Improvements in Cuffs or Collars.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 13th July, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 13th Apr., 1896-Accepted, 11th July, 1896
Improvements in Cuffs or Collars.
RICHARD PRITT 63 South Regent Street Lancaster Lancashire Commission
Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object I have in view is to make shirt cuffs or loose cuffs or collars that will
not require to be washed. For this purpose, my invention consists of a number
of sheets of calico or other fabric. These sheets of calico I lay one over the other
and gum together with starch or other adhesive substance. The edge of cuff
which is nearest the hand when in use is so arranged the each sheet projects a
slight distance further towards the hand than the one under it, so that as each sheet
is striped off the one underneath is perfectly clean at the edge.
The cuffs or collars have the usual linings and I hold them in position by a
metal fastning which consists of a slot at one side and a truncated cone on the
other side.
To stiffen the cuffs or collars I insert within the folds a sheet of fine perforated
wire.
Dated this 12th day of July 1895
I, RICHARD PRITT, of 63 South Regent Street, Lancaster, in the County of
Lancaster, Commission Agent 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 I have in view is to make fixed shirt cuffs or collars or loose shirt
cuffs or collars, that, once they are made, will not require to be washed.
To do this my invention consists in taking a number of sheets of calico, linen,
paper, or any suitable fabric.
These sheets of calico or fabric, I lay together in layers, one over or above the
other in cuff or collar shape as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
Each sheet is gummed on to each sheet which is below it with starch or any
other suitable adhesive substance, such as gums or the like, and when the outside
sheet is dirty, the dirty sheet may be stripped off, leaving underneath exposed to
view, a clean cuff or collar.
In Figs. 1 and 2 the edges of the cuff or collar are cut with the edges square,
as it appears in the usual commercial cuff.
In Figs. 3 and 4, I show my improved method of putting the respective layers
together, each layer overlapping each other as represented by letters A A and
AA in Fig. 3, and A A in Fig. 4. My reason for placing the respective layers
of calico or fabric in this position, is, that the edge of outside layer, when it
overlaps all the others does, when it is dirty and is removed, leave the underneath
layer clean at the edges.
One way of making up the cuffs and collars, as shown in Fig. 1 and 2 is to cut
all the sheets of calico or fabric of one size, but in Fig. 3 and Fig. 4 the outside

page_text: layer is the largest and the other layers are gradually graduated smaller until they
come down to the inside layer which is the smallest.
Another way of making up the cuffs or collars is to take a long length of calico
or fabric, and fold it over and over as shown in Fig. 5, say like a flattened roll of
cloth.
Out of this flattened, rolled up cloth, I cut or stamp the cuffs or collars as in
Fig. 6 and Fig. 7, and I then perforate all the thicknesses of cloth as shown by
the dotted line at letters B B Fig. 6, and B B Fig. 7.
In this way I maintain the overlap at edges of the cuff at that part which is
nearest the hand when being worn and the outside layer can be removed by cutting
at the perforated line.
To maintain the cuffs or collars in their proper shape and stiffness I enclose a
sheet of perforated gauze wire, or the like, as in Fig. 8 within the layers of
calico.
The cuffs or collars may be lined if required and I hold the opposite edges of
the cuffs together when in wear by a metal fastening as shewn in Figs. 9 and 10;
Fig. 9 being a slot, and Fig. 10 a truncated cone. Fig. 11 shews the metal
fastenings when at work.
Any other method of fastening may be employed such as a button, stud, links,
or the like.
To further describe the fastenings mentioned above and as shewn in Figs. 9. 10.
11 and 12. 1 pierce the cuff as at B B Fig. 6 and put the points of the metal
fastening as in Figs. 9. 10 through the material. The points are then turned
towards the body of the fastening and clinched down.
Another way of describing Fig. 10 is a T shaped piece of metal adapted to
engage in the slot or eye as shewn in Fig. 9 substantially for the purpose as
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I do claim is :-
1. The gumming together of a number of layers of calico, or any other suitable
material which will make up a cuff or collar, in such a way that by stripping off
the outside layer, a clean cuff or collar remains-with its edges as in the ordinary
commercial form at the edges as in Figs. 1. 2.
2. The gunming together of a number of layers of calico or any other suitable
material which will make up a cuff or collar in such a way that by stripping off
the outside layer a clean cuff or collar remains, having its edges overlapping as in
Figs. 3 and 4.
3. The gumming together of a number of layers of calico or any other suitable
material which will make up a cuff or collar in such a way that by stripping off
the outside layer a clean cuff or collar remains having its edges nearest the hand
when worn, overlapping as in Figs. 6. 7. and perforated as at B B in Fig. 6, and
B B Fig. 7.
4. The gumming together of a number of layers of calico or any other suitable
material which will make up a cuff or collar in such a way that by stripping of
the outside layer a clean cuff or collar remains-having a strip of perforated fine
gauze wire within the folds as a foundation to maintain the cuff or collar stiff, or to
its proper shape and position.
5. The gumming together of a number of layers of calico or any other suitable
material which will make up a cuff in such a way that by stripping off the outside
layer a clean cuff remains having a metal fastening as shewn in Figs. 9. 10. 11
and 2.
Dated this 11th der of Auril 1806
RICHARD PRITT.