Garment Including an Integrated Pocket

Abstract

A garment including an integrated pocket having a first zipper with an associated first slider, a first and second end of the first zipper, and a second zipper having an associated second slider, a first and second end of the second zipper, wherein the zippers are not parallel in such a manner that the first ends of the zippers are adjacent and the second ends of the zippers are not adjacent, wherein the pocket can be opened and closed by the zippers, and in a fully closed state of the pocket, the first slider is disposed at the first end of the first zipper and the second slider is disposed at the first end of the second zipper so that the sliders are adjacent in the fully closed state of the pocket, and wherein the pocket has a coherent opening area over the entire length of the zippers.

Claims

1. A garment including an integrated pocket, wherein the pocket comprises: a first zipper comprising an associated first slider, a first end of the first zipper and a second end of the first zipper, and a second zipper comprising an associated second slider, a first end of the second zipper and a second end of the second zipper, wherein the zippers are not arranged in parallel in such a manner that the first ends of the zippers are adjacent to each other and that the second ends of the zippers are not adjacent to each other, wherein the pocket can be opened and closed by means of the zippers, and wherein, in a fully closed state of the pocket, the first slider is disposed at the first end of the first zipper and the second slider is disposed at the first end of the second zipper in a fully closed state of the pocket so that the sliders are adjacent to each other in the fully closed state of the pocket, and wherein the pocket has a coherent opening area over the entire length of the zippers.

2. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the first slider and/or the second slider is/are not disposed at the first end of the associated zipper in a partially opened state of the pocket.

3. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the first slider is disposed at the second end of the first zipper and the second slider is disposed at the second end of the second zipper in a fully opened state of the pocket.

4. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the first zipper extends substantially vertically when the garment is worn by a standing person.

5. The garment according to claim 1, wherein the second zipper extends substantially vertically when the garment is worn by a standing person.

6. The garment according to claim 4, wherein the second zipper extends linearly and defines an angle of more than 90 degrees with the first zipper.

7. The garment according to claim 1, wherein a cover is provided for at least one of the zippers.

8. The garment according to claim 1, wherein a cover is provided for the second zipper.

9. The garment according to claim 8, wherein the cover for the second zipper also covers an intermediate space between the first zipper and the second zipper, and also partially covers the first zipper.

10. The garment according to claim 7, wherein the cover is elastic.

11. The garment according to claim 7, wherein both sliders respectively comprise a slider handle and in that both slider handles or extensions of the slider handles may have an access position in which they are not fully covered by the cover in the fully closed state of the pocket.

12. The garment according to claim 11, wherein the access positions of the slider handles or of the extensions of the slider handles are taken when the garment worn by a standing person and the slider handles or the extensions of the slider handles are directed vertically downwards.

13. The garment according to claim 1, wherein an outer side of the pocket is integrally formed with at least part of an outer side of the garment.

14. The garment according to claim 13, wherein the outer side of the pocket can substantially be folded away from the garment along a conceived axis connecting the second end of the first zipper with the second end of the second zipper when the pocket is in a fully opened state.

Description

[0027] The invention will now be described by way of example with the aid of a particularly preferred embodiment with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:

[0028] FIG. 1 shows a garment according to the invention having two integrated pockets;

[0029] FIG. 2 shows a zipper arrangement for a garment according to the invention in a partially opened state; and

[0030] FIG. 3 shows a zipper arrangement for a garment according to the invention in a fully opened state.

[0031] In the following description of the drawings the same numerals designate identical or comparable components.

[0032] FIG. 1 shows a garment 10 according to the invention comprising two integrated pockets. The garment 10, here a jacket, comprises two pockets in the breast area. The pockets are mirror-symmetric relative to each other, therefore it is sufficient to describe one of the two pockets. The pocket 12 has an outer side 42 which is integrally formed with the outer side 44 of the garment 10. The pocket 12 is provided with two zippers 14, 22, with only the first zipper 14 being identifiable in the illustration of FIG. 1 while the second zipper 22 is covered by a cover 30. Both zippers 14, 22 have a slider with none of the sliders being visible here. Rather, both sliders are covered by the cover 30. The only thing discernible are elements directly or indirectly connected to the sliders. For example, a slider handle 34 is only partially covered by the cover 30. An extension 38 is attached to this slider handle 34. With regard to the second zipper 22, only an extension 40 is visible. The slider and the slider handle are covered by the cover 30. Both zippers 14, 22 are closed in the state shown in FIG. 1. Therefore, the pocket 12 is fully closed. This state is obtained when both sliders are disposed adjacent to each other. That this is the case can be seen from the adjacent arrangement of the extensions 38, 40 which are respectively attached to the slider handles of the zippers 14, 22.

[0033] FIG. 2 shows a zipper arrangement for a garment 10 according to the invention in a partially opened state. In this illustration, both zippers 14, 22 can be seen. While the second zipper 22 is in the same state as in FIG. 1, namely in the closed state, the first zipper 14 is open in contrast to the state according to FIG. 1. In the opened state of the first zipper 14, the slider 16 of the first zipper 14 is disposed at the second end 20 of the first zipper 14. While the first end 18 of the second zipper 14 is disposed adjacent to the first end 26 of the second zipper 22, this doesn't apply to the second end 20 of the first zipper 14. Therefore the sliders 16, 24 of the two zippers 14, 22 are not positioned adjacent to each other either. The second zipper 22 is exposed since the cover 30 is slightly lifted. It also exposes an intermediate space 32 between the first zipper 14 and the second zipper 22 adjacent to the second zipper 22 in this state. Apart from the sliders 16, 24 of the first zipper 14 and of the second zipper 22, the slider handles 34, 36 and the extensions 38, 40 attached thereto are also visible. All in all, a partially opened state of the pocket 12 is given with the first zipper 14 opened and the zipper 22 closed. Of course, a quasi-infinite number of partially opened states may be realised in which the zippers 14, 22 are disposed in random intermediate states. The zippers 14, 22 are conventionally sewn into the garment via a seam 48.

[0034] FIG. 3 shows a zipper arrangement for a garment 10 according to the invention in a fully opened state. Here, the pocket 12 can be seen in a fully opened state. Both sliders 16, 24 are located at the non-adjacent second ends 20, 28 of the first zipper 14 and of the second zipper 22, respectively. An upper side of the pocket 12 is folded away along a connecting line or conceived axis 46 between the second ends 20, 28 of the two zippers 14, 22 so that the per se associated components of the zippers 14, 22 are no longer adjacent to each other in most areas. The components positioned away from each other are identified by being additionally described by a small letter a or b in the drawing. So, the zipper 14 is composed of the components 14a, 14b, the zipper 22 is composed of the components 22a, 22b, the first ends of the zippers 14, 22 are composed of the components 18a, 18b or 26a, 26b, and the intermediate space between the zippers 14, 22 is designated by the numerals 32a, 32b. In the above illustration according to FIG. 3, therefore, not the outer side of the pocket 12 but the inner side 50 of the pocket 12 in the area on the right side of the conceived axis 46 is shown.

[0035] The pocket described in detail in this way in connection with FIGS. 1 to 3 is easy to handle. In particular, extensions 38, 40 directly or indirectly connected to the sliders of the zippers 14, 22 can be conveniently reached, particularly without folding away the cover 30 which fully covers the second zipper 22 and the intermediate space 32 between the zippers 14, 22, and partially covers the first zipper 14. Water flowing down the jacket from the shoulder region is kept away from the second zipper 22 by the cover 30. The covers 30 of the zippers may, in addition, be practically used for imprints, namely particularly imprints of an individual nature such as company names, brands, proper names, telephone numbers, etc.

[0036] The features of the invention disclosed in the above description, in the drawings as well as in the claims may be essential for realising the invention both individually and in any combination.

LIST OF NUMERALS

[0037] 10 garment

[0038] 12 pocket

[0039] 14 first zipper

[0040] 16 slider

[0041] 18 first end

[0042] 20 second end

[0043] 22 second zipper

[0044] 24 slider

[0045] 26 first end

[0046] 28 second end

[0047] 30 cover

[0048] 32 intermediate space

[0049] 34 slider handle

[0050] 36 slider handle

[0051] 38 extension

[0052] 40 extension

[0053] 42 outer side

[0054] 44 outer side

[0055] 46 conceived axis

[0056] 48 seam

[0057] 50 inner side