Improvements in or relating to Knitted Shirts, Pants, and similar Knitted Garments.
Year: 1894

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Application, 10th May, 1894-Accepted, 16th June, 1894
Improvements in or relating to Knitted Shirts, Pants, and similar
Knitted Garments.
We, JOHN HARRIS COOPER, JOHN ARTHUR CORAH and ALFRED CORAH,
trading as Cooper, Corah & Sons, of St. Margaret's Works, Leicester, Hosiery
Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
This invention relates to the manufacture of knitted shirts, pants and similar
knitted garments and embodies an improvement therein the object of which is
to render such garments specially applicable for wear for athletic and similar
purposes.
In golf, cricket, lawn tennis and other forms of pastime in which free movement
of the arms or legs is essential, there is a tendency to perspire freely under the
arms and about the loins or thighs so that the fabric of the shirt or pants at the
parts named becomes frequently wet with perspiration which upon becoming cool not
only feels uncomfortable when it comes into contact with the skin, but is also liable
to induce a chill to the wearer.
The present invention has for its object to minimize this disadvantage by
manufacturing knitted shirts and analogous garments in such a manner as to
ventilate the arm pits and the portion of the garment thereat so that the heat
from underneath the arms and thereabouts may pass into the atmosphere and not
become condensed upon the adjacent fabric.
According to this invention we ventilate underneath the arms of shirts and the
like by forming an opening therein, which may be located in such a position as not
to be noticed when the garment is in ordinary wear.
This opening may be formed in the garment at the upper part of the body of the
shirt or the upper part of the sleeve or at the junction of the two parts named and
may be formed during the process of manufacture by shifting the loops on to
adjacent needles when making such garments, so that for several courses no loops
are formed on several needles and a hole or an opening in the fabric is thereby
formed as will be well understood by those engaged in the art of knitting.
In the cheaper kinds of knitted garments the ventilating opening may be formed
by cutting out a portion of the fabric underneath the sleeves or at the side of the
body and hemming or stitching round the said opening in any suitable manner to
prevent the stitches from unroving.
The seat, thighs and loin parts of pants may also be ventilated by holes or
openings in a similar manner to that described for shirts more especially such pants
as are manufactured of double thickness at the seat.
Although good results are obtained by the use of one hole we may make several
openings in the garments at the parts named if desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. Ventilating knitted shirts, pants and analogous garments by forming one or
several openings in or under the sleeves or about the seat thereof for the purpose
named.
2. A knitted shirt, pants or analogous garment having one or several openings
formed therein substantially as and fox the nummose desanihod

page_text: 3. The improvements in knitted shirts, pants and analogous garments substantially
in the manner and as and for the purpose described.
Dated this 10th day of May 1894.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicants.