IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRTS FOR TROPICAL AND OTHER CLIMATES
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Bernard Rodyk of N° 7 Mincing Lane in the City
of London Gentleman for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRTS FOR
TROPICAL AND OTHER CLIMATES "
communicated to him from abroad by
William Robert Grey of Singapore in the Straits Settlements Major in Her
Majesty's Army and Inspector of Prisons Singapore :
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Bernard Rodyk at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th November 1883.
ARTHUR BERNARD RODYK of Number 7 Mincing Lane in the City of London
Gentleman IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRTS FOR TROPICAL AND OTHE[R] CLIMATES.
A communication [to him] from abroad by William Robert Grey of Singapore in
the Straits Settlements Major in Her Majestys Army and Inspector of Prisons in
Singapore
This Invention relates to improvements in shirts for tropical and other Climates.
In making my shirts for tropical climates (which I call the open tropical Shirt)
I make them in the ordinary way but without any skirts or tails.-The shirt is
open straight down before or behind for the whole of its length & is buttoned in
the usual way & is secured by an elastic band round the bottom or skirt or to the
trousers by means of a short piece or pieces of elastic & a button or buttons as may
be required
For ordinary shirts with skirts or tails the shirt is made to open from the top to
the lower end thereof-If the shirt is required to open in front this opening is
along a line down the middle of the shirt as far as the end of the shirt front and
thence diagonally to one side just above the slit.
If the shirt is required to open at the back the opening for the space of two or
three buttons runs straight from the middle of the collar down the middle of the
shirt & then diagonally to the side just above the slit
The buttoning is in all of my improved shirts effected by buttons & holes placed
in the ordinary way (what are known as Chinese buttons and loops being
convenient for use in the East)
In all my said shirts I place a gusset in the sleeves of the shirt under the
armboles.
By the use of this invention there is a considerable saving in long cloth and the
comfort of the wearer is greatly increased especially in hot climates the necessity
being obviated of putting them on over the head and shoulders.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Arthur Bernard Rodyk in the Patent Office on the 25th April
1884.
ARTHUR BERNARD RODYK of N° 7 Mincing Lane in the City of London
Gentleman "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRTS FOR TROPICAL AND OTHER CLIMATES
a communication to me from abroad from William Robert Grey of Singapore in
tho Straits Settlements late a Major in Her Majesty's Army "
This Invention relates to Improvements in Shirts for tropical and other Climates,
In making my Shirts for tropical Climates (which I call the open tropical Shirt) I
make them in the ordinary way but without any skirts or tails, The shirt is
open either straight down before or behind for the whole of its longth and is
buttoned in the usual way and is either secured by an elastic band round the lower
end of the Shirt or to the Trowsers by means of a short piece or pieces of Elastic
and a button or bottons as may be required
For ordinary shirts with skirts or tails the shirt is made to open from the top to
the lower end thereof, If the Shirt is required to open in front this opening is
along a line down the middle of the Shirt as far as the end of the Shirt front and
thence diagonally to one side just above the usual slit at the side of the Shirt or it
may run straight all the way down
If the shirt is required to open at the back the opening for the space of two or
three buttons runs straight from the middle of the Collar down the middle of the
Shirt and then diagonally to the side just above the usual slit at the side of the
shirt or it may run straight all the way down.
The buttoning is in all of my improved shirts effected by buttons and holes
placed in the ordinary way (what are known as Chinese buttons and loops being
convenient for use in the East or tapes for tying)
In all my said Shirts I place a gusset in the sleeves of the shirt under the
Armholes.
By the use of this Invention there is a considerable saving in the long cloth and
the comfort of the wearer is greatly increased especially in hot Climates the
necessity of putting them on over the head and shoulders being obviated.
Having now described this Invention of "Improvements in Shirts for tropical
and other Climates" I say that I do not claim the method herein before mentioned
of buttoning or tying the Shirt or the use of an Elastic band round the trouser
end of the Shirt or the use of buttons and Elastic for securing the same to the
trousers but what I claim as the Invention which has been communicated to ino by
my foreign Correspondent and which I desire to have secured to me by Letters
Patent as aforesaid is, The manufacture of Shirts substantially as and in manner
aforesaid. In witness whereof I the said Arthur Bernard Rodyk have hereunto
set my hand and seal this Twenty fifth day of April in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty four
Signed Sealed and Delivered by )