Improvements in Dress Collars.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1887.
Specification Accepted, 22nd Mar., 1887.
Improvements in Dress Collars.
I JOHN GARRETT TONGUE of 34 Southampton Buildings Chancery Lane
London W.C. Fellow of the Institute of Patent Agents 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 :-
This invention relates to improvements in linen and other dress collars fastened or
buttoned when in use in the ordinary manner and the object of this invention is with
other advantages to produce a collar simpler and cheaper in manufacture and more
comfortable in wear. In order the better to explain this invention so that it may be
easily understood and readily carried into practice I will proceed to describe the same
with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 of which shews a plan of the improved collar laid flat with projecting
parts P for the button holes.
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same collar rolled round and buttoned as it
would be in position when on the wearer.
Fig. 3 shews one end of similar collar without the before mentioned projecting parts
for the button holes, and Fig. 4 perspective view (similar to Fig. 2) of same collar as
Fig. 3.
This improved collar is designed for wear in the same manner as the ordinary well-
known turn down collar, which latter is provided with an inwardly turned over part
or fold in which are cut the button holes and being thus composed of two flaps or
parts folded one over the other.
This new or improved collar on the contrary consists of one single strip band or
part N which at both ends O turns outwards and is broader than at its middle part, in
the shape of an ordinary turn down collar whilst two projecting parts P serve to hold
or connect the collar together after it has been placed around the neck of the wearer
(Fig. 1 and 2) or the button holes may be made in the upper end of the collar N
itself as in Figs. 3 and 4. The collar may be manufactured of linen, paper or any

page_text: other suitable materials; and is cut from patterns as shown in Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 in
certain curves or in any other suitable manner. When it is in the position (as it
would be on the wearer), sce Figs. 2 and 4, it has the shape of an ordinary turn down
collar with the difference that it consists of only one strip band or part the inner strip
or fold of the ordinary turn down collar being omitted and thus securing several
advantages.
The inner strip or fold being dispensed with the collar is in the first place very
simple; it can further be easily buttoned the holes being placed on the outer strip
band or part i.c. in the strip band or part constituing the collar itself. Moreover this
improved collar cannot easily get broken or torn when being ironed because it lies
perfectly flat, whilst the ordinary turn down collars break or tear (and are worn at the
fold) when the parts are folded over and flattened by the hot iron. The inner fold in
this improved collar being dispensed with the collar fits more comfortably also.
Lastly a very considerable saving in material and manufacturing costs is obtained,
this new or improved collar being thus produced much cheaper than the ordinary turn
down collars heretofore made.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
1. As a new article of manufacture a shirt or dress collar N of a perfectly flat shape
cut in certain suitable curves, the extremities O of which collar are made broader with
or without projecting parts P for buttoning or securing the collar; such collar having
when secured in position around the neck of the wearer the shape and appearance of
an ordinary turn down collar with the difference that it consists of one unfolded strip
or part substantially as hereinbefore described and represented in the drawings hereto
annexed.
2. The construction of so called turned down collars by forming them of one
unfolded strip band or part substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
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TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Patentee.