An Improved Manufacture of Cuffs, Collars, Shirts, and other Articles of Wearing Apparel made Wholly or Partly of Linen.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left. 16th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 26th Nov., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Manufacture of Cuffs, Collars, Shirts, and other
Articles of Wearing Apparel made Wholly or Partly of Linen.
HENRY DAVID SINCLAIR 19 Silver Street London E.C. Shirt Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An all or partly linen material woven in the ordinary way, but with double or
treble warp or double or treble weft, in stripes in such width & at such interval as
may be found necessary for the strengthening of edges & other parts more
especially subject to wear in collars, cuffs shirts etc.
Dated this 17th day of December 1891
H. D. SINCLAIR.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Manufacture of Cuffs, Collars, Shirts, and other
Articles of Wearing Apparel made Wholly or Partly of Linen.
I, HENRY DAVID SINCLAIR, of 19 Silver Street, in the County of London,
Shirt Manufacturer, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved manufacture of cuffs, collars, shirts and
other articles of wearing apparel made wholly or partly of linen, and has for its
object to protect such articles at the edges thereof or at such other places where
the wear is excessive.
The important feature of the said invention consists in making cuffs and the like
from cloth which is specially woven with double or treble wefts or warps, or with
wefts or warps of increased thickness or strength at those places which will form
the edges for example of the manufactured articles where the wear is very much
greater than at any other part.
In the accompanying drawing, I have shown by way of example a piece of
cloth woven according to my improvement and intended for making up into cuffs.
The parts A, A. of the cloth are of ordinary strength and texture, while the
parts B, B forming parallel strips are stouter and stronger than the intermediate
parts A, A. The said parts B, B are of any desired width say from half an inch
to one and a half inches more or less, and are formed at intervals of seven, eight,
nine or ten inches more or less as may be desired to suit the size of cuffs to be
made. The strips B, B are made by weaving into the cloth at those parts one or
more extra wefts or warps, or wefts and warps, as the case may be, or by using at
those parts wefts or warps, or wefts and warps of increased stoutness and strength.
When making up the cuffs from such cloth, the cloth is cut along the centre of
cach thickened strip, which strips then form the edges of the cuffs and afford
thereat increased strength and durability. The cuffs may be made up in any
ordinary manner, providing care be taken that the thickened parts B form the
edges thereof. The said cuffs may of course be attached to a shirt or be separate
therefrom.
It is obvious that I may make collars and other articles of wearing apparel in
the manner above described by so arranging that the thickened portions of the woven
cloth shall form the edges which wear most of the manufactured article.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. For making up into cuffs, collars and like articles of wearing apparel, cloth,
wholly or partly composed of linen, and woven of increased stoutness and strength
at those parts which will form the edges, or other parts of the manufactured article
most subject to wear, substantially as described.
2. A cuff, collar, shirt or like article of wearing apparel composed wholly or
partly of linen and having increased stoutness or strength at the edges thereof, or
other parts most subject to wear, substantially as described for the purpose
specified.
Dated this 15th day of September 1899
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.