Improvements in Linen and like Collars.
Year: 1899

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Linen and like Collars.
I, CHARLES ALBERT WILSON, of 17. Blenheim Terrace, Loods, in the County
of York, Gas Heating Engineer, 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:-
The object of this invention is to make a collar so that a tie worn therewith
will not be seen all round the outside bottom edge of the collar and will also be
prevented from working upwards. Referring to the accompanying illustrative
drawings.
Fig. 1 is an outside view of a stand up collar according to this invention;
Fig. 2 is an inside view of a modified arrangement of collur. Fig. 3 is a view
showing part of a collar.
1 is the main or body part of the collar from which are formed near each
of the ends 2 and 3 vee or other shaped incisions 4 and 5 one of the sides 6 and 6°
of each of which are cut square with the body part 1 whilst the other sides 7
and 7 are cut at an angle thereto or the incisions may be straight as shown in
Fig. 3. The button holes 8, 9 and 10 may be made as usual right through the
thickness of the material of which the collar is formed. The arrangement is
such that the band or neck portion of a tie would in use be placed inside the
collar, the outer ends passing through the vee or other shaped incisions 4 and 5
to enable the tie to be tied or fastened in front of the button holes 8 and 9 when
the same are both placed on the shirt stud.
Fig. 2 shows a collar that is provided on its inner side with a flap or cover
piece 13 free or open at its lower edge, and either made in one piece with the
collar lining or as a separate piece attached thereto; the tie being placed between
the inside of the flap and the inside of the collar so as to keep the tie in place
and away from the neck of the wearer.
That part of the lining of the collar which forms the flap may be cut off at
oach end to about the same angle as the sides 7 and 7 of the vee shaped inci-
sions 4 and 5 as shown at the right hand side of Fig. 2. The lining is suitably
sewn to the body part 1 of the collar as shown at 13 so as to form the flap 13,
each end 12 of the Hap thus formed being left loose: or the lining
may, as shown at the left hand side of Fig. 2, be sewn along its
upper edge and at the ends to the body part of the collar so as to form a flap 13
the end portions 15 of which extend beyond the incisions 4, 5 and are secured
in front thereof to the body of the collar. The button holes 8 and 9 are made
right through the thickness of the material whilst the central button hole 10
only passes through the thickness of material forming the flap.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. Linen or like collars in the main or body part of which are formed noor

page_text: cach of the ends vee or other shaped incisions as described with reference to
and shewn in Figs. 1 and 3 of the accompanying drawings.
2. In a linen or like collar the combination with a main or body part formed
near each of the ends with vee or other shaped incisions, of a flap or cover free
or open at its lower edge and either made in one piece with the collar lining,
or as a separate piece attached thereto substantially as described with reference
to and shewn in Fig. of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 10th dor of Yorember 1899
R. E. P. CRATEN,
Registered Patent Agent,
King Street Chambers, 52, Wellington Street, Leeds,
Agent for the Applicant.