IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SHIRTS AND DRAWERS IN ONE PIECE
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Wilhelm Benger and Gottlieb Benger, both resident at
Stuttgart, in the Kingdom of Wurtemburg, German Empire, for an Invention
LETTERS PATENT to Wilhelm Benger and Gottlieb Benger, both resident at
Stuttgart, in the Kingdom of Wurtemburg, German Empire, for an Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF SHIRTS AND DRAWERS IN ONE
PIECE"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Wilhelm Benger and
Gottlieb Benger at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
13th December 1880.
WILHELM BENGER AND GOTTLIEB BENGER, both resident at Stuttgart, in the
Kingdom of Wurtemburg, German Empire. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF SHIRTS AND DRAWERS IN ONE PIECE."
The said Invention relates to a combined shirt and drawers, and consists in the
combination of a shirt body open in front with under drawers also open in
front. The closing of this combined garment is effected by two flaps laid over one
another on the chest and body; the upper or outermost of the two flaps is
provided with two rows of button-holes converging downwards, and the under or
innermost one with two corresponding rows of buttons.
The "shirt-drawers" when thus fastened cover the chest and lower part of the
body with a double layer of material.
The rows of buttons and button holes begin over each side of the chest at the
shoulder and converge downwards towards the stride between the two legs of the
drawers where the latter are not specially fastened. The "shirt-drawers" consists
of woollen or elastic tissue made of clean wool.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Wilhelm Benger and Gottlieb Benger in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 31st May 1881.
WILHELM BENGER and GOTLIEB BENGER, both resident at Stuttgart, in the
Kingdom of Wurtemburg, German Empire. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF SHIRTS AND DRAWERS IN ONE PIECE."
The said Invention relates to a combined shirt and drawers, and consists in the
combination of a shirt body, open in front, with under drawers also open in front.
The closing of this combined garment, which for distinction may be called "shirt
drawers," is effected by two flaps A and B (see Figures 1, 2, and 3, of the Drawings
hereto annexed,) laid over one another on the chest and body, the upper or outer-
most A of the two flaps is provided with two rows of button holes converging
downwards, and the under or innermost one B with two corresponding rows of
buttons C, C. The shirt drawers when thus fastened cover the chest and lower
part of the body with a double layer of material.
The rows of buttons and button holes begin over each side of the chest at the
shoulders and converge downwards towards the stride between the two legs of the
drawers where the latter are not specially fastened.
The shirt drawers consist of woollen or elastic tissue made of clean wool,
such as, for example, flannel, knitted fabric, or other suitable material.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and the manner in
which the same is to be carried into effect, we would have it understood that what
we claim as our Invention is,―
The combination of a shirt body and drawers or legs with the flaps A and B
which overlap each other in front, and are fastened by two rows of buttons
and button holes, all as herein before described and illustrated in the Drawings
hereto annexed.
In witness whereof, we, the said Wilhelm Benger and Gottlieb Benger, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty third day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty one
Attested by the undersigned, Her
Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires
in Wurtemburg,
CHARLES BOYD ROBERTSON.
Witness,
LORENTZ ALBERT GROTH, K.G.V.,
WILHELM BENGER. (L.S.)
GOTTLIEB BENGER. (L.S.)
Proprietor of the Scandinavian Patent Office,
97, Finsbury Pavement,
London, E.C.