US337176A - Collar - Google Patents

Description

G. N. MARCH.

(ModeL) COLLAR.

Patented Mar. 2, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE N. MARCH, OF WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE FIBERLENE COLLAR COMPANY, OF

PORTLAND, MAINE.

COLLAR.

QPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,176, dated March 2, 1886.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE N. MARCH, of Watertown, in the county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Collars, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, in which the figure is an isometrical perspective view of my improved collar represented as buttoned or provided with a stud.

My invention relates to thatolass of ladies collars which are provided with capes; and it consists in a collar having its body or upper portion composed of paper or cloth-faced paper and provided with a narrow overturned flap and a cape composed of cloth or muslin, the cape being attached to the body by a row or series of stitches, all as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, the object being to produce a new article of manufacture which is cheaper than an all-linen collar of the same general character, and more desirable than a collar having its body and cape both made of cloth-faced paper.

The nature of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation, its extreme simplicity rendering an elaborate description unnecessary.

In the drawing, A represents the body, B the cape, and C the flap. The body A is composed of the ordinary cloth-faced paper used in the manufacture of cheap collars, and is provided at its upper edge with a flap, C, which is united with the body along the upper edge thereof, and which is otherwise free. This flap is designed to be turned down or folded inward against the inner face of the body, and when the upper edge of the collar becomes soiled from wear the collar is turned inside out and the flap C is raised and folded down upon the opposite side of the collar, so as to be on the inside thereof when the collar is reversed. This reverse folding of the flap covers the soiled surface, and exposes a clean surface along the upper'edge of the collar on both sides thereof.

The cape B is of the ordinary form and construction employedin all cloth or linen collars, being composed of thin cloth, muslin, or linen, and attached to the lower portion of the body A by means ofa row or series ofstitches, at, two or more'rows being used, if required.

The cloth-faced paper used in the manufacture of collars is nearly impervious to both water and air, and hence for obvious reasons is unfitted for constructing the cape of the collar, while a collar having its body composed of linen and its cape of linen or muslin is more expensive than is always desirable. It is also unusual to provide a collar which has a cape with an overturned flap, as such collars are generally made of linen, which renders this impracticable.

My improvement is designed to obviate these objections by enabling a collar to be produced which is not only cheap, but possesses all of the advantages, so far as the cape is concerned, of an all-linen collar, while at the same time it is free from all of the objections which would result from the use of cloth-faced paper in the construction of the cape, and is adapted to be turned inside out or reversed.

Having thus explained my invention, What I claim is l. Aladys collar comprisingacollar proper, A, provided at its upper edge with a folding flap adapted to fold inward or outward for rendering the collar reversible, and acape attached to the lower edge of said collar, substantially as described.

2. A ladys collar comprising a collar proper composed of paper or cloth-faced paper and provided at its upper edge with a folding flap adapted to fold inward or outward for rendering the collar reversible, and a cape composed of cloth stitched at its upper edge to the lower edge of said collar, substantially as described.

GEORGE N. MARCH.

Witnesses:

C. A. SHAW, L. J. WHITE.

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