A NEW AND IMPROVED KIND OF SHIRT
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Tipper, of Feltham, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, and of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Gentleman, for the
Invention of "A NEW AND IMPROVED KIND OF SHIRT."
Sealed the 7th November 1865, and dated the 29th May 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Tipper at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
29th May 1865.
I, HENRY TIPPER, of Feltham, in the County of Middlesex, and of
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "A NEW AND IMPROVED KIND OF SHIRT," to be as
follows:-
It is to open from the side of the neck near the shoulder strap marked A,
continuing down the side of the breast to the end of the tail to B, to be fastened
by buttons, as shewn in the Drawing annexed; and the said Invention is to
prevent the necessity of putting the shirt over the head.

page_text: .SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Tipper in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
29th November 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
TIPPER, of Feltham, in the County of Middlesex, and of Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia, Gentleman, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said Henry Tipper, Her special licence that I, the said Henry Tipper,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Henry Tipper, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to "time, and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "A NEW AND
IMPROVED KIND OF SHIRT," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Henry Tipper, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should par-
ticularly describe and ascertain 'the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Tipper, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawing, and to the
letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
The Invention of a new and improved kind of shirt consists in making
shirts so as to avoid the necessity of putting the shirt over the head in
dressing, and I will now proceed to describe the same by reference to the
accompanying Drawing, which shews a front elevation of my new. and
improved shirt.
The different parts of the shirt are made in the ordinary way, except the
front, the opening of which instead of being in the centre is on one side, which
opening is continued through to the bottom of the flap; thus the shirt is open
from the side of the neck near the shoulder strap, commencing in the neck

page_text: banda at A, and continuing down the side of the breast or front of the shirt C
in a direct line through to the end of the flap D to B as shewn; b, b, b, are
buttons for fastening the shirt; c, c, c, are ordinary buttons or studs in the
front as usual.
The opening of the shirt instead of being on the right-hand side as shewn
in the accompanying Drawing, may, if desired, be on the left-hand side.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
carryng the same into effect, what I claim is, the making of shirts open on
one side of the front from the neck to the bottom of the flap to facilitate the
putting on and taking off, as herein-before described and shewn in the
accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Tipper, have hereto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
Witness,
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury.
HENRY TIPPER. (L.S.)