US1035053A

US1035053A - Shirt.

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Publication number: US1035053A
Application number: US65155311A
Authority: US
Inventors: Harry Saltzman
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1911-09-27
Filing date: 1911-09-27
Publication date: 1912-08-06
Anticipated expiration: 1929-08-06

Description

H. SALTZMAN.

SHIRT.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 27, 1911.

Patented Aug. 6, 1912.

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ATTORNEYS HARRY SALTZMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 6, 1912.

Application filed September 27, 1911. Serial No. 651,553.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HARRY SALTZMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Shirt, of which the following is a full, clear,

and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in shirts provided with a plurality of flaps or lapels attached to the body of the shirt adjacent the waist line thereof, to enable the shirt to be attached to the trousers and support the latter, thus enabling the wearer to dispense with the use of suspenders ordinarily employed for this purpose. The shirt is made strong throughout so that it will not readily be torn when in use.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which the same characters of reference indicate the same parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improvedshirt; and Fig. 2 is a detail view, showing in enlarged form the flap and the buttonholes therein by means of which the flap is buttoned to the waistband of the trousers of the wearer.

My improved shirt comprises a number of pieces of cloth suitably stitched together to form the body of the shirt.

The numeral 1 indicates one of these pieces, which, when in position, will fit across the wearers shoulders. This piece or strip is cut out at the center to fit the neckband 2, and is attached at its ends to the sleeves 3. The back of the shirt is sewed transversely to the shoulder strip 1 and to the sleeves and front of the shirt along its side edges.

The front of the shirt is made in several sections which are indicated by the

numerals

4 and 5. The sections 4 are sewed to the back of the shirt and to the front edges of the ends of the sleeves along their outer edges, and are secured along their inner edges to the center sections 5. The adjacent upper corners of these center sections are ass cut away, as shown, so as to be fitted to the forward part of the neckband 2; and the adjacent longitudinal edges of these two center sections 5 overlap each other and are provided with buttons and buttonholes so that they can be fastened together. The

front sections

4 and 5 are all of equal length and are secured along the lower edges to a flap 6, as shown in Fig. 1.

All of the seams uniting the sections of cloth which form the body of the shirt together are covered with strips 7 and these covering strips not only give the shirt a finished appearance by concealing the rough edges of the cloth along the seams inside of the shirt, but they also strengthen the seams and make it almost impossible to tear them apart.

The flaps or lapels bymeans of which the trousers are supported are disclosed at 8; they are preferably four in number, secured in the seams adjacent the lower outer corners of the sections 4., and to the seams adjacent the lower inner corners of these sections. In this way the two outer flaps are secured to the front flap 6, sections 1 and back of the shirt by means of a single seam; and the two intermediate flaps are secured to the sections 1 and 5 and the lower flap 6 by a single seam likewise. Each of the lapels or flaps 8 is made up of a double layer of cloth and provided with a plurality of buttonholes therein, shown at 9. These buttonholes are corded before-being sewed, so as to make them resist a considerable force before tearing.

The utility of the shirt will be apparentfrom the appearance thereof. Nearly all makes of trousers in common use are now provided with a pair of buttons in front on each side to attach the suspenders to the same. I utilize these two pairs of buttons to attach the flaps 8 thereto, and the height at which the trousers are to be supported canvbe adjusted at will by buttoning them to the lower buttonholes 9, to the intermediate buttonholes or the upper buttonholes. The buttonholes will not be exposed when the shirt is attached to them, and the shirt will fit well and comfortably, the bending of the body in any position will not be prevented, and no inconvenience will at any time be experienced by the wearer.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

An improvement in shirts, comprising a body, the front of said body including a number of longitudinally-arranged parallel sections of cloth which are sewed together along their adjacent edges, the outer edges of the outermost of said sections being sewed to the back of the shirt, at front flab for said shirt secured to the said sections along the lower edges, and a plurality of supporting flaps or lapels secured to said shirt, each of said flaps or lapels having one of its longitudinal edges sewed into a seam joining two adjacent parallel sections and having its lower edge sewed into the seam joining the front flap to said parallel sections, each of said flaps having a vertical row of buttonholes therein to support the 10 trousers of the wearer in adjusted position. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' HARRY SALTZMAN. Witnesses:

WILLIAM F. NICKEL. JOHN P. DAVIS.