US325253A

US325253A - Shirt

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Publication number: US325253A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-09-01
Anticipated expiration: 1902-09-01

Description

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L. LEMOS.

SHIRT. No. 325,253. Patented Sept. 1, 1885.

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UNiFn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEON LEMOS, OF SAI\ FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,253, dated September 1, 1885.

(No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEON Lmros, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of my invention are, first, to provide an improved means whereby the neck of the wearer is protected from the stud or button at the back portion of the neckband, and the button-hole fortified; second, to provide a means by which to fortify and strengthen the neck-band at that portion of the front of the shirt to which the collar is connected. I accomplish these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view showing a shirt having my improvement applied thereto. Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 are detail views.

Similar letters of reference are used to indicate like parts throughout the several views.

A represents the neckband of a shirt, which is made of suiiicient length so that one end is folded or doubled over and stitched to the body of the band to form a loop or pocket, B, and this pocket is closed upon three sides, the upper edge beingleft open, as shown. \Vithin the outside face of this pocket is made a button-hole, G, for a stud, by which the neckband is fastened to the neck of the wearer, which is accomplished by bringing the opposite end of the neckband 0 around upon the outside of the loop and buttoning the stud into the buttonhole formed in the said opposite end of the neck band. By this means the base of the stud is against the inner face of the loop or pocket, and the butt-onhead or top portion of the stud is upon the outside of the neck-band or loop, and the button-hole is re enforced and protected from being torn away by the strength imparted to the loop in the manner shown.

In constructing the front portion of the neck-band a pocket, D, is formed at a suitable point, and within each of the folds is made a button-hole, E, as shown by the vertical section of said folds in Fig. 2, so that if one button-hole should become impaired or torn out the other one will still serve to retain the button or stud.

In case it be desired to use onlyone of these button-holes, the front one may be used, in which case the base or back of the stud will rest against the inner face of the back fold of the pocket and protect the neck of the wearer in the same manner as that of the back portion of the neck-band above described.

In my former patent, No. 249,062, dated November 1, 1881, I show a stud-pocket at the rear formed by attaching a rectangular piece of cloth beneath the button-hole on that end of the necleband that comes next to the back of the wearers neck; and a similar pocket was formed at the front of the neck-band by attaching to its outside a tab having a single button-hole. By my Patent No. 802, 852, dated July 29, 1884, I form the rear studpocket by providing one end of the neck-band with a tongue having an enlarged end or head that engages a supplemental button-hole, and I reenforce the buttonhole at the front of the band by providing the band with a tab, attached only at one edge and having a buttonhole, said tab being folded down so that the shank of the stud would pass at all times through the button-hole in the tab, and also through that in the band. My present form of stud-pockets for front and rear are different, however, from all those above referred to. In my present invention the front stud-pocket, Fig. 2, is provided with a button-hole, E E, in each face, and the stud is engaged with the outer button-hole only, exceptwhen said outer button hole becomes torn or unduly stretched, and then the stud will be engaged with the inner button-hole. This is not possible with the construction shown in my former patent-s, nor with any other neck-band of which I am aware. My construction of rear studpocket is also obviously different from those shown in former patents in that it is formed from an extended end of the neck-band folded back and stitched on three sides of the main body of the band.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

A shirt having in the front of its banda stud-pocket closed at the bottom and at each of its ends, and provided with a button-hole in each face in line with and directly opposite each other, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand and seal.

Witnesses: LEON LEMOS. [L. s.]

\VILMER BRADFORD, CHAS. E. KELLY.

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