US905795A - Pocket for garments. - Google Patents

Description

W. J. GUMMINGS.

* POGKET FOR GARMBNTS. APPLIGTION FILED APB. 30,1908.

' Patented Dec. 1, 1908.

' may escape, thereby, safe-guarding the for the Watch to" UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

WILLIAM J. CUMM'INGSTOF .IOLIElfILLINOIS ASSIGNOR TO SWEET, ORR- in COMPANY, 0F

'NEWBURGH, NEW YORK, A FIRM. v

POCImT FOR GARMENTS.

Specification of Letters Batent.

Patented Dec. l, 1908.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. CUMMiNGs, a citizen ci' the United States, residin at Joliet, in the count ofVill and State of llinois, have invented7 a certain new and useful Improvement in Pockets for Garments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The ob'ect of this invention is to rovide a combine safety Watch and enci pocket, from which the watch is not 1i ely to escape accidentally by movement of the wearer, the watch-receiving Qrtion being provided with a vent to render it practically selfcleaning. i

The invention is desi ned for use rimarily on the bibs of overalls, ut it is app icable to coats and other garments.

The invention consists of a pocket close entirely acress its top save to leave a mouth for thepencil pocket when one is rused, and

having a vertically/arranged i'lap-pr0tected mouth, whose flaps so cooperate with the watch as to make it practically impossible esca e While the wearer changes the positionof the body. Inconnection with such a pocket is a vent for the escape of any`dirt enterin ,the pocket.

In the accompanying rawings, illustrating the invention, 1n the several iigures of which like parts are similarly designated, Fi ure 1 is a front elevation of a pair et overails whose bib is supplied with the im revement. Fig. 2 is a pers ective view ci a ragment of the bib, on a argei' scalecut through the Watch pocketV mouth. Fig. 3 is a rear erspective view of a p i'tion of the bib of ig. 1 and showing in a 'dition an inside pocket for a handkerchief. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of portion of a coat supplied with' the improvement.

he overallsor coat may be of ordinary or any approved construction. As shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3, the pocket is a patchocket, having a narrow piece l, seamed in t e central bib seam 2 andsewed down closed at top to the body material 8 of the bib, and heinmedand open at the bottom 4; This open bottom constitutes a vent through which dirt entering or gathering in the pocket watch from being scratched or' otherwise injureilll The other ortion 5 of the pocket is sewed. to the body abric 3 at its to 6, side 7 and bottoni 8, and if desired, the ottom of meeting ed es.

rand mouth the pocket may slant downwardly, as shown,

ktoward the vent 4, to facilitate the automatic cleansing of the pocket. The ed e 8 of the v portion 5 is hemmed and stitc ied down to the portion 1 from the to edge to the point 9 and from the bottom e ge to the ypoint 10, thus leavingv an opening between the points 9 and 10 which constitutes the mouth of the watch pocket. The adjacent. edges of the pieces 1 and 5 overlap, as shown in Fig. 2, and these overlapping portions at the mouth constitute iiaps which aiiord an additional safeguard against the escape of the watch as thewearer stoops over his work.

It will be understood that the meeting edges of the pieces 1 and 5 are stitched to each other as described, but they are not vstitched to the body fabric 3, so that the inside pocket space extends both sides of these This'is indicated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3,2m especially by the lines of stitches in Fig. 3, and in this view the meeting `ed es are indicated by dash-andA ot lines, while the uniformly broken lines in that view indicate the lines of stitches which. extend through the body fabric.v

A portion of the pocket may be divided off by a line of through stitches 11 to form a pencil pocket 12 which has its mouth at the to ills seen in Fig. 4, the inventionpmay be ap plied to the breast of any ordinary coat, as a patchpocket, but in this case both vertical sides will be sewed down to the body fabric alike. In all cases the mouth of the pocket will b e hemmed in any suitable way.

As shown in Fig. 3, the bib maybe provided with an inside po'ck 13 to receive a handkerchiei.

The parts are shown bulged out abnormally inFig. 1 in order to better illustrate the construction. In practice, these parts will stretch out flat across the bib. l

While I prefer to make the pocket a combination watch and pencil pocket, still-.it yis within the invention tol omit' the pencil` pocket feature, or to replace it with a rece tacle for any other tool or instrument. T e vent may be omitted also,'if desired.

1. A patch-pocket for garments, having a portion secured to the body fabric at top and along one ed e and free from attachment to such body fa other portion attached to the body fabric at ric at its other edge, 4and an.

top, side and bottom and having its other edge lapped over the free edge of the first-nienedge lapped over the free edge of the rstmentioned portion and attached to said iii-staow/ee mentioned portion for a short distance from its top downwardly and for a portion of its length from the bottom upwardly, so as to leave an opening having overlap ing loose iape to constitute the mouth of t e pocket, the first-mentioned portion being hemmed and unattached to the body fabric at its bottorn, so as to leave a vent at the lower corner only of the bottoni of the pocket for cleaning the pocket.

in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of April, A. D. 1.908.

WILLIAM J CUMMINGS. lvlitnesses:

JAMES B, GAsooIeNn, D. R. MCMASTER

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