Improvements in Dress Collars.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 5th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 11th Nov., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dress Collars.
I, THOMAS HENRY COLLINS of 7 The Square, Cathedral Yard, Saint Lawrance,
Winchester, in the County of Hampshire, Hairdresser, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in gentlemen's youth's and lady's dress
collars, and portable shirt frouts to which collars are attached, the said improve-
ments being not in the shape or style of the collar but in the means provided for
readily and easily attaching and detaching the same to and from the back button
or stud upon the neck band of the shirt.
A great difficulty is often experienced in perfecting the engagement of the hole
in the back of the collar, with the button or stud upon the back of the shirt band,
arising from, either the hole in the collar being too small for the said button or
stud, or that the collar is too stiff through over dressing, or both, and a like
difficulty generally exists in removing the collar after wear, which sometimes
culminates in the breaking of the button or stud, or the hole in the collar, or both,
and to prevent these annoyances and overcome these difficulties is the object and
purpose of my invention, and I attain this by forming in the back of the collar, a
slit or abnormally long button hole, lengthwise with the collar, and which
commences at the centre of the back of the collar, or where the button hole would
be in the usual way, and extends for an inch more or less in the direction of the
right hand end of the collar, and terminates in a preferably circular hole, of larger
diameter than any button or stud likely to be used at the back of the shirt band,
and the collar, would be fastened by passing the said hole over the stul or button,
and then pulling the collar to the right, which would have the effect of placing the
button or stud at the end of the slit farthest from the hole in the collar, when the ends
of the collar may engage with the button or stud in the front of the shirt neck
band in the usual way. The reverse of this operation would as easily remove
the collar from the back stud or button.
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GEO. THOS. HYDE,
4, Moorfields, Fore Street, Loudoir, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dress Collars.
I, THOMAS HENRY COLLINS, of 7, The Square, Cathedral Yard, Saint Lawrance,
Winchester, in the County of Hampshire, Hairdresser, 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 gentlemens, youths and ladys dress
collars, and portable shirt fronts, to which collars are attached, the said improve-
ments being, not in the shape or style of the collar, but in the means provided for
readily and easily attaching and detaching the same to and from the back button
or stud upon the neck band of the shirt.
A great difficulty is often experienced in perfecting the engagement of the hole
in the back of the collar, with the button or stud upon the back of the shirt band,
arising from, either the hole in the collar being too small for the button or stud, or
that the collar is too stiff through overdressing, or both, and a like difficulty

page_text: generally exists in removing the collar after wear, which sometimes ends in the
breaking of the button or stud, or the hole in the collar, or both, and to prevent
these annoyances and overcome these difficulties is the object and purpose of my
invention.
To render my invention more clearly understood I have hereunto appended a
sheet of drawings in which :-
Fig. 1 is a front view of a collar provided with the improvements constituting
my invention.
Fig. 2 is a view shewing the first position of the same, as the hole is being placed
over the back button or stud upon the shirt band.
Fig. 3 is a view shewing the said collar as it would appear when fixed upon the
said stud or button.
In carrying my invention into effect I form in the back of a collar A, which may
be of any style or shape of those in general use, a slit or abnormally long button
hole B, lengthwise with the collar A, and which commences at the centre of the
length thereof, or thereabouts, or in other words, where the button hole would be
in the usual way, and extends for an inch more or less in the direction of the right
or left hand end of the collar A, preferably the former, and terminates in a prefer-
ably circular hole C, of larger diameter than any button or stud likely to be used
at the back of the shirt band G, and the back of the collar A would be fastened by
passing the said hole C, over the stud or button D upon G, and then pulling the
collar A in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 2, which would have the effect
of placing the button or stud D, at the end of the slit B, farthest from the hole C,
in the collar A, as at Fig. 3, when the ends E, of the collar A, may engage with
the button or stud F in the front of the shirt neck band G, in the usual way. The
reverse of this operation would as easily remove the collar A from the back stud
or button D.
My invention equally applies to the collar portions of gentlemens youths
aud ladys portable shirt fronts, and may be arranged in connection therewith,
and for the same purpose, as that described relatively to the collar A.
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
In combination with any style of gentlemen or ladys dress collars A, or the collar
of portable shirt fronts, the application thereto of a longitudinally disposed slit B,
terminating in an abnormally large hole C, substantially as and for the purposes
herein described and shewn by the accompanying drawing.
Dated this day of October 1893.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
4, Moorfields, Fore Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.