US2273155A - Shirt neckband - Google Patents

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Feb. 17, 1942. E. B. SULLIVAN SHIRT NEGKBAND Filed April 24, 1939 INVENTOR. EDMUND B. SULLIVAN ATTORNEY.

Patented Feb. 17, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 SHIRT NECKBAND Edmund B. Sullivan, Mount Vernon, N. Y.

Application April 24, 1939, Serial No. 269,614

1 Claim.

This invention relates generally to outer shirts having neckbands provided with pockets for the insertion of collar buttons, but more specifically to means for separating the walls of the pocket of the neckband after same have been starched together following laundering, whereby the base of a collar button may be inserted within the said pocket.

The main object of the invention resides in the provision of a neck band having a pocket formed therein to house the base of a collar button, the said pocket having a tab member secured intermediate the width of the pocket whereby the outer wall may be separated from the inner wall for insertion of said collar button.

Another object of the invention resides in the provision of a neckband having a pocket formed therefrom intermediate the width of which a tab member is secured to the inner surface of the outer wall by means of lines of stitching whereby the pocket member walls are easily of button hole I3 and forming the inner and outer walls l4 and I5. Another line of stitching I6 is provided between the lower edge of inner wall l4 situated between the spaced transverse separated after having been secured together by starch in the laundering process.

These objects and other incidental ends and advantages of the invention will hereinafter appear in the progress of the disclosure and as pointed out in the appended claim.

Accompanying this specification is a drawing showing a preferred form of the invention wherein corresponding reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the views and wherein:

Figure l is a perspective view of a shirt showing a tab member attached to the neckband.

Figure 2 is a sectional view of Figure 1 along the plane 2-2 thereof.

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2 except that the pocket member is shown opened.

Figure 4 is a sectional view of the neckband of a shirt not provided with a tab member.

In accordance with the invention and a preferred embodiment shown in the accompanying drawing, numeral l0 indicates a shirt having a neckband generally designated by numeral Customary button holes I 2 and I3 are provided on the neckband The neckband II is preferably comprised of inner and outer walls l4 and I5, and as shown in the drawing is formed by folding the neckband material over on itself, the fold constituting the upper edges of the neckband. The lower edges of walls I4 and I5 are secured to the shirt edge ID by means of a line of stitching l6 which latter is interrupted between two spaced and transverse lines of stitching H and I8 laterally lines of stitching l1 and IB and the shirt edge Ill.

Thus, a channel I9 is formed between the walls l4 and I5 of the neckband except for that portion between lines of stitching H and l8 which portion forms a pocket 20 with the lower edge of wall portion I5 free.

A tab member 2| is adapted to be secured within pocket 20, lateral edges ofthe said tab member 2| being disposed preferably inwardly of the lines of stitching I1 and 18 whereby it becomes possible to secure the said tab member to the outer wall l5 by distending the latter from the inner wall. Thus, the tab member 2| is preferably secured to outer wall l5 of the pocket by lateral lines of stitching 22 and 23 and also, if desired, by an upper line of stitching 24 as shown in Figure 3. The aforementioned button hole I3 is adapted to register with a corre sponding button hole 25 in the tab member 2| whereby the base of a collar button 26 may be used against the outer surface of inner wall l4 and projected through hole 25 of tab 2| and hole l3 in the outer wall l5 of the pocket member. The tab 2| preferably projects below the base of neckband I as shown in Figure 1. By pulling on the projecting portion of tab 2|, it is easily seen how the outer wall l5 of pocket 2|! is separated from the inner wall l4. This separation is made more easy both from the standpoint of manufacture as has been above mentioned and from the standpoint of performance by making the width of tab 2| narrower than the width of the pocket 20.

In Figure 4, a neckband is shown affixed to a shirt l0" wherein a channel I9 is formed between inner and outer walls l4 and I5, the said neckband not being provided with a tab member. Such a neckband may easily be converted into a neckband shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3 by forming a pocket therein by the expedient of providing two spaced transverse lines of stitching similar to lines of stitching l1 and l8 and securing to the outer wall a fabric piece, thus forming a tab member in accordance with the rior description.

I wish it distinctly understood that the tab member as applied to a pocket in the rear of the neckband, may also be applied to a pocket'at the front of the neckband to accommodate a front collar button.

I wish it understood that minor changes and ing provided with spaced transverse lines of stitching joining the walls together to form a pocket, the outer wall of said pocket being provided with a. button hole, a tab member having a button hole within the said pocket to register with the button hole of the outer wall of the pocket, the tab member being secured to the outer wall of the pocket at least at the lateral edges thereof and across the height thereof.

EDMUND B. SULLIVAN.

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