AN IMPROVED SHIRT-FRONT WAISTCOAT
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Nightingale Palmer, of Dalston,
London, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN
IMPROVED SHIRT-FRONT WAISTCOAT." -A communication from abroad by
Pierre Adolphe Eugene Delarue, of Paris, in the Republic of
France
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Thomas Nightingale
Palmer at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 27th February 1874.
I, THOMAS NIGhtingale Palmer, of Dalston, London, in the County
of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"AN IMPROVED SHIRT-FRONT WAISTCOAT," a communication, to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in a new garment composed of a plain, worked,
or embroidered shirt front opening completely like the front of a waist-
coat and fastened like an ordinary shirt front with studs or buttons. A

page_text: tab is fixed at the bottom of the front, the said tab having one or more
button holes. A collar band or collar secured in like manner by a
button or stud is also provided. Two parts, each including half of the
arm hole are fixed on each side of the front, and the back is in one single
piece or in several pieces with seams, and receives at the top (which
forms the back part of the neck and shoulders) the collar band or collar,
thus completing the neck portion. The back is provided at the lower
end with a running string or other suitable means for tightening round
the waist, and is joined at the two parts above mentioned by two seams
beginning at the middle of the arm hole and extending to the lower end
on the side of the garment.
My improved shirt-front waistcoat may be made to open at the back
instead of in front, the shirt front would then be made of a single piece
and might be provided with button holes or buttons to give the
appearance of an open shirt front. At the lower end of the back of the
shirt-front waistcoat I apply in this case two tabs crossing each other
and passing the one into the other by means of a button hole, the ends
of these tabs being held on each side of the shirt-front waistcoat by
buttons placed there for that purpose. The upper end of the back of
the waistcoat would then be fastened at the collar band, and on the
back by buttons or studs. The collar band would be provided in front
with a button hole for fastening the collar.
My improved shirt-front waistcoat may be made of any kind of white
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, a
filed by the said Thomas Nightingale Palmer in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 25th August 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
NIGHTINGALE PALMER, of Dalston, London, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the

page_text: thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas Nightingale Palmer,
Her special licence, that I, the said Thomas Nightingale Palmer, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Thomas Nightingale Palmer, 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 King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland; the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED SHIRT-FRONT WAISTCOAT," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Thomas Nightingale Palmer,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly 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 Thomas Nightingale Palmer, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed; to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This Invention consists in a new garment composed of a plain,
worked, or embroidered shirt front opening completely like the front of
a waistcoat and fastened like an ordinary shirt front with studs or
buttons. A tab is fixed at the bottom of the front, the said tab having
one or more button holes. A collar band or a collar secured in like
manner by a button or stud is also provided. Two parts, each including
half of the arm hole are fixed on each side of the front, and the back is
in one single piece or in several pieces with seams, and receives at the
top (which forms the back part of the neck and shoulders) the collar
band or collar, thus completing the neck portion. The back is provided
at the lower end with a running string or other suitable means for
tightening round the waist, and is joined to the two parts above
mentioned by two seams beginning at the middle of the arm hole and
extending to the lower end on the side of the garment.
My improved shirt-front waistcoat may be made to open at the back
instead of in front, the shirt front would then be made of a single pieco

page_text: and might be provided with button holes or buttons to give the
appearance of an open shirt front. At the lower end of the back of the
shirt-front waistcoat I apply in this case two tabs crossing each other
and passing the one into the other by means of a button hole, the ends
of these tabs being held on each side of the shirt-front waistcoat by
buttons placed there for the purpose. The upper end of the back of the
waistcoat would then be fastened at the collar band and on the back by
buttons or studs. The collar band would be provided in front with a
button hole for fastening the collar.
My improved shirt-front waistcoat may be made of any material
suitable for such a purpose.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Nightingale Palmer, have
hereunto set my hand and scal, this Twentieth day of August,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
four.