Improvements in Gentlemen's Dress Collars.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1892-Accepted, 7th May, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gentlemen's Dress Collars.
We, HENRY RANDELL, and JOHN HENRY RANDELL, both of 84 High Street,
Whitechapel, London E., in the County of Middlesex, Hosiers, 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 improvements in gentlemen's dress collars constituting our invention,
consists of the application thereto of a folding tab or flap situated immediately
below the button hole by which the said dress collar is fastened to the button or
stud upon the back of the neck of the shirt, and depending therefrom in a
downward direction, so that when the tie is fastened in position the said flap may
be turned up outside the band of the tie and buttoned upon the same button or
stud as that which holds the said dress collar upon the back of the neck of the
shirt, and the object of our invention is to keep the band of the tie in position and
prevent it from rising at the back of the neck during wear.
We are aware that dress collars have been made with appendages at the back
for this purpose, but these have invariably been a depending tab under which the
tie had to be placed before fastening, and with these the wearer often, either
forgot to place the band of the tie thereunder, or was unable to do so because
the said flap had been fastened down during the dressing of the collar, or that the
tie had slipped therefrom after being placed therein. Our invention entirely
overcomes these inconveniences as the tie. can be first adjusted and fastened,
when the flap can be easily raised and slipped upon the back button or stud as
before mentioned, and the said flap cannot be fastened down to the collar by the
starch during the process of dressing; and we are not aware that this arrangement
has hitherto been adopted.
We wish it understood that we do not claim as part of our invention any
particular shape, design or configuration in which the said dress collar may be
made, but the employment of a folding depending back flap or tab stitched to or
formed integrally with any type of gentlemen's dress collar as hereinafter
described and forming a combination for the purposes stated.
In the accompanying drawings we have shewn two views of an ordinary present
fashion dress collar provided with our improvements, that of Fig. 1 showing the
collar as it would appear when dressed ready for wear, while Fig. 2 shows how
the said improvement is employed for holding the back of the tie in position
when the collar is in wear.
In carrying our invention into effect we make of linen, calico or similar fabric of
any color or pattern a gentleman's dress collar A in any of the shapes worn, or that
may be worn, with either two, three or more folds, or thicknesses of material, to which
we attach or form therewith a depending flap B, which may be of the same or other
material as that of A, and if attached by stitching to A, this may be either
within, without or between the combined substances thereof, as may be desired, and
depending from the centre of the back in a downward direction, the outer end
being provided with a button hole C which may be parallel, or at any angle with
the sides of B as shewn by dotted lines in Fig. 2. The length of said flap is such
that when the collar A is fastened upon the shirt collar E in the usual way, and
the tie (represented by D in Fig. 2) placed around the neck and fastened, the end
of B may be raised outside D and fastened upon the same button or stud E, and
the tie retained in position thereby as before mentioned and shewn by Fig. 2.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :
For improvements in gentlemen's dress collars the employment of a folding
flap B, with button hole C, connected by stitching to, or formed integrally with,
any shape or form of collar A, and depending therefrom at the back thereof, and
capable of being folded upwardly surrounding the band of the tie D, and fastened
upon the button or stud E, by which A is held connected to the collar of the shirt,
substantially as and for the purposes stated and shewn by the appended drawings.
Dated this 1st day of April 1892.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
4, Moorfields, Fore Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicants.