US587474A - Trousers-pocket - Google Patents

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J. M. OROSSLEY. TROUSERS POCKET.

No. 587,474. Patented Aug. 3,1897.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. CROSSLEY, OF BREWTON, ALABAMA.

TROUSERS-POCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 587,474, dated August 3, 1897.

Application filed March 15, 1897.

,To an whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. CROSSLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brewton, in the county of Escambia and State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pockets for Trousers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

- My invention relates to pockets for trousers, and has for its objects to produce a pocket in which the usual seam on the outer edge of the pocket will be dispensed with and that will render unnecessary the use of a number of pieces of cloth now commonly employed in making the pocket, whereby the appearance of the pocket is greatly improved and its manufacture simplified and cheapened.

To these ends my invention consists of the means as hereinafter described, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a plan view of portion of front and rear parts of trousers, showing material forming pocket attached to the facings of said parts; and Fig. 2, a front View of trousers when made up, showing pocket-flap turned out slightly.

In the drawings, A designates the portion of the trousers constituting the front part; B, the rear portion. Formed integrally with these parts and extending therefrom are projecting strips 0 c, forming facings of the pertions A and B, respectively.

D is the piece of .material from which the body of the pocket is formed, and it is sewed to the inner or wrong side of the facings c 0 along the edges 0 After the pocket has been thus secured to the facings the front part of the trousers is then turned and creased on the junction-line c of facing and trousers and the usual seam stitched along the outer creased edge where the facing is turned. The facing of the back part is not so turned, but is al- Serial No. 627,673. (No model.)

lowed to lie flat, being merely stitched along its outer edge to the pocket-body. The right or inner sides of the back and front portions of the trousers are then brought together and sewed together up and down the edges to and from the facings, leaving the facing of the rear part of trousers plain and seamless. Such a construction will do away with the objectionable seam along the outer edge of the rear part of trousers showing the opening to the pocket and will make such opening inconspicuous and the cloth thereat smooth and un-- wrinkled. My invention not only obviates the necessity of this unsightly seam, but dispenses with numerous reinforcing and securing strips and pieces heretofore used in the construction of trousers-pockets, and thereby not only adds to the appearance of the pocket by decreasing the thickness of the trousers at this point, causing the same to lie fiat and evenly, but cheapens and simplifies the manufacture of the pocket.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is As a new article of manufacture, trousers having a pocket consisting of a piece of suitable material forming the body of the pocket, facings formed integrally with and projecting from the outer edges of the front and rear parts of the trousers, said body portion secured to the inner sides of said facings along the outer edge thereof, the facing of said front part folded inwardly along its junction with the main body of the front part and there sewed to said body, and the facing of said rear part of the trousers unfolded and unstitched at its junction with the main body of said rear part, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES M. CROSSLEY.

W'itnesses:

O. M. LUTTRELL, N. B. LEIGH, Jr.

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