Outerwear garment article
OwnerDidier Bollaginventor
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Abstract
An outerwear garment article such as a jacket of the generally unconstructed type with improved structural integrity and high wear comfort has two front parts made of an adhesive two-ply composite layer; the dorsal interconnection of the front parts consists of interconnected single-ply cloth layer segments. The composite layer is a structure obtained by adhesive melt-bonding techniques using flexible polymeric adhesives, preferably in a multiple-dot distribution. A method of producing the novel outerwear garment article by providing two front parts in the form of two-ply cloth composites each having a protruding single-ply segment for dorsal interconnection.
Claims12
In an outerwear garment article of the type comprising two front parts and a dorsal connecting part;
- each of said front parts having a terminal front edge seam and a side seam joining each of said front parts with said dorsal connecting part;
- the improvement wherein each of said front parts comprises two substantially coextensive cloth layers extending from said front edge seam to said side seam and being adhesively connected to form a drapeably structured composite stratum between said terminal front edge seam and said side seam.
In an outerwear garment article of the type comprising two front parts and a dorsal connecting part;
- each of said front parts having an internally sewn terminal front edge seam and a side seam joining each of said front parts with said dorsal connecting part;
- the improvement wherein each of said front parts comprises two substantially coextensive cloth layers extending from said front edge seam to said side seam and being connected intermediate said terminal front edge seam and said side seam to form a composite stratum having structured drapeability connected with said dorsal connecting part which has tenting drapeability.
In a lapelled jacket of the unconstructed type comprising two front parts, a segmented dorsal connecting part, two sleeves and a collar part;
- the improvement consisting essentially of providing each of said front parts as a substantially unlined drapeably structured composite made of two top cloth layers adhesively connected over at least a predominant portion thereof by a flexible polymeric adhesive.
In a method of manufacturing an outerwear garment of the type having two front parts, two sleeves, and an interconnecting dorsal part consisting of at least two segments;
- the improvement consisting essentially of producing said front parts by (a) forming two separate assemblies each consisting essentially of three elongated cloth layers in a mutually superposed relation;
- each of said assemblies comprising a top layer, a central layer and a bottom layer;
- each of said assemblies having a first edge portion where said central layer is between said top and said bottom layer and a second edge portion where said top layer is in direct contact with said bottom layer;
- said top and said bottom layer each constituting one ply of said one front part and said central layer constituting a segment of said interconnecting dorsal part;
- (b) providing a flexible melt-bonding polymer adhesive on at least one surface of each of said assemblies;
- (c) connecting a predominant edge portion of each of said assemblies by sewing at least said first edge portion and said second edge portion thereof;
- (d) reversing each of said assemblies through an unconnected edge portion thereof to obtain two inverted assemblies, each consisting of said top and said bottom layer in a two-ply arrangement with said melt-bonding adhesive at a predominant interface area between said inverted layers;
- each of said inverted assemblies having an internally sewn terminal front edge seam combining said top and said bottom layer and an inverted connecting seam combining said top and said bottom layer with said central layer;
- said central layer protruding from said two-ply arrangement;
- and (e) activating said melt-bonding polymer of each of said assemblies by heat and pressure to form two adhesive composites of said two-ply arrangements.
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