Improvements in and relating to Dog Collars.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 7th Jan., 1895-Accepted, 6th Apr., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Dog Collars.
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JOSEPH WINSON SCOTT "East Bank St. Mary's Road Newton Heath
Manchester Gas Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide a simple & inexpensive means for
attaching name and address of owner to a dog collar. To accomplish this, I make
a frame of metal, or other suitable material, capable of being readily affixed to
the collar, and designed to recieve card or paper, upon which the name & address
is to be written. For the purpose of protecting the writing, I propose to insert in
the frame aforesaid a plate of transparent or semi-transparent material through
which the writing will be visible, or the writing may be protected by an opaque
cover secured over it by any ordinary means. As an alternative to this method of
making the said frame separate from the collar, & thus requiring to be afterwards
attached to it, I propose to form a recess in, or upon, the material of the collar
itself, in which the name &c. may be placed and protected as above described.
Dated this 21st day of April 1894.
JOSEPH W. SCOTT.
JOSEPH WINSON SCOTT Engineer East Bank St. Mary's Road Newton Heath,
Manchester 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 :-
The object of this invention is to provide a simple, durable, and inexpensive
means of fixing the name and address of owner to a dog collar.
Three methods of construction I shew on the accompanying drawing although it
is obvious that the fixing may be made in various other forms, and I therefore do
not restrict my invention to these illustrations which are supplied for the purpose
of better describing the attachment. My invention is as follows; I make a light
frame or casing as shewn C in Figure 1. to be affixed to the collar, and constructed
so as to receive a suitable medium M. Fig. 1. and covering for medium T Fig. 1.
This casing may be formed of light metal or brass, and may also be formed of
vulcanite, xylonite, celluloid, or other light material or composition, according to
the type of collar, or the nature of the material to which the casing will be
attached. Inside the casing C. I fix a suitable medium M. upon which the name
and address of owner may be written, and I protect this writing and the medium
by means of a flexible transparent or seme-transparent covering T. through which
the writing may be visible as shewn in Figure 1. As an alternative to this
method of making the said casing separate from the collar and thus requiring to
be afterwards attached I propose as shewn in Figure 2: to form a recess in, or
upon the material A. Fig. 2 of the collar itself in which the medium M: that
carries the writing may be placed, and protected by the covering T as already
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described. To keep the medium and the covering in the desired position, four
clips P Fig. 2. are formed on casing, which also serve the purpose of preventing
the the medium M: or the covering T: being extracted. Figure 3. shews a
similar method of preparing the collar A to receive the fixing, but the casing is
made in the form of a hinged frame, so that the name and address may be easily
changed if desired. Any ordinary method other than that shewn may be adopted
for securing the casing to the material of the collar, providing it may be readily
affixed by an unskilled person. Hitherto the owners name has been engraved upon
a metal plate, (usually attached to a dog collar for this purpose) which in most
localities is a very expensive proceeding, and is therefore seldom carried out and the
object of this invention is to meet this requirement at small cost.
The writing
may be changed if desired by inserting another medium, and as the casing is of
durable material when the collar is worn away, it may be easily transferred to a
new collar.
Owing to the necessary expense few people have anything beyond their name
engraved upon the collar plate, and seeing that my invention will enable them to,
put their name & address, and name of dog upon the collar, at small expense, the
fixing no doubt will be extensively adopted, and save the owners, and, local
authorities, much expense in tracing and restoring strayed dogs to their
proprietors.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed what I claim is :-
1. A simple durable and inexpensive casing to be attached to a dog collar in
which the name and address of owner may be placed which shall be protected by a
covering of flexible transparent or semi-transparent material and so allow the
written name and address to always remain visible.
2. Provision may be made in the construction of the collar itself, to form a part
of the casing, and the fixing formed as far as possible of the same material as the
body of the dog collar, and the writing protected as above described.
Dated this the 22nd day of March 1895.
JOSEPH WINSON SCOTT.