IMPROVEMENTS IN POCKETS FOR WEARING APPAREL
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Levy, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN POCKETS FOR WEARING APPAREL."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Levy at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th November 1879.
CHARLES LEVY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster.
IN POCKETS FOR WEARING APPAREL."
"IMPROVEMENTS
The object of this Invention is so to construct pockets for trousers, shooting coats,
and other articles of wearing apparel where extra strength is required, that they
shall be much more durable than heretofore, and that it shall be impossible for the
bottom of the said pockets to become unsewn, which is a source of frequent loss of
coin or other articles.
In the first place I propose to weave the pockets in one piece without any seam
by employing a double warp in the loom so as to weave two separate cloths at one
time, excepting at the edges of the pockets, where the two cloths are interwoven
into one, so that when the pockets are cut out from a piece of double cloth so
woven, each pocket shall be perfect without seam and ready to be sewn into its
place in the garment.
Secondly. In order to prevent the liability of the bottom or lower part of the
pocket to become worn through into holes by the action of keys, coin, or other
such articles, I so arrange the warps in the loom that this part shall be woven of
double the strength of the other part of the fabric, and thus I form pockets which
cannot become unsewn, and which are of double strength at the part most subject
to wear, without materially increasing the weight or thickness thereof, which are
objections to the making of pockets of very strong material all of one thickness
as sometimes practised.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Levy in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th May 1880.
CHARLES LEVY, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster.
"IMPROVEMENTS
IN POCKETS FOR WEARING APPAREL."
The object of this Invention is so to construct pockets for trousers, shooting
coats, and other articles of wearing apparel where extra strength is required, that
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they shall be much more durable than heretofore, and that it shall be impossible
for the bottom of the said pockets to become unsewn, which is a source of frequent
loss of coin or other articles.
In the first place I propose to weave the pockets in one piece without any
seam by employing a double warp in the loom, so as to weave two separate cloths
at one time, excepting at the edges of the pockets, where the two cloths are inter-
woven into one, so that when the pockets are cut out from a piece of double cloth
so woven, each pocket shall be perfect without seam and ready to be sewn into
its place in the garment.
Secondly. In order to prevent the liability of the bottom or lower part of the
pocket to become worn through into holes by the action of keys, coin, or other
such articles, I so arrange the weft in the loom that this part shall be woven of
about double the strength of the other part of the fabric, and thus I form pockets
which cannot become unsewn, and which are of double strength at the part most
subject to wear, without materially increasing the weight or thickness thereof,
which are objections to the making of pockets of very strong material all of one
thickness as sometimes practised.
The method of carrying my Invention into practical operation will be at once
understood by any competent weaver on reference to the annexed Drawing, in
which Fig. 1 represents a piece of cloth woven in the manner described, and Fig. 2,
a perfect seamless pocket cut from the same.
I would here remark that the form of pockets shown in these Figs. is for the
sake of illustration only, as the shape will be varied according to the nature of the
garment to which they are to be applied.
Referring to Fig. 1, a, a, are the selvedges of the cloth. The warp being (as
before described) double is woven into two distinct cloths at the parts marked b, b,
and both warps are united into one fabric at the parts c, c, so that the whole forms a
series of perfect pockets, each of which merely wants cutting out, as at Fig. 2, and
is then ready to be applied to the garment. At the parts marked d, d, either the
shuttles are changed to a coarser weft or the taking up of the cloth is retarded so
as to weave in an increased quantity of the same weft per inch, so as to form the
cloth much stronger at this part, which forms the bottom of the pocket and is
most subject to wear.
In some cases I propose to weave a fabric with stripes of a thicker material at
intervals so arranged that when cut into the form of pockets and doubled and
sewn together, either by hand or machine, the thick part shall form the bottom of
the pocket.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my Invention the
improvements in pockets for wearing apparel, as herein before described and
illustrated by the Drawings annexed, and especially I claim,-
First. A pocket woven in one piece without seam in the manner described,
and,
Secondly. I claim weaving the cloth for the same with stripes of thicker material
at intervals, such thick part forming the bottom of the pocket as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Levy, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty.