JACKET CONSTRUCTION FOR UNDERWATER DIVING GARMENT AND MAKING THE SAME

• US 3,744,052 A
• Filed: 09/09/1971
• Issued: 07/10/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Carl T. Rector
• Original Assignee: Carl T. Rector
• Inventors: Rector, Carl T.
• Primary Examiner(s): Krizmanich, George H.
• Application Number:
  US05/179,213
• Time in Patent Office: 670 Days
• Field of Search: 2/125,93,115,2.1R,73,74,108,90,243R,243B,DIG.4
• US Class Current: 2/2.15
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 13/012 for aquatic activities, e.g. with buoyancy aids
• CPC Class Codes: B63C 11/04 Resilient suits
• CPC Class Codes: B63C 2011/046 Wet suits, or diving vests; Equipment therefor
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 2/04 Free swing garment

Abstract

An underwater jacket that may be made in several different sizes using the same or substantially identical panel sections and other panel sections of varying dimension to control jacket size, comprising back, chest and a pair of kidney panels, said back and chest panels being identical or substantially the same for all sizes of garment, said kidney panels being cut to varying widths depending on the size of jacket desired. An underwater jacket that may be made in several different sizes using the same or substantially identical panel sections and certain other panel sections of selected and varying dimension to control garment size, comprising back, chest and kidney panels; and a pair of sleeves, each sleeve made from a pair of panel sections, both panel sections extending the full length of the sleeve and joined together by a pair of spaced seams, the width of one panel section being selected to fix the arm size of the jacket, said one panel section including an integral shoulder strip extending to the neckline of said garment and joined by seams to said chest and back panels, the other panel section of each sleeve being joined to said back and chest panels with seams extending around the armpit of the jacket.

Claims

1. In an underwater jacket including a plurality of body panel sections and a pair of sleeves, the improvement comprising;

each said sleeve including a pair of panel sections cut on an angular bias extending the full length of the sleeve; and

spaced seams joining each said pair of sleeve panel sections and extending in generally helical like fashion along the full length of the sleeve.

2. The underwater jacket of claim 1 wherein one of each said pair of sleeve panel sections includes an integral shoulder strip extending beyond the other of each said pair of sleeve panel sections;

and seam means interconnecting each said shoulder strip with a plurality of said body panel sections.

3. An underwater jacket adapted for fabrication from a plurality of substantially identical panel sections and additional panel sections of variable size for controlling garment size and fit, comprising:

a back panel having integrally formed neck, shoulder and spinal portions respectively delimited in part by neck, shoulder and spinal edge portions;

a pair of chest panels each delimited in part by neck, shoulder and side edge portions;

a pair of kidney panels each delimited in part by spinal and side edge portions;

a pair of sleeves, each sleeve comprising a pair of panel sections cut on an angular bias extending the full length of the sleeve;

spaced seams joining each said pair of sleeve panel sections and extending in helical like fashion along the full length of the sleeve;

one of each said pair of sleeve panel sections including an integral shoulder strip extending beyond the other of said pair of sleeve panel sections;

seam means interconnecting each said shoulder strip with the neck and shoulder edge portions of said back panel and the neck and shoulder edge portions of each said chest panel; and

seam means interconnecting the spinal edge portions and the side edge portions of each said kidney panel with a respective spinal edge portion of said back panel and a side edge portion of said chest panel.

4. A method of fabricating large and smaller size underwater jackets from a set of fixed dimension jacket panels dimensioned for the large size jackets and additional panels cut to size, comprising;

providing one fixed dimension back panel dimensioned for a large size jacket, a pair of fixed dimension chest panels dimensioned for a large size jacket and blank material adapted to be cut to form a pair of kidney panels dimensioned for any of said large and smaller size jackets;

cutting only said blank material to form kidney panels of a desired size; and

interconnecting said panels to form a jacket whose variable girth size is determined only by the size of said kidney panels.

5. The method of claim 4 including providing a first pair of fixed dimension sleeve panels dimensioned for a large size arm and blank material adapted to be cut to form a second pair of sleeve panels dimensioned for the large or smaller size arms;

cutting only said blank material to form said second pair of sleeve panels of a desired size;

joining one of the first pair of sleeve panels with one of the second pair of sleeve panels to form one sleeve;

joining the other of the first pair of sleeve panels with the other of the second pair of sleeve panels to form a second sleeve; and

interconnecting said sleeves to said back, chest and kidney panels to form a jacket including sleeves whose girth size is determined only by the size of said second pair of sleeve panels.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein the step of cutting said second pair of sleeve panels includes cutting the same on an angular bias.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the joining of said sleeve panels includes the step of forming spaced, helical like seams along the length of each sleeve.

8. A method of fabricating each of a plurality of different size, close fitting, underwater jackets using a single set of back aNd chest patterns and a plurality of kidney panel patterns, comprising;

cutting a waterproof, material blank to form standard size back and chest panels substantially dimensionally identical with said single set of back and chest panel patterns;

selecting one of said plurality of kidney panel paterns;

cutting said material blank to form two kidney panels substantially, dimensionally identical with the selected one of said plurality of kidney panel patterns; and

interconnecting said standard back and chest panels with said kidney panels to form a jacket whose girth is determined only by the size of the kidney panels.