US2669737A

US2669737A - Washcloth

Info

Publication number: US2669737A
Application number: US178629A
Authority: US
Inventors: Evans Arthur Edward
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1950-08-10
Filing date: 1950-08-10
Publication date: 1954-02-23
Anticipated expiration: 1971-02-23

Description

A. E. EVANS F eb. 23, 1954 WASHCLOTH Filed Aug. l0 1950 Patented Feb. 23, 1954 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 7 WASI-ICLOTH Arthur Edward Evans, New York, N. Y.

Application August 10, 1950, Serial No. 178,629

Z Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in wash cloths and more particularly to improvements in Wash cloths having a built in soap pocket.

Wash cloths with soap pockets so far proposed depend very largely upon the hand of the user to retain the soap in the pocket or the pocket is made sufficiently deep to aid in the retention of the soap. In the latter case, the material for the wash cloth must usually be doubled.

It is an object of the instant invention to provide a wash cloth with soap pocket especially designed to conserve time and material in production as compared with known similar articles.

A further object is to provide a wash cloth with soap pocket that is more readily manipulated than similar wash cloths.

Another object is to provide a wash cloth with soap pocket in such simple form that the benefits thereof can be brought to a large number at a slight cost.

Other objects of the instant invention will become apparent in the course of the following specification.

In the attainment of these objectives, subject wash cloth is made in two embodiments from any suitably iiexible material having a high degree of porosity. In both embodiments, the wash cloth is constituted of a main body to one face of which a soap pocket is attached at the center. In the first embodiment, the soap pocket is constituted of a single piece of the same material as the main body, the single piece of material being transversely slit near one end on either side of the center line to form a flap for the pocket integral with the pocket at two points. The severed edge forming the fiap for the pocket is stitched to the main body of the wash cloth and the flap turned down over the severed but unstitched edge of the pocket. The opposite edge of the pocket as well as the adjacent sides thereof and the superposed sides of the pocket and flap are then stitched to the main body. The second embodiment is similar to the rst except that the slit is extended transversely from one side of the pocket toward the opposite side to give one integrally formed point of attachment of the flap to the pocket.

The invention will appear more clearly when taken in conjunction with the accompanying y drawings showing by way of example, the preferred embodiments of the inventive concept,

In the drawings: Figures 1 through 3 show the first embodiment of the improved wash cloth with soap pocket con- 2 structed in accordance with the principles of this invention, and in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the wash cloth in which the flap of the soap pocket is integrally formed with the pocket at two points;

Figure 2 is a sectional View along 2-2 of Figure l with the bar of soap removed; and

Figure 3 is similar to Figure 2 but with the bar of soap inserted in the pocket.

Figures 4 through 6 show the second embodiment of the improved wash cloth, and in which;

Figure 4 is a fragmentary plan view of the wash cloth having the flap of the soap pocket integrally formed therewith at one point;

Figure 5 is a sectional view along 5-5 of Figure 4; and

Figure 6 is a sectional view along B--G of Figure 4.

Referring now in greater detai1 to the first embodiment of the improved wash cloth shown in Figures 1 through 3 where the flap of the soap pocket is integrally formed :with the pocket at two points, reference numeral Ill indicates the main body of the wash cloth, and Il the soap pocket. i n

The main body It of the wash cloth is formed from any suitably iiexible and porous material such as terry cloth or Turkish toweling and may be of rectangular shape as illustrated although other forms could be used.

On one face of side of the main body I0 land at the center is the soap pocket I I made from the same material as the main body. The soap pocket is formed from a single rectangular retaining member I2 which is transversely slit along the line I3 between the points I4 and I5 and adjacent one end to form a ilap portion IB and a pocket portion. The partially severed edge of the flap portion I6 is then stitched to the main body ill at the center as illustrated and turned down over the pocket portion which leaves the slitted edge I3 of the pocket between the points I4 and I5 open. The opposite end of the pocket is also stitched to the main body along the line IB, the stitching I8 being continued upwardly (Fig. 1) along the lines I 9 and 20 at the sides of the pocket portion and further continued to fasten the sides of the superposed flap I6 as well as the sides of the pocket to the main body IU. By this construction there is actually formed two pockets an inner pocket and an outer pocket, the entrance to the outer pocket or ilap portion being along the unstitohed edge 2l thereof and the entrance to the inner pocket along the partially severed and unstitched edge I3 thereof. By

bringing the edge I3 of the inner pocket close to the stitching I'I of the outer pocket or flap portion, the cake of soap when inserted in the inner pocket as shown in Figure 3 is substantially prevented from slipping out when the cloth is in use.

To prevent sagging of the pockets, the four corners thereof, 23, 24, 25, and 26, as well as the

corners

21 and 28 of the end of the iiap portion are locked stitched as shown in Figure 1.

In operation:

By lifting the unstitched edge 2| of the outer pocket or flap portion I6 upwardly away from the main body IIJ and pulling downwardly on the unstitched edge I3 of the inner pocket, the cake of soap 22 (Fig. 3) can be readily inserted and will be retained in the inner pocket bythe outer pocket or flap portion under normalconditions until the soap is completely used. lThe soap may also be inserted in the inner pocket by turning the outer pocket or flap portion inside out which will expose the mouth I3 of the inner pocket for the insertion of the soap. lIhen, by turning the outer pocket back to the original position, the soap will be retained in the inner pocket. By making the soap pocket of the same `iiexible and porous material as the main body,

both sides of the wash cloth are useful and under similar conditions the soap ladened Water will the main body of the previously described first embodiment.

The pocket 4I is likewise similar to the pocket of the first embodiment described ante except that the slit 42 made to separate the ap portion *"45 from the pocket portion 4I extends from the point 43 at one side of the pocket or the iiap portions to the point 44 near the opposite side which gives only one integrally formed point of attachment between the flap and pocket portions as compared with the two points in the first embodiment.

The operation with the improved wash cloth of the second embodiment is substantially the same as that previously described under the first embodiment.

1 The improved wash cloth could be made in three pieces as Well as two and it will be understood that the invention is not limited to the exact disclosure Aherein described but may lend itself to a variety of expressions within the scope of'the appended claims.

What is claimed is:

1. A wash cloth, comprising a main body member of flexible and porous material, a second member of flexible and porous material for one side of said main body member, the length and width of said second member being substantially less than the corresponding dimensions of said main body member, said second member being slit along a line a short distance from one of the ends thereof and parallel thereto, the slit terminating adjacent the sides and substantially separating said second member into a pocket portion and a flap portion, the iiap portion being turned back over the pocket portion with the sides of the two portions superposed, and means for securing the superposed sides of the two portions and the end of the pocket portion opposite the partially slit edge to said main body member, said means securing said slit edge of the flap portion to said main body member in juxtaposition with the corresponding edge of the pocket portion.

2. A wash cloth, comprising a rectangular main body member of flexible and porous material, a second rectangular member of flexible and porous material for one side of said main body member, the length and width of said second member being substantially less than the corresponding dimensions of said main body member, said second member being slit along a line a short distance from one of the ends thereof and parallel thereto, the slit terminating adjacent the sides and substantially separating said second member into a pocket portion and a ap portion, the flap portion being turne-d back over the pocket portion with the sides of the two portions superposed, means for securing the superposed sides of the two portions and the end 0f the pocket portion opposite the partially slit edge to said main body member, said means securing said slit edge of the flap portion to said main body member in juxtaposition with the corresponding edge of the pocket portion, and means for reinforcing at least one of the corners of said second member.

ARTHUR EDWARD EVANS.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Pierce May 6, 1952