IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENING THE CORNERS OF POCKETS IN WEARING APPAREL IN ORDER TO PREVENT THEM PROM TEARING, OR THE Seam from RIPPING
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jacob W. Davis and Levi Strauss, of the City
and County. of San Francisco, State of California, in the United
States of America, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENING
THE CORNERS OF POCKETS IN WEARING APPAREL IN ORDER TO PREVENT THEM
PROM TEARING, OR THE Seam from RIPPING."
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Sealed the 9th October 1874, and dated the 22nd July 1874.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Jacob W. Davis and Levi
Strauss at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their
Petition and Declaration, on the 22nd July 1874, pursuant to the
9th Section of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JACOB W.
DAVIS and LEVI STRAUSS, of the City and County of San Francisco,
State of California, in the United States of America, send greeting.
WHEREAS we are in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN FASTENING THE CORNERS OF POCKETS IN WEARING APPAREL IN ORDER TO PREVENT
THEM FROM TEARING, OR THE SEAM FROM RIPPING," and have petitioned Her
Majesty to grant unto us, our executors, administrators, and assigns,

page_text: Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn
Declaration that we really believe ourselves to be the first and truc
Inventors thereof.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Jacob William Davis and Levi
Strauss, do hereby declare that the following Complete Specification,
under our hands and seals, fully describes the nature of our said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, that is to say:–
Our Invention relates to a fastening for pocket openings, whereby the
sewed seams are prevented from ripping or starting from frequent
pressure or strain thereon, and it consists in the employment of a metal
rivet or eyelet at each edge of the pocket opening to prevent the ripping
of the seam at those points. The rivet or eyelet is so fastened in the
seam as to bind the two parts of cloth which the seam unites together,
so that it shall prevent the strain or pressure from coming upon the
thread with which the seam is sewed.
In order to more fully illustrate and explain our Invention reference
is had to the accompanying Drawing, in which our Invention is repre-
sented as applied to a coat, or pair of pants, drawers, &c.
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Fig. 1 is an inside view of a hunting coat provided with our fastening.
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2 is a back view; Fig. 3 is a view of a full suit; Fig. 4 shows
the vest..
5 shows the pants.
A is the side seam in a pair of pants, drawers, or coat, or other
article of wearing apparel, which terminates at the pockets, and b, b,
represent the rivets at each edge of the pocket opening. The seams are
usually ripped or started by the placing of the hands in the pockets and
the consequent pressure or strain upon them. To strengthen this part
we employ a rivet, eyelet, or other equivalent metal stud 6 which we pass
through a hole at the end of a seam so as to bind the two parts of the
cloth together, and then head it down upon both sides so as to firmly-
unite the two parts.
When rivets which already have one head are used it is only necessary
to head the opposite end and a washer can be interposed if desired in
the usual way. By this means we avoid a large amount of trouble in
mending portions of seams which are subjected to constant strain.

page_text: Having thus described our Invention, what we claim and desire to
secure by Letters Patent is, as a new article of manufacture, a pair of
pantaloons or other article of wearing apparel having the pocket
openings secured at each edge by means of rivets, eyelets, or other
equivalent metallic stud or fastening, substantially in the manner
described and shown, whereby the seams at the points named are
prevented from ripping, as set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Jacob William Davis and Levi
Strauss, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this First day of
July, in the year of our Lord, A.D., One thousand eight hundred
dan seventy-four.
Witness,
PHILIP I. BUSHES.
SAM. PACHS.
JACOB W. DAVIS. (L.S.)
LEVI STRAUSS.
(L.S.)