US1818738A - Patch pocket - Google Patents

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Aug. 11,1931. 5. NEWMAN 1,818,738

PATCH POCKET Filed Dec. 17. 1929 Patented Aug. 11, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SAMUEL NEWMAN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOB TO .1. SGHOENEMAN, INCOR- PORATED, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, A CORPORATION OF MARYLAND PATCH POCKET Application filed December 17, 1929. Serial No. 414,622.

In the use of the patch pockets at present in vogue, particularly with top coats, the material forming whatmay be termed the inner wall of the pocket, i. e., the side of the pocket next to the wearer, which is part of the material composing the body of the garment, has a marked tendency, particularly with the soft sleazy materials of which top coats are now made, to yield to the friction and tension at this point, particularly where the material is deflectedinwardly against the body or legs of the wearer by carrying various articles in the pockets or by thrusting the hands into the pockets distending them so that very frequently the inside wall of the pocket near the bottom gives way, making an unsightly hole in the inside of the coat.

I-Iithertofore it has not been found practical to attempt to line such patch pockets for overcoats as to the inside wall, the lining for the outside wall or patch being much more easily provided.

The present invention relates to the provision of a lining for the inside wall of a patch pocket. This lining preferably covers the bottom and near bottom portion of the inside wall, although it may cover the entire height or depth of the pocket.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated such a lining in several stages of construction in order that the method of forming and attaching and constructing pockets in this way may be fully understood, together with the final form and arrangement of the pocket and lining.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 illustrates the lining basted in position on the outside of the coat.

Figure 2 shows the second step, the lining having been turned in at the top edge and sewed to the garment material along the top.

Figure 3 shows the patch hasted in position over the lining.

Figure 4 shows the lining trimmed to the outline of the pocket patch, the latter having been stitched in position.

Figure 5 shows the final form of the pocket, the free edge of the lining having been trimmed back under the patch and the patch having been sewed in position by a second seam following the outer edge.

Figure 6 is a section on line 66 of Figure 5.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, each of which is used to indicate the same or similar parts in the different figures, the top coat patch pocket construction shown comprises the body material 1, the inner wall or pocket lining 2, pocket patch 3, top flap 4 and patch lining 5.

In accordance with the invention, the lining is first basted to the garment material 1, by means of a line of stitching 10, following substantially the outline of the inner lining.

The top edge of the inner lining at 11 having been first turned inwardly'and downwardlybetween the garment body material and the lining as shown is then sewed by-means of a seam 12 to the garment body material 1. The pocket patch 3 is then placed in position, the ottom portion of the patch overlying the inner lining 2 and ba-sted in position by means of a line of basting stitches 14 following the general outline of the patch near the outer edge, but spaced inwardly therefrom about a half an inch or any convenient distance. The pocket patch is then sewed in position through and through the body garment material and the lining, it being understood that the patch may be lined at 5, the line of stitching being indicated by reference character 15. The protruding edges of the lining at 16 are then trimmed down to or beneath the edge of the patch 3 and the pocket patch is sewed along its edges by a line of stitches 17 close to the edge of the patch and extending around the two lateral sides and the bottom of the pocket; the basting threads are then removed. Any suitable top flap 4 may be then attached in any preferred manner, the seam not being a feature of the invention. I

The bottom of the pocket on the inside wall of the garment material subjected to the greatest wear is thus most elficiently protected and the lined pocket is completed with the minimum of expense, the additional expenditure of time and material in providing the inner lining member being of very slight importance in the construction of the pocket. I have thus described specifically and in detail the method of constructing and lining a patch pocket and the lined patch pocket construction which is the subject of my invention in order that the nature of the invention and the manner of constructing and applying and using the same may be fully understood. However, the specific terms herein are used descriptively rather than in a limiting sense, the scope of the inventionbeing defined in the claims.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The method of constructing patch pockets for top coats or the like which consists in attaching a piece of lining material temporarily to the outside of the garment material in the position of the bottom portion of thepocket, stitching the inturned topedge of the lining material. to the garment material, affixing the pocket patch in position with its bottom portion overlying the said lining, trimming the lining material to the size of the patch so that its edgesare concealed thereby and stitching the edges of the patch and the lining material to the garment material by a line of stitching extending through the lining, the patch and the garment n'lateria-l.

2. The method of constructing a patch pocket which consists in basting a piece of lining material to the garment body material in the position of the bottom of the pocket, the area of the lining slightly exceeding the area of the correspondingportion of the pools ct, stitching the inturnedtop edge of the lining material to the garment body material, aflixing the pocket patch to the garment material in itsfinal position in which it overlies the said piece of lining, stitchingthc patch to the garment body with a line of stitching extending along'the side and bottom edges, but spaced inwardly from the edge of the patch, trimming the lining so that the edges are concealed by the patch and further securing the patch by means of a second line of stitching extending along the sides and bottom at the extreme outer edge.

3. The method of constructing a patch pocket which consists in basting a piece of lining material to the garment body material in the position of the bottom of the pocket, the area of the lining'slightly exceeding the area of the bottom of the pocket, stitching the top edge of the lining to the garment body, aflixing the pocket patch to the garment material in its final position, stitching it to the same with a line of stitch ing extending along the side and bottom edges, but spaced inwardly from the edge of the patch, trimming the lining so that the edges are just concealed by the patch and further securing the patch by means oi a 4. The method of constructing a patch pocket which consists of basting apiece of lining material to the garment body in the position of the bottom portion of the pocket permanently stitching the lining to the garment body affixing thepocket patch tothe garment material in its final position in which it covers the lining and stitching the patch to the garment body with a line of stitching extending along the side and bottomedges ofthe pocket.

5. A patch pocket for a topflcoat or the like consisting of a patch of material like the body material of the garment secured to the outside ofthe garment as to its tWo vertical sides and one bottom edge, leaving the top edge of the patch free, forming the opening of the pocket said pocket having a lining strip secured as to its top edge to the garment body material opposite to the side having the opening inside of the pocket by a horizontal line of stitching and having bottom and side edges secured to the garment body material by lines of stitching extending through the patch and through the garment body material adjacent thecorresponding edges ofthe patch.

Signed by meat Baltimore, Maryland, this 14th day of December, 1929.

- j SAMUEL NEWMAN.

second line of stitching extending along the sides and bottom at the extreme outer edge.

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