Apparel – Body garments – Shirts
Reexamination Certificate
1999-07-26
2001-02-06
Hale, Gloria M. (Department: 3741)
Apparel
Body garments
Shirts
C002S145000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06182292
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a shirt and more particularly to a necktie retainer that is manufactured with a shirt for use precisely and exactly but not inclusively for the manufactured shirt in conjunction with a necktie.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Men and on occasion, women around the world wear neckties. The tie looks and functions best when kept in a frontal line. This straight close to the body position is hard to maintain with the daily real world use. Wind, eating, food, normal twisting and turning conspire to cause staining and damage as well as displacing the aesthetic view of the tie. Necktie retainers have been developed and employed over many decades to hold fast the tie through various methods. Pins are probably the oldest form yet cause damage with each insertion. Tie bars are prolific yet wrinkle and crunch ties, especially of finer origin. Because of their deficiencies, necktie retainers are not popular. Previous patents that have attempted non-penetrating retainers are Roop (U.S. Pat. No. 2,588,576), Confino (U.S. Pat. No. 2,652,569), (U.S. Pat. No. 3,405,408) and Hagan (U.S. Pat. No. 3,487,471).
Some use a hook and loop type retainer. A button hole retainer with ovoid holes for various spaced buttons by Begg (U.S. Pat. No. 4,972,523) is not made of the same material as the shirt and more importantly is not made as a part of the shirt. This retainer must be acquired separately and since the holes do not exactly fit any shirt buttons there is room for slippage. The retainer slipping off a short button would cause the necktie to swing freely, mostly at an inopportune time. Abdallah (U.S. Pat. No. 5,109,547) uses a two piece plastic design that can be incorporated into a necktie causing another manufacturing process. It is also complicated by it's need to be somehow fastened to the tie either with a hook and loop type fastener or taping methods. Caniglia (U.S. Pat. No. 5,571,218) has patented a shirt with a permanent strap that is a modification of a shirt, that is visible as it is worn over the entire tie in the chest area. The necktie retainer of Compelia et al (U.S. Pat. No. 5,245,708) consists of a pliable thin rectangle material with two holes that button onto the shirt after passing through the neck apparel's transverse member. This restrains the necktie while allowing some vertical movement. This method is good but has the deficiency and short coming of being designed, manufactured, distributed, packaged and sold as a separate device. And more importantly intended as a separate adjunct device. This invention provides a novel shirt conjoined with it's own retainer that matches it in texture, color, pattern, design. The retainer is worn through a necktie backing thence affixing it to a shirt
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Separate marketing is needed to arouse awareness of the retainer, and the customer must then locate which store has these soft pliable retainers (they are rare where he must purchase separately from its intended shirt). He now also has the added task of matching up shirt fabric, color, texture, design, button hole length to the purchased soft pliable retainer, maybe causing an unwanted mismatch. There is no way that an exact match can be made unless done at manufacture. Therefore what is needed is a retainer as mentioned that is manufactured concurrently with the shirt of its intended use. This has the added advantage to the purchaser (not previously afforded) of singularity of construction, purchase consolidation, affordability (since made, marketed, inventoried and sold together) another major advantage is the novelty offered a shirt manufacturer that no other shirt has a convenience like this one. It could also be marketed as such.
This shirt is made such that the lowest bottom front area extends longer them usual so this end can be simultaneously manufactured with a necktie retainer on the shirt. This extension would be cut or clipped free to be used as a retainer. Nearly all neckties have a manufacturers label sewn onto the wider inner portion of the necktie, whereby the narrower necktie end can slip into.
This retainer is vertically and parallel positioned on the shirt button front with one hole buttoned to the shirt superiorly to the transverse member label and the middle portion passing through the necktie name tag then the distal end is buttoned to the nearest shirt button inferiorly to the tie's name tag, securing the necktie to the shirt The rectangular retainer has a set length between button holes that is approximately 5 millimeters longer than the shirt button holes.
This extra distance allows the retainer to pass through the tie's name tag transverse member. This retainer as worn restricts movement of the necktie, saving the wearer from all the difficulties caused by wind, bending, eating, etc.
This shirt can be of any design or pattern. The preferred embodiment is one such that men traditionally wear tie's with, having a linear row of evenly spaced buttons down the front with the buttons only on one side and the other side having a row of corresponding button holes. The button hole edge of the shirt is manufactured by traditional techniques that entail folding over of the shirt fabric such that it forms a firmer trim to hold the button. This folding would continue to extend beyond the length of the shirt end. This extension forms the retainer. It's length would vary but would be whatever is the distance of two button holes with an extra 5 mm interspaced between the holes. Otherwise the width of the retainer equals the shirt button side edge. Double-double stitching separates the last transverse stitch of the shirt (as would normally be made) and the first transverse stitch of the retainer. One would cut between the two double stitches. This has the advantage that once the retainer is cut free, the ends of the shirt and retainer won't fray because of the tight double stitching present will keep the ends tight and neat.
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patent: 2624050 (1953-01-01), Boller
patent: 2652568 (1953-09-01), Bagier
patent: 2652569 (1953-09-01), Confino
patent: 2743452 (1956-05-01), Waterbury
patent: 2746055 (1956-05-01), Gleason
patent: 2749553 (1956-06-01), Miller
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patent: 5095546 (1992-03-01), Jones
patent: 5315713 (1994-05-01), Pileggi
patent: 5337457 (1994-08-01), Chennault
patent: 5353438 (1994-10-01), Voiles
patent: 5815836 (1998-10-01), Jacobson, II
Hale Gloria M.
Hoey Alissa L.
Jones Tullar & Cooper PC
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