Man's shirt

June 12, 1934.

R. TUCKER

1,963,004

MAN’S SHIRT

Filed Nov. 21, 1933

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Patented June 12, 1934

1,963,004

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE

1,963,004

MAN’S SHIRT

Ralph Tucker, Larchmont, N. Y., assignor to The Commercial Shirt Corp., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York

Application November 21, 1933, Serial No. 699,077

Claims. (Cl. 2—127)

This invention relates to improvements in men’s shirts, and has more particular relation to improvements in the collars and neckbands of the same.

One of the objects of the invention is to overcome the fault present in most all shirts, i. e., the shrinking of the collar and collar-band after the shirt has been laundered.

A further object of the invention is to provide a new and improved expansible collar-band.

Another object of the invention is to provide a button on an elastic shank or tab, said tab being adapted to extend through the rear button hole enabling the button to be pulled away from the plane of the rear button hole to an extent sufficient to permit its convenient insertion through the button hole in the opposite end of the collar band, the button snapping back under the bias of the elastic tab into its normal position flat against the collar band when the pull upon the button is released.

In the accompanying dray ing forming part of this specification,

Figure 1 represents a front elevation, partly broken away, of a shirt with attached collar embodying my invention.

Figure 2 represents a detail vertical view of the same, shown partly in section.

Figure 3 represents a detail front elevation of a modified form of the invention.

Figure 4 represents a detail front elevation, partly broken away, of the structure shown in Figure 3, the front sections being separated.

Figure 5 represents a modified form of collar in which the button is secured to the neckband of the shirt by a band of elastic fabric.

It has heretofore been old to provide the neckband of a shirt with rubber elastic material superimposed between ncn-elastic fabric of cotton or the like.

In this structure the tension on the rubber pulls the non-elastic fabric into folds or creases so that as the elastic stretches, the folds are straightened out to allow such expanding movement of the collar-band.

Such a structure is very uncomfortable and very unsightly and is at the best a mere makeshift to provide an expansible collar for correcting the natural shrinkage of a collar-band or collar.

It has also been proposed to give circumferential elasticity to the collar band by attaching a button to an elastic band, but means have been invariably employed for preventing the protrusion of the elastic band through the rear button hole. Consequently, it has in such structures been impossible to realize that function of the present invention which permits the button to be pulled out from the plane of the neck band in the manner set forth. 60

In the present invention, the inventor has taken advantage of the recent invention of a fabric material known on the market as “Lastex”. This material to all intents and purposes for both contact with the human skin and ap- 65 pearance, is a woven fabric of very fine texture and may be employed where fine texture fabrics must be employed for appearance sake. The texture of this fabric is so fine that: it practically approximates the appearance of what is 70 known in the trade as broadcloth, which material is almost exclusively used in the manufacture of men’s shirts.

By reference to Figure 1 which illustrates a shirt with a so-called “attached” collar, 1 rep- 75 resents the shirt proper, 2 the collar which comprises a collar-band 3, and an outer collar proper 4. The collar-band 3 comprises two layers of the elastic fabric attached to the top of the shirt 1, and to the collar proper 4 by 80 suitable stitching.

The shirt 1 and collar 4 are manufactured of the usual ordinary broadcloth. A button-hole 9 is provided in the elastic tab 7 as shown in Figures 1 and 2 and this buttons over the 85 usual button 8 which is secured to the opposite tab 5 of the collar-band.

A V notch 70 is provided in the back of the shirt adjoining the collar-band and this V notch is covered with a double thickness of elastic ⁸⁰fabric 6, similar to the collar-band 3. The office of this V notch is to allow the entire collar-band and also the top of the shirt to expand, should the shirt itself and collar-band shrink from laundering. ⁰⁵

In the modified form of my invention, shown in Figure 3, inserts 14 of the elastic fabric are provided in the collar-band 12 which is constructed of broadcloth. These inserts of elas- ₁₀tic fabric, as best shown in Figure 4, leave the ends of the collar-band of broadcloth as at 15 and 18. This structure allows for the expansion of the collar-band add collar, but, at the same time, conceals the elastic fabric jo, by the necktie so that the ends of the tabs, which normally show, will not suggest anything but the regular appearance of the broadcloth. The button 19 in this instance is secured to the elastic fabric 17 which forms a continua- n

1,963,004 , of the collar-band 12 and a button-hole worked in the elastic fabric insert 14.

the construction shown in Figure 5, which be employed in connection with either the collar-band 63 is provided with two buttonholes 62 and 64. A tab 66 of the new elastic fabric, has its two ends 67 pass through the button 65, thence through the button-hole 64, and these ends secured within the collar-band as at 67 and 68. The button 65 passes through the button hole 62 to secure the collar 60 in position.

The expansibility of the collar-band in this instance is provided by the elastic tab 66, which stretches under pressure of the neck expanding the girth of the collar band and compensating for any shrinkage which may occur through laundering. The impatience and torture engendered by attempting to fasten the neck band of a shirt where the button is sewed flat to the. neck band is of course well known.

tion 16 is In may an attached collar shirt, or a shirt-band shirt, . 55 elastic material, where it is joined to the broadcloth or other fabric, is sewed with an elastic thread similar to the warp threads which make up the elastic fabric so that any stretching of the elastic material may be accommodated where it joins the inner elastic material by the threads stretching more or less.