Improvements in Shirts.
Year: 1899

page_text: Improvements in Shirts.
We, EDMUND POTTER AND COMPANY, LIMITED, of 10, Charlotte Street, Man-
chester, in the County of Lancaster, Calico Printers, and WILLIAM HENRY
ASTINGTON, of the same address, Salesman, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to improvements in shirts, the object of our improve-
ments being to manufacture a shirt having a novel and ornamental appearance.
In carrying out our invention we print the fabric from which the shirt is to
be made in diagonal and parralel straight or curved lines, the lines meeting in
the form of a herring bone pattern down the middle of the piece of fabric.
The shirt is cut out and made so that the herring bone pattern meets down
the middle of the shirt front and forms an attractive and novel effect: and the
fabric can also be cut so that the herring bone pattern will show down the
centre of each cuff.
Dated this 23rd day of September 1899.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants.
Improvements in Shirts.
We, EDMUND POTTER AND COMPANY, LIMITED, of 10, Charlotte Street, Man-
chester, in the County of Lancaster, Calico l'rinters, and WILIAM HENRY
ASTINGTON, of the same address, Salesman, 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:-
Our invention relates to improvements in shirts the object of our improve-
ments being to manufacture a shirt having a novel and ornamental appearance.
In carrying out our invention we print the fabric from which the shirt is to
be made in diagonal and parallel straight or curved lines, the lines meeting in
the form of a herring bone pattern down the middle of the piece of fabric.
The shirt is cut out and made so that the herring bone pattern meets down
the middle of the shirt front and forms an attractive and novel effect; and tho
fabric can also be cut so that the herring bone pattern will show down the
centre of each cuff.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings-
Fig. 1 is a front view of part of a shirt, sufficient to show the shirt front and

page_text: the cuffs of the sleeves made according to our invention, and Fig. 2 is a view of
the shirt in wear.
In order to obtain the herring bone pattern or effect on the shirt front and
cuffs as illustrated, that is with the pattern produced without any stitching, it
is necessary that the material be printed or woven with the herring bone lines
meeting in the centre of the piece of fabric from end to end. When the fabric
has been produced as described the cutting out and finishing of the shirts so that
the herring bone pattern meets down the middle of the front and down the
centre of the cuffs as shown in the drawing is a simple matter for which no
special instructions are required.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
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A shirt having a herring bone pattern down the front and preferably also on the
cuffs produced from a fabric printed or woven with herring bone lines substan-
tially as described and illustrated.
The oth
1900
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicants, 17, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.