US2084720A - Garment waist band - Google Patents

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Patented June 22, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application May 1, 1936, Serial No. 77,396 In Great Britain April 16, 1935 1 Claim.

My invention relates to a garment waistband of the kind described in my own copending application Ser. No. 756,821 of December 10, 1934 since matured into Patent 2,063,886.

According to the invention, the lining for supporting the belt of elastic material, such ras sponge rubber for example is formed by a ribbon of resistant cloth having at regular intervals some of its weft threads free of the warp threads intermediate the side edges thereof in order to form loops for the passage of the belt. Furthermore, the adjustable fastening means for the belt which formerly had been affixed to the waist band of the garment are now provided on the end of the belt supporting ribbon. Thus, the retaining device forms in itself a unit and may be brought as such on the market ready to be adapted to every garment on which it may be wanted.

'I'he accompanying drawing shows an embodiment of the improved devices.

Fig. 1 shows the supporting means for the elastic belt which is a ribbon of resistant cloth having loops formed by the weft threads, the

25 elastic belt being threaded through said loops.

Fig. 2 shows the adaption of said device to the waist ban-d of sport breeches.

The retaining device according to Figs. 1 and 2 comprises a ribbon I of resistant cloth and a belt 2 of elastic material such as sponge rubber having a rough surface.

The ribbon I is manufactured in a special manner so that it may serve as a support for the belt without any other means intervening. 5 As shown in Fig. 1 it has at regular intervals and intermediate the side edges thereof some of its weft threads free of the warp threads in order to form loops 3 through which the belt 2 passes. The belt ends are provided with adjustable fas- 10 tening means, such as button holes 4 and the corresponding fastening means, such as buttons 5 are provided on the ribbon ends.

For use the ribbon I is sewn or otherwise afxed to the waist band of the garment and then the 15 belt is fastened by its ends in a more or less tensioned state to the ribbon ends.

I claim:

In a .garment waistband having a lining a belt of elastic material with a rough surface supported by the lining and adjustable fastening means for the belt ends, the lining being formed by a ribbon of resistant cloth having at regular intervals its weft threads free of the warp threads intermediate the side edges in order to form loops for the passage of the belt and fastening means on the ends of the ribbon for affixing the belt.

PAUL ALEXANDRE.

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