US1548564A - Lapel - Google Patents

Description

Aug. 4, 1925.

J.STERN LAPEL Filed March 30, 1925 Patented Aug. 4, 1925.

UNITED STATES JAKE STERN, F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

LAPEL.

Application filed March 30, 1925.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAKE STERN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lapels, of which the following is a. specification.

This invention is a lapel for coats, the primary object being to provide a lapel of any preferred material which is interchangeable for use upon several coats.

A further object is to provide a lapel of the above character which may be easily attached to an ordinary coat and present precisely the appearance of a coat wherein the silk lapels are, permanently fixed.

It is likewise an object to provide a simply constructed inter-changeable lapel carrying complete fastening devices whereby it may be attached to any ordinary coat.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

In order that the invention and its mode of operation may be readily understood by persons skilled in the art, I have in the accompanying illustrative drawings and in the following detailed description based thereon set out the preferred embodiment and certain modifications thereof.

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the application of my improved lapel;

Figure 2 is a detail perspective view of the lapel;

Figure 3 is a plan view of the material cut and ready for folding;

Figure 4 is a cross sectional view showing the double thickness of material used;

Figure 5 is a plan view of a modification showing a lapel formed from a single thickness of material;

Figures 6 and 7 show different types of coat lapels to which my inter-changeable lapel is attachable.

Similar characters of reference designate similar parts throughout.

I am aware of the grant of a Patent #1,059,542 dated April 22, 1918, upon an inter-changeable lapel for coats but in this patent the coat itself carries portions of the fastening devices, this being very objection able due to the fact that pressing of the coat will result in undesirable disfiguration of the outer surface as is well understood. Furthermore in this patent the envelope does not cover the inner face of the coat and consequently resents an unfinished appearance.

Serial No. 19,361.

Applicant overcomes these objections through the construction embodied in this application and provides a lapel which may be easily attached to any coat and give the coat the appearance of an ordinary tuxedo or dinner coat.

In the preferred form shown in Figures 2 and 3 I take a relatively wide elongated strip of silk or the like material and from one end I cut out a substantially V-shaped port-ion thereby forming a deep notch 10, the extreme ends 11 being curved in opposite directions and merged into the outer edges 12 as shown. This cutting results in the formation of two wing like portions 13 and 14. One wing 13 is materially longer than the other wing 14 and has at one end an elongated narrow flap 15 which may be folded on the line 16 to the position shown in dotted lines in Figure 3. By reference to Figure 2 it will be seen that the flap portion 15 has its end connected to the adjacent end 17 of the flap 14 by means of a tape 18. The connection just outlined is effected after the two flaps 13 and 14 have been folded together on the longitudinal center line 19 indicated by a dot and dash linein Figure 3. The curved inner edge 20 of the flap 15 as shown in Figures 2 and 3 coacts with a similarly curved edge 21 of a flap 22 to form an opening 23 through which an ordinary coat lapel may be slipped into the pocket 24. A further advantage derived through mak ing this wide opening 23 is, that as shown in Figure 2, the line of fold AA will be through a single thickness of material to a great extent, thereby eifecting a neat appearance.

Further attachment of the lapel to a coat is effected through securing to the inner edge 25 a set of small safety pins 26 as shown in Figure 2, these pins being arranged to secure this edge to the inner face of the coat and the front edge of the lining. At spaced points between the lower end of the lapel and the lower end of the flap 22 I arrange straight pins 27 which may be readily forced into the material making up the coat, in the manner shown in Figure 1. Another straight pin or fastener 27 is arranged at the upper end of the lapel as shown in Figure 2.

A lapel provided with fasteners as above set out may be readily attached to any ordinary coat without the necessity of providing the coat itself with fastening devices. As

indicated in Figure 1 a button loop 28 is carried by the removable lapel and since there is obviously a certain degree of pull or strain upon this button loop I arrange transverse therefrom a substantially U- shaped fastener 29 which carries spurs engageable With the inner face of a coat.

In the formation of a lapel as shown in Figure 2, the blank clearly indicated in Figure 3 is folded on the center line 19 as previously stated and the edges 12 are stitched together as are the curved edge portions at the end from which the V-shaped section has been removed. The flap 15 is folded to the dotted line position and connected to the edge 17 as previously stated. The lapel flap 22 is folded on the same line 19 as indicated in Figure 3 and has its outer end 22 stitched to the corresponding end 13 of the portion 13 to form a pocket clearly indicated in Figure 2. lVith attachment of the fastening members the lapel is ready for use.

In Figure 5 I illustrate a lapel embodying the same elements as the one just described, the difference being that in this modification a single Width or thickness of material is used. The edge 30 is turned inwardly and connected to the body portion by means of tape 81; one portion of the inturned edge being of materially greater Width than the remainder to form a lapel flap 32 which functions in the same manner as the flap in the preferred form. Fasteners are arranged in substantially the same manner as previously stated.

l\Ianifest-ly certain minor changes in the details of construction may be resorted to and such of these changes as may fall Within the scope of the appended claims, I con ,sider Within the spirit of my invention.

I claim:

1. An interchangeable facing for coat lapels comprising, an elongated piece of mate rial folded upon itself along a central longitudinal line to form an inner and outer portion, the inner and outer portions having their free longitudinal edges stitched together, fastening devices arranged along the longitudinal edges, the inner portion having a relatively short longitudinal opening at one end to permit insertion of a coat lapel.

2. An interchangeable facing for coat lapels comprising, an elongated piece of material foldcd upon itself along a central longitudinal line to form an inner and outer portion, the inner and outer portions having their free longitudinal edges stitched together, one portion being of greater length than the other to provide an integral longitudinal flap, said inner and outer portions being fold-able and stitched together at their free longitudinal edges, said flap being folded. to have its free end secured to the adjacent end of the short portion, a second flap fold-able and coactive with the first flap to form a pocketto receive a coat lapel, and fasteners carried by the lapel.

3. An interchangeable facing for coatlapels formed from a single piece of material folded along a central longitudinal line to form inner and outer-portions, said material having a substantially V-shaped notch extending longitudinally into one end, a longitudinally extending flap integrally formed at the opposite end of one portion, the other portion being relatively short, said portions being foldable together and having their longitudinal edges stitched together, said flap being foldable and having its free end secured to the adjacent end of the relatively short portion, a second flap foldable transversely to co-act With the first flap toform a longitudinal pocket to receive a coat lapel, and fastening devices arranged about the edges of the lapel. v i

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature.

JAKE STERN.

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