US2093879A

US2093879A - Shirt envelope

Info

Publication number: US2093879A
Application number: US692394A
Authority: US
Inventors: Julius M Alter; Lipsey Meyer
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1933-10-06
Filing date: 1933-10-06
Publication date: 1937-09-21
Anticipated expiration: 1954-09-21

Description

SHIRT ENVELOPE sept. 21, 1937.

J. M. ALTER ET AL Filed Oct. 6. 1953 Patented Sept. 21, 1937 PATENT OFFICE SHIRT ENVELOPE Julius M. Alter, Brooklyn, and Meyer Lipsey, New York, N. Y.

Application October 6,

3 Claims.

This invention relates to devices such as envelopes for garments and especially for shirts as packaged in laundries.

One object of the invention is to provide a device of the character described which shall be of particularly inexpensive construction, suilciently rugged, neat in appearance, well adapted to receive and support a garment, particularly the collar of a shirt, and facilitate inspection of a shirt therein, and which shall be adapted for cheap manufacture and without waste of material.

An important problem in the manufacture of devices such as shirt envelopes is to reduce to a minimum the cost of the material required. Shirt envelopes have generally been made of cardboard or other relatively stiff material, which has been a principal item of expense. Hence it has been proposed to make the front wall of such envelope of a thin, light weight, pliable material, such as ordinary or tissue paper, whereby the cost of material would be substantially reduced. By my invention, the front wall has improved reenforcing means, whereby the lightest possible paper may be satisfactorily employed, and the shirt collar may be adequately supported. An auxiliary collar supporting means which is positive in its action may be employed at one end of the envelope. The opposite end of the envelope may be recessed to provide for inspection of the shirt from that end, as when the packaged shirts are arranged in a. stack. The reenforcement means for the front wall may be in the nature of strips of material one of which conforms to the collar, and the other of which has a shape adapted to intert with the rst mentioned strip, and thus to provide said opening. A particularly simplified method may be employed to construct the front wall and the reenforcing strips.

4' It is therefore an object of the invention to obtain the above mentioned advantages.

Other objects and advantages'of the invention will become apparent as the specification pro- 4 3 ceeds.

With the aforesaid objects in view, the invention consists in the novel combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described in their preferred embodiments, pointed out in the sub- J'oined claims, and illustrated in the annexed drawing, wherein like parts are designated by the same reference characters throughout the several Views.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a view in front elevation of a device 1933, Serial N0. 692,394

embodying the invention, and showing in dot dash lines a shirt therein.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on line 2-2 of Fig. l.

Fig. 3 is a view in rear elevation of the device. 5

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary plan view of a blank structure showing a step in the method of making the device.

` Referring in detail to the drawing, I0 denotes a device such as a shirt envelope embodying the 10 invention. The same may include a relatively stiff back member II made of a suitable material such as cardboard, and a front member I2 of a thin, pliable light weight material such as ordinary or tissue paper. Actually, the member I2 is much thinner than shown in the drawing, in which a thickness is indicated for clarity. Desirably, the member I2 may extend to the lower end I3 of the back member with which certain points such as I4 of its lower edge may be in substantial coincidence. The upper edge I5 of the front member may terminate at a substantial distance below the upper edge i6 of the back member to provide a free shirt supporting portion I1. The side edges of the members may be suitably longitudinally interconnected, as by folding the edge portions I8 of the front member around the back member and adhesively securing the portions I 8 thereto. Except for such connection, the upper and lower ends of the front and back members are preferably free of each other.

For reenforcing the front member I2, suitable elements such as strips I9, may be associated with the upper and lower edges I5 and I4 respectively. Said strips may consist of a material of any suitable weight and stiffness, but preferably the material has more pliability and is less in thickness and weight than that of the member II and has less pliability and greater thickness, weight and strength than the material of the member I2. For example, the strips may consist of ordinary paper which may have the character of a usual or a heavy Wrapping paper. Each of these strips may be connected, adhesively, or otherwise, along an end edge of the front member I2, to theback member I I, as shown at 2|, or both. Desirably the strips I 9 and 20 overlie the front member I2, whereby various colors and styles of material for the strips may be used in contrast with the rest of the envelope. Aside 5,0 from this factor, however, greater reliability and strength of reenforcement is obtained by this arrangement. When the strips thus overlie the front member I2, the connection of the parts 2| with the back member is through the medium of 55 the portions I8, although the parts ZI may also extend b-eyond said portions and be directly adhesively secured to the back member.

The front member may have means for supporting a collar 22 of a shirt 23 received within the envelope. For instance, a recess 24 may be provided in the upper edge of the front member as well as in the reenforcement strip I9, as indicated by the free edge ISa of the latter, and the portions at opposite sides of said recess may be cut away as at 25 to expose for inspection the upper side portions of the shirt. Hence it is seen that the front element has an upper edge conformation adapted to engage the collar band or to project into engagement with the fold line 22a. of the collar within the fold thereof, this region A of the front wall element being thus of double ply with free edges of the front member and of the strip I9 in coincidence. 'Ihis supporting region possesses an ample degree of stiffness by reason also of the adhesive which may be liberally employed between all parts of the contacting faces of the strip and front wall.

The lower portion of the envelope may have an. opening such as one or more recesses 29 for exposing to View an adjacent portion 2l of the shirt. If desired, theremay be a projection 28 between said recesses, which projection may extend to the bottom edge of the back member II so as to fully cover the shirt and prevent soiling thereof at the point where the package is frequently grasped. The conformation thus provided includes the free edge II of the front member and the free edge 29 of the reenforcement strip in coincidence.' The strip 29 may be secured to the front member and to the back member at 30 in the same manner as above described for the strip I9.

It will be noted that the lower reenforced region B of the front element and the upper reenforced or collar supporting region A thereof possesses irregular free edge conformations whose shapes are adapted to interfit with each other, for a purpose hereinafter described.

At 3l is shown an auxiliary collar supporting means, which may comprise a tongue 32 constructed so as to be maintained to extend in the general direction of the plane of the back member II. Preferably the tongue 32 is struck from the back member forming the opening 32a, and folded upward along a line 33 spaced from the edge I9. The portion of the tongue adjacent to the fold line 33 .may be secured by adhesive at 34 to the back member. In general, the end 35 of the tongue terminates below the edge I5, and since the adjoining region of the back member is unbroken, a collar is protected against soiling while supported with the tongue extending into the back 36 of the fold section of the collar. The tongue and the adjacent portion of the back member may be regarded as a pocket for receiving the collar for the purpose of holding and preventing soiling.

The method of making the envelope will now be described. A roll or elongated sheet of material or paper 3l is spread out, and strips 38 of a reenforcing material are adhesively secured thereto in uniformly spaced relation to each other, and transversely or at right angles to the length of the sheet 31. Then the sheet 31 and the strips 38 are cut through as along the lines 39 shown in dot dash lines to provide sections C, each of which includes a front member I2, an upper strip I9 and a lower strip 20 corresponding in general to the device shown in Fig. l. 'Ihe interfitting relation of the parts I9 and 2|] of the successive sections may be noted. Thus, in a simple manner the front wall element o f the envelope is provided with upper and lower reenforcements, with the collar receiving recess 24 and the shirt inspection recess 26, and with the free edges of the members I2, I9 and 20 in precise coincidence. The back member II including the flap structure 32 may be formed in a single operation, if desired, and then a section C may be applied thereto with side edge of the section folded around and adhesively secured t0 the back member as shown at I8, 2| and 30, to complete the envelope. k

In use, a shirt folded over a cardboard is inserted with a single motion into the envelope until the collar substantially rests on the recess 2A. Then the tongue 32 is applied, the shirt further inserted, and finally the cardboard is removed. A particular advantage of the opening 29 is that when the cardboard is being removed from the inserted shirt, the latter may be grasped at the opening 29 to prevent any retraction of the shirt.

An especial advantage resulting from the method of making the shirt envelope is in the saving of material.

It will be appreciated that various changes and modifications may be made in the device as shown in the drawing, and that the same is submitted in an illustrative and not in a limiting sense, the scope of the invention being defined in the following claims.

I claim:

l. A shirt envelope including a front member and a back member, the latter having a tongue struck therefrom in spaced relations to an end of the back member, said tongue being folded back along a line to project toward said end for providing a collar supporting tab, and the opening formed in striking said tongue permitting access to the shirt therethrough.

2. A shirt envelope including a front member and a back member, the latter having a tongue struck therefrom in spaced relations to an end of the back member, said tongue being folded back along a line to project toward said end for providing a collar supporting tab, said tab being connected to the back member in proximity to the fold line for maintaining the tab in substantially parallel relation to the back member.

3. A shirt envelope having a thin light weight pliable front member, a relatively stiff back member, said members being interconnected along their side edges and being free of each other at their ends, reenforcement strips extending along and adhesively secured to the end portions of the front member, one of said strips having an irregular collar` supporting free edge conformation, and the other strip having a free edge of a shape adapted to interiit with said collar supporting conformation.

JULIUS M. ALTER. MEYER LIPSEY.