Integrated Shirt Tie Jacket with Mating Collar Fasteners

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Solution Overview

Problem

The complexity of achieving a complete dress outfit with minimal effort, as current clothing items require multiple pieces and time-consuming processes for dressing and undressing.

Innovation Solution

A combination of a shirt, tie, and jacket where the tie is permanently affixed to the shirt collar using separable mating halves with 'hook and loop' fasteners, allowing easy donning and doffing by slipping the combination over the head, with the tie and shirt buttons fastened simultaneously.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If multiple separate clothing items (shirt, tie, jacket) are used to achieve a complete dress outfit, then the formal appearance is maintained, but the time and effort required for dressing increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of dressingVSAvoidtime for dressing

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the shirt, tie, and jacket into a single integrated garment structure. The tie is permanently attached to the shirt collar, and the jacket is designed to be worn over this combined unit, creating a pre-assembled formal outfit that eliminates the need to separately handle multiple clothing items during dressing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The integrated garment incorporates separable mating halves with fasteners that allow the outfit to be divided into manageable sections for easy donning and doffing. The front opening with mating fasteners enables the garment to be split for convenient wear removal while maintaining the integrated structure during use.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of operation

If multiple separate clothing items are used, then the proper dress appearance is achieved, but the number of clothing items and complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesimplicity of dressing processVSAvoidnumber of clothing items

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges three traditionally separate clothing items (shirt, tie, jacket) into a single integrated garment. The tie is permanently affixed to the shirt collar, and the jacket is designed to accommodate this combined unit, reducing the number of separate items from three to one while maintaining the complete formal dress appearance.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The integrated garment performs multiple functions that previously required separate items: it provides the shirt base layer, the tied neckwear, and the jacket outer layer all in one piece. This multi-functional design simplifies the dressing process while maintaining the complete formal outfit appearance.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Ease of operation

If the tie is permanently affixed to the shirt collar, then the dressing process is simplified, but the adaptability and adjustability of the tie is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of donning and doffingVSAvoidadjustability of tie

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent incorporates adjustable elements within the permanently attached tie structure. The tie includes adjustable components that allow the wearer to modify the fit and appearance while maintaining the permanent attachment to the shirt collar. This dynamic adjustment capability preserves versatility despite the permanent affixing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The tie structure is divided into separable mating halves with fasteners that allow for adjustment and modification. This segmentation enables the tie to be adjusted for different fit preferences while remaining permanently attached to the shirt collar, balancing ease of donning with adaptability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Enables quick and effortless dressing by simplifying the process of putting on and taking off the shirt and tie combination, reducing the time and effort required for dressing while maintaining a formal appearance.

Implementation Method 1

the tie-to-neck mount collar comprising a pair of separable mating halves with mating fasteners thereof

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectHook and loop fastening mechanism: Velcro

Data Source

PatentUS20200297053A1Jacket, tie and shirt combination

Publication Date: 2020.09.24 KALKSTEIN LAWRENCE

AI summary

A shirt and tie combination and related method and embellishments thereof, comprising: a tie permanently affixed along part of a tie-to-neck mount collar thereof, to a shirt collar of a shirt, along a tie-to-shirt attachment region; the tie-to-neck mount collar comprising a pair of separable mating halves with mating fasteners thereof, which provide a side neck opening when not mated and close the side neck opening when mated, situated along the tie-to-neck mount collar at other than the tie-to-shirt attachment region; and a remainder of the tie forming a visual fashion appearance of the tie, permanently connected to the tie-to-neck mount collar; wherein: a user is enabled to don the shirt and tie combination by putting the user's arms through sleeves of the shirt while a front of the shirt is unfastened and the mating halves are not mated, fastening the front of the shirt, and mating the mating halves.