The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-06


plished patent lawyers in the country we're ar
rayed on the opposite sides. The newspapers
teemed with manirestoes from the rival inven.
tors, one party threatening vengeance in the
shape of damages on all who we're guilty of an
infringement, while the others hurled defiance
in their teeth. and summoned their retainers
and customers to the conflict. The deeds of
prowess which have been accredited to the
Venetian Knights OF the Collar we're entirely
outdone, with this important difference the
modern battle-ground was the forum instead OF
the open field, and the warfare was one of
words instead of swords.
The result was precisely such one as might
have been guessed at. After tens of thousands
of dollars had been transferred to the pockets
OF counsel. the principal parties TO the quarrel
came together a few months ago in an amicable
spirit. Hands were shaken all around, the law
yers were dismissed for the time being, all legal
proceedings were forthg With stopped, and
grand corporation was formed, under the title of
THE UNION PAPER COLLAR COMPANY.
The owners and claimants of the several
patents took stock in this Company according
to the assessed value of their patents, assigning
to the Company in return all the right, title and
interest that they held in them. They then
took out individual licenses from this Company,
by which they were authorized to manufacture
collars of a certain character aud to a certain
| extent, paying in return therefor a stipulated
royalty.
| This grand Collar Company is organized under
| the laws OF New York. with a capital of S3,0O0,-
OOO Its Board of Directors include the princi-
| pal collar manufacturers in Philadelphia, New
York and Boston. Their present object aud
| purpose rs to commence prosecutions against all
who manufacture paper collars without first ob.
tainlng their license, and paying them royalty
| in return.
Thus far they have licensed the folio wing
| establishments, eighteen IN number, and mt
tered throughout the Union:-
| W. q. & e. d. Lock wood Philadelphia.
| American Nodded Collar Company Boston.
| Reversible Collar Company, Boston.
| F. A. Hawley & Co., Boston.
Metropolitan Collar Company, New York.
| Goldsmith, Hoffman & Co., New York.
| George B. Lamb, Boston.
| Gray IL Moods, Boston.
Boston Paper Collar Manufacturing Compauy,
| Boston.
Ray & Taylor, Springfield, Mass.
| Andrew A. Evans Boston.
| George B. Cluett, Bro y Co., Troy, New York.
| Norwich Paper Collar Company, Nor Slch, Conn.
American Machine Company, Ne yburyport,
| Mass.
| Rice Brothers Boston.
| Enamellcd Collar Company New York.
| Congress Collar Company, Chicago.
| Nonparel Paper Collar Company, Spring gdelc,
| Mass.
The first six establishments on the above list
are operating at present on caDisal of about
half million of dollars each, The remainder
being content to do business on a smaller scale.
The joint capital represented oy the Union
Paper Collar Company" and ITS several licensees
amounts at present to about 81, 900, 600. The
| m har nj hanuG in ha
establishments is about fifteen hundred, and
nearly all OF these are women and young girls,
who find the work both light aud clean. 1t Is
impossible to make an exact estimate Of the
amount and value OF the goods no man j fac.
tured yearly, but IL i certainly bet veen
| $4,000, 900 and 81, 1000, 000.
From these statistics it will be seen that the
manutacture-of-paper-co trade is one Of the
most extensive manufacturing interests in the
country.
HOW PAPER COLLARS ARE MADE.
The process of manufacturing paper collars is
a very interesting, yet very simple one. It
differs materially IN the NO classes OF collars
those composed of paper alone, and those in
| which paper and muslin are combined.
But the process of combining the paper and
muslin is q very delicate one, and requires
machinery OF the most accurate and costly
| description. The fine gloss, which is a noticeable
feature of the best made collars, ls given part
| by the use OF an animal sizing formed princi-
paly of glycerine. some OF the interior collars
receive high polish from an application OF
arsenic Or carbonate of lead. Both these sub
stances being OF poisonous character, dele
terious effects have resulted from wearing col
lars INTO the manufacture of which they have
entered. But they are at present used only by
their name or trademark to their products.
A further polish is impaired by passing the
paper in sheets between two heavy rollers.
These move with different velocity and one of
them is SO highly chilled that steel wire could
be passed over it without iracturing the surface
II is likewise kept at high degree of heat by a
current of steam which continually passes
through it. Those in use in the establishment Of
the Messrs. Lockwood, in this city, are very
nicely adjusted to each other, to accomplish
which required the uninterrupted labor of one
man for three succt ssve months. single sheet
of paper can be made to bring the machinery
TO stand although it is propelled by forty
horsepower engine. BY passing the sheets of
paper through this machine, again and again,
to them. The tastes of the public vary in this
matter, but at present they are satisfied with the
polish effected by two impressions.
When the fabric is thus prepared, several
tblckr esses OF it are placed under die driven
by powerful machinery, by means of which the
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