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` G. D. EIGHMIE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE D. ElGlIMIE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 589,778, dated September '7, 1897.

Application filed March 22, 1897. Serial No. 628,678. (No model.) l

To all whom, it may concer/z,.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE D. EIGHMIE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in'Shirts, of which the following is a specication, refer ence being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an improvement in shirts, having specically for its object the production of improved facings for the back and sleeve openings, the facings being made of a single strip of suitable material secured to the shirt-body in such manner as to reduce the liability of ripping the facings therefrom.

The invention will first be described in connection with the accompanying drawings and then pointed out in the claim.

Figure l of the drawings is a perspective View of so much of a sleeve as is necessary to show the application of a facing thereto. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the back of a shirtbody. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the strip cut to forni the facing. Fig. e is a perspective view illustrating the advantage gained by niyimproved manner of securing the facings so as to withstand necessary strain.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the single strip of suitable material cut to form the facing, the strip being wider at the inner end `than at the out-er end. One half ofthe inner end is cut on a curve, as at l, the other half being somewhat extended in the forni of an acute angle, as at 2, to afford space for stitching and give the necessary finish.`

The facing is secured to theshirtfbody, as sleeve B or back C, in the following rnanner: The facing-blank A is folded longitudinally and its edges secured to one edge of the back or sleeve openings by a longitudinal row of stitching 3, thus securing the whole together, va row of stitching e, extending parallel with the acute-angled end 2, further securing the end of the facing.

Heretofore to secure the meeting edges of the opening in the back or sleeve and the facing together one or more rows of stitching extending straight across the facing had been employed. The disadvantage of this manner of securing the facing at this point is at once apparent, as all the strain when separating the meeting edges of the back or sleeve opening is necessarily brought upon asingle stitch. l entirely remove this objection by securing vthe facing at this point by one or more rows of stitching 5, curving upward from the ends toward the center. By this construction the strain incident to the separation ofthe meeting edges of the back or sleeve opening is sustained by a number of stitches, as clearly shown in Fig. 4. Having thus described lny invention, what l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A shirt having a placket reinforced by a facing secured to one edge of the placket by a longitudinal row of stitching, the lower end of the facing being secured to both edges of the placket by one or more upwardly-curved rows of stitching, said curved stitching being located in close proximity to the lower end or crotch of the placket, whereby the strain incident to the separation of the edges of the placket is sustained by a number of stitches in said upwardly-curved Vrow or rows.

In testimony whereof l affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE D. EIGHMIE.

Witnesses: Y

WM. HUNTER MYERS, DAVID W. GoULD.

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