(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 2. F, H. POWERS, METHOD OF MAKING , . No. 392,635, Patented NOW, 13, 1888.

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3 Sheets-Sheet 3. (No Model.) F. H. POWERS. METHOD OF MAKING SHIRTS, No. 392,635, Patented Nov. 13, l888.

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FRANK H. POWERS, OF PETERSBURG, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES W. REYNOLDS AND DAVID H. KELLYER, BOTH OF SAME PLACE. ?y E - O D O F M A K N G SH || RTS

SPECIFICATION forming part of letters Patent No. 392,635, dated November 13, 1888. Application filed December 22, 1886. Renewed October 16, 1888. Serial No. 288,283. (No model.) 2o a20 whon, ii, may concern: form and method of connection described aS Be it known that I, FRANK. H. POWERS, of follows: Petersburg, county of Rensselaer, State of New The letter S designates the , bits front, York, have invented new and useful Improve and bits back; V, the back slit; N, the neck ments in Shirts, of which the following is a opening; D, the , and B the bosom. specification. The letter P' indicates a cut from 55e My invention relates to improvements in the fabric to have the form Y of half of the shirts, and has for its object an improved yoke, and also the strip form p to form the method to simplify the cutting and making of outer of the slit. overlap, and the tab-end O shirts and to increase their wearing qualities stay T below the slit-bottom. and durability. The letter P designates another placket or Myinvention is an improved method of unit piece that is cut from the fabric to have the ing integral yoke and slit pieces to the body of form Y” of half of the yoke and the strip form a shirt; and it consists in cutting from the fab p', with the latter having sufficient length to £5 ric a yoke and placket facing; then arranging form, when attached, the outer facing of the this form on the back of the shirt with the underlap U and the inner facing of the over 65 Outer edge of the slit-piece projecting beyond lap O of the slit V when said strip-form part the edge of the slit in the shirt; then arrang of the placket P is folded transversely at m'. ing a yoke piece or coincident with the These several parts are connected as follows: edge of the integral yoke and slit-piece and The placket-piece P is on its exterior curved sewing them to the back and neck of the shirt; line, C, sewed to the shirt-back at a, and at a then cutting from the fabric a second yoke and on its vertical edge is also sewed to the shirt placket form and arranging it with a yoke-lin body so as to project beyond the edge of the ing on the back of the shirt and securing them slit W and form the overlap O, and is also 25 to the back and neck; then turning the upper sewed to the shirt at the tab end T, as indi and free parts of the yoke and placket pieces cated at a. The yoke-form part Y' of the 75 over to the front of the shirt to form the shoul placket P is attached to the neckband Nat its der-pieces or yoke, and then securing them to inner side edge, and at its outer side edge is se the shirt-front, as will be hereinafter more cured in the - d". This yoke-form fully described, and specifically pointed out in part Y is folded longitudinally at f' and turned the claim. over and down and joined to the shirt-front by Accompanying this specification to form a the seam a' and to the bosom outer edge at a. part of it there are three plates of drawings The placket-piece P is on its outer curved containing six figures illustrating my inven edge, C, sewed to the shirt-back at e, to the 35 tion, with the same designation of parts by shirt-front at a, in the sleeve-seam at d, and letter-reference used in all of them. on is inner and outer vertical edges to the ad Of the illustrations, Figure 1 shows a shirt-jacent side of the slit V to the extent of the back containing my improvement. Fig. 2 length of the latter, thus forming an outerfac shows the completed shirt; Fig. 3, a section ing for the underlap U, and then from where taken on the line a' a' of Fig. 1; Fig. 4, a sec transversely folded at in it is turned up and tion taken on the line acac of Figs. 1 and 2. upon its edges sewed to the overlap O to form Fig. 5 shows a placket or piece cut to form an inner facing therefor. one half of the yoke and the outer facing of The letter F designates an interior yoke the slit-overlap; and Fig. 6 shows a placket facing that is attached to the shirt-front by 45 piece cut to form another half of the yoke, the the same seam which connects the yoke parts outer facing of the underlap, and the inner thereto. facing of the slit-overlap. As thus made, the yoke and back stay at The several parts of the shirt thus illustrated each side of the neckband back slit are made are designated by letter-reference, with their in one piece, and the seams which usually oc 392,635 cui in the top of the Sihirt are omitted. This back and neckband of the shirt by a line of gives a better finish to the shirt thereat and Stitches along their meeting edges, the inner does away with a top yoke-seam, and by re edge of the slit-piece, and the slit-edge; then ducing the number of pieces the shirt is more cutting from the fabric the yoke and placket easily made. form P'; then arranging the yoke F and form I am aware that a yoke and stay for the back P° on the back of the shirt, as shown; then se slit are old and well-known parts of shirts, and curing them to the back and neckband of the I make no claim to them apart from my im shirt by a line of stitches along the meeting proved method of cutting the fabric in a form edges and through the vertical edges of the O to make them in continuity at each side of the form P', with the lower portion of the slit-piece 35 band back slit and their attachment as thus turned up and secured to the overlap of the Cult. form P'; then turning the upper and free parts Having thus described my invention, what II of the forms PP and yoke E over to meet the claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, edges of the front of the body of the shirt to IS? form the shoulder-pieces or yoke, and then se The method herein described of uniting in curing them to the body in front by lines of tegral yoke and slit pieces to the body and neck stitches through the meeting edges of the sev of a shirt, which consists in cutting from the eral parts, Substantially as described. fabric the yoke and placket facing P of the Signed at Troy, New York, this 29th day of form shown; then arranging it on the back of April, 1886, and in the presence of the two the shirt with the outer edge of the slit-piece witnesses whose names are lhereto written. 45 projecting beyond the edge of the slit; then FRANK. H. POWERS. arranging the yoke-piece F with its back edge Witnesses: to coincide with the lower edge-piece, P; then CHARLES S. BRINTINAILL, 25 securing the yoke F and the form P' to the W. E. HAGAN.