US2296665A - Pocket piece - Google Patents

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Sept. 22, 1942. E. L. l -|ALTER ET AL POCKET PIECE Filed June 24, 1940 ATTORNEY.

Patented Sept. 22, 1942 UNiTED STATES PAT ii;-

NT OFFICE POCKET PIECE Emma L. Halter and Ambrose J. Krier, Chicago, 111.

3 Claims.

This invention relates in general to a pocket piece and is more particularly described as an orn mental pocket piece resembling a handkerchief folded so that the tips will protrude from a pocket.

A further object of the invention is to provide a pocket piece of this kind composed of flexible materials which may be laundered or dry cleaned.

Other and further objects of the invention will appear in the specification and will be apparent from the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 is a view of the pocket piece constructed in accordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2 shows a blank of one of the tips or corners of the pocket piece;

Fig. 3 illustrates how the blank of Fig. 3 is puckered or drawn to form one of the tips of the pocket piece;

Fig. 4 shows a pocket; and

Fig. 5 a stiffening piece of canvas, buckram or the like, inserted in the pocket of Fig. 5 into which the projecting tips are inserted and to which they are attached.

It is common practice at the present time to fold or arrange a handkerchief so that when inserted in the lapel pocket of a coat the tips will project therefrom in a pleasing array and arrangement. This constitutes a display or pocket piece which is now ordinarily used and it is desirable to keep it in distended or display condition for decorative purposes rather than to remove it frequently and attempt to replace it in a pleasing and satisfactory array.

The present invention provides a fixed pocket piece of this kind in which a number of tips or projections are provided and arranged in such a manner as to resemble the folded tips of a handkerchief but with an attached base or holder which is inserted flatly within the pocket without forming any objectionable wad or projection therein and is of flexible material, such that it will conform readil to the bending movement of the coat or jacket in which the article is placed, and also made of suitable material such that it can be cleaned without damage or reuse after it becomes soiled.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing, a plurality of projections or tips and II, are each formed of suitable fabric such as silk, linen, wool, and the like, as commonly used for handkerchiefs and neckties, and each of these tips, which may vary in size or length, is composed of an angular piece or a segment of material [2 as shown in Fig. 3, having a pointed exners of a handkerchief and the lower edge I6 is puckered or gathered as shown in Fig. 4, to form gathers or shirrs I! with the edges rounded outwardly and downwardly from the tip.

A holder I8 in the form of a rounded pocket is preferably formed by sewing together two similarly shaped pieces by stitches I9 at the edges and then turning the pocket inside out so that the stitches will be on the inside. Into this open pocket is inserted a similarly shaped stationary piece 20 of heavy canvas, buckram and the like, which is flexible but will hold the pocket in shape and may also be subjected to washing or dry-cleaning without damage thereto.

Into the open pocket are inserted the shirred tips In and H, the extremities arranged in pleasing array, usually not more than three of the tips and one of them projecting above and between the other two, and all of the parts are then fastened tightly in place within the holder by one or more lines of stitching 2| at the top of the holder, thus preserving the gathering of the tips and holding them in the desired position.

In the cutting of patterns for ties, shirts, and other garments, small pieces are frequently left which can only be used as scrap. The present invention provides for utilizing these small corners, segments or pieces made of the same material of which the ties or other articles are made, thereby providing an exactly matching material which can be made into the pocket pieces of this invention without any additional cost for the material and thus utilizing the scraps which would ordinarily be wasted. It is not necessary that the holder 18 be made of the same material as this portion of the pocket piece is ordinarily hidden within the pocket when it is in use. It is desirable to make this holder of sufiicient length to extend well within the pocket when in use so that the pocket piece is not readil dislodged and also to provide a sufficient contact with the opposite walls of a contact in which it is inserted the pocket piece may be placed with any desired portion of the tips projecting from the pocket, and will be retained in that position by the frictional engagement of the tips and also of the holder with the pocket in which it is inserted.

This pocket piece provides a new article of manufacture and merchandise and when combined with a necktie a combination or set which is desirable as a commercial set and also as a pleasing combination for dress and decoration.

We claim:

1. A pocket piece comprising a plurality of fabric tips each gathered at the curved edge opposite the tip, a flexible fabric holder therefor having a flat stiffening member therein and open at the top to receive the gathered ends of the 10 tips, and fastening means binding the gathered tips, the stiffening member, and the top of the holder together.

2. A pocket piece comprising a plurality of segmental fabric pieces, each having an angular tip and an opposite curved edge, gathered at their curved edges, a stiffening holder therefor adapted to be inserted in a pocket, and fastening means for attaching the gathered ends of the fabric pieces to the upper edge of the stiffening with the tips in spaced-apart overlapping relation to resemble the projecting spaced corners of a folded handkerchief.

3. A pocket piece comprising a plurality of angular fabric pieces, each gathered along one edge to provide a projecting tip and an opposite shirred portion, a piece of stiffening fabric such as buckram, a fiat fabric holder into which the buckram is inserted, and stitching through the holder stifiening and the shirred ends of the fabric pieces for holding them all together with other.

EMMA L. HALTER. AMBROSE J. KRIER.

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