US 4,060,853 AGranted

Garment

OwnerHoracio Carlos Gabarroinventor

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Abstract

A garment such as a jacket or coat, having two large pockets of substantially equal size, located on opposite sides of the vertical center line of the front face of the garment. The pockets are of sufficient size that the rest of the garment, other than the pockets, can be folded to occupy an area not larger than the area of one pocket, and then the two pockets can be swung around to a position parallel to each other, encompassing the folded remainder of the garment between them. Fastening means such as a slide fastener connects the peripheries of the two pockets to each other with the folded remainder of the garment between them, to form a convenient wallet-like package for transporting the garment when it is not being worn, the pocket portions of the garment now constituting the outer faces of the wallet and still being accessible for use as pockets to hold other articles. The side edges of the pockets are of pleated or bellows formation, thus being expansible for holding other articles when the garment is folded to the wallet form as well as when it is being worn.

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Dependent claims

A garment comprising:

a. a main body portion having separable edges that are openable along a vertical front center line;
b. two equal-sized, bellows pockets having approximately rectangular outlines and closeable top openings for access to the interiors of said pockets;
c. said pockets being permanently attached to the exterior of said body portion of said garment and arranged to be opposite each other on opposite sides of said front center line in regions adjacent said separable edges;
d. separable fastener means extending vertically along said front center line for openably closing said separable edges along the front of said garment in the region between said pockets;
e. detachable fastening means extending around three sides of each respective pocket to extend along the top edges of each pocket, along the lateral edges of each pocket remote from said front center line, and along the bottom edges of each pocket;
f. said pockets being sized and positioned so that the remainder of said garment other than said pockets can be folded to fit within said rectangular outline of said pockets and contained between said pockets when said pockets are arranged back to back;
g. said detachable fasteners extending around three sides of said pockets being connectable to each other to fasten said pockets to each other along three respective sides of said pockets to form a partially closed wallet containing said remainder of said garment;
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h. said separable fastener extending along the front center line of said garment being closeable to connect said separable edges of said garment to close said wallet by effecting a closure between the fourth sides of said pockets along said front center line.

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