Improvements in or Additions to Dog Collars.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 24th June, 1898
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Additions to Dog Collars.
I, DAVID POWER, trading as D. Power and Sons, of Plume Works, Brook
Street, Walsall, in the County of Stafford, Horse Clothing Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
My invention consists of the improvements in or additions to dog-collars here-
inafter described whereby a card or label bearing the name and address of
the owner of the dog wearing the collar, or other required inscription such as
the number of the dog's license may be readily applied to or combined with
the collar and removed therefrom; the card or label being protected from wet,
dirt, or injury in the manner hereinafter described.
I will describe my invention as applied to a dog-collar made of leather.
I make near the buckle end of the strap of the collar a rectangular or other
shaped piercing, the said piercing passing completely through the strap from
face to face. The back of this piercing is glazed with talc or other Hexible
and transparent material, such as mica or sheet gelatine, for the purpose of
protecting the card or label from wet, dirt or injury. This glazing of talc or
other flexible transparent material is inserted in slits in the material of the
strap and fixed in its place by sewing or otherwise.
cover the back of the collar and behind the glazed piercing described with
a thin strip of leather having the same width as the collar but being somewhat
longer than the piercing, the sides and one end of the strip being sewn to the
collar, the other end, which extends beyond the end of the glazed piercing,
being left unsewn. This partly connected leather strip at the back of the collar
constitutes with the glazed piercing, a pocket into which a name and address
card or label, or other card or label may be inserted by an end sliding motion
from the open end of the said pocket, the name or inscription on the card or
label so introduced into the pocket being exposed to view at the front of the
collar through the glazed piercing described. The card or label is secured in
the glazed pocket of the collar by means of the extended and loose end of the
back leather strip which extended and loose end constitutes a tab or tongue
which can be passed through a loop on the back of the collar for holding down
the said loose end or tab.
In order to remove the card or label it is only necessary to withdraw the loose
end of the strip from its loop and raise it from the back of the collar when
the end of the cord or label is exposed and may be withdrawn by the fingers
from the pocket and replaced by a fresh one.
My improvements may be applied to dog collars of other material than leather
such for example as strong webbing or like fabric.
Dated the Twenty-fourth day of June 1898.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I, DAVID POWER, trading as D. Power and Sons, of Plume Works, Brook
Street, Walsall, in the County of Stafford, Horse Clothing Manufacturer, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the follow-
ing statement:-
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My invention consists of the improvements in or additions to dog collars here-
inafter described whereby a card or label bearing the name and address of
the owner of the dog wearing the collar or other required inscription such as
the number of the dog's license may be readily applied to or combined with
the collar and removed therefrom; the card or label being protected from wet,
dirt or injury in the manner hereinafter described.
I will describe my invention as applied to a dog-collar made of leather.
I make near the buckle end of the strap of the collar a rectangular or other
shaped piercing, the said piercing passing completely through the strap from
face to face. The back of this piercing is glazed with talc or other flexible
and transparent material, such as mica or sheet gelatine, for the purpose of per-
mitting the card or label being read and protected from wet, dirt or injury.
This glazing of talc or other flexible transparent material is inserted in slits
in the material of the strap and fixed in its place by sewing or otherwise.
I cover the back of the collar and behind the glazed piercing described with
a thin strip of leather having the same width as the collar but being somewhat
longer than the piercing, the sides and one end of the strip being sewn to the
collar, the other end, which extends beyond the end of the glazed piercing,
being left unsewn. This partly connected leather strip at the back of the collar
constitutes with the glazed piercing a pocket into which a name and address
card or label or other card or label may be inserted by an end sliding motion
from the open end of the said pocket, the name or inscription on the card oi
label so introduced into the pocket being exposed to view at the front of the
collar through the glazed piercing described. The card or label is secured in
the glazed pocket of the collar by means of the extended and loose end of the
back leather strip which extended and loose end constitutes a tab or tongue
which can be passed through a loop on the back of the collar for holding down
the said loose end or tab.
In order to remove the card or label it is only necessary to withdraw the loose
end of the strip from its loop and raise it from the back of the collar when
the end of the card or label is exposed and may be withdrawn by the fingers
from the pocket and replaced by a fresh one.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawing
the manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in perspective and Figure 2 in front elevation a leather
dog collar containing my improvements or additions, Figure 1 representing the
dog collar fastened as in use and Figure 2 the same unfastened and opened out:
Figure 3 represents an edge view, Figure 4 a longitudinal section (through
the stitching) and Figure 5 a back elevation of the open collar Figure 2;
Figure 6 represents a cross section of the collar on the dotted liner, Figure 2
taken through the glazed piercing, the pocket and the address card or label
inserted in the pocket; Figure 7 represents separately the piece of talc or trans-
Farent material for glazing the piercing and Figure 8 represents separately the
address card or label.

page_text: The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
a is the oblong piercing, with angular ends, made in the principal leather
strap at the buckle end, the said piercing passing completely through the
said strap from side to side; c is the oblong piece of glazing talc (or other
transparent material) situated at the back of the piercing a for protecting the
address card or label d from wet, dirt or injury. This glazing of talc is of the
same width as the leather strap band is inserted between the back face of the
said strap b and the thinner back strip of leather and fixed in its place by the
stitches represented, the said stitches passing through the principal strap b,
tale glazing
c and back stripe (see Figure 4). The back leather strip e oppo-
site to and beyond the piercing a is recessed and constitutes with the glazed
piercing a, c a shallow pocket or recess for receiving the address card or label d
(see Figure 6). It will be seen that the sides and one end of the thin back
strip e are sewn to the principal strap 6 of the collar but the other end marked e³
is loose or unconnected and forms a tab or tongue which can be passed through
a loop f on the back of the collar for fastening down the said loose end or tabe
(see Figures 3, 4 and 5). By means of the said extended loose end or tab e
the address card or label d, which has been introduced into the glazed pocket
by an end sliding motion from the open end of the said glazed pocket, is secured
in the said pocket. When the card or label is required to be removed from
the glazed pocket it is only necessary to withdraw the tal e from the loop f
and turn back the said tab, as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 3, when the
pocket is exposed at its open end and the address card or label may be with-
drawn by the fingers therefrom and a new one substituted for it.
By the use of the said glazed pocket or recess described and represented, the
address card or label inserted in it is not only easily read through the said
pocket but is also protected from wet, dirt or injury. The address card or label
is also readily introduced into and removed from the said glazed pocket or
recess.
My improvements may be applied to dog-collars of other material than leather,
such for example as strong webbing or like fabric.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as
my invention:-
The improvements in or additions to dog collars hereinbefore described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawing, for permitting a card or label bearing
the name or address of the owner of the dog wearing the collar, or other required
inscription, to be readily carried by and removed from the collar, the said im-
provements or additions consisting in providing the collar, preferably near the
buckle end, with a glazed pocket or recess through which the address card or
label may be seen, the said glazed pocket or recess being open at one end and
formed between the principal part of the collar and a thinner back piece, the
address card or label being introduced into the glazed pocket or recess by an
end sliding motion from the open end thereof, and secured in the said pocket
by the loose or tab end of the said thin back piece substantially as described
and illustrated.
Dated the Twenty-second der of Wahmsame 1900