Improvements in Pocket Frames.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1890-Accepted, 16th Aug., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pocket Frames.
We, ABRAHAM BRENOWITZ, of 11 Allen Street, New York, in the County and State
of New York, in the United States of America, Manufacturer, and ALBERT KESNER,
of 206 East 78th Street, New York, in the County of New York, and State of New
York, in the United States of America, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The invention has reference to improvements in frames for pockets and the like, and
especially to such frames as are inserted in cloaks or other articles of apparel. It
consists essentially in a frame of the character specified in which one of the hinged
jaws is provided with an exterior groove or channel and the other with an interior
groove or channel, whereby the insertion of the frame into the fabric is facilitated.
One of the jaws is preferably made sumaller than the other, so as to fall within the same
when the frame is closed, thereby bringing the respective grooves or channels into
approximately the same plane, all of which is more fully pointed out in the following
specification and claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1 is a face view of the frame.
Figure 2 is a section in the plane, xx, figure 1.
Figure 3 is a face view of a frame provided with a safety loop.
Figure 4 is a section in the plane y, y, figure 3.
Figure 5 is a face view showing the frame applied to the fabric.
Figure 6 is a section in the plane z, z, figure 5.
Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.
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In these drawings the letters A. B. designate the two hinged jaws of the frame, the
jaw B being constructed to fall within or beneath the jaw A when closed. The jaw A
is provided with an exterior channel or groove a extending throughout the same, and
the jaw B is provided with a like interior channel or groove b. In figures 5 and 6, I
have shown the frame secured in place, for instance in a cloak, C being the fabric
proper, and D the material of the pocket. The flaps c and d, formed by the incision
for the mouth of the pocket, are secured in the jaw B, the jaw A being secured in the
main part of the fabric. It will be noticed that by the peculiar construction of the
frame, it is necessary to make only the proper incision in the material, whereupon
the frame can be inserted, without folding over the edge of the material as is necessary
when the jaws abut against each other and the grooves are both on the interior sides
of the jaws.
To lock the frame, we make use of a metallic ball E, supported by an arm e secured
to the jaw A, which ball is adapted to overlap the rounded outer edge of the jaw B.
A suitable stop, as f, on the jaw B, which is arranged to strike against the jaw A,
limits the inward motion of the former.
When the frame is to be used for a watch pocket, we provide the lower jaw B with
a pendant loop F, figures 3 and 4, hinged to said jaw at g, g, and provided with an
interior groove or channel h, into which the material of the flap is also secured. The
loop being hinged, it can yield when the jaw B is opened and the watch inserted or
removed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same, is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In a frame of the character specified, the jaws A and B hinged together, the one
provided with an exterior groove or channel, and the other with an interior groove or

page_text: 2. In a frame of the character specified, two jaws A and B hinged together, the
jaw A containing an exterior groove or channel and the jaw B an interior groove or
channel, said jaw B being smaller than the jaw A and adapted to fall within the same
to bring its groove or channel into substantially the same plane with the groove or
channel of the jaw A, substantially as described.
3. In a frame of the character specified, the combination of the hinged jaws A, B,
the jaw B being smaller than the other and arranged to fall within the same, said
jaw A containing an exterior groove or channel and the jaw B an interior groove or
channel, and the loop F hinged to the jaw B, and containing a groove or channel
arranged to be continuous with the groove or channel in the jaw B, substantially as
described.
4. In a frame of the character specified, the hinged jaws A. B, one provided with
an exterior groove or channel and the other with an interior groove or channel, the
jaw B being smaller than the jaw A and constructed to fall within the same to bring
the two grooves or channels into substantially the same plane, a stop f, and means for
locking the jaws, substantially as described.
That this 15h day of L.... 1900
ABRAHAM BRENOWITZ.
ALBERT KESNER.
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents.