US730741A

US730741A - Trousers.

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Publication number: US730741A
Application number: US9020902A
Authority: US
Inventors: Arthur T Buswell
Original assignee: JOHN EMISON
Current assignee: JOHN EMISON
Priority date: 1902-01-17
Filing date: 1902-01-17
Publication date: 1903-06-09
Anticipated expiration: 1920-06-09

Description

VPATENTED JUNE'Q, 1903.-

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No. 730,741. v

forcing-strip 5. round wire for this purpose, as a metal piece l crease.

UNITED STAT-Es ARTHUR T.

raten-'ea' .rune e, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

BUSVELL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASNSIGNOR OF ONE- A HALF TO JOHN EMISON, OF NEWT YORK, N. Y.

TROUSERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 730,741, dated J une 9, 1903.

Application led January 147. 1902. Serial No. 90.209. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR T. BUswELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Trousers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to improvements in forming grooves or creases in the legs of trousers; and it consists in the construction and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective Viewr of a portion of a trousers-leg, showingr the means of forming a crease therein. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of a portion of the trousers-leg as shown by Fig. 3, illustrating the completed crease. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a portion of a trousers-leg broken away, showing the crease produced with a part of the devices used to complete the structure withdrawn. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 3 with the creasing devices fully removed.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in the several Views.

The numeral l designates a pressing-board which has in one side two or more V-shaped grooves 2 of varying size extending longitudinally thereof. The object of said variety of grooves is to provide for the varying thicknesses of cloth of which trousers are com posed. The remaining devices employed in carrying out the construction of the crease comprise a wire former 3, a cement strip 4:, and a rein- I do not confine myself to a of dierent shape may be used.

In carrying outthe construction the trousersleg to be creased is irst pressed in the ordinary Way, leaving the temporary longitudinal crease or demarcation, which serves asa guidein adjusting and aiiixing the permanent The leg is then turned inside out and the pressing-board therefor is inserted therein, the saidboard being so positioned oradjusted as to bring one of the grooves 2 under the temporary crease or portion of the trousersleg in which it is desired to produce the permanent crease. After the board has been inserted in the trousers-leg the wire former 3 is placed on the upper side portion of the goods directly over the groove 2 to be creased and pressed with the goods down into the groove. The cement strip 4 is then applied over the partially-completed crease, and on the cement strip is disposed a reinforcingstrip 5 of suitable thin fabric, the stripsll and 5 being of equal width and extend over on the goods at opposite sides of the crease. The cement strip 4 is composed of whatis commonly known as gutta-percha or rubber tissue. l do not confine myself to guttapercha or rubber tissue. Any glue or sticky' substance which can be applied to and will hold the reinforced strip to the leg of the trousers and will not allow the crease to return to original shape may be used. After the parts are thus arranged a hot Hat-iron is run over the reinforced strip 5 to melt the cement strip 4 and cause a reliable adhesion of the reinforce-strip 5 to the -goods of the trousers-leg, so as to space said groove from the reinforcing-strip. It will be understood by those skilled in the art of tailoring that the cement strip practically disappears and the reinforce-strip 5 prevents the goods from returning to or resuming its original shape, and thereby the crease will be maintained in the goods. After the reinforce-strip 5 is secured as set forth the pressing-board is withdrawn and the wire former 3 is pulled out of the crease, as shown by Fig. 2, said former being primarily long enough to project beyond the end of the leg of the trousers for convenience in grasping the same. It' being desirable to make the crease of varying prominence at different portions of the leg, one or more metallic formers of different sizes may be employed for this purpose, according to the size of the groove desired.

/From the foregoing it-Will be seen that a permanent crease can be produced in trousers-legs by a simple and effective construction, and by the preservation of the crease trousers-legs will also be prevented from losat the same time trousers so treated will alapex of said groove being spaced from the re- Ways have a neat and dressy appearance. inforcing-strip, substantially as specified.

Having thus fully described the invention, In testimony whereof I affix my signature what is claimed as new isin presence of two Witnesses.

A pair of trousers having in each leg por- ARTHUR T. BUSWELL. tion a crease or groove, a cement strip, and a Witnesses: reinforce-strip, the said cement strip and re- BERTRAM A. HILLARD, in force-strip being applied to the material of JOHN H. BLANCHARD.

ing their spring or bagging at the knees, and the legs over said crease or groove and the Io