IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRT COLLARS
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frank Jaques, of Brixton Road, in the County of
Surrey, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRT COLLARS."
Sealed the 20th August 1879 and dated the 11th June 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frank Jaques at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 11th June 1879.
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FRANK JAQUES, of Brixton Road, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman.
PROVEMENTS IN SHIRT COLLARS."
The object of this Invention is to avoid the inconvenience that is commonly
experienced from the cravat working itself out of place upon the collar, and which
is commonly remedied by pinning the cravat to the collar.
The Invention applies to the collars of shirts and to loose collars, whether made
of linen or paper, or a compound of the two materials. To the back of the collar
and near the centre thereof I apply a flap which will cover the band at that part
for some two two inches, more or less, but will admit of the collar, if a detached
one, being buttoned to the shirt in the ordinary manner. This flap I attach to the
linen collar by sewing, and when the collar is buttoned in front it will take
the curve of the collar and thus receive a tendency to lie flat against the collar
band. In applying the cravat I insert it under the flap, bringing round the ends
as usual to form the bow. The flap will then serve to retain the cravat in position
and effectually prevent its working upwards. When applying my Invention to
paper collars I may attach the flap to the collar by paste, or I may by means of
cutting dies form a flap, or tongues, or loops out of the band or body of the collar
to receive behind them the cravat. In either case the position of the cravat will
be secured without the employment of pins or other like fastenings, the use of
which frequently proves a substitution of one inconvenience for another.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Frank Jaques in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 11th December
1879.
FRANK JAQUES, of Brixton, in the County of Surrey, Gentleman. "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN SHIRT COLLARS."
The object of this Invention is to avoid the inconvenience that is frequently
experienced from the cravat working itself out of place upon the collar, and which
is commonly but very unsatisfactorily remedied by pinning the cravat to the collar.
This Invention applies to the collars of shirts and to loose collars, whether made of
linen or of paper, or a compound of the two materials.
In the accompanying Drawing I have shewn at Fig. 1 a loose paper collar with
the cravat in position, and at Fig. 2 the loose collar as prepared to receive the
cravat, and Fig. 3 is an inside view of the collar.
At the back of the collar and near the centre of the band a I form a flap b by
severing the band a at two points about three inches apart. This flap in intended
to cover the cravat c when the latter is placed in position.
In order to secure the back of the collar to the shirt button or stud I provide a
tongue d in which a button hole is made. This tongue is secured to the paper
collar behind the flap by pasting or by a suitable metallic fastener e, as shewn at
Fig. 1; but when the collar is made of linen this tongue & will be attached by
sewing, as are also the three parts a, a, and b, composing the band of the collar.
When applying the collar to the shirt the flap bis first turned, see
Fig. 2, the
tongue & is secured to the back button or stud, and the collar is buttoned in front
as usual. The cravat is then placed round the collar and tied, and when tied the
flap b is turned down. This flap by reason of the spring given to it by the curve
of the collar will serve to retain the cravat in position without the cumployment of
pins or other like fasteners, and effectually prevent its working upwards.
In linen collars the severed edges of the band may be sewn round with a button-
hole stitch or otherwise secured from unravelling.
Having now set forth the nature of my Invention for "Improvements in Shirt
Collars," and explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be
understood that under the above in part recited Letters Patent I claim, the peculiar
construction of linen and paper shirt collars, as herein shewn and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frank Jaques, have hereunto set my hand and
seal, the Tenth day of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy nine.