A New or Improved Stand or Support for Holding and Displaying Shirt Collars.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 27th Apr., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Stand or Support for Holding and Displaying
Shirt Collars.
1, VERNEY DREW of 1, 2 and 3, Burlington Arcade Piccadilly, London,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :-
My invention relates to a new or improved stand or support designed for holding
and displaying shirt collars in shop windows or the like, the object of my invention
being to provide a handy contrivance of simple construction whereby the aforesaid
articles may be conveniently held and effectively displayed.
In carrying my invention into practical effect, I take a length of tubing or rod,
of metal or other suitable material, provided with or having formed with same a
stud at each end, one designed to engage with the back button-hole of the collar,
while the two free ends of the collar are secured to the other by means of their
respective button-holes. This bar or rod is provided with a cross-piece of thin
springy metal or other suitable material provided with short bent up ends which
prevent lateral expansion of the collar and tend to keep it in shape upon the stand,
while by bending the arms of this cross-piece up or down, the points of the collar
may be brought slightly closer together or farther apart as desired, thus allowing
of some slight adjustment being made according to the requirements of the different
styles and shapes of collars. The bar and cross-piece are carried by a clamp by
means of which the device may be readily secured to one of the tubes or rods
generally found in window fittings, or it may be provided with a block of metal
containing an internally screw-threaded hole whereby it may be attached to one
end of a rod forming part of a stand or support.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood I will now proceed to
describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which
Fig. 1 is a plan of my improved stand for supporting and displaying shirt
collars, Fig. 2 being a side view thereof showing clamp for attachment to rod
or bar.
Fig. 3 is a view at right angles to Fig. 2 showing device as attached to an
upright stand and Fig. 4 shows the device with a collar in position.
My improved device consists of the rod or tube r furnished at the ends with
studs, s, and of a cross-piece c having bent up ends e, e³, the whole being secured
to a clamp a which may be screwed into the block g so as to be capable of being
easily removed, and by means of which the device may be secured to a rod or tube
in the window fittings, or it may be mounted upon a stand as shown in Fig. 3, in
which case the screw-threaded end 6 of the rod 6' is screwed into the block 9,
the
other end of the rod 6' being provided with a suitable base b³.
The back button-hole of the collar is secured to the studs and the two front
button-holes to the stud s' while the collar is retained in shape and position by the
turned up ends e, e¹ of the cross-piece c.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :--
The new or improved stand or support for holding and displaying shirt collars,
substantially as herein described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of March 1895.
F. G. CASSELL,
Of Cassell & Co.,
2, Glasshouse Street, Regent Street, London, W.,
Agent for the Applicant.