Improvements in or connected with Shirts.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 10th July, 1894-Accepted, 11th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Shirts.
I, WILLIAM MUIR ANDREWS, of 217, St. George's Road, Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows, that is say:-
My said invention has for its object the providing of a shirt with an improved
device for keeping the breast part or "front from bulging or protruding.
In carrying out my invention I attach tapes or narrow bands to the sides of the
front or to flaps or tags formed on or attached to the sides, such tapes being led
round to the back and there tied or otherwise fastened either simply to each other
or to the back of the waist band of the drawers or trousers. Or there may be a
single tape or band led from one side round the back and fastened at the other
side.
Dated this Fourteenth day of October 1893.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Shirts.
I, WILLIAM MUIR ANDREWs, of 217 St. George's Road, in the County of the
City of Glasgow, North Britain, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object the providing of a shirt with an improved
device for keeping the breast part or "front" from bulging or protruding.
In carrying out my invention I attach tapes or narrow bands to the sides of the
front or to side flaps or tags formed on or attached to the sides of the front such
tapes being led round to the back and there tied or otherwise fastened either
simply to each other, or to the back of the waist band of the drawers or trousers.
Or there may be a single tape or band led from one side round the back and
fastened at the other side.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same may
be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings, to be
hereinafter referred to, and showing a shirt as made with one modification of my
improvements.
Figures, 1, and, 2, of the drawings are respectively a front and back elevation.
In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
In the modification shown there are attached to the sides of the front, A, flaps
or tags, B, and, C, to one, B, of which there is fastened by a button, D, a single
tape or band, E. The tape or band, E, is led round the back, F, of the shirt,
and its other end is fastened to the flap or tag, C, at the other side of the front by
a button, G, three buttons (or it might be any convenient number) being provided
for adjusting the tension of the tape or band. I prefer to make the band, E, in
two pieces connected by an elastic piece, H.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The providing of a shirt with one or more tapes or bands and appliances for
attaching the same to the sides of the front substantially as and for the purposes
hereinbefore described.
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C T.11001
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.