IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRT COLLARS AND FRONTS OF PAPER OR ANALOGOUS MATERIAL
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Young, Manager of the Paper Collar
Department of Messieurs John Paterson and Company, of 5 and 6,
Staining Lane, in the Oity of London, Manufacturers, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRT COLLARS AND FRONTS OF PAPER OR
ANALOGOUS MATERIAL."
"
Sealed the 1st December 1874, and dated the 15th September 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Young at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
15th September 1874.
I, JOSEPH YOUNG, Manager of the Paper Collar Department of
Messieurs John Paterson and Company, 5 and 6, Staining Lane, in the
City of London, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIRT COLLARS AND FRONTS OF PAPER OR
ANALOGOUS MATERIAL," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates particularly to those collars and fronts composed
wholly of paper or of paper and linen or other fabric combined. In the
making of these articles hitherto the practice has been to make them

page_text: from separate pieces, so that each can be arranged by the wearer upon
himself as different articles, but it has been found an inconvenient
method since the nature of the material prevented the button holes
remaining intact during the buttoning operation, and often caused
difficulties is getting the collar to take on to the stud of the front in
addition to a want of "sett " on the bosom of the wearer and an
exposure of his neck where one should overlap the other.
Now my Invention consists in combining a paper collar with a paper
front, these being cut from separate pieces and united by glue or other
adhesive material.
The band of the collar is preferably made with serrated edges or flaps
projecting from the lower edge, which when folded to the curvature of
the top edge of the front are attached to the under side of the "front."
By my Invention I dispenso with the neck band on the front, the
collar proper and the front being then as one piece of material in,
appearance.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Young in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 15th March 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH 2
YOUNG, Manager of the Paper Collar Department of Messieurs John
Paterson and Company, of 5 and 6, Staining Lane, in the City of
London, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of September, in the year 2
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Joseph Young, Her special licence
that I, the said Joseph Young, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph Young, my executors, 3
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and

page_text: vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SHIRT COLLARS AND FRONTS OF PAPER OR ANALOGOUS MATERIAL," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph Young, my exe-
cutors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the
Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Young, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :—
.
This Invention relates particularly to those collars and fronts composed
wholly of paper or of paper and linen or other fabric combined. In
the making of these articles hitherto the practise has been to make them
from separate pieces, so that each can be arranged by the wearer upon
himself as different articles, but it has been found an inconvenient
method since the nature of the material prevented the button holes
remaining intact during the buttoning operation, and often caused diffi-
culties in getting the collar to take on to the stud of the front, in
addition to a want of "sett " on the bosom of the wearer and an
exposure of his neck where (one) part of the collar should overlap the
(other) part of the front.
Now my Invention consists in combining a paper collar with a paper
front, these being cut from separate pieces and united by glue or other
adhesive material.
The band of the collar is preferably made with serrated edges or flaps
projecting from the lower edge, and which when folded to the curvature
of the top edge of the front are attached to the under side of the
front.
By my Invention I dispense with the neck band on the front, the
'collar proper and the front being then as one piece of material, in
appearance.
The manner in which I prefer to carry my Invention into practice is
represented in the accompanying Drawings, in which Figure 1 shows a

page_text: collar a with turn-down flaps b, b. The lower edge of the collar band
at each end has a series of serrated tips c, c, to be bent over along the
dotted line d, d, and then cemented prior to being stuck upon the neck
portions ff, of the front, the two pieces g, h, of which are shown
separately in Figure 2. One of these pieces g has a projecting tip or
flap i on the top edge of the front line j, which when the serrations of
the collar for that side piece of the front are cemented on is turned back
after being itself cemented and creased, and caused to adhere to the
uncemented surface of the outer serrated tip of the collar marked e to
prevent the front and the collar tearing asunder at that part. It also
gives additional strength and rigidity at the part most liable to fracture.
The other piece h of the front proper has a portion of the front edge k
creased back, as shown by the line 1, 1, which portion, like a strip, can
be folded back to enable a smooth edge to be presented on the over-
lapping piece when the front is studded or buttoned up. The portion is
retained in the folded condition by creasing and by cement at the upper
part where it is connected by an overlap to the edge portion of the
serrated tip e¹.
The backs of the neck parts of the front pieces have extensions on
them which are to be folded under at the lines m, m, and cemented to
attach them to the back serrated tips marked e¹, e", of the collar, which
fold over gives great strength at the back of the neck parts and prevents
tear.
The parts being cut or stamped, as in Figures 1 and 2, form, when
cemented together and bent, as in Figure 3, a perfect false front and
collar combined, the usual neck band of the front piece being dispensed
with.
The material may be of any kind, but I prefer paper with a linen face
so that it has the appearance of an ordinary shirt front. It can be worn
over a coloured or other flannel shirt, or any other kind of shirt, the
advantages derived being :-
1. Improved fit,
2. Non-liability to tear.

page_text: is, the improvements in shirt collars and fronts of paper or analogous
material, as set forth and substantially as shown.
Secondly. I claim cutting a shirt collar from paper or analogous
material with projections or tip flaps, by which attachment by a cement
or otherwise can be made with a shirt front proper of paper or analogous
material to form a combined collar and front, as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Young, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of March, One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-five.