US1718276A - Bag, pocket, or pouch, and closure therefor - Google Patents

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June 25, 1929. y R, c, CHILD 1.718.276

BAG, POCKET, OR POUCH, A ND CLOSURE THEREFOR Filed July 25, 1928 www? Patented lune 25, 192% TD STATES PATENT OFFIC'.

RGBERT C. CHILD, F BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 G. E. PRENTICE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 0F NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPGRATION OF CONNECTICUT.

BAG, POCKET, 0R POUCH, AND CLOSURE THEREFOR.

Application led July 25,

This invention is in containers such as bags, pockets orpouches. One useful embodiment of the invention comprises a portable pouch, which may, for example, beof dimensions adapting it to be carried in a clothing pocket, to serve to contain anything requiring to Abe 1 enclosed; typically such supplies as smoking against spilling the contents.

tobacco, or a pipe, or both tobacco and a pipe.

Objects of the invention are to provide an article of this nature having a closure so that when open, the mouth .opening provides at least as much free space for access' to the interior as is providedv by the interior dimensions of the pouch, the closure .being such as effectively to retain small or granular contents. Another object of the invention is to provide a durable and convenient tobacco pouchhaving a mouth opening of such Width and flexibility as to admit the bowl of a pipe, 20

and the hand of the user, if desired, and having a closure device nevertheless capable of holding the opening closed and guarding Another object of the invention is to provide a pouch closure of a type adapted to be fastened by any of the kinds of slider-actuated interlocking multiple-engaging-element types offastener in closed position, which when open, will permit the engaging elements to be Widely separated.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings, Which illustrate a preferred form of the invention for purposes of explanation only, vand which are not to be understood as showing the only embodiment of the invention,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a pouch in open condition;

Fig. 2 is a similar view of the pouch in closed condition; and

Fig. 3 is an elevation of a blankof material used to form a part of the closure.

The pouch may be principally comprised of any bag of light, strong, and flexible material, for example, made up of two like blanks 1, 1, of suitable material, such as leather, imitation leather, cloth, any flexible fabric such as rubber, rubberized or oiled silk, cotton or other textile fabric, or any fabric treated with coating material suitable to the uses of such a bag or pouch. The blanks 1, 1, may be of any desired form, preferably having rounded contours at least at the corners 2, 2, and these blanks may be overlaid one on the other and conjoined together except at certain margi- 1928. Serial No. 295,288.

nal edges for the opening in any desirable Way; for Vexample by a sewed seam 3. But the pouch may be made of an integral piece of fabric, if desired, turned up into a side seamed bag having an open mouth'and one expansible or open side, with the same ellect as 'the two-blank sealned pouch shown.

In manufacturing the article the seam 8 is not complet-ed to form a side seam at one of the side edges of the overlaid blanks 1, 1, but is left open from the point 4 or thereabouts of one ,side of the pocket or pouch to bc formed, for example, the side 5. The parts of the side edges at 5 of the pouch are free to he separated from each other, so that the corners 6, 6, of the blanks 1 may be separated so far as desired, to provide, with the adjacent mouth edges, a Wide mouth triangular in general shape, as best illustrated in Fig. 1, for free access to the' interior of the pouch. The corner 7 of the mouth of the finished article may be conjoined by stitches lof the seam 3 or parts of fastening means, such as a metal' staple orstop 8 for a slider 10 having thc usual Wedge or plough element and directing channels of any of the well-known types of slider-actuated mutually interlocking engaging elements of such fastening devices.

The mouth edges of the pouch may be,

ferred the strips 12 are conjoined to the blanks' 1 by sewed seams 15, 15, which extend from end to end of one edge of each of the blanks 1. In making these articles, it will be understood that a continuous length of the stringers 12, before or after the attachment of elements 14 may be sewed to a succession of blanks 1 as a continuous operation, the pouches being cut apart by severing the strips 12 at the edges of the blanks 1 before or after their assembly by making the seams 3.

The pouch is completed by providing an extensible and collapsible stop 16 closing against spilling the contents, the open side seam adjacent to the mouth edges provided with the series of fastener elements 14. Stop 16 may be made as a bellows-folded piece, of the same material as or a more flexible material than the blanks 1, 1, the edges only of stop 16 being securely attached to the side seam opening from 4 to 6 left in the pouch when the side seam 3 is sewed. As best shown in Fig. 3, a preferred form of the stop 16 comprises a generally triangular blank set or creased inwardly along the lines 18 to provide radial bellows fol'ls, and creased outwardly along the line 19vto provide an outward bellows fold. The stop 16 may be attached along its edge a to one of the blanks 1 by a seam 8l before sewing the seam 3, which may be con- 'tinued at 3 in respect to the other edge of ther stop 16 and the other blank 1 only. Preferably the contour of the top edge of the blank 16 is relatively concave, as shown at 20, (Fig. 3) to avoid contact with the slider 10 when the slider is operated to close the pouch. lVhen the pouch is closed by slider 10 the corners 6 are held together with the, folded stop 16 con'ipressed between them, and within the closed pouch.

It will be observed that any interior pressure of contents will merely hold the top edge 2O of the folded stop 16 against the fastener edge; but when the slider is moved to open the pouch, the stop 16 forms a cross wall of a triangular mouth, between its edge' and the edges carrying the fastener elements. A place for the insertion of the thumb or tinger of the user to grasp the corners 6 or the edges 5 near the corners 6 and to open the pouch merely by separating the corners 6 is provided by the `slight separation of the main blanks 1, 1, by the folded or collapsed stop 16, and on such separation the slider 1() reacts to move to the open position shown in Fig. 2. f

To prevent the slider 1() from passing ofi' tbe engaging elements 14, an abutment stop 20' is applied to one (or a stop 20a to each) of the mouth edges of the pouch. The stop 20 does not connect these mouth edges, so that the corners 6 are free to separate.

I claim:

1. Pouch having a mouth comprising edges free to separate at 'one only of t e corners of the mouth, an expansible and collapsible stop conjoined severally to adjacent edges of the pouch at said corner, and slider-actuated fasgageable elements into engagement and t0 hold said stop in collapsed relation at one extreme of its motion.

i). Pouch having side and mouth edges of its material at an angle to each other, the mouth edges being provided with engageable elements of a slider actuated fastener adapt- -ed in closed position to hold the ends of the side edges closely together, and having a eollapsible stop bridging and between said side edges and adapted to be held in collapsed relation between said side edges when the slider is in closed position.

4. Pouch having a mouth comprising edges free tooseparate at one only of the corners of the mouth, an eXpansible and collapsible stop conjoined severally to adjacent edges ybf the pouch at said corner, and slider-actuated fastening means having engageable elements respectively on the separable edges, one of the edges at the separable corner of the mouth being provided with an abutment stop preventing motion of the slider off the fastener means at that corner.

. 5. 'An article having a gap therein, means permanently uniting the edges of the gap at one end, extensible means connecting the opposite edges of the gap at its other end, series of fastener elements at the opposite edges respectively of the gap, and a slider for moving the fastener elements of the opposed series into gap closing relationship.l

Signed by me at Boston, Massachusetts, this 20th day of July, 1928.

ROBERT C. CHILD

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