Improved Means for Securing or Fastening Shirtbands, Collars, and Cuffs.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 19th May, 1896-Accepted, 11th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Securing or Fastening Shirtbands, Collars,
and Cuffs.
HENRY ALBERT DAVIS "Tregenvor" Bromley, Kent, Patentee and Manu-
facturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My improvement consists in making a stud with a broad & flat stem in com-
bination with shirt & collar button holes, and in order to use the stud to obtain
the full advantage of my, improvement it will be necessary to make shirt & collar
button holes in a perpendicular form instead of borizontally. It is obvious that the
stud having a flat stem it will fill up and fit better the button hole, and will not
twist, and being maintained in its right position by the button holes all the strain
and friction will be upon the flat side of the stud stem, so that the button
holes will not be worn and enlarged as they now are by the use of the ordinary
studs.
This improvement is applicable to all studs and cuff links.
Improved Means for Securing or Fastening Shirtbands, Collars,
and Cuffs.
I, HENRY ALBERT DAVIS, of Tregenvor, Bromley, in the County of Kent,
Patentee and Manufacturer, 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 is designed to provide for securing or fastening shirt-bands,
collars and cuffs in such a manner as to obviate the liability to enlargement of the
stud-holes or button-holes by the wear of the same at one end thereof which
frequently takes place with the studs and stud-holes or button-holes as heretofore
made.
It is usual to make the neck-bands and wrist-bands of shirts, and also collars
and cuffs with horizontal stud-holes or button-holes to receive the stud for securing
the shirt and collar or cuff. In consequence of this mode of making the said holes,
all the stress comes upon the end or bar of the stud-hole or button-hole, thus
causing rapid wear of the same, with the result that the stud-holes or button-holes
become leugthened and enlarged generally, so that the collar or cuff is apt to be
very easily detached from the shirt, and the said holes are liable to be torn open
at the outer end; and, in the case of neck-bands and collars, such lengthening of
the holes impairs the fit of the same, causing discomfort to the wearer.
According to my invention, I obviate these defects and inconveniences as follows,
vis. Instead of making the said stud-holes or button-holes horizontal as hereto-
fore, I make the same vertical, and I employ a stud with a broad and flat shank
or stem which, when the said stud is in place, will also be vertical, and, being
maintained in its proper position by the button-holes, all the stress and friction will
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page_text: be upon the flat sides of the shank or stem of the stud, so that the vertical stud-
holes or button-boles will not be worn and enlarged as the horizontal stud-holes or
button-holes have heretofore been by the ordinary studs, consequently the shirt-
bands, collars, and cuffs will be rendered much more durable,
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the stud which I employ.
Figure 2 is a view of the same looking at the edge of the shank.
Figure 3 is a section on the line x, x, Figure 2.
Figure 4 is a view showing parts of the neck-band of the shirt.
Figure 5 is a front view showing the two ends of the collar.
My improvements, as applied to the neck-bands of shirts and to collars, will be
clearly understood on reference to the drawing. It will also be clear how I can
apply my improvements to the wristbands of shirts and to cuffs to be secured
thereto, the wrist-band being made with the stud-holes or button-holes to receive
the stud arranged perpendicularly instead of horizontally, and the stud-hole or
button-hole in the middle of the cuff or in a tab formed thereon being similarly
arranged.
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. A shirt-band having the stud-holes or button-holes for fastening the same
arranged perpendicularly, as, and for the purpose, above specified.
Second. A collar or cuff having the stud-holes or button-holes in the ends thereof
arranged perpendicularly, as, and for the purpose, above specified.
Dated this rock da. ionc
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 & 12 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.