US1906472A - Garment fastening device - Google Patents

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GARMENT FASTENING DEVICE Original Filed April 4, 1930 INVENTOR. F I 2 (50 I Z4 76 .Bgyamm ZzPZoWZZYZ giu +n i J I 12 414 ATTORNEY.

Patented May 2, 1933 BENJAMIN LIEBOWIIZ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO S. LIEBOVITZ & SONS, INC.,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK GARMENT FASTENING nnvrcn Original application filed Apri1 4, 1930, Serial No. 441,441. Divided and this application filed December This invention relates to fastening devices, more especially those adapted to be used in the folding of garments, as for instance, shirts, and is a division of an application filed by me on April 4, 1930, Serial No. 441,441.

In folding shirts at the laundry or factory, the present day practice is to use a series of pins throughout the garment each of which pins is independently and successively applied in a series of separate operations. This securement of independent pins is not only time and labor consuming, but in addition the purchaser of the shirt is compelled laboriously to remove the pins, which latter are apt to prick and injure both the person applying as well as the purchaser removing the pins.

One object of the invention is to provide a unitary fastening device which may be easily and quickly applied for holding the parts of a garment in folded position, and likewise easily and quickly removed without the foregoing objections attendant upon the use of a multiplicity of separate pins.

Another object of the invention is to provide means for fastening a folded garment wherein the pin or fastening means are kept covered.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a fastening device for securing portions of a garment, such as a shirt or the like, in predetermined folded positions, which device is removable as a unit to unfasten the folded portions.

F or a clear description of my invention, 1 refer to the drawing wherein several examples of carrying my invention into practice are shown.

Figure 1 shows my securing means as applied to a shirt;

Fig. 2 shows the two portions constituting my securing means;

Fig. 3 shows my invention when in. its securing position;

Fig. 4 shows the manner in which the cover operates to move the securing means to releasing position; and

Fig. 5 is a view similar to Fig, 3 of a modi- Serial No. 582,984.

fied form of the invention, wherein the cover a is dispensed with.

Referring now more particularly to the drawing, Fig. 1 shows a shirt to which my securing means 11 isapplied for holding portions of the shirt in a certain folded position. Referring more particularlyto Fig. 2,1ny securing means consist of alower portion or base 12 which may be composed of paper, cloth, or other material, said portion 12 carrying a pair of spaced staples 13, or pin-like elements, which may be secured thereto in any manner. While I have shown the cover, which perforations, however, are

not necessarily preformed as they may be formed by the passage of the staples themselves. The staples 13 are then bent over into the position of Fig.3, that is with the two prongs of each staple preferably bent in the same direction but oppositely and away from the bent prongs of the other staple, in which position they are disposed in securing or fastening position. Portion .17 of the cover 15 is then bent over to theposition of Fig. 3

wherein it covers or envelopes and thus protects the staple 13. In this position, the portime 17 of the cover 15 is kept in covering relation to the staples by cooperation of the slotted portions 18 at the ends of the cover, with the'compleinentary sloted portions 19 formed in thebody of the cover. When it is desired to unfasten the shirt for use, it is merely necessary to move the row 20 fromtheir position'of Fig. 3 to the position of Fig. 4. It will be observed that thisjmove'ment of the cover moves the staples 13 to an upright'position so that the cover can cover portions 17 in the direction of the arbe removed, and the garment released from the staples with great ease and facility.

It is also possible to remove the base 12 and staples 13 as a unit without the necessity of first straightening the staples or manipulating the cover. This may be done by inserting the fingers under the folded and fastened portions of the shirt or garment, and then pulling the base 12 out, thus withdrawing or sliding the bent staples from engagement with the material of the garment and releasing the folded portions thereof.

In some instances the cover 15 may be dispensed with, and without exposing the bent over portions of the staples 13. This may be effected by applying the base 12 to the outside instead of the inside of the folded portions of the garment and causing the staples to penetrate the material inwardly, and then bending over the ends of the staples on the inside of the folded portions. This modified form of the invention is illustrated in Fig. 5, wherein the base 12 is shown applied to the outside face 14 of the material as distinguished from the other form of the invention wherein the base 12 is engaged with or applied to the inside of the folded portions of the garment, and in this form of the invention it will be observed that the base 12 acts as a protecting cover for the prongs which latter are disposed interiorly of the garment.

IVhile I have shown but several embodiments of my invention, it should be understood that modifications of the same within the scope of the appended claims will readily occur to one skilled in the art, the present illustrations of several ways by which the invention may be practiced being merely by way of example. a

l Vhat I claim is:

1. In combination with a shirt or like garment having sleeves which have portions folded upon the back of the shirt and having a skirt folded upon said portions of the sleeves, unitary fastening means for the said folded portions having parts which penetrate each of the sleeve portions and also penetrate the skirt for securing all of said portions in their folded position.

2. In combination with a shirt or like garment having sleeves which have portions folded upon the back of the shirt and having a skirt folded upon said portions of the sleeves, the sleeves having cuffs which latter project upwardly beyond the skirt so as to'be folded portions having parts which penetrate each of the sleeve portions and also penetrate the skirt for securing all of said portions in their folded position, said fastener being removable as a unit whereby all of the folded parts of the garment may be simultaneously rel-eased.

5. In combination with a shirt or like garment having shoulder portions folded upon the back of the shirt and having a skirt folded upon said should-er portions, unitary fastening means for said folded portions having parts which penetrate each of the shoulder portions and also penetrate the skirt for securing all of said portions in their folded positions.

6. In combination with a shirt or like garment having sleeves which have portions folded upon. the back of the shirt and having a skirt folded upon the said portions of the sleeves, unitary fastening means disposed upon the skirt for fastening said skirt to the sleeve portions to secure all of said portions in their folded position, said fastening means being removable as a unit by a single movement to release all of said folded portions simultaneously.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York A, D. 1931.

BENJAMIN LIEBOVVITZ.

exposed for inspection, unitary fastening means for the said fold-ed portions having parts which penetrate each of the sleeve portions and also penetrate the skirt for securing all of said portions in their folded position.

' 3. In combination with a shirt or like garment having sleeves which have portions folded upon the back of the shirt and having

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