US2500651A - Garment waistband - Google Patents

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R. H. ALSCHULER ET Al. 2,509,551

GARMENT WAISTBAND Filed June 4, 1949 Patented Mar. 14, 1950 UNITED STATES PATENT :OFFICE .l

l 2,5b,651 GARMENT WAISTBAND Richard H. Alschuler and Norman Reinhardt- -sen, Chicago, jIll., assignors to il. B. Simpson, Inc., Chicago, Ill., a corporation `of Illinois Application June 4 1949, Serial No. 97,116

The invention pertains to waist bands for trousers and like garments having waist portions viitting the hips of the wearer and the general object is to provide a waist band ywhich will insure greater frictional engagement between the garment and the yinner clothing of the wearer, which will provide greater com-fort to the wearer .and which will present a neat and attractive appearance for the garment.

The object of the invention thus generally stated together with other and ancillary advantages there attended are attained by the construction and arrangement shown by way of i1- lustration in the accompanying drawings, in

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Figure l is a fragmentary perspective view showing our improved waist band attached to the waist portion of a garment, the band of the garment being shown in vertical section.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary vertical section view taken approximately on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1 but on an enlarged scale.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary vertical sectional view illustrating the manner in which the Various parts of the band are assembled when secured together.

The improved waist band comprises in general an upper strip 'I of a webbing of well known character incorporating a plurality of parallel rubber ribs 8, a bottom, strip 9 of biased canvas, and a covering means of lining material comprising in the preferred embodiment an envelope III enclosing the canvas strip and a flap or curtain I I overlying the envelope III and constituting an inner facing therefor.

The rubber ribbed top strip l is relatively nonelastic and because of its lack of pliability is made narrow in width so as to avoid discomfort to the wearer of the garment. As shown, its upper edge has a narrow hem I2 secured by a row of stitchf ing I3 to the inner hem I4 4of the garment waist portion I5. The rubber ribs 8 protrude slightly from the face of the webbing so as to provide increased frictional engagement between the lband of the inner clothing of the wearer.

The biased canvas webbing 9 is made of a width preferably comparable to that of the rubber web ribbing 'I and has its upper edge secured to the lower edge of the webbing by means of a row of stitching I6. This strip of biased canvas is slightly elastic so as to be capable of stretching to conform readily to the shape of the hips of the wearer.

In order to present a neat and nished appearance, the canvas strip 9 is enclosed within the 2 i envelope I Il which is made from a relatively wide strip of lining material folding upon itself and having its free edges secured together by stitching IE, withv the upper edge of thecanvas strip 9 interposed between the walls of the envelope. In Fig. 2 `the free edges of the liolded'strip of lin ing material are 'indicated by the'numerals I 'i and I8, and the free edge of the canvas \.vebbing is designated'bythenumeral I8. In practice, the envelope IIJ is preferably secured to the material of the garment by stitching 20 of the type commonly known as a felling stitch. In the preferred embodiment we provide the curtain II to cover this stitching. This curtain is likewise made from a strip of lining ma-` terial folded upon itself and having its free edge portions 2l interposed between the lower edge portion Ta of the rubber ribbed webbing on the one hand, and the edge portion I 'I of the envelope Ill for the biased canvas strip 9. It will be seen that the free edges of the several materials are secured together by the row of stitching I6 and terminate on the side of the band which is to constitute the inner side when the band is attached to the garment.

In Fig. 3 we have illustrated the manner in which the various parts are assembled in constructing the band. As there shown, the webbing 1 and the canvas strip 9 are arranged gener-ally in face-to-face relation with the edge portions of the envelope I0 disposed on opposite side of the strip 9 and with the edge portions of the curtain flap II interposed between the webbing 'I and the envelope I0. The Various edge portions are then sewed together by the stitching I6. The canvas strip 9 and its envelope Ill together with the iiap or curtain II are then folded downwardly substantially into the plane of the webbing 'I and the adjoining portions suitably pressed.

We claim as our invention:

1. A waist band for trousers and the like comprising, in combination, a narrow strip of rubber ribbed webbing having an upper edge for attachment to the upper hem of the garment, a strip of biased canvas having one edge secured to the lower edge of said webbing, and an envelope of lining material enclosing said canvas strip, said envelope being secured, together with the upper edge of the canvas strip, to the lower edge of said webbing.

2. A waist band for trousers and the like comprising, in combination, a narrow strip of rubber ribbed webbing having an upper edge for attachment to the upper hem of the garment, a strip prising, in combination, a narrow strip of rulbber ribbed webbing having an upper edge for attach-A,

ment to the upper hem of the garment, a strip of biased canvas having one edge secured to the lower edge of said webbing, and an envelope enclosing said canvas strip comprising a wide strip of lining material folded upon itself and having its free edge portions disposed on opposite sides of the upper edge of the canvas strip and secured thereto and to the lower edge of the webbing with the free edges of the several strips terminating on the same side of the band, anda second strip of lining material folded upon itself and having its free edges secured together by said stitching between the envelope of lining material and the lower edge of the rubber webbing, said second strip constituting a facing curtain for the envelope, and the edges of the several strips ter minating on the same side of the band.

4. In a garment having a waist portion with an inturned hem, a waist band having an upper narrow strip of rubber ribbed webbing with an upper edge portion stitched to the garment hem, a lower strip of biased canvas having its upper edge secured to the lower edge of the rubber ribbed webbing, an envelope of lining material enclosing "the canvas strip and having its lower folded edge stitched to the garment, and an inner facing curtain made from a wide strip of linmaterial folded upon itself and secured betweenthe lower edge of the webbing and the upper edge of the canvas strip.

5. In a garment having a waist portion with an inturned hem, a waist band having an upper narrow strip of rubber ribbed webbing with an upper edge portion stitched to the garment hem, a lower strip of biased canvas having its upper edge secured to the lower edge of the rubber ribbed webbing, and an envelope enclosing said canvas strip, said envelope being made from a wide strip of cloth folded upon itself and secured between the lower edge of the webbing and the upper edge of the canvas strip.

RICHARD H. ALsCHULER. NORMAN REINHARDTSEN. v

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