Improvements in Collars for Personal Wear.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Jan., 1896-Accepted, 29th Feb., 1896
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Collars for Personal Wear.
1, EDGAR TOWELL of Osborne Villas, Barlow Moor Road, Didsbury, in the
County of Lancaster, Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to collars for personal wear, and its object is to provide
means in and upon the collars for retaining the neckties or the like in position low
down at the back of the neck.
In carrying out my invention, I omit the usual button hole at the back of the
collar, and at about the position usually occupied by it I sew a tab upon the
collar. The button hole may either be formed in the tab or between it and
the bottom edge of the collar as may be preferred. In all cases however, the
bottom of the tab extends below the local bottom edge of the collar and below the.
button hole, so that the neck-tie can be passed under it and be held down thereby.
I may advantageously cut away a portion of the bottom of the collar in the
neighbourhood of the tab, so that the local bottom edge is higher than the
remainder of the bottom edge. In this case the top edge of the neck-tie at
the tab can come higher than the normal lower edge of the collar. I usually
prefer to form the button hole in the tab, which is attached to the inside of the
collar, so that it is covered or partly covered by the material of the collar when in
wear.
The tab may be of any suitable construction, or it may be formed with two
wings which are sewn upon the collar. If these wings are close together, -the
button hole may be formed by their contiguous edges, or, if at a little distance
apart, it may be formed between the top edge of the intermediate part of the tab
and the bottom edge of the collar.
Dated this 16th day of December A.D. 1895.
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Collars for Personal Wear.
I, EDGAR TOWELL of Osborne Villa Barlow Moor Road, Didsbury, in the
County of Lancaster, Agent, 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 :-
This invention relates to collars for personal wear and its object is to provide
means in and upon the collars for retaining the neckties and the like in position
low down at the back of the neck.
In carrying out my invention I omit the usual button hole at the back of the
collar, and at about the position usually occupied by it, I sew a tab upon the collar.
The button hole may be formed either in the tab or between it and the bottom
edge of the collar as may be preferred. In all cases however the bottom of the
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page_text: tab extends below the local bottom edge of the collar and below the button hole,
so that the necktie can be passed under it and be held down thereby.
I will further describe my said invention with reference to the accompanying
drawings, in which Figures 1 and 2 shew perspective views taken from the front
and back respectively of a "stand-up" collar for gentlemen's wear, in which my
improvements are embodied. It will be understood that these improvements
may be similarly applied to other descriptions of collars for ladies as well as
gentlemen.
Tindicates the tab, sewn or secured upon the inside, at the back of the collar
and having a button hole formed in it. I curve or cut away a portion of the back
of the collar in the neighbourhood of the tab as shewn for example in each of the
figures, so that the local bottom edge is higher than the 'remainder of the bottom
edge. In this case, the top edge of the necktie N can, at the tab, come higher
than the normal lower edge of the collar, as shewn in Figures 1 and 2 and it will
be clipped between the collar and the tab. I usually prefer to form the button
hole in the tab in such a position that it is partly covered by the material of the
collar when in wear, as indicated in Figure 2.
The tab may be of any suitable construction. For example it may be formed
with two wings which are sewn upon the collar as indicated in Figures 3 and 4!
A strip of linen is doubled and sewn along its edges. At the point a this strip
is folded over at right angles, and is again folded at right angles at the point b
thus bringing the two wings w parallel with each other. These wings are then
sewn or secured upon the inside of the collar as indicated. The narrow slit left
between the two wings forms the button hole 1. The construction shewn by
Figure 4 differs in having the wings folded at a greater distance apart. The wings
are sewn upon the collar in this case in such a position that the local bottom edge
of the collar and the top edge of the strip between the wings constitute the button
hole has indicated.
If it should not be desired to ensure that the top edge of the necktie or the like
should be above the lower edge of the collar, at the back, in wear, the curving or
cutting away of the collar at the back so as to raise the local edge may be
omitted:
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I déclare that what I
claim is :-
1. The hereinbefore described improvements in collars for personal wear which
consist in omitting the usual back button hole and in attaching to the lower part
of the back of the collar. an inside tab extending below the local bottom edge of
the collar with a button hole formed therein or in connection therewith, sub-
stantially as hereinbefore set forth and as illustrated by the accompanying
drawings.
2. In connection with collars for personal wear, a two winged tab attached to
the back of the collar and having a button hole constituted between the two wings,
substantially as and for the purpose herein before described and as illustrated by
the accompanying (drawings...
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Dated: this: 22nd day of AD 1906