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Application filed November 12,1897. Serial No. 658,249. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Louis Tim, of the city, county, and State of New York,have invented new and useful Improvements in Shirts, of 5 which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements on that class of attachments which are applied to the armpits of apparel-shirts for purposes of ventilation, it being the object of my iinto provements to render such attachments more serviceable by making them more durable and by an improved way of producing them to make them better adapted to the uses for which they are designed than other and older 15 means intended for the same purpose.

As that part of a shirt located at the armpits is from its position subject to more wear than any other part of the garment, the application of a ventilating attachment thereto jo to have any value must combine in its makeup and connection such elements of strength as will insure durability. To accomplish these better results, I form the ventilating attachments of gauze or other open material, 35 each attachment consisting of two triangular gore-form parts which on their longer sides are connected to form a strong staying-seam, which at one of its ends is connected to the bottom seam of one of the sleeves and at its other 30 end to the adjacent side seam of the shirtbody, and having its gore-form parts at each side of its diagonally-arranged staying-seam extended into and connected to the edges of an angular opening cut out from the under 35 side, of the sleeve at the armpit and into the body part of the shirt immediately below the armpit.

Accompanying this specification to form a part of it there is a plate of drawings contain40 ing two figures illustrating the application of my invention, with the same designation of parts by letter reference used in both of them.

Of the illustrations, Figure 1 shows a back view of a shirt containing my improved ven45 tilating attachments, with one of the sleeves shown as turned upwardly and cut away on its wristband end. Fig. 2 is a view of one of the armpit-ven tilating attachments,' illustrated with one of the sleeves shown in part and 50 turned up and with part of the shirt-body cut away and with the parts thus illustrated shown on a larger scale than at Fig. 1.

The several parts of the shirt and those constituting my invention are designated by letter reference, and the function of the parts is 55 described as follows.

The letter B designates the body of the shirt, IP its back, and F its front.

The letter 0 designates the back opening;

N, the neckband; Y, the yoke, and S S the 60 sleeves of the shirt.

The letter D designates the bottom seam of the sleeves, and d' the seam connecting the yoke to the body part; d², the seam connecting the sleeves to the yoke and the body part, 65 and d³ the side seams of the shirt-body.

The letters A A designate the armpit-ventilating attachments, each of which is composed of the oppositely - formed angularlyshaped gore parts G' and G², and the letter 70 g^s designates a diagonally-arranged stayingseam, with the gore parts G' and G² each on opposite sides of said staying-seam and with the angular part m of each of these gore parts secured at η n to the side edges of an angu- 75 lar opening formed in the under side of the armpit end of each of the sleeves and at n² n²to the side edges of an angular opening formed in the shirt-body immediately beneath the armpit part of the sleeves, with said staying- 80 seam g³ at one of its ends preferably connecting with the seam d³ and at its other end with the seam D; but, if desired, this staying-seam may run from side to side of the opening instead of from top to bottom of the gauze. 85 The function of this seam g³ is to keep the gauze intact, and thus prevent its being ruptured by the movement of the wearer’s arms and to take up any strain put upon the gauze. As thus made quite a large ventilating area 90 can be utilized at the armpit of shirt-sleeves and so protected from wear as to be really serviceable.

I am aware that a row of eyelet-holes has been formed in a shirt-body immediately be- 95 low the armpit, so as to in part encircle the sleeve thereat, and I am also aware that gauze has been employed to ventilate shirt-bosoms by being inserted beneath the plaited folds.