Improvements in “Fronts” or False Shirt Fronts.
Year: 1886

page_text: Improvements in “Fronts” or False Shirt Fronts.
We THOMAS BLENKIRON trading under the firm of W. Blenkiron & Son of
123 Wood Street, in the City of London Warehousemen and PERCY LAW of
91 Park Street Camden Town in the County of Middlesex Oil and Colour
Merchant do hereby declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
"FRONTS," OR FALSE SHIRT FRONTS to be as follows:-
Our improvements have for their object the improvement of " fronts" or false
shirt fronts and to enable them to be better and more simply and securely retained
in the desired position on the wearer, and to be more readily reversible.
In the past such fronts especially for gentlemen's use have commonly been
secured on the person by strips, strings, bands or tapes passing around the neck
and being tied, buttoned, looped, hooked or similarly connected but vexatious or
troublesome delays constantly arise from the buttons coming off, the strings
getting knotted the elastic loop rotting or breaking or otherwise the means of
connection failing when required for use.
To remedy these inconveniences and to improve the "set" or adjustment of
such articles we make our improved fronts so that we can dispense with strings,
tapes, elastic-loops, buttons, or hooks to attach at the back of the neck by
employing a part band or collar band around the front of the neck attached to the
front, provided with a front or collar stud hole to receive a collar stud on which to
attach a collar or a collar button may take the place of a stud and at the sides at
or about where the band ends we provide at each side, flaps, ears or folding pieces,
adapted to be folded one over the band of the underlying shirt, another over the.
collar or beneath it and between it and the scarf or neck tie or in other way to be
locked in or secured in position by the adjustment of the superincumbent articles
of dress in a neat and easy manner, and not present parts of form liable to be torn
off or destroyed in washing or dressing the goods.
The form of the parts or tags provided for folding in may be square, rounded,
oval or of other forms according to taste or circumstances and may vary in number
at each side or part, and the parts may be reversed.

page_text: Improvements in "Fronts" or False Shirt Fronts.
We THOMAS BLENKIRON trading under the firm of W. Blenkiron & Son of
123 Wood Street in the City of London Warehousemen and PERCY LAW of
91 Park Street Camden Town in the County of Middlesex Oil and Color
Merchant, 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:-
Our improvements have for their object' the improvement of "fronts" or false
shirt fronts and to enable them to be better and more simply and securely retained
in the desired position on the wearer, and to be more readily reversible.
In the past such fronts especially for gentlemen's use have commonly been
secured on the person by strips, strings, bands or tapes passing around the neck
and being tied, buttoned looped hooked or similarly connected but vexatious or
troublesome delays constantly arise from the buttons coming off, the strings
getting knotted the elastic loop rotting or breaking or otherwise the means of
connection failing when required for use.
To remedy these inconveniences and to improve the "set" or adjustment of
such articles we make our improved fronts so that we can dispense with strings,
tapes, elastic-loops, buttons or hooks to attach at the back of the neck by
employing a part band or collar band around the front of the neck attached to the
front, provided, with a front or collar stud hole to receive a collar stud on which to
attach a collar, or a collar button may take the place of a stud, and at the sides at
or about where the band ends we provide at each side, flaps, ears, or folding pieces,
adapted to be folded one over the band of the underlying shirt, another over the
collar or beneath it and between it and the scarf or neck tie or in other way to be
locked in or secured in position by the adjustment of the superincumbent articles
of dress in a neat and easy manner and not present parts of form liable to be torn
off or destroyed in washing or dressing the goods.
The form of the parts or tags provided for folding in may be square, rounded,
oval or of other forms according to taste or circumstances and may vary in number
at each side or part, and the parts may be reversed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shews one form of shirt front with our invention applied, a being the
visible portion of the front when on the wearer, b the stud hole for stud to hold
the collar or collar and scarf, a¹ is the collar band of the front and c are flaps, ears
or folding pieces adapted to be folded between the collar applied and the scarf
applied around the collar and so lock the front collar band and the collar together.
Figure 2.shews another form having the flaps c rounded in form.
Figure 3 indicates a modification of these flaps c being applied as in Figure 2
and a second set of flaps c¹ being applied to the upper edge of the collar band a¹ of
the shirt and adapted to be folded in over the flannel or other shirt beneath.

page_text: Figure 4 is an arrangement resembling the last Figure without the extra flaps c¹
and like Figure 1 except as to the situation of the flaps c beyond instead of over
the shirt front.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
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The manufacture and use of "fronts," or false. shirt fronts constructed or
arranged with holding or retaining parts, flaps, ears or folding pieces, so as to
render the ordinary strips, strings, bands, or tapes, passing around the neck of the
wearer unnecessary, substantially as described herein and shewn in the accom-
panying drawings.
Dated this 24th day of July 1886.
WM BROOKES & SON, .
Agents for the said
Thomas Blenkiron and Percy Law.