CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PAPER COLLARS AND FRONTS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Taylor, of Westfield, Higher Broughton,
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PAPER COLLARS AND
FRONTS." A communication from abroad by Fr. Schneider, of
Berlin, in the Empire of Germany.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Francis Taylor at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 13th May 1871, pursuant to the 9th Section
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
TAYLOR, of Westfield, Higher Broughton, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "CERTAIN
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF PAPER COLLARS AND FRONTS," and have
petitioned Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made

page_text: solemn Declaration that the same has been communicated to me from
abroad by Fr Schneider, of Berlin, in the Empire of Germany.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Francis Taylor, do hereby declare
that the following Complete Specification under my hand and seal,
fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the following
statement and accompanying Drawings, that is to say :—
The present Invention relates in the first place to paper collars, and
is designed for the purpose of effecting to such collars a truer fit and
greater adaptability to the neck and also to prevent cracking or
breaking of the bends.
The improvement consists in constructing the collar of two or more
independent pieces and attaching them together so as to form a whole
by adhesion or otherwise, that is, the flaps, facings, or turndown corners
are first made separately and then attached to the neckband thereby
giving at the edges forming the junction with the facings an exactness
and pliability of fit not hitherto attained.
Secondly. The Invention relates to paper fronts and is designed for
the purpose of enabling the same to be readily adapted and secured to
the chest and also to form a better and more secure connection around
the neck.
The improvement consists in securing or attaching by adhesion or
otherwise a paper band or strip to the upper curve of the front forming
the neck part, the said band or strip being designed to fit the neck in
front and is formed of a separate piece being attached thereto, as before
stated;
the employment and adaptation of such paper neckband enables
the collar to fit more accurately and with greater ease around the neck;
in both cases the Invention consists in making the article in separate
parts afterwards united.
In order that the Invention may more readily be understood and
explained in detail, I have hereunto attached a Sheet of Drawing made
about full size.
Figures 1, 2, and 3, represent three diagram shapes of the improved
construction of paper collar shewing in blue the junction between the
facings of such collars and the neck band; Figures 4 and 5 represent
respectively the neckband and facing shewn separate, the blue lines

page_text: shewing the portions of the same forming the attachment between the
two which when joined form a whole.
In these Figures a, a, is the neckband or strip forming the foundation
for the collars, and b, b, are the flaps, facings, or turndown corners, which
when attached to the band so as to form a whole produce a collar that
readily adapts itself as a true fit to the neck.
Fig. 6 represents an ordinary paper front having applied thereto the
improved neck piece or band forming the second part of these im-
provements, in which c is the facing of an ordinary paper front, to the
upper curve of which is attached the neckband d, the dotted line
showing the position of the front forming such attachment, making
thereby a truer fit to the neck and not liable to become disarranged
with the collar.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, together with
the method of carrying the same into practical effect, I would wish it
to be understood in conclusion that I claim, the mode represented and
described of making paper collars and fronts in separate parts of suitable
shapes and uniting such parts to form collars and fronts as described.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal,
this Twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one.
Witness to the signature,
THOMAS WRIGLEY,
Manchester.
FRANCIS TAYLOR. (L.S.)