Improvements in Under-shirts and other Garments.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Sept., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 6th Jan., 1892-Accepted, 6th Feb.. 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Under-shirts and other Garments.
I, THOMAS POPE HALLETT of 28 Fountain Street, Manchester in the County of
Lancaster, Merchant and Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to strengthen singlets or undershirts jerseys
cardigan jackets and other garments in those parts thereof which are most subject
to wear.
Now according to my invention I construct shirts and the like with one or more
extra pieces composed of cotton leather or other materials over the shoulders
shoulder-blades front and at the arms to the elbows attached to the shirt by sewing
and to prevent the strengthened portions thereof from wrinkling or irritating the
wearer. I secure the several thicknesses of material to the garment by suitable
stitching.
The stitching may be in any desired direction and the various rows of stitches
as close together as is necessary to prevent wrinkles.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of September 1891.
1
ERNEST SALAMAN,
Per T. E. H.,
Agent for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Under-shirts and other Garments.
I, THOMAS POPE HALLETT of 99 Portland Street late of 28 Fountain Street,
Manchester in the County of Lancaster, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to strengthen singlets or undershirts, jerseys,
cardigan jackets and other garments in those parts thereof which are most subject
to wear.
Now according to my invention, I construct shirts and the like with one or more
extra pieces composed of cotton, leather or other materials over the shoulders,
shoulder blades front and at the arms to the elbows attached to the shirt by
sewing and to prevent the strengthened portions thereof from wrinkling or
irritating the wearer, I further secure the several thicknesses of material to the
garment by suitable stitching. The stitching may be in any desired direction, and
the various rows of stitches as close together as is necessary to prevent wrinkles.
The accompanying drawing shows one way of carrying my invention into practice,
Fig. 1 being a back view of a "Coolie's" shirt constructed according to this
invention, and Fig. 2, front view of the same. The same letters denote the same
parts in both figures.
A is the shirt. B, the strengthening piece,-extending from the elbow of one
sleeve across the front and shoulders to the elbow of the other sleeve, and secured
to the body of the shirt by stitching. To prevent wrinkling, the piece B is
further secured to the shirt A by stitching, as shown at 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 in Fig. 1,
and 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Fig. 2.
I do not however bind myself to the precise pattern of stitching shown in the
drawings, as any suitable method of stitching may be employed, quilting for
example, neither do I bind myself to make all the additional pieces of material for

page_text: strengthening purposes in one piece, as the same may be made in two or more
pieces a. b. C, of which covers the shoulders, back and chest, and a and c the
sleeves.
I am aware that shirts have been previously made with extra pieces of material
over the shoulders; I do not therefore claim this, but what I do claim is :-
(I.) Strengthening undershirts and other garments by the addition of extra
pieces of material to the parts most subject to wear, substantially as described.
(II.) Stitching the strengthening pieces to undershirts, singlets, jerseys, and the
like, as and for the purpose specified.
Dated 5th January 1892.
ERNEST SALAMAN,
Patent Agent to the British and Foreign Patents and Trade Marks Society,
61 & 62, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.