US1089203A - Safety-pocket. - Google Patents

Description

J. PORMAN.

SAFETY POCKET.

APPLICATION FILED 00113.1913.

Patented Mar. Li 1914,

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known that l JOSEPI'I FOT""AN7 a citizen oi the United States, residing 'Welhrooh, e snhurlo the city of more Eitete ct Msryiend, have invented certein new useroi improvements in fie-ufetyd ockets; end i do declare the ioilowing to he s foil clear, and onset description the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it o gpertsins to moire end use the some.

This invention relates to improvements in safety pockets forgarments. I

The object she invention is to provide pocket which is designed he attached to on garment end when so attached will inthe safe retention therein 01% coins or other articles no matter in whet position the garment he pieced Whether inverse-d or not Vlfith this end other objects in View the invention consists of certain novel features of construction and the ccinhinetion and erreng'ement ports as Wlii he more iioliy de scribed and claimed.

"in the accompanying drawings: i represents an i elevation portion of a cost showing this improved pocket applied to the inside thereof near the front edge; Fig. 2, is s simiis-r ViQW ken from the outside oi he cost with ports of the material removed to show the sppiicetion of the pocket; Fi 3 is e iongitudinoi section taken on the iine 3-3 Fig. a: is s transverse section taken on the iine llof Fig: the embodiment illustrated the front nside portion of a cost 1 is shown having it lit 2 extending longitudinally thereof.

pocket 3 which constitutes this inventionis composed of two members i and 5 stitched together around their edges and composed of any suitshle'fahric, these memloers hein here shown suhstentislly rectanulsr in iorrn but they may be of any other sci-motion, the corners being rounded or not, as desired. in one of these members 4: e slit 6 is formed end which i disposed interme distely hetweeen the side and end edges of the pocket heing spaced equal distances from the two opposite sides end from the eriel ends. This slit extends longitudinally of the pocket and by so positioning it coins or other erticies inserted in the pocket Wii he caused to follow the connected edges of? the members i and 5 and pass over the slit with out danger of them slipping out.

In the application of this pocket the slit 6 is positioned to register with the slit 2 in the cost lining with the pocket extending" iongi todinslly reieiive to said cost and the edge Wsiis oi the two slits are secured together by stitching or otherwise as is shown cleorly in Figs, 3 and ihe opposite ends oi the pocket are then attached to the cost lining or other portion the garment by stitches 'l" or other suitehie isstenings positioned schstoetislly in slinement with-the sl't in the pocket and tl'iesestitches Z serve to hold the pocket in operative position.

This pocket while shown applied to cost may he applied to any other gsrinent may he removed from one garment and tsched to another by simply ripping out all slit therein to the e a ping; out the fastenthe garment, and by no ing stitches "4' end it msy teen he reediiy epplied to enotiie'r garment in a similar inshner, As shown the two members or strips end 5 constituting the pocket are stitched around their edges as shown at 8.

she use oi this pocket it having" been attached in the manner shove described, coins slipped into the slot 9 formed by the registering slits 2 and 6 will pass down into the pocket between the members 4- end thereoi and should the garment he turned upside down or in any other position these coins will folio-W around the stitched edges of the pocket and will pass freely over the slot Without any danger oi their becoming lost; or ejected from the pocket.

I cisim as my invention:

The combination of s garment having :1 longitudinally extending slit therein, o pocket comprising two members of uniform size secured together eround their edges, one of said members having at slit therein correspending in size to the slit in the garment to which it is to he sppiied, seid slit being posie .i 1- i ches which secure the edge Wells 05. thetioned midway between the'ends and sides of the pocket and the pocket beingsecured to the arment only around the edges of the slit and at two points in alinement with said slit on .the upper and lower edges respectively whereby the pocket is largely unattached to the garment.

In testignony whereof I have hereunte set my hand 1n presence of two subscribing wit- IIBSSBS- JOSEPH FORMAN. Witnesses: MONTIGELLO HALL, Jr., ROBERT WYNN.

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