US1469972A - Ribbed underflap for undergarments - Google Patents

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Get. 9 1923.

SQ F. SWANTEES RIBBED UNDERFLAP FOR UNDERGARMENTS Filed Aug. 2, 1922 IN VEN TOR M 142m Y Patented Get. 9, 1923. i p 1,469,972 i UNITED STATES ()HEL SAMUEL F. SWANTEES, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

RIBBED UNDERFLAP FOR- UNDERG-ARIVEENTS.

Application filed August 2, 1922. Serial No. 579,149.

To all whom it may concern: ventional manner and form to the under Be it known that I, SAMUEL F. SWAN- garment. This improved under flap is made Tnns, a citizen of the United States, residing of any suitable cloth or fabric, the same bein the city of St. Louis and State of Mising formed, however, with ribs, corruga- 5 souri, have invented new and useful Imtions, folds, creases or plaits 4L extending provements in Ribbed Underflaps t'or Unsubstantially horizontally across the flap dergarments, of which the following is a The gist oi the invention lies in this horispecification, reference being had to the ac- Zontal ribbed formation of the under flap 3, companying drawings. whereby the flap is caused always to stand 1 This invention is in the way of a ribbed out from the body of the wearer, along the under-flap for the crotch or seat opening horizontal lines of the ribs, plaits or fiexions 0t undergarments, and the object is to prodescribed, and is prevented from rolling or vide a flap for this purpose having ribs, buckling.

plaits, plicatures or corrugations extending Any structure whereby the flap is caused horizontally across the flap, this said ribbed to relatively resist folding, rolling or bendtormation being intended and designed to ing on the longitudinal lines of the garprevent the flap from rolling or buckling ment, would come within the spirit of this into the crotch ot the wearer, as is the case invention as defined in the appended claim.

with garments employing the ordinary plain I claim:

20 flap. An undergarment provided at the back In the drawing: with a seat opening, an outer flap extending Figure 1 is a. back view of an undergaracross the'seat opening and covering the meat or union suit equipped with this same at the exterior of the garment and butimproved under flap, the ordinary outer flap toned to the same, and an interior oppositely 25, being omitted. but its location being indidisposed flap extendingacross the seat opencated in dotted lines. ing and covering the same interiorly of the Figure 2 is a similar view, showing the garment and widened between its upper and ordinary outer flap buttoned in place, the 10- lower ends to form a lateral extension at the cation and outline of the improved, ribbed free edge, said inner flap being ribbed horiunder-flap being indicated in dotted lines. zontally throughout the entire width of the In describing the improvement it is deflap, whereby the flap is caused to maintain scribed as though the undergarment to its normal position and resist folding, roll-- which it is attached were worn by a person ing or bendin about its longitudinal. axis.

standing upright. sAMUEL r. swnnrnns. In carrying out this invention, I provide Witnesses:

for the seat opening 1 of an under garment ADELE K. DOHLE,

2, an improved under flap 3 attached in con- ANNE A. BULTAS. I 0 p

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