US228721A

US228721A - Shirt

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Publication number: US228721A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1880-06-15
Anticipated expiration: 1897-06-15

Description

(No Model.)

J. F. APPELL.

Shirt.

No. 228,721. Patented June 15,1880.

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2-way MPEIERS. PHDTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J. FREDERICK APPELL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 228,721, dated June 15, 1880.

Application filed March 9, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J. FREDERICK APPELL, of Chicago, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirts; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which 'form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to a novel construction in three-ply-bosomed shirts, the objects of which are to obtain the utmost uniformity in the thickness of the bosom throughout its entire extent and to fortify the body at the bosom-edge against breaking. The latter purpose is effected much as shown in Letters Patent No. 224,265, granted to me February 10,1880-namely, by the extension of the innermost ply of the bosom beyond the outermost; but in the construction herein shown I obtain a greater uniformity in thickness between the bosom-edge and its body by making the middle ply narrower than the outer one, as will be fully explained.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a shirti'ront containing my improvement in elevation, and Figs. 2, 3, and 4 are fragmentary sections through the marginal seams.

A is the bosom, composed of the three plies a, b, and 0, and B is the body of the shirt.

' The innermost ply, 0, is made wider than the (N0 model.)

ply, a, the shirt-body B, and, preferably, the under ply, c; and theinner row, f, secures the middle ply, 1), preferably, to both the outer ply, a, and the innermost ply, c. The middle ply, I), should fall within the inturned edge of the outer ply, a, as shown in all the sectional figures. If the several parts joined were of equal thickness, they mightbeindifi'erently arranged, as shown in these figures; but as the outer or face ply, a, is usually very thin, and as the middle ply, I), and the body-stuff B ordinarily correspond nearly in thickness, I prefer the arrangement shown in Fig. 2, wherein these parts abut or lie in the same plane without overfolding.

As will be seen by reference to Fig. the bosom is no thicker at its extreme edge than inside the seam f, except by one thickness of the thin outer ply, a, where folded under, which is imperceptible in the finished article. In respect of uniformity of thickness throughout the entire extent of the face ply or bosom proper, the device here shown is an improvement on that shown in the aforesaid Letters Patent granted to me.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1 In a three-ply-bosomed shirt, the under ply, 0, extended beyond the outer ply, a, and beneath the shirt-body B, and the middle ply, I), made narrower than the outer ply, and secured by the inner row of stitching, f, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention 1 affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

J. FREDK. APPELL.

Witnesses:

M. E. DAYTON, JEssE Cox, Jr.