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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM M. JENKINS AND WILLIAM H. VAUGHAN, OF DALLAS, TEXAS.
VENTILATED BODY-GARMENT.Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 28, 1920.
Application filed February 5, 1920. Serial No. 356,559.To all whomit may concern:
Be it known that we, WILLIAM M. JEN-
KINs and WILLIAM H. VAUGHAN, citizens of
the United States, residing at Dallas, in the
5 county of Dallas and State of Texas, have
invented certain new and useful Improve-
ments in Ventilated Body-Garments; and
we do declare the following to be a full,
clear, and exact description of the inven-
10 tion, such as will enable others skilled in the
art to which it appertains to make and use
the same.
This invention relates to ventilated body
garments, and more specifically to the class
15 of garments known as union-oversuits or
"unionalls."
One object of this invention is to gener-
ally improve upon garments of this charac-
ter by providing an improved shoulder cov-
20 ring in connection with an apertured arm-
pit portion, for reinforcing these portions of
the garment and at the same time providing
an air passage from which rain is effectively
excluded.
25 Other objects and advantages will be
pointed out or implied in the following de-
tails of description in connection with the
accompanying drawings in which:-
Figure 1is a perspective view of the com.-
30 plete garment, showing the front portion of
the garment.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the com-
plete garment, showing the rear portion
thereof.
35 Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail perspective
view illustrating the garment in an unfin-
ished state, showing the flaps or tongues of
the covering spaced from the parts of the
trunk-receiving portion and the adjacent
40 sleeve to which these tongues are secured
when the garment is completed.
Fig. 4 is a sectional detail view, the sec-
tion being taken substantially along the line
4-4 of Fig. 3, of the finished garment.
45 Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view, the sec;
tion being taken substantially along the line
5-5 of Fig. 3, of the finished garment.
Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail perspective
view somewhat similar to Fig. 3, but show-
50 ing one of the tongues of the covering in its
final or useful position.
Referring to these drawings in detail, in
which similar reference characters corre-
spond with similar parts throughout the
55 several views, and in which the trouser'sportion 1 may be of any appropriate con-
struction and secured to the trunk-receiving
portion 2 by any appropriate means, the in-
vention consists in the details of construc-
tion hereinafter described specifically as fol- 60
lows:
The sleeves 3 are secured to the trunk-re-
ceiving portion 2 in the usual way except
that the lower part 4 of each sleeve is not
directly stitched or secured to the armpit 65
portion 5, and an opening or slot 6 extends
transversely from a point below the front
shoulder portion to a point below the rear
shoulder portion of the garment. A yoke
or covering 7 may be formed of a single 70
piece of sheet material, or may consist of
two pieces joined at 7a (see Fig. 2). This
yoke or covering includes 2 pairs of tongues,
the tongues of each pair being designated
by the numerals 8 and 9 respectively. The, 75
trunk-receiving portion has two inwardly
turned substantially vertical edges 10 whose
upper ends terminate at the respective arm-
pit portions, and the primarily free ends of.
the tongues 8 and 9 extend between and are 80
stitched to the adjacent inwardly turned
edges 10, as clearly shown in Figs. 4 and 5.
Referring to Fig. 4, it will be seen that
the sleeve 3 is also formed with inwardly.
turned edges adjacent to each armpit por- 85
tion, as indicated at 11, and that the in-
wardly turned edges or ends of the tongues
8 and 9 also extend between the edges 11
and are stitched thereto in the same man-
ner in which they are stiched to the in- 90
wardly turned portions 10, as shown in
Fig. 5.
The upper edges of the tongues 8 and 9
of each pair are stitched throughout their
combined length to the lower armpit por- 95
tion of the adjacent sleeve 3, as indicated at
12 in Fig. 4, and it is to be understood that
the stitching 12 holds these tongues in such
close-fitting relation to the sleeve 3 that
water cannot enter this joint. The portions 100
of the tongues 8 and 9 which overlie the
front and rear shoulder portions of the gar-
ment are stitched thereto, but the lower
edges 8a and 9a are disconnected or free from
engagement with the parts of the trunk- 105
receiving portion in front of and in rear of
the armpit portion (as clearly illustrated in
Figs. 1 and 2), to provide front and rear air
passages 13 and 14 (see Figs. 4 and 5).
Referring again to Fig. 4, it will be seen 1101,363,981.
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Jenkins, William M. & Vaughan, William H. Ventilated Body-Garment., patent, December 28, 1920; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1256511/m1/3/?rotate=270: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.