Improvements in and connected with.Shirts.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Nov., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 10th July, 1899-Accepted, 1st Nov., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and connected with.Shirts.
LOUIS RABOW, of Karthaus, Westphalia, Merchant, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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The object of this invention is to provide a shirt the neck band of which is in
two parts joined at the sides so that the front and the back part of the shirt
have separate neckbands. Such a shirt is especially suitable for travellers and
the like because it is very easy with such a garment to cover the front when
it becomes soiled by means of a clean front. If this plan is adopted with a shirt
having a neckband of the ordinary construction it is difficult to make the loose
front fit to the shirt without crumpling the neck band, causing the front to set
badly and the shirt to be uncomfortable to the wearer.
In my improved shirt on the other hand the two bands being adjustable at the
sides their edges will simply overlap one another, and thus if the collar or band
of the loose shirt front should not be wide enough to permit of the said bands
taking their usual position the ends of them will simply overlap one another,
and thus all creasing or puckering of the collarband is avoided. The same applies
to the cuffs. If the wristbands are divided at the sides in the same manner
so as to form two semi-circular bands instead of a single band joined at one point,
it is much easier to wear loose cuffs over the said bands and to change the same
as often as desired.
With such wristbands almost any size of cuff can be worn as the edges of said
wrist bands will overlap each other if small cuffs are being worn.
A shirt having the improvements described enables almost any size of collar
or cuffs to be worn with practically perfect fit.
Improvements in and connected with Shirts.
I, LOUIS RABOw, of Karthaus, in the Province of Westpreussen, Germany,
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 provide a shirt the neck band of which is in
two parts joined at the sides so that the front and the back part of the shirt

page_text: have separate neckbands. Such a shirt is especially suitable for travellers and
the like because it is very easy with such a garment to cover the front when
it becomes soiled by means of a clean front. If this plan is adopted with a shirt
having a neckband of the ordinary construction it is difficult to make the loose
front fit to the shirt without crumpling the neck band, causing the front to set
badly and the shirt to be uncomfortable to the wearer.
In my improved shirt on the other hand the two bands being adjustable at the
sides their edges will simply overlap one another, and thus if the collar or band
of the loose shirt front should not be wide enough to permit of the said bands
taking their usual position the ends of them will simply overlap one another,
and thus all creasing or puckering of the collarband is avoided. The same applies
to the cuffs. If the wristbands are divided at the sides in the same manner
so as to form two semi-circular bands instead of a single band joined at one point,
it is much easier to wear loose cuffs over the said bands and to change the same
as often as desired.
With such wristbands almost any size of cuff can be worn as the edges of said
wrist bands will overlap each other if small cuffs are being worn.
A shirt having the improvements described enables almost any size of collar
or cuff to be worn with practically perfect fit.
Referring to the accompanying drawing in which the shirt of my invention is
illustrated, the neck-band is shewn therein as divided in the manner described,
namely, at the sides. It is obvious that if a false front or a loose collar be put
on over such a shirt, and the neck-band be thereby compressed, the ends of the
said neck-band will slip one within the other, and accommodate themselves to
the size of the collar or band of the shirt front as the case may be. In the same
drawing the application of the invention to shirt cuffs is illustrated. The
cuffs 6 are constructed in a similar manner to the neck-band, that is to say, slit
at the sides in order to be compressible. When these cuffs are soiled the extra
cuffs marked a which have been folded back can be folded over them and secured
by studs or the like, they will then cover the cuffs and the shirt will appear
as if clean.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is
1) In a shirt; dividing the neckband and the cuffs or either thereof in such
a manner that the band is separated into a front and a back part for the pur-
pose of allowing of the wear of collars or cuffs of different sizes without causing
the creasing or folding of the said bands, substantially as described.
2) The improved shirt constructed as and for the purpose described and illu-
strated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 10th day of y του.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322, High Holborn, London, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.