US1343035A - Waistband - Google Patents

Description

B. CLARK.

WAISTBAND.

APPL|CAT|0N FILED FEB. 4, 1919.

Patented June 8, 1920.

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To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, BERTHA CLARK, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved VVaistband, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to womens wearing apparel, and its object is to provide a new and improved waistband for skirts, petti' coats, and similar garments, and arranged to enable a dressmaker or other person to readily lengthen or shorten the waistband to suit the waist size of the garment on which the waistband is to be used. Another object is to permit of readily attaching the waistband to the garment and to stiffen `it after its attachment to prevent the waistband from crumpling up when the garment is used.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the waistband for attachment to the waist of a garment;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the free end of the band and its connecting member;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the ends of the finished waistband in closed position;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the waistband in closed position; l

Fig. 5 is an enlarged transverse section of the waistband on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4; and

Fig. 6 is a face lview ofone end of the band provided with reinforcing means; and

Fig. 7 is a similar view of another modified form of the same.

A band 1() of. suitable fabric material has one end 11 doubled up, and the doubled-up members are fastened together by eyelets 12 carrying fastening members 13 such as hooks. The fastening -members 13 are adapted to be engaged by fastening members 14 preferablypin the form of eyes fastened by eyelets 15 to the doubled-up end 16 of a connecting member -17 made of a.,

Specification of Letters Patent.

which the band 10is made,

Patented J une 8, 1920.

Application led February 4, 1919. Serial No. 274,951.

piece of fabric material the same as that of it being understood that this piece of material is doubled up to form two flaps 18 and 19 for receiving between them the doubled-up free end 2O of the band 10. ,a

The band 10 with its fastening members 13 and the connecting piece 17 with its fastening members 14 provide an article of manufacture which is sold to dressmakers and other persons, it being understood that the band 10 is of suiiicient length to provide a waistband for practically all sizes' of waists of garments on which the waistband is to be used. It is understood that when the dressmaker or other person intends to use the waistband the end 20 is doubled up according to the size of the waist of the garment on which the waistband is used, and then this doubled-up end 20 is passed between the flaps 18 and 19 and sewed thereto by rows of stitches 21.

In order to enable the dressmaker or user of the waistband to quickly determine the length of the band 10 according to the size of the waist of the garment on which the waistband is used, the free end of the band 10 is provided'with a lengthwise extending linear graduation 25, preferably indicating inches and subdivisions, as plainly shown in the drawings. By the arrangement described the user can readily double up the free end 2O of the band 10 along the corresponding graduation mark for forming a waistband of the desired length.

Waistbands after being in use on garments are liable to crumple up especially along the middle of the waistband, and ,in order to prevent such crumpling up use is made of a stiffener 30, preferably in the form of a cross and made of two stripsr31 of Celluloid, steel and other suitable material, pivotally connected with each other at their middle by a pivot 32. The ends of the strips 31 are provided with holes 33 for attaching the stiflener by stitches 34 to the waistband at the inner face of the middle of the waistband, as plainly indicated in Fig. 4. It will be noticed that the strips 31 can be swung one relative to the other to make the cross longer or shorter with a view 'to fit waistbands of different width. It is understood that the ends of the strips 31 are adjacent the top and bottom edges of the band 10 to hold the latter against crumpling up when the garment is worn.

In order to reinforce thehook end 11 of the band use is made of a reinforcingbar (see Fig. 6) extending vertically from one fastening member 13 to the other to reinforce the band Y10 and prevent it from crumpling up. The ends of the bar l() are fastened-by eyelets 41 to the band end 11, and the bar 40 extends through the bends of the hook members 13.

Instead of a single reinforcing bar 40 two vertically alined bars 42 may be used, one for each fastening member 13. Each of the bars 42 extends through the bend of the corresponding hook member 12 and its ends are fastened by eyelets 43 to the band end 11.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Let- 1. As an article of manufacture, a waistband for attachment to garments, comprising a band doubled up lengthwise at one end, a fastening member attached to the said doubled-'up end of the band, a connecting band member formed 4of a piece of fabric material doubled up lengthwise to provide two integral flaps adapted to receive the -free end of the said band between them, and a fastening member attached to the doubled-up end of the said connecting band member and adapted to engage the said fastening member on the band.

2. As an article of manufacture, a waistband for attachment to garments, comprising a band doubled up lengthwise at one end and adapted to be doubled up lengthwise at its free end, spaced fastening members attached to the said doubled-up end of the band, a connecting band memberformed of a piece of fabric material of the same nature as that of which the said band is made, the said connecting band member being doubled up lengthwise to provide two integral flaps adapted to receive the said doubled-up free end of the *band between them, and spaced fastening members attached to the doubled-up end of the said connecting band member and adapted to engage the said fastening members on the said band.

3. Aslan article of manufacture, a waistband for attachment to garments, comprising a band doubled' up lengthwise at one end and adapted to be doubled up lengthwise at its free end, spaced fastening members attached to the said doubled up end of the band, a connecting band member formed of a piece of fabric material of the same nature as that of which the said band is made, the said connecting ban`d member being doubled up lengthwise to provide two flaps adapted to receive the said doubled-up free end of the band between them, spaced fasv 'tening members attached to the doubled-up end ofthe said connectingiband member and adapted to engage the saidv fastening lmembers on the said band, and reinforcing means, reinforcing the said spaced members on the doubled up end of the said band.

4. As an article of manufacture, a waistband for attachment to garments, comprising a band provided at one end with a fastening member, a connecting band member provided at one end with a fastening member adapted to engage the said fastening member on the band, the said connecting band member having two flaps adapted to receive the free end of the said band between them, and a linear Igraduation extending lengthwise of the band at the free end4 thereof.

5. As an article of manufacture, a waistband for attachment to garments, comprising a band doubled up at one end, fastening members having eyelets attached to the said doubled-up end ofthe band, a connecting bandmember Iformed of a doubled-up piece of fabric material and provided with flaps adaptedlto receive the free end of the band between them, and fastening members having eyelets attached to the doubled-up end of the said connecting piece and adapted to engage thesaid fastening members on` the band.

6. In combination, a waistband and a stiffener therefor,the stiifener'comprising a crossformed of two lat crossed strips provided at their ends with holes for attaching the cross to the waistband adjacent the upper and lower edges thereof, and a pivot connectin the said cross strips with each other at t eir middle to allow of adjusting the cross to the width of the waistband.

7. A. waistband to be sewn inside of a dress for support and preservation of rthe shape, comprising `a non-stretching band,

with fastening means at one end, and measuring means applied to the other free end, adapted to be folded at a desired designation; and connecting means, with comple- Imentary fastening means normally in place on the first -fastening means when the waistband is sold, but otherwise lunattached, so

band doubled at one end, a fastening 'mem'" ber permanently attached to the doubled end, permanently fastening the doubled members together; a connecting band member formed of a piece of fabric doubled t0 provide two integral flaps adapted to receive the free end of the waistband between them, and a fastening member permanently attached to the doubled end of the connecting band member, to engage the companion fastening member on the waistband.

10. A waistband to be sewn inside of a dress for support and preservation of the shape, comprising a band doubled at one end, with fastening members attached b v rivets extending therethrough and both doubled parts; and connectino` means of suitable ambi@ materia, dobled to provide flaps for receiving the free end of the band which is sewn in place, with companion fastening meansriveted tothe fold.

BERTHA CLARK.

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