US1711437A

US1711437A - Pocket construction and method of making same

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Publication number: US1711437A
Application number: US284268A
Authority: US
Inventors: Yund Walter Charles
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1928-06-09
Filing date: 1928-06-09
Publication date: 1929-04-30
Anticipated expiration: 1946-04-30

Description

' "April 3o, 1929.

w. c. Ymfun` POCKET CONSTRUCTION AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME Filed June 9, 1928 2 Sheets-Sheet W. C. YUND POCKET CONSTRGJIION AND METHOD 0F MAKING SAME April 30, 1929.

Filed June 9, 1928V 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 AMAA@ Patented Apr. 30, 1929.

VALTER CHARLES YUND, OF AMSTERDAM7 NEV YORK.

POCKET CONSTRUCTION AND' METHOD OF MAKING SAME.

Application led .Tune 9,

of knit material, such as sweaters, knit coats,

and the like. The knitted cloth in such garments is generally thick and heavy, and considerable difficulty exists in applying a pocket thereto. Various methods are in use, but, as a rule, they are more or less unsatisfactory and involve considerable hand work in knitting or stitching the pockets in place on the garment, thus making the operation slow and expensive. Also, as a rule, pockets as previously made are more or less elastic around the opening thereof, so that they soon sag or stretch out'of shape. The presentinvention aims to provide a construction in which the pockets can be applied tov the garment in va simple and rapid manner by the use of machinery and in which practicallyno hand Work is necessary.

"A further object is to provide a pocket in which the pocket opening is entirely surrounded by a strip of re-enforcing material, thus making it practically impossible to stretch the opening or pull it out of shape.

A still further object is to provide a construction of the kind liust mentioned in which the pocket can be applied Without producing a thick and bulky seam around the pocket opening.

A further object of the present construction is that the pocket used can be made of knitted material having a finer weave-than the garment material so that the pocket is lighter and stronger and less subject to stretching than the material of the garment..

Various other objects of the invention will appear from the following ydetailed specification ta ren in connection with the accompanying drawings in which:

Figure 1 is a .plan view of the front or right side of a portion of the garment material illustrating the first stage in the formation of a pocket according to the present invention;

Figure l is a vertical section on the lino 2 2 of Fig. l; 's z Figure 3 is a plan view showing a further stage in the production of a pocketk according to the present invention;

, Figure l is a vertical section on the line l-l of Fig. 3;

Figure 5 is a plan view of the front or right side of a part of the garment showing a still furthl .Stage in the production of the pocket;

1928. Serial No. 284,268.

Figure 6 is a vertical section on the line 6 6 of Fig. 5; l'

Figure 7 is a vertical section on the line 7 7 of Fig. 5'; y n

Figure 8 is a View from the front or right side of the garment illustrating the appearance ofthe same after the portions of the pocketr have been forced through the pocket slit, as hereinafter described; s

Figure 9 isa detailed view showing the construction at the upper corners of the pocket;

Figure 1() is a plan view looking toward the rear or wrong side of the garment and the pocket after the pocket has been applied thereto; and

Figure 11 is a vertical i. section lon the line n-ii of rig. io.4

- v Referring .to the drawings in detail, lO indicates a portion of the garment cloth or mateing of the upper and lower portions respectively indicatedat 11a and 11". A strip of narrow tape 12 is next placed upon the pocket piece 117 11", and extends transversely of the same intermediate its ends, this tape being of relatively strong and non-elastic material. A

narrow strip of any strong non-elastic maten rial will answer-the purpose of this tape. The tape'12 is preferably provided with free ends 12a, 12b, which extend a slight distance beyond the edges of the pocket forming piece 11, 11b,

The cloth of the garmentandthe pocket piece 11?", 11b, and the tape 12 are sewe'd together by two lines of through-and-through stitching, an upper line 13 and a lower line' 1.3", which extend longitudinally of the tape 12. Extending between the longitudinal lines of stitching, 13`and 13", are transverse lines of stitching 130 and 13d. .The longitudinal and transverse `stitching serves tosecurely A fasten the tape'lQI and the pocketfmaterial 11, 11", to the cloth of the garment.

After the parts are fastened together as described, a slit 14; is made longitudinally of the tape 12, which slit extends through the tape, the pocket .formingmateriah and the material of the garment. It forms the pocket opening. The slit 14 terminates at each end a little short of the transverse stitching 13C, 18d, and in effect it .divides the tape or strip 12 into an upper portion 12C' and a lower portion 12d. These portions of' the tape together with the uncut ends thereof form a re-enforcing strip extending entirely around the slit or pocket opening 14. The construction at this stage constitutes in effect a blank having the upper and lower portions 11, 11", the adjacent edges of which are substantially iiat or unfolded, this blank be- 1 ing subjected to further operations in the formation of the pocket.

After the slit 14 is formed, the cut edges of the material at the upper and lower sides of the slit are cover-seained as illustrated particularly at 15 and 16 in Figures 5, 6 and r. This cover-seeming operation may be performed by any well-known machine adapted for t-hat purpose. As illustrated in said Figures 6 and 7, the cover-

seaming

15 and 16 overlies the seams or out edges of the material and respectively takes in the upper and lower portions 12a and 12b of the tape. ln this operation of cover-seaming, the edges ot the cloth are mashed down and flattened out more or less, so that the seams are very strong and non-elastic due to the cover-seaming and 'due to the tact that a Vre-eniforcing strip is included in the seam at both the top and bottom and around the ends of the slit or pocket opening 14. The condition o't the parts after such coVer-seaming operation has been performed is illustrated in Figure 5 and also in section in Figures 6 and In the next operation the pocket portions 11a and 11b are forced through the slit or pocket opening 14. The free ends 1Q,21 and 12b of the tape are also forced through suoli opening. rthis condition of' the parts is illustrated in Figure 8 showing the front or` right side ofthe garment cloth and showing the pocket in dotted lines on the rear side thereof.

ln forcing the pocket portions 11n and 11b through theopening, the edges of the opening and the edges ot the upper and lower pocket portions are turned or bent inwardly more or less so'that the cover stitching' appears on theinside or wrong side nl the As previously noted, the

free ends

12a and 12" of the tape are also turned inwardly when the pocket portions are turned inwardly, and these free ends of the tape are preferably laid between the edges of the pocket as illustrated particularly in Figure 9, and when the overlapping edges of the pocket portions are sewed together, these free ends of the tape are sewed into the seam, which Jfastens the edges of the pocket portions together. 'E his arrangement serves'to greatly strengthen thepoelret at the ends of the opening and preventV any tearing at that point. As a further precaution, after the parts are iinished as above indicated, butt stitching, indicated at 18, may be applied at each end of the pocket opening, which serves to further strengthen the Ysame at these points.

Viewing the completed pocket, it appears in cross section particularly in Figure 1l, it will be seen that the cloth of the garment at the upper edge ot the pocket slit or opening ,is turned inwardly and that the upper edge the pocket portion 11 is turned inwardly alsoa and that the stitching 15 eX- tends through both the garment cloth andthe pocket material and also through the re-'enforcing strip 12C. will also be seen that at the lower eng-c of the pocket the material of the garment turned inwardly or rearwardly, and the upper edge of the pocket portion 11b is turned outwardly. These latter turned parts are connected by the stitching 13" which extends through both trie garment cloth and the pocket material and also through the re-eniorcing strip 121. lt will also be clearly seen from this iignre that the overstitching 15 serves to cover and securely lock the rear pocket portion 11a to the upper edge of the pocket opening and that 'the overstitching 16 serves to securely lock the iront pocket portion '11b to the lower edge of the pocket opening.

Preferably the bottom ot the pocket is stitched to the body oil the garment as illustrated at 19 in Figure 1l.

VThe invention'is obviously ca pali irisation to various details, and .i stood not to be limited ecept forth in the appended claims.

Having thus described the inventi is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Le `ters lpatent is:

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1. 'lfhe method ot forming a pocket oit knitted mat al in garments othnit Y cloth which consists in placing` upon the front side ot the garment. cloth a piece of niaterial t-o form the pocket, placing on top of the poclt-torming picco intermediate its ends a narrow strip of strong relatively non-elastic material, sewing said parts together by a line of stitching extending longitudinally along each edge ot said strip and transversely tl'iefeoi2 adjacent each edge ot the pochetforming piece, cutting a slit longitudinally pocket-forming piece on each side oit said slit through the slit to the rear side ot the garment cloth, and securing said portions together on the rear side of the garn'ient cloth.

2. The method ot forming a pocket in garments ot knitted cloth which consists in placing directly upon the front side/'oit the garment cloth a piece oi material to torni the pocket, placing on top of the pocltet-iorniing piece intermediate its ends al narrow strip ot strong relatively non-elastic material, sewing said parts together by a line of stitching tending longitudinally along reach edge ot said strip and transversely thereoil adjacent each edge ot the pocket-forming piece, cutting a slit longitudinally ot said strip between the longitudinal lines et stitching therein and Y terminating short ot the transverse stitching Al l) at eaclrend, said slit extending tliiough said strip. and through the pocket-forming piece and the garment cloth, applying cover-seam stitching to the upper and lower cut edges ot said slit to bind and cover the same, said upper and lower stitching includino` respectivelyT the upper and lower-portions of said strip, forcing the portions of the pocketorming piece on each sideV et said slit through the slit to the rear side of the garment cloth, and securing said portions together on the rear side ot the garment cloth.

3. The mehod ot. forming a pocket in garments which consists in placing directly uponthe vtrent side ot the garment cloth a piece of material to torni the pocket, placing on top ot the pocket-torming piece intermediate its ends a narrow strip oi strong relatively non-elastic material, sewingsaid parte together hy a line oi: stitching extending longitudinally along each edge of said strip and.

transwersely thereof adjacent each edge of the pocket-forming piece, said strip at each. end liaving a free part extending beyond said transverse stitching, cutting a slit longitudinally et said strip between the longitudinal lines oi stitching therein and terminating short oi the transverse stitching' at each end, s id slit extending through said strip, and through the pocket-'forming piece and the garment cloth, forcing the portions o t the pocket-forming piece on each side oli said slit tlirough the slit to the rear side ot the gai'- inent cloth, forcing the tree parts ot said strip through said slit and positioning the saine between the edges of said pocket porions and sewing the edges of the pocket portions and the said tree parts of said strip together.

" t The herein described pocket construction :tor garments, comprising in combination with the cloth of the garment having a slit therein the u 3 )er and lower edfes ot which,

i vl e are turned inwardly, arear pocket portion having its upper end turned inwardly and positioned .against the inturned upper edge ot said slit, a re-entorcimr strip positioned on the rear side oit the upper edge of said'rear pocket portion, through-and-throughstitches securing together said strip, said inturned upper edge ot' the rear pocket portion and the inturned upper edge ot the slit, a iront pocket portion having its upper edge turnedv Aforwardly .and abutting the inturned lower edge oit said slit, a re-en'liorcing strip positioned on the upper edge ot said trent pocket portion and on the side-thereoll away trein the inturned lower edge of said slit, throng' yand-through stitches securing together said strip, said outwardly turned upper edge ot the front pocket portion and the inturned lower edge ot said slit.

5. A construction as deiined in claim 4 in which said ire-enforcing strips are provided at each end with extensions which extend downwardly and are secured between the edges ot the trent and rear pocket portions.

6. A construction as defined in claim 4 in which the inturned upper and 'lower edges ot the slit and the inturned upper edge ot the rear pocket portion and the out-turned upper edge ot the front pocket portion are overlaid byoverseam stitching which extends over the seams and through the garment material and pocket ymaterial on opposite sides et said seams. Y Y

7. A blank for use in orming a pocket in the material ot a knitted garment, said blank comprising an upper pocket portion having a substantially iijat lower edge, a strip et strong relatively inelastic tape extending along said lower edge with through-andthrough stitches securing said tape and and said blank also comprising a lower pocket portion having a substantially flat upper edge and also havingr a strip oi' strong relatively inelastic tape extending along said upper edge with through-andthrough stitches securing said lastnamed strip ot tape and said upper edge of the lower pocket portion to the material ot said garment, the material ot said garment being provided with a slit extending transversely of saidv pocket portions betweenisaid lower edge ot the upper pocket portion and the upper edge oit said lower pocket portion.

8. The method ot forming a pocket in garments ot knitted cloth which consists in placing upon the trent side'o'f the garment cloth strip, Cutting a slit longitudinally of Said -strip between the longitudinal lines of Stitoli'- ing therein, said slit extending through said Strip and through the pooketeforining piece and the garment Cloth, forcing the portions o1 the pooket-'forning piece on each side of said slit through the slit to the rear side ot the garment cloth, and securing' said portions together on the rear side of the z@fai-irrent cloth. 9. A blank for use in forming a pocket in knitted garment material,1 said blank Coinp'r'ising an upper pooket portion positioned on saidL garment. material and having a strip ot' strong relatively inelastic tape extending along its lower edge on tlie face thereof opposite theV garment material`I thi-omgaandtlirough stitches securing said tape anal ppeliet portion to the garment material, said blank lalso Comprising a lower pocket portion positioned on saicl garment material and having a strip of strong' relatively inelastic tape extending` along its upper edge on the face thereofl opposite the garment material, t-hrough-ancl-tl1rougli Stitches Securing said last named Strip of tape and Said upper edge of the lower pocket portion to the Agarment material, the garment material being `iro- 'Vided with a slit-extending transverselyof said pocket portions between Said lower erige Ot the upper pocket portion and Said upper edge of said lower pocketl portion.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aiiin my signature.y

VALTER CHARLES YUND.