US410984A

US410984A - Solms marcus

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Publication number: US410984A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-09-10
Anticipated expiration: 1906-09-10

Description

(No Model.)

s. MARCUS.

WOOLEN SHIRT.

No. 410,984. Patented Sept. 10, 1889.

v UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SOLMS MARCUS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO HENRY N. HART, OF SAME PLACE.

WOOLEN SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,984, dated September 10, 1889.

Application filed March 8 1889.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOLMS MARCUS, a citi= zen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flannel and \Voolen Fabric Shirts, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in shirts, and has for its object the provision of means whereby the neckband of a shirt shall always be maintained of uniform dimension.

My improvement has special reference to shirts made of woolen fabric that will shrink when laundered. It is well known that such material will shrink, especially when immersed in hot water, and that a shirt after washing will have its neckband consequently considerably reduced. The result will be that a collar normally of proper size for the wearer cannot, after shrinkage during washing, be buttoned around the neck. To overcome this defect is the purpose of my invention.

My invention is hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein like letters of reference point out similar parts 011 each figure, Figure 1 represents a collar and portion of the body of a shirt, illustrating the first step in practicing my invention. Fig. 2 is another view showing the shirt-body and the fortifying strip turned downwardly in a direction opposite to that illustrated in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the fortifying-strip sewed in place, as in the finished article.

In the drawings,A is the shirt-body; B, the collar, both being made of woolen material that will shrink when laundered.

C is a fortifying-strip of inelastic textile fabric of sufficient length to encircle the neck.

of the wearer. Said strip on the finished article extends outwardly on either side beyond the length of the collar, as seen in Fig. 3, said extension receiving the usual fastening device common in such garments, the free end of the said strip being, however, firmly connected at its upper and lower edges to the body A, as plainly seen in said figure.

Serial no. 302,556. (No model.)

In carrying out my invention, which is only applicable to shirts having a body and an attached collar made of some flannel or woolen fabric, the collar 13 is laid in place, flat upon the upper portion of the body A, the lower edge of the collar being brought in exact alignment with the upper edge of the body. Over these two layers of woolen fabric I then place a fortifying inelastic strip 0 and connect the three laminae at their free edges by a common row of stitching a, as plainly shown in Fig. 1. It will be observed that the row of stitching extends through the three overlying fabrics the full length of the collar. Next the body A is folded downwardly, away from the collar B, and the strip C is also folded down in the same direction, thereby forming hems or welts w w, the portion of the strip C and body A extending beyond the length of the collar being respectively turned over and under to form a double or twofold cont-inuation of the welts of four thicknesses, as plainly seen in Figs. 2 and 3, where indicated by arrows, while the full length of the lower edge of the collar, being interposed between the welts, provides five thicknesses of material, three of woolen and two of unyielding fabric. The welts w and w, composed by overturns of the body and strip, and respectively in alignment, overlying at opposite sides the lower edge of the collar, are all unitedly connected by means of a through-and-th rough line of stitching I). Said stitching, after pass ing beyond the length of the collar, is continued outwardly to join the ext-ending portions of the strip and body. (See Figs. 2 and 3.) The strip 0 is at its lower edge turned under, and said turned edge is for its full length firmly secured to the body Abya continuous row of stitching 0, thus composing a welt 10 at the lower edge of the strip.

The welt-s at the opposite edges of the strip enable the employment of thin material for said strip, as it is obvious that should there be any tendency for said material to contract it will be arrested by the welts rigidly maintained in position upon the conjoined collar and body by the continuous rows of throughand-through stitches, as set forth.

I do not claim a woolen shirt having an inelasti'c neckband; but,

through said Welts and collar, and a Welt 'w composed of a return at the lower edge of the strip 0, said welt 'ufi being connected to the 15 body A by a continuous row of stitching c, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SOLMS MARCUS.

Witnesses:

WM. H. Lorz, OTTO LUBKERT.