IMPROVE- MENING IN SHIRT FRONTS AND OTHED SIMILAR GARMENIG
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Campbell Sweeney Lemon, of Liverpool, in the
County of Lancaster, Shipowner, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENING IN SHIRT FRONTS AND OTHED SIMILAR GARMENIG "
Sealed the 10th July 1868, and dated 11th January 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Campbell Sweeney
Lemon at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 11th January 1868.
I, CAMPBELL SWEENEY LEMON, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Shipowner, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRT FRONTS AND OTHER SIMILAR
GARMENTS," to be as follows (that is to say) :-
This Invention has for its object an improved method whereby both
front bands of the shirt are made alike, and can be reversed and used
alternately in front at pleasure, the same being held in position by
studs at the neck, breast, and bottom of the bands.

page_text: To apply this Invention to a shirt the front may be pleated in the
ordinary manner, and the bands down the front may be of the ordinary
description, but the opening in the front of the shirt is extended a few
inches below the breast, and corresponding stud holes are worked on
each side of the bottom of the bands. The front and neck bands are
formed with through corresponding stud holes to receive ordinary shirt
studs. The object of this arrangement is that one band overlays the
other, and it can be fastened on either side, that is to say, that either
of the vertical bands may be on the top, and one of the said bands may
be worked or otherwise ornamented, which for dress purposes can be
brought forward in front at pleasure.
This Invention is applicable to all descriptions of gentlemen's shirts
and detached shirt fronts and vests, also to ladies' "Garibaldies," shirts,
and similar garments.
One of the advantages amongst others of this Invention is, that the
shirt having reversable bands the front will wear double the length of
time of the ordinary shirt before it frays at the edges, as heretofore the
outer band has always frayed at the edge, whereas the inner band has
been perfect; in this case the bands share the wear.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Campbell Sweeney Lemon in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 11th July 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CAMPBELL
SWEENEY LEMON, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Ship-
owner, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and' successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Campbell Sweeney Lemon, Her special
licence that I, the said Campbell Sweeney Lemon, my executors, admi-
nistrators, and assigns, or: such others as: I; the said Campbell Sweeney,
Lemon, my executors, administrators; and assigns, should at any time;
agree with, and no others; 'from time to time and at all times there..

page_text: after during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRT FRONTS AND SIMILAR GARMENTS," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Campbell Sweeney
Lemon, 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
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Campbell Sweeney Lemon, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement (that is to say) :-
This my said Invention has for its object certain improved methods
whereby both front vertical bands of the shirt are made alike, and
can be reversed and used alternately in front at pleasure, the same.
being held in position by studs at the neck, vertical bands, and bottom
bands.
To apply this my said Invention to a shirt the front may be plaited
in the ordinary manner, and the vertical bands may be of the ordinary
description, but the opening in front is extended a few inches below
the bottom band, and corresponding stud holes are worked cn each
side to keep it closed, or if preferred this opening may be dispensed
with by simply detaching one of the vertical bands at the bottom to
permit the overlaying of each other; or the opening may be made as
first described, and carried all the way down, by which means the shirt
can be put on and taken off like a gentleman's coat, and thereby save
tossing or straining the shirt in any way. The neck band, vertical
bands, and bottom bands are formed with through corresponding stud
holes to receive ordinary shirt studs. The object of this arrangement is
that one vertical band overlays the other, and either may be brought
on top at pleasure, and if wished one band may be plain and the other
worked or ornamented, and which for dress purposes or otherwise can
be brought forward at pleasure.
One of the advantages amongst others of this Invention is that the

page_text: front having reversible bands they will wear and keep clean double the
length of time of the ordinary ones before they fray at the edges or soil;
heretofore the outer band has always frayed at the edges, whereas the
inner band and the rest of the shirt has been perfect; in this case the
bands share the wear and work, and the shirt altogether will last double
the time. The shirt can also be made much better and easier washed
and ironed, and no buttons to break. The old plan of shirt may be easily
altered to this principle. The shirt may be made of any material or
color.
This Invention is applicable to all descriptions of gentlemen's shirts
and shirt fronts, and vests, also to ladies' Garibaldi's, shirts, and similar
garments.
That this my said Invention may be the more readily seen and.
understood I have hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings illustrating
the practical application of my said Invention as applied to gentlemen's
shirts.
Figure 1 is a front view of the body of a shirt shewing my improve-
ments in the breast closed, and Figure 2 is the same shewing the
vertical slit in the breast open.
A, body of the shirt; B, breast or frout; C, vertical opening;
D (Figure 1) shows the position of the fold in the material forming the
body of the shirt when the breast is buttoned.
Figure 3 is a front view of a shirt body slit from the neck to the
bottom of the body, which by the use of studs can be buttoned either
to the right or left; and Figure 4 is a front view of a body of a shirt
seen closed at the breast, but which at the bottom of the two centre
bands are detached from the body, so that either band can be brought
in front as required and as herein-before described and set forth.
Having now fully described and ascertained the nature of this my
said Invention, and how the same may be carried into effect, I wish it
to be understood that I do not confine myself to the several proportions
or dimensions of the garments herein-before described and set forth, as
it will be readily seen the same may be considerably varied without.
leparting from the Invention; but what I claim as new and my
Invention is, the construction of shirts or other like garments so that
the right or left hand bands or edges forming the margins of the slit

page_text: or openings down the chest may be brought in front at will, and there
connected by studs or other like fastenings, substantially in the manner
and for the purposes herein-before described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Campbell Sweeney Lemon, have
hereunto set my hand and affixed my scal, this Tenth day of
July, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.
CAMPBELL SWEENEY (L.s.) LEMON.
Witness,
WILLIAM WALKER,
of 44, Castle Street,
Liverpool,