US2013929A

US2013929A - Garment

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Publication number: US2013929A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1935-09-10
Anticipated expiration: 1952-09-10

Description

Sept. 10, 1935. B N ETAL 2,013,929

GARMENT Filed NOV. 6, 1933 1 INVENTOR." 3W 1 @755;

Q BY ATTORNEYS.

Patented Sept. 10, 1935 PATENT .QFFICE .and Nat RothmarnSan Francisco, Calif.;..said Casper and said Rothman-as'signors v-.to.said

Rubin Application November 6, 1933,: SerialgNo.:-696;748

1 Claim.

The invention relates to garments and particularly to trousers, and more particularly to the waist portion of a trousers.

An object of the invention is to provide a waist portion for trousers and the like having an improved means whereby the trousers can be easily, quickly and conveniently adjusted to changes in the size of a mans waist without cutting or sewing or without causing pleats, wrinkles or other disfiguration in any part of the garment and without the necessity of using a belt, suspenders or other means by which the garment is held snugly against the wearer.

A further object of the invention is to provide a garment of this type having an adjustable waistband construction so that the dealers in apparel of this type can readily fit the garment to customers of relatively large or relatively small waists so as to obviate the necessity of the dealer carrying a large stock of garments of this type or being put to the expense of having a tailor adjust the waistband.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of the features of construction,

combination and. arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which:-

Fig. I is a partial view of a pair of trousers showing the waist portion embodying my invention in open position.

Fig. II is a front elevation showing the waist portion of the garment adjusted to fit a relatively small waist.

85 Fig. III is a similar view to Fig. II and shows the waistband adjusted to fit a relatively large waist.

Fig. IV is a section of the waist portion taken on line 44 of Fig. II.

40 Referring to the drawing, A and A designate fasteners secured to the waistband adjacent the sides or hip portions thereof one being placed on each side. No claim is made to the specific type of fastener other than that the fastener must 45 be of the easily adjustable type and any form of fastener may be used. Substantially half-way between each fastener and the fly portion of the garment are provided slits or openings B and B in the waistband, the function of which will be 50 explained hereafter. Another opening or slit D is provided in the waistband adjacent the fly and this opening or slit is preferably positioned adjacent that portion of the waistband :c that is covered or overlapped by that portion of the waist- 55 band 1 on the other side of the fly, when the fly is closed. To each of the ends of the waistband at the fly and forming an extension thereof are secured relatively narrow straps C and C which are adapted to pass through the slits or openings D, B and B and be adjustably secured to the 5 fasteners A and A. Strap C passes under the waistband, that is between the waistband and the body of the wearer until it reaches slit B, Where the strap C passes through the slit to the outside of the waistband and continues along the 10 outside of the band until it is engaged by the fastener A. Strap 0' passes over or outside the waistband, through the slit D and under or on the inside of the waistband until it reaches the slit B through which the strap C passes to be en- 15 gaged with the fastener A. This arrangement is clearly disclosed in the cross sectional view Fig. IV.

It is to be noted that the trousers do not have the usual fastening means. at the upper portions 20 of the fly .z' and y. In fact only the lowermost buttons E, E and E" of the usual fly construction are provided. The conventional fourth button and the usual waistband fastening means are substituted by the straps and fasteners and the 25 arrangement of slits or openings. This is a very important feature as it can be readily seen that the provision of such fasteners together with the adjusting feature would cause pleats, wrinkles or other disfigurements in or adjacent to the waist 30 portion of the garment when the waist portion of the garment is made smaller.

With this construction of adjustable Waistband in combination with the fly construction, any adjustment of the waist portion can be had without distortion of the fly or wrinkling below or upon the waistband and consequently there is no bulging in the front and the garment fits snugly, comfortably and smoothly. This is due to the fact that the adjustment begins at the top button E of the fly and extends upwardly to the top of the trousers. The fly portion a: and y above the button E can extend at an angle to the lower portion of the fly as clearly shown in Figs. II and III. The adjustment of the straps with relation tothe fasteners gives a relatively small waist in Fig. II and a relatively large waist in Fig. III. The provision of the slit D in the position indicated is of importance as this slit in conjunction with the strap C supports that portion of the fly a: above the button E in the absence of the usual fasteners and prevents that portion of the garment from sagging down and giving an unsightly appearance.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, it will be seen that the invention provides an adjustable waist band which is simple in construction, affords the advantages set forth, and by means of which the Waistband and upper portion of the fly can be easily adjusted.

Having thus described our invention, we claim:--

In a garment of the character described having a fly opening and a waistband intersected by 4 said fly opening having the ends thereof disposed inoverlapping relation, fastening means for closing the lower portion of the fly opening, the underlapping side of said waistband having two circumferentially spaced slits formed there in, one of said slits being near the edge of the fly opening, the overlapping side of said waistband having a slit formed therein spaced from said fly opening, a strap secured to and extending from each end of said waistband, the strap on the underlapping end being adapted to pass outwardly through said slit in the overlapping side and the strap on the overlapping end being adapted to pass inwardly through the slit near the edge of the fly opening and thence outwardly through the slit spaced therefrom in the underlapping side, and fastening means on the sides of the garment for securing the ends of said straps, whereby threading said straps through their respective slits and securing the ends of.

thesame will result in adjusting the waistband to the size of the wearer, the proximity of the slit in the underlapping side to the edge of the fly opening efiectively holding the overlapping edges against vertical shifting movement.

' HARRY RUBIN.

ABRAHAM CASPER. NAT ROTI-LMAN.