US2243230A - Pinless man's shirt fold - Google Patents

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May 27, 1941- J. VANDERMADE PINLESS MAN'S SHIRT FOLD Filed Jan. 15, 1940 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR DEB/WADE A TTOR/VEYS May 27, 1941. J. VANDERMADE PINLESS MANS SHIRT FOLD Filed Jan. 13, 1940 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. k/Of/N VQNOERMHOE A TTORNE V6 Patented May 27, 1941 PINLESS MANS SIHRT FOLD John Vandermade, Hawthorne, N. J., assignor to The Manhattan Shirt Company, New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application January 13, 1940, Serial No. 313,704

2 Claims.

This invention relates to folding men's and like shirts.

The object of this invention is to put up mens shirts in a uniquely folded manner and form, without the use of pins, tapes, ribbons or other fastening means. This invention permits shirts to be put up for handling and inspection in substantially rectangular configuration, exhibiting the whole of the bosom, the whole of the buttonhole staypiece, all of the buttons, the collar in an upstanding position, substantial portions of the shoulders of the shirt and a portion of the pocket, in order that the salesman or the purchaser may readily examine the fabric, style and workmanship of the shirt. The invention also permits the shirt to be readily handled for inspection without disturbing the folds of the shirt and without exhibiting in the front of the shirt any of the supporting means nor exhibiting any substantial portion of the supporting means at the back of the fold. This invention further permits the shirt to be readily folded and to be readily unfolded. This invention also permits the shirt to be packed for shipment and prevents it from being wrinkled or breaking down the upright position of the collar when a number are packed in a box or during handling.

In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a face view in perspective of the support or board used within the folds of the shirt; Fig. 2 a front view of the assembled shirt and support; Fig. 3 a rear view thereof; Fig. 4 a side elevation of Fig. 2 partly in section; Fig. 5 a. supplemental collar support; Fig. 6 a rear view of certain steps involved in folding a shirt on the support; and Fig. '7 is a rear view of the assembled shirt and support prior to locking or securing the shirt and support together.

The support I is preferably made of flexible material, such as inexpensive cardboard, provided with shoulder portions 2, inwardly curving sides or cut-outs 3, a straight bottom edge 4, and a duplex lock comprising an interlocking tab 5 formed by four slits 6 separating the tab from the body of the support at four edges and having a neck portion I retaining the tab 5 connected to the body of the support and providing a hinge on which the tab may be bent. The second element of the duplex lock comprises the securing tab 8, which is an integral portion of the support, extending from the shoulders 2 and provided with a score or slit 9, the slit extending but part way through the support to provide a hinge upon which the tab 8 may be moved to substantially upright position with respect tothe body of the support.

The shirt to be folded-after being buttoned, is preferably laid with the back of the shirt facing upwardly, the sleeves being then folded just back of the shoulder portions along the line H! and then again folded along the line II between the fold l0 and the cuff of the shirt so that the cuff reaches a position just short of the high point of the shoulder of the shirt. The left sleeve is preferably first so folded and then the right sleeve, which brings the cuffs and part of the sleeve corresponding to the forearm in overlap relation as shown at l2. The support I may then be laid upon the back of the shirt over the folded sleeves with the slit 9 substantially in line with the lower edge I3 of the collar. The sides of the shirt are then folded over the back of the support along the line H and these folds extend in a straight line the whole length of the shirt, the fold to the right overlying the left fold. It is to be noted that when the folds I4 are formed, the portions of the shirt sleeves lying between the outer edge of the cuff and the fold l4 lie in part beneath the shoulderportion 2 of the support partly within the cut-out portion 3 and partly over the lowermost portion of the support in proximity to the edge 4, thereby tending to anchor the sleeve portions beneath the support I. After the two folds M-H have been completed, the tail portion [5 of the shirt is folded inwardly along the line l6 and the entire lower portion is then folded upwardly along the line I! against the edge 4 of the support.

The interlocking tab 5 is then raised, as shown in Fig. 7, and the lower portion of the shirt along the line I! is inserted into the leg [8 of slit 6,

thereby locking the two main folds of the shirt' together, but a small portion of the interlocking tab 5 being exposed to,view as shown in Fig. 3. The securing tab 8 is then bent to substantially right angles to the plane of the support I and inserted between the neckband and the collar of the shirt, the top edge of the tab extending to the fold line of the collar.

To add rigidity to the side portions of the collar, a support I9 may be utilized, being placed between the neckband and the collar, the securing button for the neckband passing through the keyhole slot 20.

serted between the neckband and turned over portion of the collar and tends to flatten the collar rather than hold it in the upright position shown in Fig. 2.

I claim: 1. In combination, a man's shirt or the like and a support therefor, said support comprising a sheet of flexible material having shoulder portions and a bottom portion provided with a straight bottom edge, cut-outs extending inwardly from opposite sides of said support forming a narrow neck portion connecting the shoulder portions and the bottom portion, an interlocking tab between the outer edges of the shoulder portions, said tab normally lying in the plane of the support and being bounded by a series of incisions formed through the support, separating said tab from said support excepting at a narrow portion in the area of the shoulder portions, the sleeves of the shirt or the like being folded with the open end of the sleeves extending upwardly and freely lying between the body of the shirt or the like and the support, other portions of the sleeves, shoulders and sides of the bosom and the lower portion of the shirt or the like being freely folded over the support to form a substantially rectangular configuration both at the front and at the back of the shirt or the like, a portion of the front of the shirt or the like passing into the uppermost incision of said interlocking tab, whereby the shirt and the support are secured together by the interlocking tab and said straight bottom edge of the support.

.2. In combination, a man's shirt or the like and a support therefor, said support comprising a sheet of flexible material having shoulder portions and a bottom portion provided with a straight bottom edge, cut-outs extending inwardly from opposite sides of said support forming a narrow neck portion connecting the shoulder portions and the bottom portion, an interlocking tab between the outer edges of the shoulder portions, said tab normally lying in the plane of the support and being bounded by a series of incisions formed through'the support, separating said tab from said support excepting at a narrow portion in the area of the shoulder portions, a securing tab extending from the shoulder portions, and folded upwardly at substantially a right angle to the body of the support, the sleeves of the shirt or the like being folded with the open end of the sleeves extending upwardly and freely lying between the body of the shirt or the like and the support, other portions of the sleeves, shoulders and sides of the bosom and the lower portion of the shirt or the like being freely folded over the support to form a substantially rectangular configuration both at the front and at the back of the shirt or the like, a portion of the front of the shirt or the like passing into the uppermost incision of said interlocking tab,

JOHN VANDERMADE.

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