US2163654A

US2163654A - Shirt hold-down device

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Publication number: US2163654A
Application number: US225094A
Authority: US
Inventors: Russell A Ziegler; Ferguson Frank
Original assignee: Cluett Peabody and Co Inc
Current assignee: Cluett Peabody and Co Inc
Priority date: 1938-08-16
Filing date: 1938-08-16
Publication date: 1939-06-27
Anticipated expiration: 1956-06-27

Description

June 27, 1939. R. A. ZIEGLER ET. AL 2,163,654

' SHIRT HOLD-DOWN DEVICE Filed Aug. 16, 1938 1814x226 A. Z 61920; Frarzl: firyaswz, TMM M J72 were tars:

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Patented June 27,1939

UNITED STATES PATENT or'rlcs snm'r HOLD-DOWN navlon ration of New York Application August 18. 1938. Serial No. 225.094

1 Claim.

This invention relates'to men's shirts of the so-called coat type which open down theiront with inner and outer overlapping portions secured together, usually by buttons on the outer,

5 side of the inner portion and corresponding button holes in the outer portion. 1 I

When wearing a shirt of this type the overlapping portions tend to bunch upwardly and gape apart between the buttons, due to changes in 10 the position and posture of the wearer. Heretofore it has been proposed to avoid this tendency by securing to theshirt, just above the waist line,

an anchor adapted to engage over a button on a nether garment, thereby to restrain the front 15 of the shirt from bunching upwardly. However, such constructions have certain disadvantages. For example, inasmuch as they are fast to the shirts they render the shirts more dimcult to launder, and they are not applicable to nether M garments without buttons, such as trunks with elastic tops and zipper trousers.

Objects of the present invention "are to restrain the aforesaid tendency, to keep the aforesaid overlapping portions substantially in contact with :5 each other, from the waist line to the neck, throughout changes in position and posture, to avoid the permanent attachment of an anchor to the shirt, to provide an anchor which may be attached to a nether garmenthaving no buttons,

80 to provide detachable means for the aforesaid purpose which can be used interchangeably on diflerent shirts, and generally to improve the art to which the presentinvention relates.

' According to this invention the shirt is pro- 35 vided with an opening in one of its overlapping portions in the region of the waist line and an anchor is xtended through this opening with its lower en engaging with the fabric of a nether garment and its upper end detachably engaged 40 over a button on the inner portion of the shirt between the inner and outer overlapping portions, thereby to restrain the front of the shirt from bunching upwardly. The anchor is preferably formed of a strip of elastic material having a 45 width equal to or somewhat less than that of the aforesaid opening. The fastener on the lower end of the elastic strip may be of any suitable type for engaging the fabric of shorts or the lining of trousers but it is preferably formed of 50 stifl sheet material having a tapered opening into which the fabric may be inserted and wedged. The upper end of the elastic strip is also preferably provided with'a separate fastener of stiff sheet material provided with an opening large enough to receive the button'of the shirt and preferablyprovided with a narrow slot lead- Xing upwardly from the opening to receive the anchor for holding the button on the shirt.

For the purpose of illustration a typical embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a front view of a shirt and anchor associated together in operative relationship, together with trunks to which the lower end of the anchor is connected;

Fig. 2 is a front view of the anchor detached from the shirt; v

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the lower end of the anchor illustrating how it is attached to the nether garment; and

Fig. 4 is a frontview of a modified lower fastener.

The particular embodiment of the invention chosen for the purpose of illustration comprises a shirt having inner and outer overlapping portions I and 2 providedwith the usual buttons 3 and button holes 4. Between the waist line and the next higher button and button hole, the inner and outer overlapping portions are provided with openings 5 and 8.

The aforesaid anchor comprises a strip of elastic material 1 with fasteners B and 9 secured to its upper and lower ends respectively. The fastener 8 is provided with an opening iii to receive the button 3 and a slot ii extending upwardly so from the opening iii to receive the stitching with which the button is secured to the shirt. The lower fastener 9 isprovided with an opening i2 tapering downwardly, whereby fabric may be anchored in the opening by inserting a small area of the fabric through the opening and then pulling the' fastener upwardly until the fabric wedges into the lower end of the opening. As illustrated in Fig. 3 the fastener is anchored to a pair of shorts i3 having an elastic top H. The 40 upper end of the opening i2 may if desired be shapedlike the opening iii to receive a button so that the lower fastener 9 may be attached either to a button or as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. Such a construction is shown in Fig. 4 where the lower fastener is designated 9' and the opening The preferred method of applying the anchor is first to engage the fastener 8 over the button '3, then insert the fastener 9 through the opening 5 and then interengage the fastener 9 with the fabric of the shorts i3. after which the outer portion of the shirt is buttoned over the inner portion in the usual way. Tocon'nect the anchor to the trousers instead of trunks the lower end of the anchor is inserted through the opening 6 instead of the opening 5. Thus the same anchoring device may be used with a number of shirts and it may be used with trunks and trousers which have no buttons and it may be removed while the shirt is being laundered, thereby facilitating the laundering operation and increasing the life of the anchoring device.

It should be understood that the present disclosure is for the purpose of illustration only and .that this invention includes all modifications and equivalents which fall within the scope of the appended claim.

We claim:

In combination with a shirt having inner and outer overlapping front portions provided with interengaging buttons and button holes respection from bunching upwardly in various positions of the wearer without any part of said anchor showing outside the shirt when said portions are buttoned together.

RUSSELL A. ZIEGLER. FRANK FERGUSON.