Improvement in Shirt Collar Bands.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 14th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Shirt Collar Bands.
I, PERCY RICHARD JULIUS WILLIS, of 55 Chancery Lane, in the County of
London, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication
to me from abroad by Morison Kyle, of Rat Portage, Ontario, Canada, Inventor,)
to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide certain improvements in shirt collar
bands, whereby the stud is prevented from chafing the neck, and it is less liable to
be lost.
In carrying out this invention the collar is made of two pieces of material sewn
together at the edges; but the button or stud hole penetrates one piece only. The
upper edge of the collar is not stitched above the button hole, so as to permit of
the stud being inserted.
If desired, a strip of material may be sewn to the back of the collar band to
cover the button hole and to form a pocket into which the stud would fall and be
retained if, by accident, it left the button hole.
Dated this 6th day of December 1895.
PERCY R. J. WILLIS,
Improvement in suirt Collar Danus.
1 PERCY RICHARD JULIUS WILLIS, of 55 Chancery Lane, in the County of
London, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication
to me from abroad by Morison Kyle, of Rat Portage, Ontario, Canada, Inventor)
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of this invention is to provide certain improvements in shirt collar
bands, whereby the stud is prevented from chafing the neck, and is less liable to
be lost, inasmuch as it is not so liable to come out of the button hole, and if it did
so, it would be retained by the pocket formed in the collar band as hereinafter
described.
Reference being had to the drawings hereunto annexed:
Fig. 1 shews the inner side of a collar band, and Fig. 2 shews the 'reverse side.
The collar band A has sewn to it pieces of material B, the stitches C forming
a pocket D which is open at its upper edge.
The button holes E are made in the collar band but do not extend through the
strips of material B.
The studs are entered into the pocket D and inserted into the button holes as
indicated at F.
In an alternative form, the collar band is made double, the pockets D being
formed by sewing the two parts together at their edges except at that part
intended as the entrance to the pockets. In this form the button holes extend
through one piece of the material only as will be understood.

page_text: 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
claim is
(1.) The hereindescribed improvements in collar bands consisting in the
attachment thereto of a piece of material over the button holes to form a pocket,
substantially as and for the purposes herein before set forth and illustrated in the
drawings hereunto annexed."
(2.) The hereindescribed improvements in collar bands, consisting in forming
the bands of two pieces stitched together at their edges and in such manner as to
form a pocket over the button holes, said button holes extending through one piece
of the collar band only.
PERCY R. J. WILLIS.