US3703729A - Trousers with adjustable waist - Google Patents

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US3703729A
US3703729A US161654A US3703729DA US3703729A US 3703729 A US3703729 A US 3703729A US 161654 A US161654 A US 161654A US 3703729D A US3703729D A US 3703729DA US 3703729 A US3703729 A US 3703729A
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Rolf Hinderer
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A41—WEARING APPAREL
    • A41F—GARMENT FASTENINGS; SUSPENDERS
    • A41F1/00—Fastening devices specially adapted for garments
    • A41F1/008—Adjustable fasteners comprising a track and a slide member
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/21—Strap tighteners
    • Y10T24/2143—Strap-attached folding lever
    • Y10T24/2145—Strap-attached folding lever toggle latch

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  • AGPINTS TROUSERS WITH ADJUSTABLE WAIST This invention relates to trousers with adjustable waist, and particularly to closures which adjustably connect flaps of a waistband on either side of a slit in the waistband and adjacent portions of the trousers approximately above the side pockets.
  • An object of the instant invention is the provision of trousers of the type referred to with a closure that can readily be set and adjusted by means of one hand. Another object is the provision of a closure which has a pleasant decorative appearance.
  • the closure of the invention includes a guide strip mounted on one of the flap portions and elongated transversely of the slit. Two slides are secured to the strip in movable guiding engagement while spaced from each other longitudinally of the strip.
  • a releasable clamping device can prevent longitudinal movement of a first slide on which the clamping device is mounted.
  • a handle is pivoted to the first slide for movement toward and away from its operative position in which it prevents release of the clamping device.
  • the handle is connected to the second slide by a link which moves the second slide toward the first slide in response to movement of the handle toward its tion of a preferred embodiment when considered in connection with the attached drawing in which:
  • FIG. 1 shows a waist portion of trousers provided with a closure of the invention in side elevation, portions of the trouser fabric being broken away for a better view of the closure which is in the closed condition;
  • FIG. 2 shows the device of FIG. 1 in the released condition of the closure
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 are fragmentary top plan views of the waist portion in the conditions of FIGS. 1 and 2 respectively.
  • the rear end of the strip 1 is provided with an abutment 4 which limits rearward movement of a slide 5 on the strip 1.
  • the slide is approximately Ufshaped in cross section, and its flanges have inturned edges so as to envelop the free edges of the strip 1 in guiding engagement.
  • a locking lever 6 'pivotally mounted on the slide 5 has a long arm best seen in FIGS.
  • the abutment 4 which functions in the manner of a bottom stop in a slide fastener, also further attaches the strip 1 by being fixedly fastened to a backing plate 7 on the inner face of the flap 3. It will be appreciated that the abutment 4 and backing plate 7 may be replaced by a bartack of the type commonly employed as a bottom stop in a slide fastener used for closing the fly of trousers.
  • a tongue 8 integral with the slide 5 projects from the latter obliquely away from the abutment 4 and the strip 1 and is fastened to an elongated handle 9 by a pivot pin 10 whose axis is perpendicular to the direction of slide movement on the strip 1.
  • the handle 9 is approximately U-shaped in cross section and extends in a shallow arc longitudinally of the strip 1, the exposed face of the handle being convex in the closed or operative position of the handle 9 seen in FIGS. 1 and 3. In that position of the handle, it completely covers and obscures the slide 5 and the lever 6, holding the latter in the locking position.
  • the pivot pin 10 passes through the flanges of the handle 9 at one end of the handle, and inturned ends of the legs on an approximately U-shaped link 11 enter into openings in theflanges spaced from the other end flexible plastic is attached by a seam 2 to the rear flap 3 by approximately one third of the handle length for hingedly securing the link to the handle 9.
  • the bight portion of the link 111 which connects the legs, is movably received in a sleeve 12 integral with a second slide 13 guided on the strip 1 in the same manner as described above with reference to the slide 5.
  • the link 11 thus connects the handle 9 to the slide 13 in such a manner that the second slide 13 is moved toward the first slide 5 in response to movement of the handle 9 from the position of FIGS. 2 and 4 towards the operative position shown in FIGS. 1 and 3, and vice versa.
  • the slide 13 is fastened to the inner layer of a foldedover edge part on the front flap 16 of the waistband by lateral lugs 14 extending through the inner flap layer and being bent over into recesses of a small retaining plate 15 received between the two layers of the edge part and thereby normally concealed from view.
  • the pivot axes of the link 11 in the sleeve 12 and through the flanges of the handle 9 define a plane which is offset from the axis of the pivot pin 10 toward the strip 1.
  • the tension which normally pulls the flaps 3, l6 apart during use thus holds the handle 9 in the operative position, and the handle is further secured in that position by dimples 17 in the outer faces of its flanges corresponding to projections on the inner faces and releasably engaging recesses 18 of the slide 5.
  • the closure illustrated is operated as follows, starting from the closed condition shown in FIGS. 1 and 3:
  • the handle 9 is large enough to be readily grasped by one hand which may easily perform all the necessary adjusting and locking or unlocking movements of the handle.
  • the plastic of the strip 1 is chosen to have a color that blends with that of the waistband flap 3, and the metallic abutment 4, if objectionable, may be replaced by an inconspicuous bartack, as mentioned above.
  • a pair of trousers including a waistband, the trousers having a lateral slit transversely extending through the waistband, and a closure for holding two terminal flap portions of said waistband adjacent said slit in adjustable, overlapping relationship, the improvement in the closure which comprises:
  • a guide strip mounted on one of said flap portions and elongated transversely of said slit;
  • a handle means pivoted to said first slide member for movement toward and away from an operative position, said handle means in said operative position preventing release of said locking means;
  • link means connecting said handle member to said second slide member for moving said second slide member toward said first slide member in response to movement of said handle member toward said operative position, and for moving the second slide member away from the first slide member in response to movement of the handle member away from said operative position;
  • fastening means fastening said second guide member to the other flap portion.
  • said locking means including a locking member pivotally mounted on said first slide member for movement toward and away from a locking position of engagement with said strip, said handle member abuttingly engaging said locking member and moving the same toward said locking position when said handle member moves toward said operative position, said handle member being dimensioned substantially completely to cover said first slide member and said locking member when in said operative position.
  • cam means on said locking member engaging said strip and locking the first slide member to said strip in the locking position of said locking member, said cam means responding to movement of said first slide member on said strip toward said second slide member for pivoting said locking member away from the locking position.
  • said fastening means including a retaining member, said second slide member and said retaining member receiving said second flap portion therebetween, and lugs projecting from said second slide member through said second flap portion and received in respective recessed portions of said retaining member.
  • said second flap portion having an edge part formed by two layers of flap material superimposed on said second slide member, said lugs passing through one of said layers, and said retaining member being received between said two layers.
  • said abutment means including attaching means fixedly attaching said strip to said first flap portion.
  • said link means including a substantially U-shaped link member having two leg portions pivotally engaging said handle member and a bight portion connecting said leg portions, a sleeve on said second slide member formed with a passage therethrough transverse to the direction of elongation of said strip and receiving said bight portion for hinged movement of the link member on said second slide member.

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DE19707035712 DE7035712U (de) 1970-09-26 1970-09-26 Hose mit verstellbarer bundweite.
DE2114407A DE2114407C3 (de) 1970-09-26 1971-03-25 Einstellbarer Verschluß für Hosen u. dgl. zum Verstellen der Bundweite

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US3930658A (en) * 1973-10-29 1976-01-06 Amf Incorporated Plastic ski and method of making the same
US4578827A (en) * 1983-11-10 1986-04-01 Schaeffer Scovill Verbindungstechnik Gmbh Waistband adjuster
US20070271737A1 (en) * 2006-05-25 2007-11-29 Bloomfield Randall C Waist size-adjusting device
US20120233743A1 (en) * 2009-09-15 2012-09-20 Hae Oh Park Waist girth adjuster and trousers having same
US20140304892A1 (en) * 2011-11-08 2014-10-16 Dietmar Schneider Leg Wear with Sliding Closure
CN108498299A (zh) * 2017-02-24 2018-09-07 深圳市倍轻松科技股份有限公司 腰部按摩器
US20190183199A1 (en) * 2017-12-14 2019-06-20 Vans, Inc. Waistband system for garments

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US473297A (en) * 1892-04-19 Strap-fastener
CH214449A (de) * 1940-03-13 1941-04-30 Montres Wyler Societe Anonyme Verschluss an Riemen von Armbanduhren.
US2438933A (en) * 1944-04-08 1948-04-06 Brand Clothes Inc Soc Trousers
US3204253A (en) * 1961-12-26 1965-09-07 Sato Kyuzo Trouser with adjustable waist size
GB1084677A (en) * 1965-06-08 1967-09-27 Lightning Fasteners Ltd Adjustable fastening device and sliders therefor

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US2987790A (en) * 1957-07-19 1961-06-13 Sussman Henri Stretcher, particularly for shoe straps
FR1322733A (fr) * 1962-05-24 1963-03-29 Comptoir De Nouveautes Mondial Boucle de tension pour bracelet-montre, bride de chaussure ou article analogue

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US473297A (en) * 1892-04-19 Strap-fastener
CH214449A (de) * 1940-03-13 1941-04-30 Montres Wyler Societe Anonyme Verschluss an Riemen von Armbanduhren.
US2438933A (en) * 1944-04-08 1948-04-06 Brand Clothes Inc Soc Trousers
US3204253A (en) * 1961-12-26 1965-09-07 Sato Kyuzo Trouser with adjustable waist size
GB1084677A (en) * 1965-06-08 1967-09-27 Lightning Fasteners Ltd Adjustable fastening device and sliders therefor

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3930658A (en) * 1973-10-29 1976-01-06 Amf Incorporated Plastic ski and method of making the same
US4578827A (en) * 1983-11-10 1986-04-01 Schaeffer Scovill Verbindungstechnik Gmbh Waistband adjuster
US20070271737A1 (en) * 2006-05-25 2007-11-29 Bloomfield Randall C Waist size-adjusting device
US7661177B2 (en) * 2006-05-25 2010-02-16 Bloomfield Randall C Waist size-adjusting device
US20120233743A1 (en) * 2009-09-15 2012-09-20 Hae Oh Park Waist girth adjuster and trousers having same
US9198475B2 (en) * 2009-09-15 2015-12-01 Hae Oh Park Waist girth adjuster and trousers having same
US20140304892A1 (en) * 2011-11-08 2014-10-16 Dietmar Schneider Leg Wear with Sliding Closure
CN108498299A (zh) * 2017-02-24 2018-09-07 深圳市倍轻松科技股份有限公司 腰部按摩器
CN108498299B (zh) * 2017-02-24 2024-02-06 深圳市倍轻松科技股份有限公司 腰部按摩器
US20190183199A1 (en) * 2017-12-14 2019-06-20 Vans, Inc. Waistband system for garments
US11337476B2 (en) * 2017-12-14 2022-05-24 Vans, Inc. Waistband system for garments

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DE2114407A1 (de) 1972-10-12
NL155443B (nl) 1978-01-16
GB1379448A (en) 1975-01-02
AT317115B (de) 1974-08-12
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CH525635A (de) 1972-07-31
FR2130096B1 (cs) 1974-09-13
DE2114407C3 (de) 1974-03-07
SE377755B (cs) 1975-07-28

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