the Invention of PROVEMENTS IN COLLARS, WRISTBANDS, AND CUFFS
Year: 1862

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of Middlesex, Engineer and Patent Agent, for the Invention of
PROVEMENTS IN COLLARS, WRISTBANDS, AND CUFFS."-A communication
from abroad by Jules Hippolyte Jean Baptiste Delosmo, of 29, Boulevart
St. Martin, Paris, Merchant.
Sealed the 10th October 1862, and dated the 26th April 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Clark at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th
April 1862.
I, WILLIAM CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane. in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLARS, WRISTBANDS, AND CUFFE," to be as follows:-
Hitherto shirt collars, wristbands, and cuffs have been made of two or more
bands of cotton, linen, or other fabric in various shapes applied one on the
other, according to the greater or less thickness required for the collar; these
bands are sewn together by hand or machine. The fineness and amount of
stitching, as also the manner in which it is applied, constitutes the principal
ornament of the collars, and at the same time assists in maintaining the
high price of such articles.
This Invention relates to the manufacture of shirt collars without stitching,
thereby notably reducing their cost, at the same time retaining the ornamental
appearance of ordinary linen collars, the object being to combine the two
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page_text: qualities of elegance and cheapness. It will be understood that these collars
are not suitable for washing and bleaching when soiled by wear like ordinary
ones, at the same time the low price at which they may be produced does not
exceed the average cost of once washing and ironing ordinary collars, hence there
results an economy in the use of said unstitched collars equal to the price of
an ordinary collar. I manufacture these improved collars, wristbands, or cuffs
as follows-1st, I take strips or bands of cotton, linen, or other fabric, and
paste them on strips of paper or other material for the purpose of obtaining
the thickness and firmness of ordinary collars. 2ndly, I obtain a perfect
imitation of the stitching, goffering, and other methods of ornamenting collars
by means of suitable pressure in a screw or other press. 3rdly, the Invention
further consists of a new method of replacing the button or fastening for
securing the collar in its place, and connecting its two ends together. For this
purpose one end of the collar is furnished with two slits or openings made
with the scissors or otherwise, one of which openings is fastened to a corre-
sponding button on the shirt, so as to properly secure the collar; the second
opening receives the other extremity of the collar formed of a
of a sort of
tongue, which is folded together longitudinally in two parallel folds, so as to
be introduced into the second opening in the other end of the collar where
it is secured in position by simply spreading out the ends of the tongue-piece,
the edges of which abut against said opening.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 24th
October 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer and
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
William Clark, Her special licence that I. the said William Clark, my exe-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Clark,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others. from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,

page_text: within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the. Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLABS, WRIST-
BANDS, AND CUFFS," a communication to me from abroad by Jules Hippolyte
Jean Baptiste Delosme, of 29, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris, Merchant, upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Clark, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Clark, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement,
reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
Hitherto shirt collars, wristbands, and cuffs have been made of two or more
bands of cotton, linen, or other fabric in various shapes applied one on the
other, according to the greater or less thickness required for the collar; these
bands are sewn together by hand or machine. The fineness and amount of
stitching, as also the manner in which it is applied, constitutes the principal
ornament of the collars, and at the same time assists in maintaining the high
price of such articles.
This Invention relates to the manufacture of shirt collars without stitching,
thereby notably reducing their cost, at the same time retaining the orna-
mental appearance of ordinary linen collars; the object being to combine the
two qualities of elegance and cheapness. It will be understood that these
collars are not suitable for washing and bleaching, when soiled by wear, like
ordinary ones, at the same time the low price at which they may be produced
does not exceed the average cost of once washing and ironing ordinary collars,
hence there results an economy in the use of said unstitched collars equal to
the price of an ordinary collar. 1 manufacture these improved collars, wrist-
bands, or cuffs according to this Invention, as follows:-First, I take strips or
bands of cotton, linen, or other fabric and paste them on a foundation of
strips of paper or other material for the purpose of obtaining the thickness
and firmness of ordinary stitched collars, and afterwards slightly press them.
Secondly, I obtain a perfect imitation of the stitching, goffering, and other
methods of ornamenting collars by means of suitable pressure in a screw or
other press. Thirdly, the Invention further consists of a new method for

page_text: replacing the button or fastening for securing the collar in its place, and con-
.necting its two ends together, as represented in the annexed Drawings at
Figs. 1, 2, and 3. For this purpose one end of the collar is furnished with
two slits or openings, A and B, made with the scissors or otherwise, one of
which openings A is fastened to a corresponding button on the shirt, so as to
properly secure the collar; the second opening B receives the other extremity
of the collar formed of a sort of tongue C, which is folded together longitu-
dinally in two parallel folds, so as to be introduced into the second opening in
the other end of the collar, where it is secured in position by simply spreading
out the ends of the tongue-piece, the edges of which abut against said
opening.
I also reserve the right of employing any other combination for the purpose
of fixing or securing the collars in position, the button-hole being similarly
made with the scissors or stamper without stitching. The manufacture of
wristbands and cuffs 1 also effect in the same manner, as herein-before
described with reference to collars.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Clark, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of October, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
JAMES DAISH,
53, Chancery Lane,
London.
W. CLARK. (..)