US786924A - Vest-protector. - Google Patents

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No. 786,924. PATENTED APR. 11, 1905.

" R, SPURGIN. I

V ST PROTECTOR.

I APPLICATION FILED JAN. 26, 19%.

g No. 786,924.

UNITED STATES Patented April 11, 1905.

ROBERT SPURGIN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

VEST-PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 786,924, dated April 11, 1905.

Application filed January 26, 1903. Serial No. 140,551.

; To all whom, it may concern:

' Be it known that I, ROBERT SPURGIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago,

I in the county of Cook and State of Illinois,

1 have invented a new and useful Vest-Protector, of which the following is a specifica- 1 tion.

The object of my invention is to provide a new cloth vest-protector having an inseparable binding and invisible permanent holders for attaching it to the pockets of a vest.

In the drawings accompanying, Figure 1 is a vest-protector; a, the binding; 6 b, rivets;

c, cloth. Fig. 2 is the reverse or inner side of the vest protector; cl cl, holders; (2 a, points of rivets; Fig. 3, a holder unattached; Fig. ,4, a rivet; f, points.

My invention consists of a cloth vest-protector with an embedded binding along the j rubber, Fig. 1, embedded by pressure, during the process of vulcanization, in the fabric. This binding serves the threefold purpose of i protecting the edge of the vest-protector from Wear, providing a neat unchanging finish,

- Fig. 2.

and affording a firmer substance than the cloth alone to which to secure the holders, The two holders, being out from thin, yet firm leather, preferably, or some other suitable substance, such as stiff pliable felt, are attached one at each corner of the reverse of the vest-protector, Fig. 2, each being secured by two double-pointed rivets, Fig. 1 and Figs. 2 and-4f. These rivets are ystruck through both rubber and felt into the holders, the points, Fig. 45, being turned inward in the operation in a manner to clench and remain fast in the holders, Fig. 2. I

fact that only the cloth with its finishing and protective binding are in view when the vestprotector is worn, renderingthe article much less conspicuous than those which require to be attached to the vest by hooks, rings, or pins, parts of which must always be in view, and the further fact that it avoids the objection to metallic holders or fasteners, which tend to injure the vest at the point of attachment, both commend this vest-protector to the users of such an article. Again, the holders being permanently attached to the cloth cannot be lost or misplaced, as in the case of detachable hooks, pins, or holders .of any kind, in such event partly, if not wholly, destroying the practical utility of the article.

The superior merits of an embedded binding consist in the fact that being neither stitched, glued, or otherwise merely attached to the surface of the fabric it is practically inseparable by wear or any ordinary usage.

Having thus described my invention, what I now claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

-A cloth vest-protector having along its upper border, onits front side, an embedded, flexible binding and provided on its reverse side, at the upper corners, with two permanently-attached holders, substantially as described and shown.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT SPURGIN.

Witnesses:

. F. R. BARTSOH, H. A. BAR'rsoH.

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