IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COLLARS, SHIRT FRONTS, CUFFS, HATS, BONNETS, VESTS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Harrow Jeffs, of Tottenham Court Road,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF COLLARS, SHIRT FRONTS, CUFFS, HATS, BONNETS, VESTS,
AND OTHER ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL."
Sealed the 16th May 1862, and dated the 21st November 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Harrow Jeffs
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st November 1861.
I, JAMES HARROW JEFFS, of Tottenham Court Road, in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IN-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COLLARS, SHIRT FRONTS, CUFFS, HATS,
BONNETS, VESTS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OP WEARING APPAREL," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of collars and other articles for
ladies' or gentlemen's wear, or other articles of wearing apparel, by methods
not hitherto used for such purposes. I propose pasting or fastening together,
two sheets of common calico or other suitable thin fabric, either white or of
any desired color or tint, by means of starch, gum, and an article known more
especially to paper makers as " Patent size," after which they are passed
between cold rollers, either engraved or plain, which will give them the.desired
external pattern, together with the necessary glaze and appearance of a starched
and ironed material. In some cases I place between the sheets of calico or
other material a sheet of thin paper or a very thin layer or coating of paper
pulp, subjecting the whole to the treatment before described.
In other instances I propose to employ only one sheet of the fabric, either
with or without paper or paper pulp, and treated in the manner before described.
The material may then be cut to the desired shape of the collar, cuff, or

page_text: other article of wearing apparel, either by hand, or stamped out by ordinary
cutters and a press, or for open fancy work in the same manner as paper is
ordinarily perforated and embossed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Harrow Jeffs in the Great Seal Patent Office on
21st May 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, J, JAMES
HARROW JEFFS, of Tottenham Court Road, in the County, of Middlesex,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said James Harrow Jeff's, Her special licence that I, the said
James Harrow Jeffs, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
other as I, the said James Harrow Jeffs, my executors, administrators;
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time
to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COLLARS,
SHIRT FRONTS, CUFFS, HATS, BONNETS, VESTS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF WEARING
APPAREL," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James
Harrow Jeffs, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Harrow Jeffs, do hereby
-declare-the-nature-of-my-said-Invention,-and-in-what-inanner-the-same-is-
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the'
following statement :-
The object of this Invention relates to the manufacture of collars and other
articles of ladies' or gentlemen's wearing apparel by methods not hitherto used
for such purposes.

page_text: In order that my Invention may be fully understood, I now proceed to
explain the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the same into
practical effect, as follows:-
I paste or fasten together two sheets of common calico or other suitable thin
fabric, either white or of any desired color or tint, by means of starch, gum,
and an article known more especially to paper makers as "Patent size," after
which they are to be passed between cold rollers, either engraved or plain,
which will give them the desired external pattern, together with the necessary
glaze and appearance of a starched and ironed material. In some cases I place
between the sheets of calico or other material a sheet of thin paper, or a very
thin layer or coating of paper pulp, subjecting the whole to the treatment
before described.
In other instances I employ only one sheet of the fabric, either with or
without paper or paper pulp, and treated by the cold rolling process. The
material is then to be cut to the desired shape of the collar, cuff, or other
article of wearing apparel, either by hand or stamped out by ordinary cutters,
and a press; or for open fancy work, in the same manner as paper is ordinarily
embossed or perforated.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I would remark in conclusion that I do
not limit myself to the precise details herein expressed, as the same may be
varied or modified without in any way departing from my Invention; but what
I claim and desire to be secured to me by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent, are, the "Improvements in the Manufacture of Collars, Shirt
Fronts, Cuffs, Hats, Bonnets, Vests, and other Articles of Wearing Apparel,"
substantially in the manner herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Harrow Jeffs, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of May, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-two.
JAMES HARROW JEFFS. (L.S.)
Witness,
ALEX. PRINCE,
Agent for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross.