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V. H. JENNINGS..

WOVEN POCKETED CARRIER. APPLICATION FILE AuG.8,191.

1,373,739. Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

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v. H. JENNlNGs. WOVEN POCKETED CARRIER. APPLICATION F|L`ED AUG.8. 1918.

Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VICTOR H. JENNINGS, 0F VJORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSGNOR, BY vIVESTE ASSIGNMENTS, TO FRANK R. IBATCHELDER, OE WORCESTER, MASSACHU- SETTS.

WOVEN POCKETED CARREE.

Specification of'Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

T 0 all io hom t may concer/n:

Be it known that l, Vieron H. JnNNrNos, a citizen ci the United States, residing at Worcester, in the county oi Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Noven Pocketed Carriers, oi which the following is a speciiication, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention is applicable in connection with woven poclreted carriers pertaining to military equipment and the like, but is not restricted thereto. It is adapted to be utilized in the production of the pockets of cartridge carriers, or in that of larger pockets or carriers designed for dillerent uses.

The invention has relation to woven carriers of those classes which have pockets or somewhat bulging shape andy relatively large internal capacity, adapted for instance in the case or a pocket or a cartridge carrier to contain two or more clips of cartridges, secured by forming the body of a pocket of suflicient fullness to enable the pocket to expand somewhat widely inthe direction fromY rear to front across the entire breadth thereof into substantially rectangular hori' zontal cross-section.

rEhe pocketed webs of which carriers of the said classes have been made heretofore are produced by somewhat involved special processes ci weaving, Vand through the employment of special loom-mechanism, the rate of production unavoidably being small and the cost or' production relatively large.

'Stated in general terms. the invention consists in a woven carrier having a pocket or pockets of novel construction, and innovel method of making pocketed carricrs, the said novel construction and novel method being of a character which simpliiies the weaving operations, enables certain special loom-appliances to be dispensed with, facilitates production of pocketed carriers, enables the output thereof to be'greatly increased, and lowers the cost materially.

More speciically, my improved woven carrier, it having the 'front and back walls of its pocket united at the opposite sides o'l the pocket by interweaving, as heretofore, is characterized by having one oiE said walls formed into one `or more plaits on vertical lines, whereby it is shortened transversely of the pocket qand thereby the other wall is plaits in one or the cloths ci a double-cloth section and fastening such plait or plaits, thereby narrowing such cloth and giving the said fullness to the other cloth for the purpose first mentioned.

The drawings show )various ways of reducing theinvention to practice.

Figure 1 is an isometric view showing .one pocket of a pocketed carrier havingy plaitsA at both sides thereof, with said plaits fastened -to the backs or the single-cloth sections, the tace of the carrier being turned toward the iront of the view.

Fig. 2 is an isometric view of the pocket out Fig. 1 with its back turned toward Athe iront of the view.

Fig. 3 is a planV view oi the said carrier.

Fig. 4 shows in edge view a portion of carrier-web suiiicient for the production oi the pocket of Figs. 1, 2 and 3.

'Figs 5 and'G, respectively, are views in cross-section on lines 5 5 and (5*6, respectively, in Fig. l.

Figs. 7 8 and 9 are iront, back, and plan views of a pocket having a different disposition of plaits at the opposite sides thereof. and Fig. 10 is a view invertical section on line 10e-10 of Fig. 9.

Figs. 11 and 12 are-iront and 'back views ci pockets having a single intermediari-ely located plait. Fig.l 13 shows the carrier-web from which suoli pocket is made, andv Figs. 1d and 15 are views `in vertical section on lines 1lb-1e and 15-1, Fig. 13.

Figs. 1.6 and 17 are, respectively, a. front `view anda back view or another pocket having a single plait, 'Fig 18 is a view of the carrier-web ythat is used in makingthe said pocket, and Fig. 19 is a view in section on line 19-19 oi Fig. 18 on a slightly enlarged scale. l

having referenceV to the dr awings,-

Figs. 1, 2 and 3, vand other like views, show asingle pocket-unit, intended 'as one of the pocket-units of a carrier composed of a plurality of such units disposed in line with one another. The invention is applicable equally in the case of carriers which in their finished state have but one pocket.

In Figs. l, 2 and 3, the pocket-bach, which extends straight across the pocket from side to side of the latter', is marked l, and 2 is the pocket-front, having the fullnessA which causes it to bulge forwardly, as hereinbefore indicated. At 3', 3, are webportions, at opposite sides of the pocket, in wiich the warp-threads of the pocket-front and pocket-back are interwoven to'unite these lattei at the said sides. ln a carrier-web, and in a finished carr'er having a plurality of pockets, these portions 3, 3, constitute the connective'portions between successive poclrets.- F or convenience of designation, the section comprising the portions l, 2, will be mentioned herein in seine cases as a doublecloth section, by reason of being composed of two cloths side by side, and the portions 3, 3, will be mentioned as single-cloth sections, by reason of being of unseparated structure, as indicated in Fig. 6, no limitations as to the number of plies in either thereof being intended. as usual, the pocketback and pocket-front are joined together along the bottom l of the pocket in the weaving, to closethe pocket at its bottom. As usual, also, at the top of the poc ret,

the Vpocket-bach and pocket-front are woven with separate margins to constitute the open pocket-mouth.

Substantially the usual methodof producing'carriers of the class to which the invention is applicable is disclosed in U. S. Letters `Patent to T. C. @rndorflY for wovencartridge belt, No. 666,637, granted under date of Jan. 29, 1901. The carrier of thesaid patent isa cartridge-belt composed of a multiply fabric .woven with pockets to accommodate clips of cartridges, and having the i bodies of the pockets formed from the outer ply of the multiply fabricby weaving said ply at intervals separate from the inner ply, with a fullness sufficiently great to give capacity to receive the desired number of clips.

he said fullness in the portions-of the outer ply which `form bodies of the pockets is secured by placing aigreater number of picks of weft or filling in the said ply( constitut ing the pocket-front) than in the Yinner ply (constituting` the pocket-bacl )--.as for Vexample, four picks in the outer ply to each two in the inner ply. As already indicated herein, this procedure ynot only involves a special mode of weaving, but in practice necessitates the use of Special devices in the loom in which the weaving' is performed, to take care of the fullness and meet the different requirements in `connection with the pocket-front and pocket-baclr- 1n accordance with the invention, 1 weave the carriersweb with the back Vand front cloths l and 2 of a pocket-unit equal in length with each other, as shown in Fig. d, between the lines on which they are interwoven with each other, or substantially equal. l then shorten the back cloth transversely ofthe ocket by forming one or more plaits therein on vertical lines, and fasten such plaits. 1n Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the plaits 05a, are formed at the opposite sides of the poclret, by bending portions of the pocket-back in outward directions against the backsof the connective portions 3, 3, and are secured against such backs by means of vertical lines l), Vof fastenings, usually stitches. The extent of the resulting fullness of the poclretsfront 2, and consequent bulge of the latter, is determined by the amount of material pertaining to the pocket baclr that is taken up in the plaits, and the consequent shortening of the pocket-back.

ln Figs. 7, 8, 9 and 10 the plaits a', a', are formed at the opposite sides of the poclret by bending portions, 3a, 3, of the connective portions 3, 3, sharply forward and securing the adjacent portions of pocketbaclr l by vertical lines of fastenings t (stitches) against the inner sides of the said forwardly bent portions 3, 3a. This construction has an advantage in that the sides of the pocket are stiffened and the pocket keeps its shape better. Y

in ll a single large plait e2 is formed in the intermediate portion of the back 1 and secured by lines of fastenings t2, b2, along each of the folds thereof. p Y

1n some cases, in order to enable the material at the Vlowerfend of aplait to be more easily and smoothly laid in place, a slit as at c, Figs. 13 andL 15, may be produced in the bottom of the pocket in the weaving process, or may be cut therein after the weaving has been completed. 1n finishing the pocket, the free edge, c', Figs. l2-and 13, ofthe pocketfront at such slit will be secured by stitches orotlierwise. Fig. 13 shows in dotted lines the partially-formed plait a2, and the corresponding puclrer or gather that isv formed in the pocket-front.

Figs. 16 to 19 illustrate the application of the single plait a2 tothe pocket-back of a pocket'havinn' the bottom thereof produced with an infold g, Fig. 19, for the purpose .of securing increased capacity inthe lower part of the pocket.

What is claimed as the invention is,- l. A woven pocleted carrier having the front and back walls of'its pocket equal in width and united at the opposite sides of the pocket by being interwoven, and also having one of saidiwalls permanently secured Vin plaited shape by applied fastening means and thereby shortened transversely, whereby the other wall is Vgiven fullness to constitute a bulging body/portion adapted to expand across the breadth thereof to give the pocket a substantially rectangular crosssection.

2. A woven pocketed carrier having the front and back walls oi its pocket equal inF width and united at the opposite sides et the pocket by being interwoven, and both thereof containing substantially the saine length of material between the places where they are interwoven with each other, with one of said walls permanently secured in plaited shape by applied fastening means and thereby shortened transversely, whereby the other wall is given yfullness to constitute a bulging bodyportion adapted to expand across the breadth thereof to give the pocket a substantially rectangular cross-section.

3. woven poclreted carrier having the 'liront and bael; walls of its pocket equal in width and united at the opposite sides of the pocket by being interwoven, and also having one oi said walls permanently secured in plaits by applied fastening means at both of said sides and therebv shortened transversely, whereby the other wall is given fullness to constitute a bulging body-portion adapted to expand across the breadth there ot' into substantially rectangular cross-sec.- tion.

4;. The method of making pocketed carriers which consists in weaving a carrier-- web composed of single-cloth and doublecloth sections in alternating sequence, forming one or more nlaits in one of the cloths of the double-cloth section, and permanently fastening such plait or plaits by the application of vfastening` means, whereby such cloth is narrowed and fullness s given to the other to constitute a bulging body-portion adapted to expand across the breadth thereoiE into substantially rectangular cross-section.

lntestimony whereof I aiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

VICTOR H. JENNINGS.

l/Vitnesses: Y

FLORENCE l. BERRY, FLORENCE M. RUSSELL.

It is hereby certified that Letters Patent No. 1,373,739, granted April 5, 1921, upon the application of Victor H. Jennings, of Worcester, Massachusetts, for an improvement in Woven Poeketed Carriers, were erroneously issued to Frank R. Batohelder, Whereas said Letters Patent should have been issued to Mills Belt Company, of Worcester, Massachusetts, a Corporation of 'Massachusetts, said corporation being assignee, by mesne assignments, of the entire interest in said invention, as shown by the records of assignments in this oflice; and that the said Letters Patent should be read With this correction therein that the same may Conform to the record of the oase in the Patent Olloe.

Signed and sealed this 17th day of May, A. D., 1921,.

T. E. ROBERTSON,

Commissioner of Patents.

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