. Drawers are normally formed from knitted tubular fabric.
Men's underwear requires the presence of a fly front and fly fronts have traditionally been fabricated by making the garment in multiple pieces and assembling the pieces so as to provide the desired fly construction. Prior attempts to avoid the cutting and sewing operations have produced fly fronts which tend to gap open or which have presented difficulties in providing access through the fly front for urinating and the like.
SUMMARY OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
The present invention provides a novel fly construction for a nether garment which permits the nether garment to be fabricated from a single length of tubular knit fabric with the simple addition of fly flaps which are sewn to the tubular knit fabric on either side of a longitudinal slit forming the fly opening. The knitted tube is cut and shaped to provide leg openings which are completed by a conventional crotch seam and leg bands and is finished with a waist band in the conventional fashion.
The fly front of the present invention provides a neat appearance and an arrangement which does not unduly inhibit access through the fly opening.
The fly construction of the present invention is fabricated in a simple, yet effective, procedure, enabling eliminating of the expensive and time-consuming operations normally used for fashioning fly fronts.
More specifically, the present invention provides a fly front consisting of a slit in the tubular fabric, a pair of fly flaps co-extensive in length with the slit and secured, one to each edge of the slit opening, the fly flaps being anchored to the body of the garment by being sewn along their opposite ends to each other and to the body fabric at one side of the fly opening, thereby providing a laterally open tunnel between the flaps which affords access through the garment.
The fly construction of the present invention can be produced with a minimum of fabric handling steps.
The present invention enables the fly front to be produced by simply overlaying the fly area of a knitted tube with a patch of fabric which will be cut to form the fabric flaps of the fly assembly. The fabric patch is separated into two parts concurrently with the formation of a fly opening in the knitted tube and the two parts form the flaps which are sewn along the edges of the fly opening in the part of the tube which becomes the front panel of the garment. The patch is formed into separate flaps and the fly opening is formed in the front panel, and the flaps are connected to the edges of the fly opening. The flaps are then everted to the underside of the front panel through the fly opening and are sewn to the underside of the front panel on the same side of the fly opening to produce the novel fly assembly.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
All of the objects of the invention are more fully set forth hereinafter with reference to the accompanying drawing, wherein:
FIG. 1 is a front view of drawers embodying a fly assembly in accordance with the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a rear view of the drawers shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary face view with layers broken away to illustrate the fly assembly shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 4--4 of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a front view of a brief embodying a fly assembly in accordance with the present invention; and
FIGS. 6-11 are views similar to FIG. 3 but at a reduced scale illustrating the steps for fabricating the fly assembly of the present in
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Sears Roebuck & Co., F/W-1965; p. 257--Item #3 Thermal Underwear, Upper left of page, (Located in Group 2900 Library).
Banavage George
Miller Robert A.
Crowder C. D.
Hale Gloria
J.E. Morgan Knitting Mills, Inc.
Skillman Henry H.
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