UNIVERSALLY-DIRECTED, CLOSURE-SUPPORTED, GRAVITY-CATCH, SELF-ENERGIZING, DIAGONAL POCKET APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

A pocket may be applied to an article of clothing, particularly upper body clothing such as a shirt, blouse, jacket, coat, scrubs, t-shirt, sweatshirt, hoodie, or the like. The pocket is oriented at an angle with respect to horizontal (nominal) or vertical (upright) to improve retention of a contained object such as a mobile phone or a personal digital assistant. A return is formed by stitching a partial closure along one side of the pocket, positioned at the lowest “upper” corner of the pocket (upper meaning opening end), closest to the center line of the article of clothing, on either the right or left. Knit fabrics work particularly well for retaining a weighted object such as a mobile phone despite various user movements leaning to one side or the other, forward, and even bent double whereby rendering the article of clothing in an upside down orientation.

主权项

1. An apparatus, configured as a shirt, defining a vertical direction, having a nominal orientation corresponding to the shirt in use on a standing wearer, having an arm opening, and comprising:
a torso portion extending from a bottom boundary upward; a collar portion surrounding a neck opening positioned above the torso portion; a shoulder portion above the torso portion, proximate an upper extremity thereof; the shoulder portion, extending upward to a top boundary of the shirt and laterally between the collar portion and the arm opening; and a pocket, mounted to the shoulder portion and having an opening proximate an upper end thereof and positioned between the collar portion and the arm opening.