An Improved Shirt-front 'Preserver.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1890
Complete Specification. Left, 8th May, 1890-Accepted, 14th June. 1890.
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'PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Shirt-front 'Preserver.
I WILLIAM MITCHELL, Junior, of 61 Cranbury Avenue Southampton' in the: County
of Hampshire, Grocer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:
This invention relates to an improved mode, or method, of preserving starched, or
other shirt fronts, from, being creased and crumpled while being worn.
I take and provide stiff card-board or other suitable material, which I fashion into
a convenient form-partaking of the shape and outline of an ordinary dress shirt
front, to this "preserver" I attach in various places strings or tapes which can be
easily passed over the head, or fastened in other suitable manner to the, person of the
wearer so as to allow of the "preserver" hanging in a position over the chest
immediately under the shirt front, with the result that it preserves the shirt front from
getting creased, or crumpled, as the surface upon which it, the shirt front bears, is of
uniform smoothness and stiffness.
Dated this 10th day of February 1890.
HERBERT P. BLAKE,
20, Laura Place, Southampton, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Shirt-front Preserver.
I, WILLIAM MITCHELL, Junior, of 61 Cranbury Avenue, Southampton, in the
County of Hampshire, Grocer, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved mode, or method, of preserving starched, or
other shirt fronts from being creased and crumpled while being worn.
I take and provide stiff card-board or other suitable material which I fashion into a
convenient form partaking of the shape and outline of an ordinary dress shirt front,
to this "preserver" I attach in various places strings or tapes which can be easily
passed over the head or fastened in other suitable manner to the person of the wearer
so as to allow of the "preserver" hanging in a position over the chest immediately
under the shirt front with the result that it preserves the shirt front from getting
creased or crumpled as the surface upon which it, the shirt front bears is of uniform
smoothness and stiffness. In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I
will proceed to describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1. is a back elevation of my improved shirt front preserver. Fig. 2. a side
elevation at right angles to Fig. 1. shewing the same as it would appear when being
worn. Fig. 3. a section on line A. A. Fig. 4. a front elevation. Fig. 5. a section on
line C. C. it being of course possible if convenient to somewhat modify the curves as
shewn in sections 3, and 5.
The tapes which support and hold the "preserver" in the proper position under the
shirt of the wearer are shewn at D. D. in Figs. 1, 2, and 4. these tapes are adjusted
to the person of the wearer by means of buckles. E. E. E. or other approved method
or instead of using tapes and buckles as fastenings "lappets " of linen or other
material can be attached to the " preserver at convenient positions on same which
lappets can be pinned or otherwise fastened to the shirt thus securing the former in
the desired position.
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The cardboard or other material of which my shirt front "preserver" is made, has
preferably a glazed front surface.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The mode, or method, of preventing shirt fronts being creased or crumpled while
being worn by an appliance adjusted beneath the shirt front as substantially described.
2. The particular shape and form partaking as near as possible and convenient to
the form and shape of a "dress" or an ordinary shirt front as substantially
described.
3. The method of adjusting the same by means of tapes, buckles, lappets, or other
suitable fastenings as substantially described.
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1900
HERBERT P. BLAKE,
20, Laura Place, Southampton, Agent for the Applicant.
HERBERT P. BLAKE,
20, Laura Place, Southampton, Agent for the Applicant.