Improvements in or relating to Shirts and the like Apparel.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1899-Accepted, 11th Nov.,
1899
Improvements in or relating to Shirts and the like Apparel.
I, ROBERT VOLLMOELLER, of Vaihingen a/F, in the Kingdom of Wurtemburg
and German Empire, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of the present application is a shirt characterised by a special kind
of fastening which enables the same shirt to be used for different sizes of neck,
so that tradesmen who keep these shirts would no longer be obliged to keep in
stock special shirts for every size of neck but could diminish their stock con-
siderably and still have suitable articles for any size neck.
The adjustment is also very useful for the purchaser as he can make the neck
smaller or larger as desired.
A shirt finished with this adjustable fastening is illustrated in three forms
in Figures 1 to 3 of the accompanying drawing.
Figure 1 shews the shirt with front fastening.
Figure 2 with side fastening, and
Figure 3 shews the shirt fastened at the back.
The shirt is fastened as usual with a button or stud, but there are several button-
holes instead of only one, which holes are preferably sloping in the shirt collar
and parallel to each other and a fixed unit of distance apart, such for instance as
one centimeter.
In the form illustrated in Figure 1, which shews a shirt fastening in front,
the ends a, b, of the band c are joined together by means of a stud for this pur-
pose. Each end of the neck-band has several button-holes d which in this
instance are placed diagonally to the neck. The shirt can be adjusted to different
sizes of neck by means of the two button-holes on each end of the band, for
example for sizes from 41 to 43 centimeters, when the stud is placed through the
button-holes indicated by numbers.
The adjustability of the band may also be adapted to all the shirt front fasten-
ings while the fastening in the flap at e is also adjustable in various sizes.
In the form illustrated in Figure 2. the shirt is fastened at the sides on both
shoulders and here also a number of diagonally placed button-holes admit of
its adjustment for different sizes.
The fastening can also be placed at the back as shewn in Figure 3;
adiustability is exactly the same as in the form shewn in Figure 1.
the
In all cases the adjustment is effected by placing the stud in one or other of
the row of button-holes. The number of button-holes can be either two or more.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1. Shirt, characterised by the neck band at the fastening having two or more
Latton holas LA amangod diaconally to the nook for the nurnace of

page_text: enabling one and the same shirt to be adaptable for different sizes of neck, sub-
stantially as described.
2. In a shirt as characterised in Claim 1, the arrangement that the shirt front
is likewise adjustable, substantially as described..
Dated this 10th day of October 1899
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.