Garment expander
OwnerEdward F. Waughinventor
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Abstract
A garment expander, of the type equipped with a bent sheet metal hook on one flap of the fly opening for hooking through a bent sheet metal eye on the other flap of the flap opening, has at one end a resilient loop which strongly but detachably captures the eye and has at the other end a planar area with a rigid bridge protruding from the planar area in a plane parallel with it for aligning and engaging the trouser hook; when tension is applied the loop may permit the eye to turn slightly within the loop for better trouser appearance; the invention is adapted for high-volume low-cost production with minimum operations.
Claims6
In a system for extending waistband fastening of trousers, the improvement comprising:
- said trousers being of the type having at the waistband fly opening a hook protruding inwardly from the inner surface of a lefthand flap and an eye protruding outwardly from the outer surface of a righthand flap for engaging the hook to hold the right hand and left hand flaps together, when hooked;
- means for connecting said hook and eye when said hook and eye are not engaged to each other and are at a distance from each other caused by waistband extension, including:
- the means for connecting being a unitary member of sheet material, a first portion of said unitary member forming a bridge for engaging said hook, and a second portion of said unitary member forming a loop for engaging said eye within said loop.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.