US212580A - Improvement in knit jackets - Google Patents

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B. WECHSLBR.

Knit Jacket.

Ne. 212,580. Patented Feb. 25,1879

Inl/'en Z011 HOTcL\THOGnAPHER, WASHINGTON UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIeE.

BENJAMIN WECHSLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN KNIT JACKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 212,580, dated February 25, 1879; application led November 23, 1878.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN WEoEsLER, of New York city, county and State of New York, have invented an Improved Cardigan Jacket, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a front view ot' my improved Cardigan jacket. Fig. 2 is a detail face view otl the upper part thereof, showing the armopening in the body otl the jacket before the said opening is closed. Fig. 3 is a similar view, but showing' the arm-opening closed. Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line c Fig. l; Fig. 5, a horizontal section on the line y y, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspending parts in all the tgures.

This invention relates to certain improvements in knit jackets which are known as Cardigan jackets,77 and which are usually knit in three pieces, one being the body and two sleeves.

M y invention consists in a new construction ot' yoke and ot' pocket at thelower part ot the jacket, as hereinafter more fully described.

The body A ot' the jacket is knit on a suitable knitting-machine to form the ordinary straight parallel rows a a of meshes. Along the arm-hole b the front rows, a2 a3, of meshes, which approach the lower end, d, of said armhole, are continued in a concave line around the same to the upper end, e, ot' the arm-hole, and thence along' the line of the yoke g to the collar at j. Thus said rows form a selvage, fi, properly rounded to lit the end. of the sleeve. The sleeve is, by crocheting, connected to this selvage, and the necessity of cutting the body to fit the sleeve ,is thus entirely avoided and a seam rendered unnecessary.

It is observed that several of the upright rows of meshes a a abut against the concave selvage, and that thus, by the act of knitting, the entire jacket is made self-adjusting to the body ot the wearer.

At the back of the arm-hole a similar selvage, h, is formed by continuing one or more of the upright meshes. This selvage also extends along the yoke to the collar, as clearly indicated in the drawings. The yoke is linished by crocheting the two selvages h and t' together above the sleeve, and thus becomes broad, and tits the garment well to the shoulder.

At the lower end of the jacket I form gussets k 7c by forking the rows of meshes a a, in manner clearly shown in Fig. l. The garment is thereby made liaring to lit the hips ot the wearer.

The pockets l l I form by crocheting separate pieces m m ot' fabric to the continuous body of the jacket. Heretoi'ore the jackets were cut (and consequently weakened) for the reception of the pockets; but myjaeket, as

. clearly appears from Figs. 4 and 5, is not in the least weakened by the application oi" the pockets.

My jacket is made complete without having any otits part-s cutor weakened. The shoulders are properly sloped, the arm-holes rounded to give a perfect lit, all without cutting or leaving raveling edges or stitching; and otherwise thejacket is made to properly conform to the sha-pe ofthe human body.

I claim- 1. In a knit jacket, the rows a2 a3 ot" meshes, which are continued to form selvagcedges h and i around the arm-hole, extending backward and forward from the arm-hole, and which are united between arm-hole and collar to form a at yoke, all arranged so that the front and back of the jacket will have a continuous selvage from the lower end to the eollar, on both sides, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In a knit jacket, the body A, made continuous, combined with the pocket-pieces m m, which are crocheted thereto, substantially as specified.

BENJAMIN WEGHSIIER. Vitnesses:

T. B. MosHER, FRANK Siri?.

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