US1703968A

US1703968A - Garment-supporting belt

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Publication number: US1703968A
Application number: US224383A
Authority: US
Inventors: Starmer Mary
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1927-10-06
Filing date: 1927-10-06
Publication date: 1929-03-05
Anticipated expiration: 1946-03-05

Description

Mar. 5, 1929. s R 1,703,968

' GARMENT SUPPORTING BELT.

Filed Oct. 6, 1927 ZSmaehtor @i lm Q V Patented Mar. 5, 1929. l

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Application filed October 6, .1927. 'Serial No; 224,383.

My invention contemplates an improvement in belts for personal wear by either ladies or gentlemen and contemplates espe cially a chain holding convenience by means of which the watch'chain, or other chain, may

besupported or suspended in an attractively neat manner. The chain holding device is located at the inner side of the belt and therefore does not mar the appearance of the eX- terior of the belt, and the chain holding device provides a loop through which the watch chainmay with facility be passed for the purpose of suspendingthe chain. i

In carrying out my invention, I utilize tab in connection with the belt, which tab may be formed asan integral part of the belt, or it may be attached to the belt in suitable manner. The tab is provided with a suspending loop or slot for the watch chain and this opening is preferably of sutiicient size to permit the spring ring of a chain to pass therethrough, thus permitting the chain to be looped as well as used in single style.

My invention consists in certain novel. conibinations and arrangements of parts as will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed. In the accompanying drawings, I

have illustrated one complete example and.

a modified form thereof, of the physical embodiment of my invention wherein the parrs are combined and arranged according to the best mode I have so far devised for the practical application of the principles of my invention.

Figure 1 is a View showing the inner sides of the two separated ends of a garment supporting belt, the buckle end of the belt being provided with the chain supporting loop of my invention;

Fig. '2 1s a View of the buckle supporting stamped from the belt material;

Fig. 8 is a face View at the 1111161, side 0t the buckle end of the belt showing a slotted tab riveted to the foldedportion of the belt;

1 as a standard type of buckle. The belt may i be for either mens wear or ladies wear; and

end of the belt with the foldfiattened out and showing the chain supporting loop oritongue may be fashioned of, leather or fabric, or it may be fashioned from ribbons or other ma terials that are suitablefor the purpose.

The buckle 3 is retained at an end of the belt inusual manner by means of the fold 4 and the material of the fold is bent to forma sleeve as at 5 for the cross bar 6' of the buckle.

The usual tongue or prong 7 of the buckle is passed throughthe slot. Sprovided therefor in the'belt and the material of the beltis folded on the dotted line 9 indicated in Fig. 2. The fold of the belt'may be stitched to the belt as at 10 or secured in any other suitable manner.

In one form of my invention, the device for supporting the chain C is fashioned fromthe material of the fold 4%. In this instance, a U- shaped tongue 11 is cut or stamped out as at 12 from the material of the fold ,4. and the U-' shaped tongue provides a slot 13 in the body of the belt through which the chain may be passed. positionedin any desired angle, as shown in the two angles of Fig 1 and'Fig. 2, and the tongue may be flexed or bent inwardly from the fold lto permit ready insertion of the chain through the slot 13in order that the chain may hang from the U-sha ed tab as shown in Fig. 1; The tab is pre erably cut out from the fold 4 in order that-the appearance of the belt may notice altered and for convenience in suspending the chain beneath the belt and the tab is thus rendered invisible from the exterior of the belt.

' In some instances the tab may be attached to the fold at as indicated in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4. In these figures, the tab 1% is provided with a; slot 15 and it is secured as by rivets 16 to the fold a at the buckle end of the belt. Asthus shown, the rivet 16 is not visiblefrom theexte'rior of the belt, nor is the slotted tab 14 visible. 6 The shape of the slots 13 and 15 0f: the tabs may be variedfor different purposes and the shapes of the U-shaped tab 11 and of i the attachedtab'll may also bechanged. In some instances, it may be. desirable to stitch the tab 1% to the fold of the belt instead of I using the rivet or fastener 16.

From. this descriptiontaken in connection with my drawings, it will be apparentthat the chain holdingtab may be added to the belt without materially adding to the cost of. manufactureof thebelt, and the tab may be used or not used as desired, and yet because of its position at the inner side of the belt, it is not visible and does not alter the appear- The U-sha 'iedtongue or tab may be buckle supporting end With an inner fold 1 and a slotted chain supporting tab on said fold. i

2. A garment supporting belt having a buckle supporting end with an inner fold and aslotted U-shaped chain supporting tab par- 15 tially cut from said fold.

MARY STARMER.