Interior Pocket for Garment

Abstract

The present invention provides an interior pocket for a garment such as a shirt that affords an enhanced degree of secrecy and security for articles stored in the interior pocket. The interior pocket affords a greater degree of protection against easy theft compared to an outside pocket by being situated on the inside of the shirt between the shirt and the wearer's body. Positioning the items in the interior pocket reduces the risk of thievery using the slight of hand by a pickpocket.

Description

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application is a non-provisional application claiming priority to U.S. Ser. No. 60 / 432,605, filed Dec. 11, 2002, entitled “Interior Pocket for Garment”, the content of which is hereby incorporated in its entirety by reference.BACKGROUND OF INVENTION [0002] This invention relates in general to the construction of a pocket for garments such as shirts, pants, sweaters, shorts, that is designed to facilitate storing items such as glasses, cell phones, calculators, pens, pencils, combs, money, credit cards and the like, without losing, damaging or destroying the articles in the normal wearing of the garment. [0003] For instance, in the case of an outside shirt pocket, when a wearer simply bends over to pick up an object, reaches up for an item, or jumps up for an article, there is a risk that articles will be dislodged from an outside pocket and cause damage or possibly harm to the articles, to the owner attempting to prevent dislodging...

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Benefits of technology

[0009] The invention provides an interior pocket for a garment such as a shirt that affords an enhanced degree of secrecy and security for articles stored in the interior pocket. The interior pocket affords a greater degree of protection against easy theft compared to an outside pocket by being situated on the inside of the shirt between the shirt and the wearer's body. Positioning the items in the interior pocket reduces the risk of thievery using the slight of hand by a pickpocket.

[0013] The invention may be constructed to provide a simple and effortless means of a fixing the interior pocket through means of outer and inner material attached to the aforementioned garment.

[0015] Through the variety of decorations of the outer material, the interior pocket can be less obvious in bulk and therefore when applied to a shirt, can be used to keep the look of a “no pocket”conventional shirt. Such ornamentation might include embroidery, attractive patterns, logos, insignias, coat of arms, badges, shields, emblems, or indicia. The outer material assists in the camouflaging or concealing of the bulk content of the interior pocket, thereby enhancing the image of the wearer to be a trimmer and more fashionable look.

[0016] Easy access to the interior pocket is provided by the design of the garment and location of the decoration / interior pocket. An interior pocket entry is provided through the opening from the V neck design of many golf shirts or “plackets”, from the V neck design of certain sweaters, from the top opened buttons of casual dress shirts, from the design of certain dresses and blouses with button openings, from the design of shorts and pants, from all of the above and more which will contain a myriad of other openings from which the wearer can access the interior pocket with relative ease.

[0022] The invention may be constructed to provide a variably-sized portable or permanent interior pocket for application to garment such a shirts, sweaters, shorts, pants and the like with a construction that encompasses an inner and outer piece of material affixed to the garment through a myriad of fastening devices which seals three sides of the pocket exclusive of the top of the interior pocket, the inner and outer pieces are coordinated with fastening devices to be positioned directly opposite of each other as they are affixed strategically to the garment for ease of access. The outer piece of material holds the interior pocket to the inner side of the garment. The pocket can be a complete pocket or can be a panel that forms a pocket using the inner wall of the garment. The outer piece of material can function to camouflage the contents within the interior pocket.

[0023] The invention may be constructed to provide an interior pocket that can be easily affixed to a garment during manufacture of the garment or post production.

Problems solved by technology

For instance, in the case of an outside shirt pocket, when a wearer simply bends over to pick up an object, reaches up for an item, or jumps up for an article, there is a risk that articles will be dislodged from an outside pocket and cause damage or possibly harm to the articles, to the owner attempting to prevent dislodging of the articles, or to another person.

The simple task of bending over to pick up a child could cause articles stored in an outside shirt pocket to fall onto the child.

Working on mechanical moving devices with articles carried in an outside pocket could result in some or all of the contents falling into the mechanism and damaging the mechanism or harming the wearer trying in haste to catch the articles falling into the mechanism.

In addition to accidental dislodgement of articles, an outside pocket is also susceptible to thievery by pickpockets.

An interior pocket is thus not available to many people during the business day.

Additionally, garments for other activities do not typically include jackets and coats where such activities occur in a warm environment such as on a golf course or at the beach.

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