IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRT FRONTS
Year: 1884

page_text: I, THOMAS WILLIAM HELLIWELL, of Brighouse, Yorkshire, Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRT FRONTS," to be
as follows:-
My invention has reference to a complete shirt or to that description of shirt
made with a front and which are worn by gentlemen with the front exposed. As
is well understood this description of shirt has to be cast off as soon as the front is
soiled, although the shirt itself may be clean and fit to wear for a much longer
time. The object of my invention in such shirts is to form them so that the front
thereof can be changed, enabling the wearer to substitute a clean front in place of
a soiled one without getting a clean shirt, and this I effect by cutting or forming
the bottom part of the front, so that the edges thereof, where, the button holes are
formed will overlap each other, and allow of their being exchanged, and their
surfaces reversed.
TASKER & CROSSLEY,
Patent Agents,
1, Commercial Street, Halifax,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, THOMAS WILLIAM HELLIWELL of Brighouse Yorkshire, Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRT FRONTS" and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention has reference to a complete shirt, or to that description of shirt-
made with a front and which are worn by gentlemen with the front exposed.
As is well understood this description of shirt has to be cast off as soon as the
front is soiled, although the shirt itself may be clean and fit to wear for a much
longer time.
The object of my invention in such shirts is to form them so that the front
thereof can be changed, enabling the wearer to substitute a clean front in place of
a soiled one without getting a clean shirt, and this I effect by cutting or forming
the bottom part of the front so that the edges thereof, where the button holes are
formed will overlap each other, and allow of their being exchanged and. their
surfaces reversed.
.Such being the nature and object of my Invention I will now proceed to shew
how it may be put into practical operation.
Fig 1 of the accompanying drawings illustrates a shirt front constructed and
arranged according to my invention where it will be seen that the overlapping part
of the front marked A and B are cut horizontally at the bottom part a so that the
part A can overlap part B as shewn in Fig 2 and when that side of the front is
soiled the side B which is clean can be overlapped over the soiled part A as shewn
in Fig 3.
Instead of cutting the bottom of the front a horizontally as already shewn I may
cut it vertically as shewn at b Figs 4. 5, and 6.
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By this means shirts made with fronts as herein shewn and described can be
worn twice as long as those shirts having fronts which cannot be reversed.
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
The manufacture of shirt fronts in manner substantially as herein shewn and
described, whereby the faces of the front can be reversed.