IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRT FRONTS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Peter Jensen, of Chancery Lane, London, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRT FRONTS." A. communication from abroad by
Wilhelm Lundgreen, of Helsingborg, Sweden.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Peter Jensen at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th July 1876.
PETER JENSEN, of Chancery Lane, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRT FRONTS."
A communication from abroad by Wilhelm Lundgreen, of Helsingborg, Sweden.
The object of this Invention is to make a shirt front which does not require
buttoning, and thus to avoid the use of button-holes, which soon become worn,
damaged, and torn, as well as to prevent all draught of air coming in through the
usual opening between the two parts of the shirt front, whereby much disease is
occasioned. By the doing away with shirt studs the appearance of the shirt is also
improved.
The shirt front consists of two halves sewn to the shirt at their lower edges and
provided with button and button-hole or stud holes at the neck or collar band as
now. These halves are along their edges in front provided each with a flap, which
can be turned over, say, the right-hand flap is turned over towards the outside;
then when the shirt is put on the left-hand flap is turned in and placed between
the right-hand flap and the right-hand shirt half itself; a closure or lock is thus
obtained which prevents all draught to the chest, and does away with the necessity
for buttons or studs.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Peter Jensen in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th January
1877.
PETER JENSEN, of Chancery Lane, London.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRT FRONTS."
A communication from abroad by Wilhelm Lundgreen, of Helsingborg, Sweden.
The object of this Invention is to make a shirt front which does not require
buttoning, and thus to avoid the use of button-holes, which soon become worn,
damaged, and torn, as well as to prevent all draught of air coming in through the
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page_text: usual opening between the two parts of the shirt front, whereby much disease is
occasioned. By doing away with shirt studs, which often are in bad taste, the
appearance of the shirt is also improved.
And in order that this Invention may be more fully understood I will now
proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying Drawings, of
which Figure 1 represents the right-hand side of a shirt front according to this
Invention, and Figure 2 the left-hand side of same.
The shirt front consists of two halves A and B sewn to the shirt at their lower
edges and provided with button and button-hole or stud holes at the neck or collar
band as now. These halves A and B are along their edges b, c, and b¹, c¹, in front
provided each with a flap a, d, and a', d¹, which can be turned over, say, the right-
hand flap a, d, is turned over towards the outside, as shewn on Fig. 1; then when
the shirt is put on the left-hand flap a, d, is turned in and placed between the right-
hand flap a, d', and the right-hand shirt half B itself; a closure or lock is thus
obtained which prevents all draught to the chest, and does away with the necessity
for buttons or studs.
And having thus fully described the nature of this Invention, I declare that I
claim, making each half of a shirt front with a flap to turn over so as together to
form a closure, as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Peter Jensen, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twelfth day of January, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-seven.
PETER JENSEN. (L.S.)