US330498A - Shirt or dress placket - Google Patents

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V. E. LAVALLIEL SHIRT 0R DRESS PLAUKET.

N0. 330,498. Patented Nov. 17, 1885.

NIT-ED STATES VICTORIA E. LAVALLIE, OF ST. ALBANS, VERMONT.

SHIRT OR DRESS PLACKET.

fiPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,498, dated November 17, 1885.

Application filed March 20, 1885.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, VICTORIA E. LAVALLIE, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Albans, inthe county of Franklin and State of Vermont, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shirt,&c., Plackets; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of my invent-ion is to provide a placket for the slit-openings of shirts, overalls, &c., one made from a single piece of cloth and having when attached, no seam at the edge of the facing, but presenting an edge of solid cloth, whether the tearing strain comes from the right or left, the bottom of the placket being also of whole cloth. A further object is to do away with the objectionable thicknesses of cloth usual to devices of this kind, and to have the outer facing of the placket lap well over the inner, giving a finished appearance and dispensing with the second button.

My invention consists in a peculiar method of attaching the placket-blank, shaped as shown, to the slit-opening of a shirt or suitable garment, whereby a placket is produced whose bottom and tearing edges are of whole, folded, and seamless cloth, and whose outer facing laps by the innersufficiently to ordinarily conceal it and dispense with a second button.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan view of the placket-blank. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the manner of attaching the long side of the placket-blank. Fig. 3 is a plan view showing the larger portion of the placketblank ready to be turned over to form the outer facing and shield, the inner facing being turned under. Fig. 4 is a front elevation showing the appearance of the placket when the slit-opening is closed. Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing the placket partly open.

Like letters refer to like parts. Referring to the blank, (see Fig. 1,) it will Serial No. 150,577. (No model.)

be seen that it is a single piece of cloth. The larger or rectangular portion A forms the outer facing, and terminates in the somewhat pointed and narrower portion B, which forms the outer shield, and the still narrower portion or strip 0, which forms the inner face of the placket.

Besides the advantage of making a placket of whole cloth, it will be evident that my blank can often be cut from waste cloth.

I do not limit myself to the exact form of the blank shown, and propose to use any fair equivalent.

The said blank is applied to form a placket as follows: If it is to be applied to a shirtopening, for instance, spread out the slit until. edges of the cloth body form a straight line, (see Fig. 2,) and place underneath the blank so that the edge of the long side of it shall lie under the edge of the cloth body, then fasten the parts together by a single seam about one-fourth of an inch from the edges. Now spread out the cloth body and the blank fiat, turn over the free edge of the narrow strip 0 about one-fourth of an inch and lap the whole onto the cloth body, single-seaming it to place, thus forming the narrow or inner face of the placket, said face being from one-half to five-eighths of an inch wide, or as the case may be. The inner facing being completed, turn it back to its natural place under the portionAof the blank. (See Fig. 3.) Now turn over the free edge of the portions A and B of the blank, say,one-fourth of an inch, and lap the whole over onto the cloth body, fastening to place by double-stitching down and around to the-bottom of the placket, and then horizontally across, thus forming the outer facing and the shield below. (See Fig. 4.)

Preferably, the portion A of the blank should ICC by folding the blank, they will resist strain from any direction, as they present the resistance of whole cloth.

My placket is simple and strong, and presents a finished look, whether from the inside or outside, and the seams are so arranged as to give the least thickness of cloth.

Having fully described my invention, what Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

The method of attaching to a shirt-opening a placket-blank comprising the portions A, B, and O,which consists, first, in single-seaming the long side of the blank to the slit opening, then folding over and stitching to the cloth body the portion 0, to form the nar- VICTORIA E. LAVALLIE.

Witnesses:

NATHAN N, PosT, F. I. HOUGHTON.

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