A Novel Appliance for Improving the "Sit" of Collars of Coats or other Garments, and Adapted if Required for Advertising Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1889-Accepted, 14th Sept.
1820
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Novel Appliance for Improving the "Sit" of Collars of Coats
or other Garments, and Adapted if Required for Advertising
Purposes.
We JOHN HALL and GEORGE SMITH of 16 Paradise Square Sheffield in the County
of York Advertising Contractors 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 in writing, that is to say :-
Our Invention relates to the production and use of a novel and convenient appliance
or device to effect the permanent and better sitting or lay of the collars of coats or of
other garments usually made with fold over collars, a part or parts of which
appliance can be made, when required, so as to have advertisements thereon.
The appliance or device is made to fit under the collar of the coat or other garment
and in something like the shape of the wearer's neck; it is placed out of sight
between the fold over portion of the collar and the main neck portion of the coat or
other garment. It is made of sufficiently pliable or spring like steel or iron, or of
other suitable pliable or springy material.
The main portion of the appliance is made of a round, oval, grooved, or other
suitable section, but each end of it is made flat and on the fronts of the flattened ends
advertisements can be put when required, or an advertisement or advertisements can
be placed on only one of the ends if so desired.
According to a modification of our invention the main portion of the appliance can,
when required, be made flat at intervals, and have an advertisement or advertisements
put on the flat portions, or the advertisement or advertisements may be put on any
part or parts of the whole appliance.
This appliance can be made in any required size corresponding with the size of the
collar it is to be used with.
The adoption of our appliance, owing to its spring like action, will cause the
collar of the coat or other garment to keep its original "sit" or lay and appearance.
When the coat or other garment is not being worn the appliance is removed there-
from when any advertisement or advertisements put on the flat part or parts or on
other convenient parts thereof will show conspicuously.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The production and use of an improved and efficient appliance or device effecting
the permanent and better sitting or lay of collars of coats or other garments,
substantially as herein before described.
2. The so making a portion or portions of the said appliance or device, when
required, that an advertisement or advertisements can be impressed or put thereon
and will be readily seen when the appliance or device is not used for the above named
purpose; and the applying an advertisement or advertisements (when required) to
ny analogous appliance or device for effecting the better sitting or appearance of
collars of coats or other garments.
Dated this 22nd day of July 1889
BRISTOW HUNT, R.P.A.,
Aldine Chambers, High Street, Sheffield, Agent for the Applicants.