US3278945A

US3278945A - Zippered garment

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Publication number: US3278945A
Application number: US393548A
Authority: US
Inventors: Harold T Croonborg
Original assignee: BREW SCHNEIDER CO Inc
Current assignee: BREW SCHNEIDER CO Inc
Priority date: 1964-09-01
Filing date: 1964-09-01
Publication date: 1966-10-18
Anticipated expiration: 1983-10-18

Description

Oct. 18, 1966 H. 'r. CROONBORG ZIPPERED GARMENT 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Sept. 1, 1964 INVENTOR 7 Harold T. Croonborg B aw w ATTORNEY Oct. 18, 1966 H. T. cRooNBoRG' ZIPPERED GARMENT Filed Sept. 1, 1964 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Fig. 2.

INVENTOR Harold T. Croonborg BY W ATT RNEY United States Patent 3,278,945 ZIPPERED GARMENT Harold T. Croonborg, Teaneck, NJ., assignor to Brew Schneider Co., Inc., New York, N.Y., a corporation of New York Filed Sept. 1, 1964, Ser. No. 393,548 3 Claims. (Cl. 2-234) This invention relates to an improved garment having a zippered opening and more particularly to improved work trousers and method for making the same.

It is a common practice among many businesses to rent work trousers for their employees from commercial laundries and linen supply houses. Heretofore, such laundries have avoided buying trousers with zippers for closing the fly because of the difiiculty in replacing zippers when they became broken. As a consequence commercial laundries and linen supply houses rented work trousers with buttons in the fly, because broken or missing buttons were easier to replace than broken zippers.

Dress trousers and work trousers which are made with zipper flys today have waistbands which extend around the top of the trousers. When such trousers are sewn the stitching extends across along the top waistband and lining and passes through the zipper. Zipper flys constructed in this manner do not lend themselves to an easy replacement of the zipper when they become broken.

An object of the present invention is to provide Work trousers of improved construction having fly zippers which may be quickly and easily replaced if defective or broken.

Another object of this invention is to provide an improved method for making work trousers which will facilitate replacing a defective zipper.

Another object of this invention is to provide a work trouser having button hole openings at the top of the fly to receive the top ends of a zipper tape.

Another feature of this invention is to make a fly having fly bands which extend to the top of the trousers, wherein button holes are provided inside at the top of the fly bands for receiving the upper ends of the zipper tape.

Other objects and features of the invention will appear as the description of the particular physical embodiment selected to illustrate the invention progresses.

For a better understanding of the present invention reference should be had to the accompanying drawings, wherein like numerals of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views and wherein:

FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of a partially opened zipper fly showing my improved fly construction and zipper mounting.

FIGURE 2 is a cross section, taken on the line 2-2 of FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 3 is a cross section taken on the line 33 of FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 4 is a perspective view of an opened zipper fly embodying my improved construction showing a bar tack securing the lower end of the zipper.

Referring to FIGURE 1 the trousers having a body portion are constructed with a top inside drill belt lining 12 which is stitched along the top and bottom with a row of stitches 14 and 16 (FIGURES 1 and 2). For purposes of illustration only, the

fabrics

31 and 30 and the spacing thereof has been exaggerated. These would normally be in contact with each other. The main trouser 18 extends up in between the top inside drill lining 12 and the outside waistband 20 shown in FIGURE 2.

To provide body for the waistband an inner drill lining 22 may be provided. In order to present a neat appearance the top inside drill lining 12 is folded over the inner drill lining 22 forming a downward fold 24 of top drill lining. The outside waistband 20 is similarly folded downwardly thus forming the downward fold 26.

Patented Oct. 18, 1966 "ice The

folds

24 and 26 and top inner canvas lining 12 and the outside waistband 20 and the main trouser fabric 18 therebetween are stitched together by the two rows of stitches 14 and 16 (FIGURE 1) which extend along the edge of the top waistband 20.

In my improved method and fly construction for zippered trousers the overlapping right and left fly extend from the crotch as shown in FIGURES l and 4 to the top of the trousers as shown in FIGURE 1. The fly consists of an inside lining 28 and an outside fly 30. The

edges

32 and 34 of the fly lining 28 and outside fly 30 are folded on themselves and stitched by stitching 36 to secure the same together.

The

inside edges

31 and 33 of the fly lining 28 and outside fly 30 are stitched through the trouser material 18 by stitching 38. One tape 40 is secured to the right fly band 30 by two rows of

stitching

42 and 44. The lower end of the two zipper coacting

hook tapes

40 and 46 are secured by a bar track 48 at the crotch of the trousers. The upper ends 47 and 49' of the zipper coacting hook tapes 49 and 46 extend through suitable

button hole openings

51 and 53 formed in the upper end of the

fly

30 and 50 as shown in FIGURES l and 4. If desired, the button hole openings may be bound or stitched as shown in FIGURE 1, to prevent unraveling of the fabric at the button hole opening. The two rows of tacking 61 shown in FIGURE 1 at the upper end of fly band 30 secures the upper end of the tape 40 to the fly 30 at a point beyond but in close proximity to the button hole opening 51. A similar set of tacks 62 attach the upper end 49 of the zipper tape 46 to the upper end of the left fly band 50 in a similar manner at a point just beyond the button hole opening 53 and in close proximity thereto.

The tacking 61 and 62 may be formed in any conventional or suitable manner. For example, a button stitching machine can be used for inserting these double tacks by not using a button as shown in FIGURE 1 to thereby secure the upper ends 47 and 49 of the

zipper tapes

40 and 46 to the

fly bands

30 and 50. A button 48 is secured to the upper end of the right fly 30 while a button hole 32 is formed above the left zipper tape 46 at the upper end of the left fly band 50 as shown in FIGURE 1.

The closing and opening slide 52 is of conventional construction and has the usual finger gripping tab 54 which is used to move the slide 52 up and down on the

zipper hook tape

40 and 46 to open and close the coacting zipper hook tape in a manner well known. The zipper tape 40 is stitched to the fly band 30 from the bottom of the crotch of the fly up to a point just short of the opening 51 through which the end of the fly tape 40 extends. I have shown how a double row of

stitching

42 and 44 is used to secure the zipper tape 40 to the fly band 30 in the manner just described. It is obvious that a single row of stitching could be also used for this purpose. The left zipper tape 46 is secured by a double row of

stitches

54 and 60 to the left fly band 50 in a similar manner.

When a trouser is constructed with a zipper fly in the manner described above the replacement of a broken zipper can be readily effected. To accomplish this one merely has to insert a small sharp scissor or knife through the

openings

51 and 53 to sever or release the

tacking

47 and 62 which secures the upper ends of the fly tapes 47 and 49 to the upper ends of the

fly bands

30 and 50. As soon as the upper ends 47 and 49 of the

zipper tapes

40 and 46 have been detached in this manner they can be pulled out through the

button hole openings

51 and 53 to expose the same. If the slider 52 is broken then all that has to be done is to remove the old slider 52 and to thread on a new slide by means of a slide threading pliers in a manner well known in the zipper art.

Heretofore when zippers were stitched to trousers the waistband and lining extended around the entire top of the trousers and the fly bands ended at the waist band. The stitching which was used to secure the waist band to the body of the trousers extended through the zipper as well as the waist lining and belt ribbon folds. As a consequence if the waist band stitching was opened to remove the old zipper it in effect constituted dismantling one of the main portions of the trousers thereby impairing the appearance of the same and also weakening the construction since it was not possible to restitch the waist band lining in exactly the same position it was previously without requiring a great deal of time and patience on the part of the operator.

In my improved garment construction, if one of the zipper tapes is broken or the teeth thereof missing, the same procedure would be followed as described above in connection with the replacement of the slide, but in this case the broken tape would be removed by cutting the stitching which secured the tape to the fly band. When both of the tapes had been removed from the fly bands in this manner a new tape or tapes are stitched to the fly by means of either a single or a double row of

stitching

42 and 44, and 54 and 60. The lower bar tack 48 would of course be removed at the same time that the stitching which secured the zipper tapes to the fly bands was cut to detach the zipper tapes from the fly bands.

When the new zipper tape is secured to the fly, the lower end of the tape is secured by a tacking which replaces the original tacking 48A. The upper ends of the replaced tapes are then inserted through the

button hole openings

51 and 53. The

respective tapes

40 and 46 are then stitched to their

respective fly bands

30 and 50 from the lower end of the fly bands along their length up to the

button holes

51 and 53 either by a single or a dobule row of stitching depending upon the type of sewing machine employed. The upper end of the replaced tape is tacked by either a single or a double bar tack similar to the tacking 61 and 62 to replace the same.

While I have described how my improved zipper construction and the method may be used advantageously with work trousers, it will be apparent that this form of construction can also be advantageously used with any form of garment having a zipper opening. It is not necessarily limited to work trousers although in the case of work trousers it is especially valuable because zippers quite frequently become broken and have to be replaced.

Any garment having a zippered opening may use this invention. All that is desirable is that the sides to be closed and to which the zipper tapes are fastened be of two-ply construction so that the hole in one of the plys at the top of the zipper tape through which the end of the zipper tape is inserted, will permitthe end of the zipper to be concealed between both fabrics. Of course, a single ply could also be used with this invention. In this case the hole would be formed in the single ply and the end of the zipper tape would be concealed inside of the garment or other item with which the zipper is used.

The invention hereinabove described may be varied in construction within the scope of the claims, for the particular device selected to illustrate the invention is but one of many possible embodiments of the same. The invention, therefore, is not to be restricted to the precise details of the structure shown and described.

What is claimed is:

1. In a trouser fly opening construction, a body portion having a pair of overlapping flies extending to the top 4 edge of said body and a slide fastener for uniting said flies, said slide fastener comprising a pair of coacting hook tapes and a slider, each of said overlapping flies comprised of at least two plies of fabric, a bound opening in the upper portion of the outer ply of the inner fly and the inner ply of the outer fly, said openings having a length at least equal to the width of said tape, one of said coacte ing tapes being mounted on the face of each fly which has said opening therein, each of said tapes having its upper end extending through said opening to a concealed placement between the plies. of the fly, at least one line of stitching securing the exposed portion of each tape to its respective fly and tack stitching. means securing the upper end of said tape in place between said plies, whereby by the removal of said. stitching and said tacking means only, the slide fastener will be completely detached from the trousers for replacement of a defective slide fastener or the upper ends of the coacting hook tapes can be removed from the bound openings in the upper portion of the overlapping flies to permit replacement of a defective slider.

2. In a trouser fly opening construction, a body portion having a pair of overlapping flies extending to the top edge of said body-and a slide fastener for uniting said flies, said slide fasteners comprising a pair of coacting hook tapes and a slider, an opening in the upper portion of the inner fly and of the outer fly, said openings having a length at least equal to the width of said tape, one of said coacting tapes being mounted on the face of each fly which has said opening therein, each of said tapes having its upper end extending through said opening to a concealed placement in the fly, at least one line of stitching securing the exposed portion of each tape to its respective fly and tack stitching means securing the upper end of said tape between said plies, whereby by the removal of said stitching and said tacking means only, the slide fastener will be detached from the trousers for repair of a defective slide fastener.

' 3. In a garment fly opening type of construction, an elongated body portion having a pair of oppositely positioned strips extending lengthwise of the elongated body portion and a slide fastener for uniting said strips, said slide fastener comprising a pair of coacting hook tapes and a slider, an opening in the upper portion of each strip,

said openings having a length at least equal to the width of said tape, one of said coacting tapes being mounted on the face of each strip which has said opening therein, each of said tapes having its upper end extending through said openings to a concealed'placement in the strip, at least one line of stitching securing the exposed portion of each tape to its respective strip and tack stitching means securing the upper end of said tape in place inside of said opening, whereby by the removal of said stitching and said tacking means only, the slide fastener will be detached from the garment for repair of a defective slide fastener.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,166,092 7/ 1939 Galloway 2-234 2,535,487 12/ 1950, Pietro 2234 2,650,366 9/1953 Knotter 2-234 JORDAN FRANKLIN, Primary Examiner.

A. R. GUEST, Assistant Examiner,

Claims

1. IN A TROUSER FLY OPENING CONSTRUCTION, A BODY PORTION HAVING A PAIR OF OVERLAPPING FLIES EXTENDING TO THE TOP EDGE OF SAID BODY AND A SLIDE FASTENER FOR UNITING SAID FLIES, SAID SLIDE FASTENER COMPRISING A PAIR OF COACTING HOOK TAPES AND A SLIDER, EACH OF SAID OVERLAPPING FLIES COMPRISED OF AT LEAST TWO PLIES OF FABRIC, A BOUND OPENING IN THE UPPER PORTION OF THE OUTER PLY OF THE INNER FLY AND THE INNER PLY OF THE OUTER FLY, SAID OPENING HAVING A LENGTH AT LEAST EQUAL TO THE WIDTH OF SAID TAPE, ONE OF SAID COACTING TAPES BEING MOUNTED ON THE FACE OF EACH FLY WHICH HAS SAID OPENING THEREIN, EACH OF SAID TAPES HAVING ITS UPPER END EXTENDING THROUGH SAID OPENING TO A CONCEALED PLACEMENT BETWEEN THE PLIES OF THE FLY, AT LEAST ONE LINE OF STITCHING SECURING THE EXPOSED PORTION OF EACH TAPE TO ITS RESPECTIVE FLY AND TRACK STITCHING MEANS SECURING THE UPPER END OF SAID TAPE IN PLACE BETWEEN SAID PLIES, WHEREBY BY THE REMOVAL OF SAID STITCHING AND SAID TACKING MEANS ONLY, THE SLIDE FASTENER WILL BE COMPLETELY DETACHED FROM THE TROUSERS FOR REPLACEMENT OF A DETECTIVE SLIDE FASTENER OR THE UPPER ENDS OF THE COACTING HOOK TAPES CAN BE REMOVED FROM THE BOUND OPENINGS IN THE UPPER PORTION OF THE OVERLAPPING FLIES TO PERMIT REPLECEMENT OF A DETECTIVE SLIDER.