thing for Children.
Year: 1887

page_text: Underclothing for Children.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lako & Co., Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, (a communication from Abner
Sherman Haight, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Brooklyn, in the
county of Kings and state of New York, Merchant,) do hereby declare the nature
of my said invention in "IMPROVEMENTS IN GARMENTS, CHIEFLY DESIGNED FOR USE
AS UNDERCLOTHING FOR CHILDREN and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement
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My invention relates particularly to under drawers and the like for children's wear;
and the object of my invention is to provide a garment the body of which is made of
stockinet or like knitted material, while the band is provided with means of adjustment
to different sizes.
To this end my improvement consists in an under garment the body of which is
made of stockinet or like knitted material, and which is provided with a band secured
to the edge of the body part, as by stitching, the parts being joined together without
gathering either the band or the body part, and the said waist band having a plural
number of button-holes, as more particularly hereinafter described and pointed out in
the claim.
Referring to the drawings that form a part hereof :-
Figure 1 is a view of a pair of children's drawers that are made in the old and
common method-that is, are gathered at the waist and have a waistband stitched
thereto.
Figure 2 is a like view of a pair of under-drawers that embody my improvement.
It has been the practice in making under-garments of knitted material, as stockinet,
to gather the material at the waist, and to secure to this gathered part a waistband,
the length of which determines the size of the garment, and such a waistband has
usually been provided, particularly in drawers that are for children's wear, with
button-holes at each end, by which the garment is secured to the waist. In using
such a garment it often becomes necessary, after wearing it for a short time, to provide

page_text: a longer waistband to adapt it to the changing size in growing. It often occurs that
in order to obtain a garment with a waistband of proper size to fit a child one has to
be used the body part and legs of which are much too large for the child.
In the accompanying drawings, the letter a denotes the body part of a garment
that is made of stockinet or like knitted material; a', the edge that is gathered before
attaching it to the waistband b, usually by stitching it on.
In order to provide a garment with an adjustable waistband, I leave the body part a
perfectly flat as to the upper edge and stitch or similarly fasten thereto a waistband, c,
leaving the body part of the garment substantially ungathered, as shown in Fig. 2 of
the drawings. In this waistband and near the opposite ends are made a plural number
of button-holes, d, the size of the garment being determined by the distance between
the inner button-holes, this size referring to the body part of the garment adapted to
fit the average child of a certain ago, while by using the outer button-holes the
garment may be adjusted about the waist of a child of a size somewhat larger. My
improved garment last described is mado with less labor than is the old style, and
possesses the peculiar advantages of use of a plural number of button-boles located at
the ends of each section of the waistband c.
I am aware that it is not new to provide clothing with a number of buttons to
allow for a close or loose adjustment of the garment about the person, and such a
feature of adjustability I do not, broadly, claim.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by my foreign
correspondent I declare that what I claim is :—
The within-described under-garment, consisting of a body part, a, made of stockinet
or like knitted material, and having a waistband, c, sewed to the ungathered edge of
the garment, and provided at each end of the section of the waistband with a plural
number of button-holes, d, all substantially as described.
Dated this 31st day of October 1887
Dated this 31st day of October 1887
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.