Apparel – Body garments – Shirts
Patent
1998-08-26
2000-09-05
Hale, Gloria M.
Apparel
Body garments
Shirts
2116, 2129, 2133, A41B 300, A41B 100
Patent
active
061123293
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to a shirt according to the generic part of the main claim.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
With the known shirt of such a kind (GB-A-183 745) the collar is added with its collar part at the upper edge of each of the two chest cuttings. Godet and upper treadle motion, which together constitute the button panel, are closed by the collar part at the top. In the collar part, on the side of the godet a button is positioned, on the side of the upper treadle motion there is a button hole. The respective button is often called a collar-stud.
In the but toned-up state of the button-stud and the button hole to match, the collar part constitutes a ring, whose circumference is the so-called collar size. The shirt is typically worn with a tie.
For most users a shirt will get too tight in the area of the collar in the course of time, may it be in the course of the day, when the neck gets a little bit bigger usually, may it be after several times of washing the shirt, when the material always shrinks slightly, so that the width of the neck gets smaller. Therefore, the desire exists for a more comfortable collar, which adjusts such changes in the desired collar size or permits them at least. Thereby the shirt should possibly be worn with a tie all the same. The collar should have a proper fit independent from the used measure respectively and it should fit the neck in a comfortable but upright manner.
Very often the comfort when wearing a shirt is achieved in such a way that the top button, namely the already mentioned collar-stud, is not buttoned-up. Thereby it is avoided, however, that a feeling of tightness occurs at the neck during the day or in the course of time, but a proper fit of the collar is not achieved in this manner, because the wings of the collar tend to slide downwards and to the side and a clean, closed collar cannot be achieved. This problem can be solved by wearing a tie, but it only remains an emergency measure.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
This is where the invention sets in. It is the task of the invention to further develop the shirt of the above mentioned kind in such a way that the collar adjusts to different collar sizes, whose range of variation may be at some centimeters, for example 2 to 3 cm, guaranteeing a proper fit. By this a comfortable wearing of the shirt is always achieved with a properly fitted collar.
Departing from the shirt of the above mentioned kind this task is solved by the characteristics of the current invention.
Because of the reinforcing area the transfer from the godet or the upper treadle motion is reinforced in a stiffening way to the collar part and it is avoided that the wings of the collar may slide downwards or to the side. Creases, which then may be formed easily below the collar part, when the shirt is worn with an open collar-stud according to the state of the art, do nor occur. The reinforcement rather operates in such a way that the wings of the collar have a proper fit even without a tie and that this results in a closed collar.
By this the reinforcement is constituted in such a way that the area below the collar is not stiffened at all, but it is rather just as flexible as before. In a preferred embodiment the reinforcement area practically does not show optically. It is only reinforced by suitable measures, there is for example a reinforcing interlining in its area and/or double the thickness of the material, of which the shirt is tailored. Based on the choice of the various interlinings a desired reinforcement can be achieved, the reinforcement should be less than the one used usually in the collar area. This does not exclude that stiffening means, such as collar stiffeners, are sewn into the reinforcing area.
The reinforcing area is in one-piece with the godet or the upper treadle motion. It is taken into account when cutting the chest cutting in the shape of an allowance. By this the reinforcing area only has to be connected with the collar as well as the chest cutting along the second edge and only with the ch
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patent: 1599968 (1926-09-01), Lipman
patent: 2705806 (1955-04-01), Williamson
patent: 3009161 (1961-11-01), Lesavoy
patent: 4011599 (1977-03-01), Chaney et al.
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