Double Decker Pockets for garments

Abstract

A pocket for a garment comprising a first compartment and secondary compartment adapted to storing a smart phone.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

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BACKGROUND OF INVENTION

A typical pant pocket with a coin pocket is shown in FIG. 1. A side cross sectional view of the pocket in seated position is shown in FIG. 2. Pants and pant pocket design and construction have not changed over 100 years. Modern day pants are unfortunately not modern at all. There have been new pocket designs, but few addresses issues with the pockets in the seated position with modern day items stowed in them, most related to storing coins. However most people now days don't even carry cash much less coins, as people carry credit cards or pay with ApplePay™ (among other smart phone based electronic payment methods). Men specifically may carry a wallet for a drivers license, health insurance cards, and multiple credit/debit cards. Men also may carry keys, an employee ID badge, MetroCard (mass transit card), and most certainly a smart phone, which all need to be stowed on the person, and that usually ends up stowed on the pants. Before the proliferation of smart phone, mobile phones were compact and easily clipped onto a pant belt, but with the planar shape of most smart phones (the iPhone™ shape patent infringement against Samsung™), phones became difficult to clip onto a belt as the smart phone were too large and planar. Therefore ending up in the pant pocket with all the other essential items, so it is either keying the phone or the thick phone wallet sandwich dilemma.

A smart phone like the iPhone 5 just barely fits into one's pocket, now with the larger iPhone 6 and even larger iPhone 6 plus, one may not be able to even sit with a phone stowed in one's pant pocket. This problem can be observed through Apple's sales data with the still strong demand for the older iPhone 5's smaller size, and the release of a new smaller iPhones 5se. Another issue is the stacking of items with the phone which causes a bulky thick bulge that can impede quick access to a ringing phone, or cause items clinging to the phone's flat surface to be accidentally pulled from pocket and dropped. Accordingly, there is a need for a redesigned pocket for modern smart phones to address all these problems.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

A pocket for garments such as a pair of pants which enables one to sit comfortably with a modern mobile phone stowed in the garments pocket and prevents the phone from forming thick sandwich with other planar items that are stowed in the pocket, and prevents items from sticking to the phone when removed from the pocket.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWING

FIG. 1 shows an exploded view of a typical pocket sectioned from a pair of pants.

FIG. 2 shows a side cross sectioned view of a typical pocket and a garment shell on a wearer's hip/leg in seated position

FIG. 3 shows a side cross sectioned view of a garment shell on a wearer's hip/leg in seated position and the exemplary embodiment of the current invention holding a phone and a wallet.

FIG. 4 shows a side cross sectioned view of a garment shell on a wearer's hip/leg in seated position and an alternate embodiment of the current invention holding a phone and a wallet.

FIG. 5 shows an upright cross sectioned view of the exemplary embodiment of the current invention from a pair of shorts.

FIG. 6 shows an upright cross sectioned view of an alternate embodiment of the current invention from a pair of pants.

FIG. 7 shows an upright cross sectioned view of an alternate embodiment of the current invention from a skirt holding a phone and a wallet.

FIG. 8 shows an upright cross sectioned view of an alternate embodiment of the current invention from a dress holding a phone and a wallet.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

FIG. 1 shows an exploded view of a typical pocket sectioned from a pair of pants. FIG. 2 shows a cross section of a typical pocket worn seated on wearer's legs outlined by the dotted line 99, the hip is outlined by dotted line 98. FIG. 3 shows the exemplary embodiment of invention worn on wearer in seated position, the first compartment holding wallet 91c is bounded by discrete floor 301 which is disposed on an outer wall away from wearer's body (non-adjacent wall 312), so as to allow for better flexibility/orientation of the pocket contents when the wearer is seated, whereas if the first compartment floor 301 is positioned on the wall closest the wearer (adjacent wall 311), whatever content in first compartment would prop up the elongated phone/device placed in second compartment against the wearer's leg disposed much like a ramp. Also by having the first compartment floor 301 disposed on the non-adjacent wall 312 it allows for a phone 95c to be inserted into to pant pocket through opening 309 while seated by enabling the phone follow the path along the wearer-adjacent wall 311 surface curved to the wearers hip flexion passing the first compartment into the second compartment down toward a second floor 302. There is partial overlap between the wallet 91c and smart phone 95c.

FIG. 4 shows an alternate embodiment of invention also worn on wearer in seated position, the first recess floor 401 attached to the nonadjacent wall 412, the second recess floor 402 extends further deeper to eliminate the overlap between wallet 91e and smart phone 95e. The first recess is sized to ergonomically fit a wallet while seated and the secondary recess is sized to ergonomically fit a smart phone while seated and not so deep, such that a phone stowed on floor 402 is still easily reachable when in the standing position. There is a balance between being sufficiently deep enough to sit comfortably and not so deep as to require the wearer to crouch in order to reach the contents stowed on floor 402. The original garment shell outline is indicated by 213z and the outline of the slimmed garment shell achieved by the current embodiment is indicated by 413.

FIG. 5 show a cutout cross-section of the exemplary embodiment of invention in a upright position. The garment shell is denoted by 513, the pocket 500 with 2 walls, a wearer non-adjacent wall 512 and wearer adjacent wall 511, the first compartment bounded by floor 501 which is attached on non adjacent wall 512 with concave upper edge 503, and extending further deeper is a second compartment bounded by floor 502. The wall 511 fastened to wall 512 on at least 2 edges, the wall may comprise of sheets of facing and lining material.

FIG. 6 show a cutout cross-section of an alternate embodiment of invention in a upright position with the first recess floor 601 formed by folding a pleat into a non-adjacent wall to form an upper edge 603 and a trough/floor 601 and then stitched along the 2 opposite edges 617 of the two walls whereby joining the two walls at the edges. Floor 601 may also be fasten along it's length securing to rest of wall, and also may be stitched as denoted by 618 on the first recess's upper edge 603 to create a pocket for retaining loose items in first recess when wearer seated. The walls may comprise of plies of fabric.

FIG. 7 show a cutout cross-section of an alternate embodiment of invention in an upright position. The pocket 700 with the first section floor 701 is holding a wallet 91b, and extending further deeper is section floor 702 holding a smart phone 95b.

FIG. 8 show a cutout cross-section of an alternate embodiment of invention in a upright position. The garment shell is denoted by 813, the pocket 800 with two walls, a wearer non-adjacent wall 812 and wearer adjacent wall 811, the first compartment floor 801 is attached on non adjacent wall 812 and holding a wallet 91d, and extending further deeper is compartment floor 802 holding a smart phone 95d, and a overlapping region denoted by number 5.

The pocket configuration reduces the thickness pocket contents by offsetting the planar items and the increased height allows one to sit without a rectangular object jamming into one's hip. The present invention is also suitable for female pants, skirts and dresses. Women tend not store items in their lower garment because their garments tend to be closer fitting and stowing a wallet plus a smart phone will create an unflattering bulge, however the present invention should help reduce the unflattering silhouette created by the stowing of phones among other items in a female's garment pockets.

Claims

1. A pocket for a garment comprising a first compartment with a discrete floor and a second compartment with a separate second floor extending below the first compartment such that the first compartment and second compartment each can fit at least one item, such as a smart phone, a wallet, and other planar items, wherein the items are secured in place by gravity, and both the first compartment and second compartment sharing a common opening and at least one common wall.

2. The pocket of claim 1 wherein the first compartment floor is formed of a separate sheet of material fasten along a bottom edge to the wall non-adjacent the wearer.

3. The pocket of claim 1 wherein the first compartment floor is formed from a pleat folded into the wall non-adjacent the wearer.

4. The pocket of claim 1 wherein the second compartment floor extends substantially below the first compartment to stow the smart phone clearing the first compartment floor, without the smart phone extending above past the first compartment floor.

5. The pocket of claim 1 wherein the second compartment floor extends sufficiently below the first compartment to stow the smart phone with less than a 50% portion of a distal end of the smart phone the extending above past the first compartment floor.

6. A pocket for a garment disposed near a wearer's hips comprising a first recess with a first discrete floor and a second recess with a second discrete floor extending deeper past the first recess such that the first recess and second recess can respectively hold a smart phone, the first discrete floor positioned on a wall non-adjacent the wearer.

7. The pocket of claim 6 wherein the first recess floor is formed of a separate ply of material fasten along a bottom edge to the wall non-adjacent the wearer.

8. The pocket of claim 6 wherein the first recess floor is formed from a pleat folded into the wall non-adjacent the wearer.

9. The pocket of claim 6 wherein the second recess floor extends substantially below the first recess enough to stow the smart phone clearing the first recess floor, without the smart phone extending above past the first recess floor.

10. The pocket of claim 6 wherein the second recess floor extends sufficiently below the first recess to stow the smart phone with less than a 50% portion of the smart phone the extending above past the first recess floor.

11. A method for stowing a plurality of planar items in a garment pocket worn on a wearer's hip/leg, wherein a first item is passed through an upper opening and stowed in a first compartment bounded by a first floor, resting the first item on the first floor, and a second longer item is passed through the upper opening, bypassing the first compartment and the first floor, following a wall adjacent the wearer that is contoured to a hip/leg flexion into a second compartment bounded by a second floor extending below the first floor, resting the second item on the second floor, whereby the first item and second item are secured in place by gravity.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein a second longer item is placed fully past and clearing the first floor, resting the second item on the second floor.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein a second longer item is placed partially past the first floor, resting the second item on the second floor with a distal end of the second item protruding partially above the first floor.