Improvements in and relating to Collars and Cuffs, and Means for Fastening the same.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Feb., 1890-Accepted, 5th Apr., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Collars and Cuffs, and Means for
Fastening the same.
I, HENRY COGGILL MILLIGAN, residing at Milligan Place, corner of Academy Street.
South Orange, near Jersey, in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey, one of
the United States of America, Gentleman, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in collars and cuffs of zylonite or other
analogous water-proof material, the object being to provide such collars and cuffs with
a permanent fastening means, and thus avoid the necessity of button-holes.
To this end my invention consists in a collar or cuff composed of zylonite or other
analogous water-proof material provided with a permanent fastening comprising two
parts or members, one of which is connected to one flap of the collar or cuff, and is
adapted to engage the other member, which is connected to the other flap of the collar
or cuff to lock the two together.
My invention also includes a button-shaped extension to one member.by means of
which the collar or cuff can be attached to the shirt.
In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention―
Figure 1, is a perspective view of my improvement secured to a collar;
Figure 2, represents my improvement secured to a cuff;
Figure 3, shows the fastener separated into its parts;
Figure 4, is a side view of the fastener connected, the collar and cuff being shown
in section, and
Figures 5 and 6, represent a modification of my invention, which I prefer to use
for the top button of a cuff.
In carrying out my invention, I prefer to employ, as illustrated in the accompanying
drawings, a button composed of the two parts or members, a, b. The part, a, com-
prises a shank, a, which extends through the collar or cuff and is riveted thereto by
the flanges, a³, a³, the shank, a¹, terminates at one end in a button shaped extension, a³,
and at the other end in a stud, a. In the modification shown in Figures 5 and 6, the
button shaped extension, a*, is omitted. The part, b, comprises a shank, 61, which
extends through the collar or cuff and is riveted thereto by means of a button-shaped
head, 63, and a flange, 63, centrally recessed at, 6. The two parts, a, b, are engaged
or disengaged by forcing the stud, a³, into or out of the recess, 64.
My invention is designed to overcome the disadvantages attending the present con-
struction of zylonite or other water-proof detachable collars and cuffs and which lies
in the fact that as at present constructed they are formed with button-holes in their
meeting edges, which button-holes are intended to receive some sort of fastening
device made separable from the collar or cuff.
The ordinary button-hole in this class of goods soon becomes distorted or broken,
and in view of the peculiar character of the material of which the collar or cuff is
made, the auxiliary or separate fastening device is liable, when in place, to produce a
disagreeable rattling noise, and tend to discolor the collar or cuff.
With my improvement I provide an article of manufacture which overcomes entirely
all the disadvantages experienced in the class of goods referred to, and I produce a
detachable collar or cuff, which is provided with permanent fastening devices which
form a part of the structure as a whole, which are never displaced, and which subserve
in a much better manner the functions of the ordinary button-holes.
I am of course aware that it is not new to provide a steel collar with a metallic stud
and eye similar to a corset fastening, and that the collar portion of ladies' dresses and
military coats have been provided with permanently attached means for securing the
meeting edges, and that the flexible wrist portion of gloves has been provided with

page_text: permanent fastening devices, I therefore do not wish to make any such broad claim as
would cover any such devices, my invention relating solely to that class of goods or
articles of wearing apparel which are made separable from other garments, and are
specifically known and designated in the trade as. "Collars" and "Cuffs."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is―
First As a new article of manufacture, a detachable water-proof cuff or collar,
provided at each of its meeting or overlapping edges with a permanent fastening
device interlocking the one with the other for the purpose. of connecting such
overlapping edges, in contradistinction to and in lieu of the usual button-holes, sub-
stantially as herein before set forth.
Second A collar of water-proof material provided with a permanent fastening
which takes the place of button-holes and a stud, the said fastening comprising two
parts or members, one of which is rigidly and permanently fixed to one flap of the
collar, and is constructed with an extension, a*, to engage a button-hole in a shirt, and
the other member of which is rigidly and permanently fixed to the other flap of the
collar and adapted to engage the first named member to unite the ends of the collar
and adapt it to be applied to a shirt, substantially as described.
Dated this 11th day of Feb 1900
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.