Appeal No. 97-0115
Application 08/220,341
a flattened tube 10 of material and includes a back-forming
portion 22a, a front-forming portion 20a, a neck opening 60a,
and laterally extending sleeve-forming portions 18a. The
front-forming portion 20a is divided into two equal sections
by a cut 66 extending from the neck opening 60a to the bottom
edge 54a of the front-forming portion. The blank is formed
into a garment by folding it along the medial lines 28a of the
sleeve-forming portions 18a and stitching together the edges
at the sides of the back and front and at the bottom of the
sleeves. As explained by Artzt,
[s]ince the side edges 36a of the back forming
portion 22a of the blank 12a converge toward the end
edge 52a which forms the bottom of the garment at
the back thereof, and since the two divided parts of
the front forming portion 20a of the blank are of
uniform width from the top to the bottom thereof,
but have their outside edges 34a stitched to the
converging edges 36a in the completed garment, it
will be apparent that the edges 66a and 66b of the
front forming portion extending along the cut 66
tend to overlap in the completed garment, as shown
in FIG. 3 [column 5, lines 33 through 43].
Coven discloses a hospital garment
which is constructed to provide a front 6 and
combined side and back sections 7 secured to the
vertical edges of the front 6 by conventional
stitched seams 8, the outer side edges of the
combined side and back sections 7 overlapping at the
rear of the garment to provide a double thickness of
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