Improvements in Collars.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 21st June, 1892-Accepted, 30th July, 1892
Improvements in Collars.
I, MICHAEL FRIEDLY, of Ada, in the State of Ohio, United States of America,
Gentleman, 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:---
My invention relates to improvements in celluloid and other collars of similar
composition, and furthermore, to an attachment for the same.
The object of my invention is to increase the durability of the collar by preserving
the button-holes thereof from wear.
A great defect in collars of this class as now constructed resides in the fact that
the brittle nature of the composition with which the collars are coated renders them
liable to an early destruction, cracking and breaking away of the collars at their
button-holes, so that a collar must necessarily be abandoned and cast aside
while perfectly good with the exception of the button-holes, which have become
cracked and broken away to such an extent as to refuse to perform their proper
functions.
By my invention I avoid these objections and so construct the collar and provide
the same that the button-holes will last an indefinite length of time or in other
words, as long as the remainder of the collar is preserved.
Referring to the drawing
Figure 1 is a perspective of a celluloid collar of the lay-down pattern, provided
with my improvements the shawls or flaps of the collar being broken away to expose
the neck-band.
Figure 2 is an elevation of the front button-connection of the collar, the view
being taken from the inside.
Figure 3 is a sectional view on the line -
Figure 4 is a detail in elevation of one end
removed.
of Fig. 2.
of the collar, the attachment being
Figure 5 is a detail in perspective of the tab attachment for the front of the
collar.
Figure 6 is a transverse section on the line Y-Y of Fig. 1.
Figure 7 is a detail of the tab employed in connection with the rear button-
hole.
Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the
drawing.
1 designates the neck-band, and 2 the shawl or cape of a lay-down or turn-over
collar, formed of celluloid or other substance or material and contrary to the general
construction of such collars the button-hole tabs are omitted so that the neck-band
terminates coincident with the shawl or flap.
The neck-band near each end is provided with two or a series of slits 3, which
extend from near the upper to near the lower edge of the band, and as will be
obvious these slits constitute an intermediate keeper or loop 4. The neck-band is
also provided at its centre with the rear perforation 5 and above and below the
same with transverse slits 6, so that that portion of the band in which the rear or
central hole is formed, constitutes a keeper.
7 designates a button-hole tab attachment and the same is provided with a
button-hole 8 at one end, and at its rear end with an enlarged head 9 forming at
opposite ends shoulders 10. Two of these tab attachments are employed, one for
each end of the neck-band, and the manner of attaching the same will be readily
understood, it being obvious that the leading ends of the tabs are passed through
the slits 3 and hence back of the keepers 4, until their inner ends project beyond
the ends of the neck-band and are adapted to be overlapped and buttoned to any

page_text: ordinary collar-button. The formation of the shoulders 10 by means of the head
prevents the tabs from pulling out the shoulders as will be seen, interlocking with
the keepers. On the other hand, the tabs are free to slide to the rear and conse-
quently when the wearer by buttoning his coat close around his neck, should
compress the collar, the tabs will slide to the rear, thus decrease the size of the
collar around the neck of the wearer, instead of bending and breaking the
collar. As these tabs wear away at the button-hole they may be renewed by
others.
A tab 11, somewhat similar to the tabs 7, is provided for the rear button-
hole 5. This tab 11 has a button-hole 12 near its centre, and at its upper end
merges into a head 13 forming shoulders 14.
The tab 11 is inserted through the upper slit 6 from the outside of the collar and
thence outwardly through the lower slit 6, and in this manner is passed through
the keeper 5, the tab being prevented from withdrawal downwardly by the
shoulders 14 engaging with the keeper 5. When in position, the button-holes of
the collar and that of the tab align.
These tabs, both for the front and back collar-buttons, may accompany celluloid
collars to any desired number, or they may be sold separately.
By my invention it will be seen that I have provided an attachment for celluloid
and other collars of a similar nature, whereby their durability is increased and one
of their main objections clearly obviated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
1. As a new article of manufacture, the hereindescribed button-hole tab for
collars, the same consisting of a body-portion provided near one end with a button-
hole and at its opposite end with a transverse head forming interlocking shoulders
adapted to engage with a keeper through which the tab is adapted to be passed,
substantially as specified.
2. The collar, the neck-band of which is provided at its ends with slits forming
keepers, and the tabs passed through the keepers, the inner ends of the tabs being
provided with button-holes, and their rear ends interlocking with the keepers,
substantially as specified.
3. The collar, the neck-band of which is provided at its centre with a button-hole
and at opposite sides of the same with slits, and the removable tab passed through
the slits and having a hole registering with that of the neck-band, said tab inter-
locking with the slits, substantially as specified.
4. The collar, the neck-band of which terminates coincident with the flap or
shawl said neck-band being provided at its centre with the rear buttou-hole 5, and
near its ends with the keepers 4. the tab 11, having the button-hole 12, and at its
upper end provided with the head 13, forming the shoulders 14, passing through
slits formed above and below the button-hole 5, and having its shoulders inter-
locking with the keeper formed by the slits, and the opposite tabs 7, passed through
the keepers 4, said tabs 7 being provided at their inner meeting ends with button-
holes 8, and at their outer ends with heads 9, forming shoulders 10 for interlocking
with the keepers, substantially as specified.
5. A collar-band provided at its ends with removable tabs having button-holes,
substantially as specified.
6. A collar-band provided at its centre with a button-hole and a removable tab
having a button-hole reinforcing and registering with that of the collar-band,
substantially as specified.
Dated this 21st day of June 1892.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.