US2128421A - Attachment for shirts - Google Patents

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1938- Y A. LEWENBERG 2,128,421

' ATTACHMENT FOR SHIRTS Filed Nov. 6, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Aug. 30, 1938.

A. LEWENBERG ATTACHMENT FOR SHIRTS Filed Nov. 6, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Aug. 30, 1938 1 use STATES PATENT met mesne assignments, Brookline, Mass.

Application November l. Qlaim.

This invention relates to the packaging of garments and has particular reference to means for holding men's shirts in condition for display to the best advantage and also against being disarb ranged while being handled.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and emcient device in the form of an attachment or container for a folded and laundered shirt which will serve to hold the same in its folded condition, and which preferably will also serve to shield the shirt against being soiled and crushed while being handled or transported.

To these ends I have provided a device of the class described having the peculiar construction set forth in the following description, the several novel features of the invention being separately pointed out and defined in the claims at the close thereof.

In the accompanying drawings:-

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a container constructed in accordance with my ,invention showing a shirt in position within the same.

Figure 2 is a front elevation of the container shown in Fig. 1.

Figure 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Figure 4 illustrates an alternative construction.

Figure 5 is a section on line 5-5 of Fig. 4.

Figure 6 shows the container of Fig. 4v with a shirt in position therein.

The embodiment of my invention illustrated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 is a flat tubular container attachment for a laundered and folded shirt and comprises atubular body structure made with a front wall [0 and a back wall II. This body structure may conveniently be produced from a single piece of thin flexible sheet material such as pasteboard, if the windowpane hereinafter referred to is omitted, said sheet being folded sharply as at I2 and I3 on spaced apart parallel lines so that its opposite side marginal portions at the back overlap as at I4 and said overlapping portions may be cemented or otherwise fastened together.

I At its upper end the front wall I0 is provided with an arcuate collar-supporting strip or flap I 5 whose lower concaved marginal portion is hingedly connected at its middle by a neck It with the top marginal portion of front wall I0, said hinge connection or neck being also centrally disposed with respect to the opposite sides of the front wall. This flap I5 may conveniently be produced by slitting the front wall I I! inwardly from its opposite sides as at l I and when completed the flap includes as parts thereof two free end wings I8.

As shown in Fig. 2 the rear wall I I is longer W Lewenbel'g,

6, 1935, Serial No. 48,501

than the front wall II) with its flap I5 so that its upper end portion extends somewhat beyond said flap B5 to support the upper portion of the shirt at the rear thereof.

The back wall l I is made with a pair of closely adJacent finger-holes is through whichfingers of one hand may be inserted to open the tubular body structure for the reception of the shirt S which is slid thereinto by using the other hand. When the shirt is in position within the tubular body structure the neck it is bent over the top of the shirt collar at the front thereof and flap It is folded inwardly into the collar of the shirt as shown in Fig. l, the end wings i8 conforming themselves to the shape of the interior of the col- 7 lar and through their inherent resiliency and some degree of stiffness pressing against the interior of said collar so as to hold the same in shape and position.

Preferably, though not essentially, the front wall It is made with a window opening or window openings 20 through which the front of the shirt is exposedto view. To protect the front of the shirt the said window openings are preferably closed by panes of thin flexible transparent sheet material provided by a piece of Cellophane or the like 22 whose marginal portions may be cemented or otherwise fastened to the inner surface of the front wall I0.

The form of myinvention illustrated in Figs. 4, 5 and 6 is also designed for the reception (if a shirt having an attached wing collar so as to display the wings of the latter and accordingly the flap I5 is connected with the upper end of the front panel ill by an elongate neck I 6 and said upper end is formed with indentures 22 at opposite sides of, and immediately adjacent to, said neck to accommodate the wings of the shirt collar as shown in Fig. 6.

Also, in this form of my invention the finger holes IQ of Fig. 2 are dispensed with and in lieu thereof the lower edge of the rear panel II is formed with a finger notch or indenture IS.

The elongate neck I6 of Figs. 4 and 5 is produced in part by slitting the front panel Ill longitudinally as at 23 which provides a pair of tabs 24 which occupy positions under the wings of the collar of the shirt as shown in Fig. 6 and abut the collar band of the shirt so as to hold the latter against downward displacement within the tubular structure while the inturned flap I5 holds the shirt against upward displacement within said structure. Thus flap I5 and tabs 24 co-operate to hold the shirt against displacement in either direction.

In Fig. 1 the top portion of the front panel i0 is bowed outwardly in order to insert the flap 45 within the collar of the shirt, while in Fig. 6 only the elongate neck It is bowed outwardly to extend over the top of the shirt collar.

What I claim is:

A shirt envelope, adapted to contain a collared shirt, said envelope comprising front and back perts,,the front part, near its upper end cut inwardly from its side edges and thence downwardly at opposite sides of its longitudinal center, forming a tongue having a. head at its upper end, and also forming a. longitudinal slot and parts at the opposite sides of the slot adaptei to enter between the folds oi the coll'aTrI' said tongue adapted-to extend over the collar at its ends and said head adapted to extend within the shirt.

- ALBERT LEWENBERG.

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