US2087123A

US2087123A - Trousers pocket

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Publication number: US2087123A
Application number: US58609A
Authority: US
Inventors: George E Serak
Original assignee: Alfred Decker & Cohn Inc
Current assignee: Alfred Decker & Cohn Inc
Priority date: 1936-01-11
Filing date: 1936-01-11
Publication date: 1937-07-13
Anticipated expiration: 1954-07-13

Description

2 Sheets-Sheet 1 July 13, 1937. G. E. sERAK TROUSERS POCKET Filed Jan. 11. 193e Gebr 6.5154611216 m 'IW July 13, 1937.

George Sarah Patented July 13, 1937 UNITED stares PATENT OFFICE Decker & Cohn, Inc.,

` tion of Illinois Chicago, Ill., a corpora- Application January 11, 1936, Serial No. 58,609

Claims.

and arrangement whereby each side pocket is double, so to speak, comprising one pocket that is open, and comprising a secret pocket that is normally closed, but which is accessible through one and the .same pocket opening inI the side of the trousers, and whereby a usual portion of an ordinary regular pocket is used to normally conceal the entrance to the secret pocket.

It is also an object to provide certain details and features of construction tending to increase the general efficiency and the desirability of trousers pockets of this particular character.

To the foregoing and other useful ends, the Ainvention consists in matters hereinafter set forth and claimed and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Fig. 1 is a front view, in perspective, of the upper portion of a pair of trousers with a side pocket involving the principles of the invention.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged fragmentary side view of the pocket portion of the said trousers.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged fragmentary view showing the pocket opening spread apart to permit the insertion of a hand.

, Fig. 4 is a similar view, showing the method of gaining entrance to the secret pocket.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged horizontal section, more or less in perspective, on line 5 5 in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

Fig. 6 is a similar view on line 5 6 in Fig. 4 of the drawings.

Fig. 7 is an enlarged vertical section on line 'l--l in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

Fig. 8 is a perspective of the blank from which the secret pocket is made.

Fig. 9 is a perspective of the blank from which the regular pocket is made.

As thus illustrated, it will be Seen that the trousers shown have a suitable waist-band l, and have a side pocket opening 2 at keach side, just below the said waist-band. As shown more clearly in Figs. 3 and 4 of the drawings, the cloth of the garment is turned in at the edge of the pocket, forming a strip 3 that extends downward from the waist-band to a point below the pocket, in the usual manner, so that when the pocket is normally open or spread, it appears substantially as it does in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

'Ihe sacklike. pocket 4, shown in Fig. 9 of the 5 drawings, may be made of cotton or other cloth,

in the usual manner, and will have its

edges

5 and 5 sewed together, but the inner edge 5 has a portion 6 of the cloth cut and turned back and stitched at its edge to the body of the material of which the pocket is made, and the folded edge 5 of this portion 6 is not stitched to anything. This forms the regular pocket.

The secret pocket-is formed by the blank 1, shown in Fig. 8 of the drawings, which encloses the pocket formed from the blank Il, the two sacklike pockets being sewed together at 8, at their lower edges, as indicated in Fig. 7 of the drawings, and the edge 9, above the stitching 3, being fastened to the garment by being stitched to the edge l0 of the pocket, as shown in Figs.

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5 and 6 of the drawings. The edge Il of the secret pocket is stitched to the inside of the garment at l2, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings, and it will be understood that both sacklike pockets thus formed have their upper edges fastened to the waist-band portion of the garment.

Normally, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, the strip of cloth 3, which is integral with the cloth of the garment, covers the folded edge i3 of the regular pocket, so that a hand slipped through the pocket opening will readily enter the regular pocket formed by the blank 4 in the manner described. However, if it is desired to obtain access to the secret pocket, the one formed by the blank "l, then theedge portion 3 of the cloth is pulled outwardly in the manner shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, thus exposing the; edge I3, so that the hand can then be slipped in between this edge and the inner wall of the secret pocket, which latter in eifect encloses the regular pocket.

Thus, two pockets are provided, one within the other, to provide a secret pocket (the outer one), which is inaccessible except in the manner shown 40 and described, and which is normally closed, and .which normally is not detectable to a person that is not aware of such presence of the pocket in the garment.

While the invention is shown in connection with straight vertical side pockets, at the side seams of the garment, it will be understood that the invention is not limited to this particular style of pocket, and that it may be used for any of the other forms of pockets involved in the making of trousers, to the extent that the invention may be found to be applicable thereto, and that the invention is not limited to the particular style of pocket shown and described.

It will be seen that the inner wall of the regular 2f pocket forms the outer wall of the secret pocket, when the hand is thrust into the Vsecret pocket,

as 'at such time the hand is between said walls. With the constructionshown and described, it

Vwill be seen that the material of the regular pocket is fully enclosed by the material of the secret pocket, so that the interior of the latter extends along one side of the regular pocket, around the folded or creased edge of the regular pocket, and then back toward the pocket opening along the outer side of the regular pocket, so that the secret pocket may contain articles at either or both sides of the regular pocket. Also, it will be seen thatthecloth of the garment, as at 3, extends into the pocket and is secured to one side of the secret pocket, and that the cloth of the garmentalso extends around and into the pocket, at the outer edge of the pocket opening, and is secured as shown in Figs. 5 and 6 to the outer side of the regular pocket. In this way, the normal appearance of the pocket opening is like that of an ordinary pocket, and there is nothing to arouse any suspicion that it is not just an ordinary pocket. But theportion 3, instead of being stitched as usual to the adjacent edge of the regular pocket, is stitched to the edge of the secret pocket, along the inner edge of the pocket opening at l2, and thus the portion 3 normally covers a loose or unattached edge of the regular pocket, instead of being stitched thereto as is usual in the ordinary pocket construction. Thus it will be seen that the portion 3 of the-goods from which the garment is made, which is nor- Y mally in the position shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings, is in appearance like that of the ordinary regular pocket, as it extends through the pocket opening at the inner side thereof, in the regular manner, and there is nothing about it to arouse the suspicion that it serves as a closing ap for a secret pocket, for the pocket entrance, as shown in Fig. 3 and as shown in Fig. 5, has nothing unusual in appearance, and looks like the ordinary pocket.

What I claim as my invention is:

l. In a trousers pocket construction, means forming a complete sack-like regular pocket, but

Y Vwith one edge thereofrleft free adjacent the pocket opening at the side of the garment, and means forming a secret pocket 1beside said regular pook'.- et, the garment havingmeans in appearance like that of an ordinary pocket, normally overlying 'and concealing said free edge of the regular pocket, so that normally the pocket opening has the ordinary appearance, but adapted to be pulled outward to expose said edge and permit the hand to be inserted into the secret pocket, the said means for forming the secret pocket comprising side walls both fastened at their edges to the opposite edges of the pocket opening, with the said regular pocket comprising twoside walls disposed between the side walls of the secret pocket.

f- 2. In a trousers pocket construction, means forming acomplete sack-like regular pocket, but with one edge thereof left free adjacent the pocket opening at the side of the garment, and means forming a secret pocket beside said yregular pocket, the garment having means in appearance like that of an ordinary pocket, normally overlying and concealing said free edge of the regular pocket, so that normally the pocket opening hasthe ordinary appearance, but adapted to be pulled outward to expose said edge and permit the hand to be inserted into the secret pocket, each pocket comprising a blank formed of cloth folded along the middle thereof, with both edges of the secret pocket blank secured to the opposite edge portions of the pocket opening, and with one edge of the regular pocket blank also secured to the outer edge of the pocket opening, together with stitching through the lower edges of both blanks, fastening the lower ends of the two blanks together between the lower end of the pocket open'- ing and the lower end of the fold of each blank.

3. In a trousers pocket construction, means forming a.v complete sack-like regular pocket, but with one edge thereof left free adjacent the pocket opening at the side of the garment, and means forming a secret pocket beside said regular pocket, the garment having means in appearance like that of an ordinary pocket, normally overlying and concealing said free edge of the regular pocket, so that normally the pocket opening has the ordinary appearance, but adapted to be pulled outward to expose said edge and permit the hand to be inserted into the secret pocket, the secret pocket having upper horizontal edges stitched together and to the garment, and. having lower edges stitched together between the lower end of the pocket opening and the lower end of the pocket, and having two downwardly extending edges each stitched to one ofthe edges of the pocket opening.

4. In a trousers pocket construction, means forming a complete sack-like regular pocket, but with one edge thereof left free adjacent the pocket opening at the side of the garment, and means forming a secret pocket beside said regular pocket, the garment having means in appearance like that of anordinary pocket, normally overlying and concealing said free edge of the regular pocket, so that normally the pocket opening has the ordinary appearance, but adapted to be pulled outward to expose said edge and permit the hand to be inserted into the secret pocket, the secret pocket having upper horizontal edges stitched together and to the garment, and having lower edges stitched together between the lower end of the pocket opening and the lower end of the pocket, and having two downwardly extending edges each stitched to one of the edges of the pocket opening, and said regular pocket being fully enclosed by the secret pocket.

5. In a trousers pocket construction, means forming a complete sack-like regular pocket, but with one edge thereof left free adjacent the pocket opening at the side of the garment, and means forming a secret pocket beside said regular pocket, the garment having means in appearance like that of an ordinary pocket, normally overlying and concealing said free edge of the regular pocket, so that'normally the pocket opening has the ordinary appearance, but adapted to be pulled outward to expose said edge and permit the hand to Vbe inserted into the secret pocket, in which the cloth of the garment extends into the pocket and is secured to one side ofthe secret pocket, at one side of the pocket opening, and is secured to one side of the regular pocket at the other side of the pocket opening.