Jacket construction
AssigneePlain Brown Wrapper, Inc.
InventorDonald C. Griffin
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Abstract
Garment construction for providing a down-filled jacket. There is provided in kit form for home assembly a jacket construction comprising a plurality of separately constructable panels. Each panel includes inner and outer sheets, said sheets being closed along their respective perimeters to form an envelope, the envelope is filled with down through a gate temporarily left therein, the gate then closed and with the down suitably distributed through the envelope, same is quilted. The independent and separate panels are then stitched together by stitching independent of the stitching by which the edges of the envelopes were closed and the whole is assembled into a finished jacket.
Claims12
In an outdoor jacket, such as a ski jacekt, of the down-filled type, the combination comprising:
- a plurality of panels each comprising superposed inner and outer sheets, the peripheral edge strips of said inner sheet and outer sheet being folded under through substantially 180.degree. to edge each sheet with a U-section, outwardly convex fold, the folded under edge strips of said inner sheet and outer sheet lying sandwiched between said sheets of said panel and face-to-face with each other and forming substantially a UU-shaped cross section edge zone for said panel;
- a first stitch line substantially parallel to the panel edge, said first stitch line passing through the two thicknesses defined by said folded under face-to-face edge strips near said folds thereof and closing said panel edges to form a down-proof envelope;
- a downlike material within said envelopes and distributed substantially uniformly throughout each of said envelopes;
- a second stitch line through the four-sheet thickness of said UU-shaped cross section envelope edge zone and spaced from the panel edge by said first stitch line;
- a pair of said panels being fixed together in edge-to-edge relation with the adjacent UU-section edge zones of said panel pair each being turned through about 90.degree. from the plane of their respective panel to extend toward the interior of the jacket, with the outer sheets of said panels abutting in said edge zones and forming an eight thickness, substantially UUUU-cross section panel pair joinder zone;
- a third stitch line securing said pair of panels together in said edge-to-edge relation, said third stitch line being spaced close inboard from said UUUU-cross section zone free of contact with said folded under edge strips and passing through only one half the sheet thicknesses of each UUUU-cross section zone, the first, second and third stitch lines each penetrating a different combination of said peripheral edge strips and sheet portions bound thereby.
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