US3363263A

US3363263A - Shirt collar construction

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Publication number: US3363263A
Application number: US491338A
Authority: US
Inventors: Sidney D Blue
Original assignee: Sidney D. Blue
Current assignee: Cluett Peabody and Co Inc; SIDNEY D BLUE
Priority date: 1965-09-29
Filing date: 1965-09-29
Publication date: 1968-01-16
Anticipated expiration: 1985-01-16
Also published as: ES124874Y; DE1262177B; FI40277B; AT280917B; NL145750B; CH447079A; ES124874U; BE686178A; NL6613631A; SE309397B; GB1144807A; IL26460A

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Jan. 16, 1968 s. D. BLUE SHIRT COLLAR CONSTRUCTION 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 I INVENTOR.

SIDNEY D. BLUE BY 4 z 6 A RNEY TIE c 2 Filed Sept. 29, 1965 Jan. 16, 1968 s. D. BLUE 3,363,253

SHIRT COLLAR CONSTRUCTION Filed Sept. 29, 1965 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 WARP WARP

INVENTOR.

SIDNEY D. BLUE ATTORNEYS.

Jan. 16, 1968 s. D. BLUE 3,363,263

SHIRT COLLAR CONSTRUCTION Filed Sept. 29, 1965 3 SheetsSheet 5 1 iTR:r//v

I NVENTOR.

SIDNEY D. BLUE A TTORNEYS.

United States Patent 3,363,263 SHIRT COLLAR CDNSTRUCTION Sidney D. Blue, 605 Park Ave., New York, N.Y. 10021 Filed Sept. 29, 1965, Ser. No. 491,338 Claims. (Cl. 2--116) This invention relates in general to dress and sport shirt constructions and more particularly to men and boys shirts having attached starchless collars.

Further, the invention provides improvements to the shirt collar constructions disclosed in my United States Letters Patent Nos. 2,935,749, issued May 10, 1960, and 3,114,152, issued Dec. 17, 1963.

The typical attached collars on shirts consist of a neckband portion with a turned down collar or cape portion. Usually, in dress shirts those portions are separately cut, but it is not uncommon to use a collar in which the neckband and cape portions are cut in one piece and made to perform their separate functions by an arrangement of separately cut interlinings that are spaced apart along their longitudinal edge so as to form a line of demarcation between the two portions. The line of demarcation between the cape portion and the neckband portion or a portion which may serve that purpose, is commonly called the fold line and, usually where the cape and standing neckband are separately cut, coincides with the joint between the cape and the neckband. Often the line of demarcation between the folded down cape portion and the neckband portion becomes visible particularly in the front area if the tie is allowed to be slackened, resulting in an unsightly area of the upper edge of the neckband portion to be seen above the tie lmot. This unsightly appearance is often related to the fact that some shrinkage occurs in the collar over a period of time irrespective of the fact that the cloth may be pre-shrunk. As the collar shrinks, it becomes more difficult to have the tie knot hold the collar in its proper place. Thus, the wearer will slacken the knot allowing it to drop below the fold line and since the fold line and the top edge of the overlapped neckband ends are in alignment the entire elfect of the tie and the collar becomes unsightly.

In sport shirts, since the collar is generally of one piece construction, there is no separately cut neckband portion. The portion of the collar that assumes the function of a neckband is a crescent shaped area which tapers toward the front of the collar, hence there is no space, as such, to accommodate a necktie knot at the front of the collar. Thus, when a necktie is worn with such shirts, the knot forces the cape ends upwardly into an unanticipated and uncontrolled fold which presents an unsightly appearance.

In the shirt construction shown in my patents, 2,935,749 and 3,114,152, where the cape portion is separately cut, the top edge of the standing neckband portion adjacent the confronting cape edges sometimes becomes visible if the tie is allowed to be slackened.

There are three usual types of collar capes on dress shirts. The most popular type is the classic pointed cape in which a plastic'stay or a semi-rigid fusible fabric patch is incorporated to hold the cape edges and points in a straight or flat lying position. The second most popular collar cape is one provided with buttonholes at the points to be engaged with corresponding buttons sewn on the shirt front. In this button-down type, fashion dictates that the confronting edges of the cape take a curvilinear line around the tie knot. This roll effect is created by positioning the buttons relative to the buttonholes so as to obtain a billowing fullness in the front portions of the cape.

The least popular type of cape includes those with short points, rounded or square, whose edges are fastened around the tie knot by cooperating tabs or by being pinned together.

The present invention has as one of its objects to provide an attached collar construction which eliminates the unsightliness of a line of fabric, such as the upper edge of the neckband portion, showing above a slackened tie knot or the joint between the cape and neckband portion appearing above a slackened tie knot. By constructing the collar so that, at the confronting ends of the collar cape portion, the fold line of the collar is displaced upwardly from the normal line of demarcation, a new, positively controlled, fold line is created at least adjacent the confronting ends of the cape which will eflfectively prevent the upper edge of the neckband from showing. Moreover, whether the shirt construction be a conventional one in which the ends of the neckband are over lapped and held by a button or that typified by my Patent 2,935,749, the displacement of the fold line, in accordance with the present invention, will prevent a line of neckband fabric from showing above the slackened tie knot.

The present invention has as a further object to provide a collar designed to have a curvilinear roll around the tie knot, whereby the intended rolled surface of the cape will be prevented from collapsing into unsightly folds or creases.

Thus, the present invention incorporated in dress or sport shirts having an attached collar construction displaces the normal fold line upwardly to provide a new controlled fold line in the upper ends at least at the confronting edges of the cape portion for a short distance extending from such edges so that at the front of the collar the cape will fall or drape downwardly from a position that is above the former uncontrolled fold line whereby a natural cradle for the tie knot is formed which, when the tie knot is positioned, avoids the unsightliness described above. Additionally, the present invention causes the controlled upward displacement of the forward sections of the normal fold line in combination with various means of maintaining the collar cape edges and points in a neat position.

The present invention, therefore, provides a shirt with attached collar in which there is a cloth body having a neck opening in which the collar, including a neckband portion, is secured at its lower edge to the body of the shirt along the edge of the neck opening. A collar cape portion extends downwardly from the top of the neckband portion to form a normal fold line at the line of demarcation between the neckband and the cape portions with an elongated semi-rigid member in the cape portion lying astraddle the normal fold line and which extends along the normal fold line at least for a short distance from the edges of the confronting ends of the cape portion while the upper longitudinal edge of the semi-rigid insert forms a new fold line for such a distance at the confronting ends of the cape portion. This construction upwardly displaces the fold line of the cape portion for such distance near the confronting ends of the cape from its normal line of demarcation between the cape and neckband portion.

The invention further provides a shirt which provides the upwardly displaced fold line with an addition of a cape roll support device which extends along the edge of each confronting end of the cape and wherein the device is permanently secured in position and is made of semi-rigid cloth in which its warp direction is generally parallel to the edge of the cape ends to provide an attached collar contrstruction which remains neat and trim under all conditions of wear and which maintains the desired roll of the confronting ends of the cape.

The invention still further provides a collar construction in which the upward displacement of the fold line is obtained by a semi-rigid cloth insert which is permanently secured in position and extends a short distance from the edges of the confronting ends of the cape porportion 22 of tion so as to provide a shirt collar that will launder well and continue to maintain a neat appearance without adding to the normal manufacturing cost of the shirt.

The advantages of the invention and the ways in which it meets the foregoing described problems and attains its desired objects will be apparent from the following detailed'description of various embodiments of the invention which will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings as follows:

FIGURE 1 is a fragmentary front elevation of an attached shirt collar with one of the collar points being bent upwardly illustrating the present invention;

FIGURE 2 is a fragmentary front elevation similar to FIGURE 1 showing the invention applied to a buttondown shirt collar construction;

FIGURE 3 is a plan view of one-half of the interlining for the cape portion of the collar of FIGURE 1 prior to assembly;

FIGURE 4 is a plan view of one-half of the interlining for the cape portion of the collar of FIGURE 2 prior to assembly;

FIGURE 5 is a plan view similar to FIGURE 3 illustrating only one-half of a cape interlining in which there is an alternate embodiment of the present invention;

FIGURE 6 is another plan view similar to FIGURE 4 illustrating a further alternate embodiment;

FIGURE 7 is a full plan view of the interlining of a one-piece collar construction embodying the present 'invention;

FIGURE 8 is a full plan view of a sport shirt collar embodying the present invention;

FIGURE 9 is a vertical section through the collar of FIGURE 1 taken along the line 9-9 thereof;

FIGURE 10 is a vertical section taken through the collar of FIGURE 2 along line 19-10 thereof;

FIGURE 11 is a fragmentary vertical section of the collar of FIGURE taken along line 11-11 thereof; and

FIGURE 12 is a fragmentary front elevation view of a one-piece attached shirt collar with one collar point bent upwardly to expose the embodiment of FIGURE 7.

Referring to FIGURES 1 and 9, there is shown a shirt having an attached collar made acording to my Patent 2,935,749, and employing the present invention in which the numeral 10 designates the shirt generally- The shirt consists of the usual body made up. of

front panels

12, 14, having edges overlapping lengthwise at the center of the shirt front and which are connected in the usual manner to the yoke portion (not shown) of the shirt. The

front panels

12, 14 and the yoke have the usual neck opening I6 to which there is attached a collar 18, the collar having a neckband portion which is secured at its lower edge 20A to the body of the shirt at the neck opening 16 while the collar 18 hasa cape portion 22 which, in its normal wearing position, extends slightly upward and then downwardly from the top 20B of the neckband portion.

On one side of the drawing of FIGURE 1, the cape portion 22 is shown upstanding in order to reveal more of the details of the construction embodying the present invention. This figure and the other illustrations of the invention are intended to show the application of the present invention to ordinary or typical shirt constructions in which the neckband portion 20 includes an outer facing or ply 24 (FIGURE 9) and a coextensive inner facing or ply 26, both made of shirting material which may be the same as that used for the shirt body, and interlining .28 disposed between the

facings

24, 26 and formed of the usual collar lining material. Similarly, the top or cape the collar includes an outer facing 30 and an inner facing 32 formed of shirting material and an interlining 34 disposed between

facings

30 and 32 and formed of the usual collar lining material. Additionally, there is sometimes included afusible lining 35 fused to the underside-of the customary interlining 34 and with its end and bottom edges substantially coextensive with the corresponding finished edges of the cape and with its top longitudinal edge terminating at a suitable distance from the normal fold line to provide a soft flexible area at the fold line while providing added firmness throughout the balance of the cape portion. As is usual in the construction of two-piece attached collars, that is collars having separately cut neckband and cape portions, the several layers of the neck-band portion 20 and the cape portion 22 of the collar 18 are cut with the longitudinal edges thereof which are eventually to be secured together haying different arcs or curvatures so that the neckband of normal curvilinear form will, as it naturally falls into a truncated or frusto-conical shape, hug the tapered neck of the wearer while the cape portion of the collar will fall slightly away from the neckband to provide space therebetween in which a necktie can easily slide. Further, the end edges 36 and 38 of the facings and the interlining 34 of the cape portion 22 are cut an angles to the longitudinal axis of the cape portion to form collar points. The end edges 36 and 38 and the lower or outer edges of

facings

30 and 32 and interlining 34 are turned inwardly and secured together along with the interposed interlining by stitching 46.

In initially securing the neckband portion 20 and cape portion 22, as shown in FIGURE 9, the longitudinal edge of the cape portion 22, which appears adjacent the top of the latter in the completed collar 18, is interposed between the corresponding longitudinal edges of the

facings

24 and 26 of the neckband portion 20 with the interlining of the neckband portion disposed against the inwardly directed surface of facing 26, and finishing stitching 48 is employed to secure, in an inwardly turned position, the described interleaved longitudinal margins of the facings and interlinings of the neckband portion 20 together with cape portion 22. The finishing stitching 48 further secures together the outer finished edges of the inturned margins of the

facings

24 and 26 and inter lining 28 along the ends of the neckband portion 20.

Thus, the construction provides, at the juncture of the cape portion 22 with the neckband 20, a normal fold line which extends along the upper edge 20B of the neckband' portion dueto the securement of the two portions by the finishing stitching 48. The normal fold line.

serted between the

facings

30 and 32 of the collar cape portion 22 and positioned so that it longitudinally extends astraddle or across the normal fold line or line of demarcation that extends along the upper edge, 20B of the,

neckband. The semi-rigid member 50 extends along the normal fold line preferably a short distance from the

edges

36 and 38 of the confronting ends of the cape portion 22 with the upper longitudinal edge 50A placed a small distance above the top edge 20B of the neckband and is secured in position by the stitching 48 so that when the cape 22 is folded downwardly, the cape portion has its fold line displaced upwardly the distance that the upper edge 50A is above the upper edge 20B of the I neckband for a short longitudinal distance from the confronting ends of the cape portion. Thus, a new fold line is formed for such short longitudinal distance where the fold line is displaced slightly upwardly in the vicinity.

of the place where the necktie knot would normally be placed, with the downfolded upper. edge 22A of the cape following along the edges of the upper longitudinal edge 59A of the semi-rigid member 50 and the thus displaced fold line then merging into the normal line of demarcal tion or fold line at a point I some distance from the

edges

36 and 38 of the confronting ends of the cape portion. This natural juncture at the point I allows the folded cape to naturally fall into the normal fold line by virtue of the fact that the upper longitudinal edge 50A is gradually curved downwardly toward the normal fold linethat runs along the upper edge 20B of the neckband. Of course, the semi-rigid member may extend beyond the point I if desired so as to displace the normal fold line upwardly for any desired longitudinal extent.

The remaining illustrations in the application show alternative attached collar constructions which include several additional embodiments of the present invention. All of these constructions will not be described in detail except as to the portions of the construction which deal with the present invention. Therefore, for the purpose of description, like parts will be given a sufiix number that is the same as the number used in connection with the embodiment shown in FIGURE 1 and, in addition, will have a prefix number in various hundredth series, that distinguishes each of the embodiments; i.e., seam 48 will appear as 148, 248, 348, etc.

Accordingly, FIGURE 2 with its associated sectional FIGURES and 11 show the invention embodied in a typical button-down collar configuration, the general shirt being designated in the one hundred series as 110 with the collar being 118, the neckband portion 12%) and the cape portion 122. As can be seen with reference to the numerals in FIGURES 10 and 11, the conventional portions of the collar construction have received the numerals as described with FIGURE 1 with the prefix of 100. In this embodiment, the neckband has the typical buttoned closure in which the ends of the neckband 120 are overlapped in much the same manner as the

panels

112 and 114 of the shirt front are overlapped and secured by the button as illustrated. The cape portion 122 is displaced upwardly in a manner similar to that described with respect to FIGURE 1 by an elongated semi-rigid member 159 which is arranged astraddle seam 148 so that the upper longitudinal edge 150A extends slightly above the normal fold line or line of demarcation that runs along the upper edge 1203 of the neckband, thus causing the cape portion 122, when folded down in the manner as shown on the righthand side of FIGURE 2 to have the fold line displaced upwardly for a short longitudinal distance from the

edges

136, 138 of the confronting ends of the cape portion. Further, the upper longitudinal edge 150A of the fold displacer 159 is gradually curved downwardly to the left, as viewed in FIGURE 2, toward the normal fold line of the neckband and allows the gradual merging of the displaced fold line with the normal fold line in the vicinity of the semi-rigid member 150 which occurs at juncture point 109].

In addition to the fold displacer 150 in FIGURE 2, there is shown that the displacer 150 is the base leg of an inverted L-shaped semi-rigid member with the vertical or upright leg 152 extending along the confronting

edges

138, 136 from the displaced fold line or upper inner edge 150A of the fold displacer toward the point 122B of the cape portion. This upright leg 152 acts as a stiffener device which insures that the desired roll effect in the button-down collar shirt is maintained. The stiffening effect of the device 152 principally affects the upper or rolled portion of the confronting

edges

136, 138 since it terminates above the buttoned down point area as illustrated in FIGURE 2. Alternate constructions of edge stilfeners will be described more fully hereinafter. The cape edge stiffener 152 may be integrally attached with a notch 15213 as shown in FIGURE 2,.or Without such a notch to the fold displacer portion 156. The purpose of the notch, when used, is to allow the fold of the cape portion to be more sharp.

FIGURES 10 and 11 being sections through FIGURE 2, illustrate more clearly the nature of the fold displacer 150 and the vertical leg or edge stiffener 152 and its proper relationship to the other conventional portions of the typical shirt collar construction.

A better understanding of the improved construction represented by the present invention and how it is related to the more conventional portions of the shirt collar construction, can be seen with reference to FIGURES 3 and 4; FIGURE 3 corresponding to the construction of FIGURE 1 and FIGURE 4 to that of FIGURE 2 in which the fold displacer 50, is a semi-rigid cloth or fabric having a. warp direction which is generally perpendicular to the normal fold line or line of demarcation of the

cape portion

22, 122 wherein the longitudinal edge of the cape portion would be joined by the

stitching

48, 148 to the

neckband portion

20, 120. The

cape portion

22, 122 in the illustrations of FIGURES 3 and 4 show merely the

interlining ply

34, 134 onto which the semi-rigid fabric may be either fused or sewn when it is fixed in position in the construction. The warp direction is important in a cloth-type

semi-rigid member

50, 150 so that the cut Warp ends provide a hard line along

edge

50A, 150A and thus assures that the fold will be positively placed along that edge. It can be seen with reference to FIGURE 2 that the vertical leg or edge stiffener 152 has an inner edge 152A which curves gradually toward the confronting edge 138 of the cape portion in FIGURES 2 and 4 so as to gradually reduce the stifiening effect of the device as the collar tip 122B is approached Where it may be buttoned down.

FIGURES 5 and 6 each show half of a cape portion interlining and illustrate various ways in which the invention may be adapted to collar constructions. FIGURE 5 shows the edge stiffener 252 extending down to the collar tip while having the fold displacer 250 similar in shape to that of the

other embodiments

50 and 150. It has been found that if there is a supplementary interlining 235 which is fused to the under surface of the regular interlining and extending for some distance from the confronting edge 236 of the collar cape and which has a warp direction that is generally perpendicular to that edge; the effectiveness of the edge stiffener 252 with its warp direction lying generally perpendicular to that of the supplementary fused interlining is such that these perpendicular warps create a foldable, but stiff or particularly shape retaining cape configuration.

FIGURE 6 is another alternate way of constructing the fold line displacer 350 with an integrally attached edge stiffener 352 wherein the edge stiffener portion extends longitudinally of the cape a substantial distance. This construction retains the feature of the perpendicular warp directions of the edge stiffener and the supplementary fused interlining 335 while the fold control edge 350A of the fold displacer has its warp perpendicular to the normal fold line.

FIGURE 7 particularly illustrates the present invention as adapted to the construction set forth in my Patents 2,935,749 and 3,114,152, in which the semi-rigid generally triangular piece 66 is integrally joined to a fold line displacer 450 (shown shaded) which in turn has an edge stiffener 452. Thus, the combined

portions

66, 450 and 452 are cut out of one piece of semi-rigid material, such as fusible cloth, in which the warp direction runs generally perpendicular to the normal fold line as indicated by the dotted line 448 in FIGURE 7. This combined piece is superimposed then on a regular interlining 434 or a supplementary fused interlining 435 having a warp direction generally perpendicular to the cape edges 436, 438 to get the beneficial effect of the edge stiffening that was described with reference to FIGURE 5. It should be particularly noted that the shaded portion 450, which performs the function of fold line displacement, can be considered to be an upward extension of the semi-rigid member 66 illustrated in my Patent 3,114,152. Thus, when the two inventions are so combined, the triangular appearing

portion

66, 450 is of greater height than that which is illustrated in the last-named patent.

FIGURE 8 shows the fold line displacer 556 as applied to the underside of a normal interlining of a collar for a sport shirt, the upper facings are not shown to illustrate the invention. Such a collar is normally of one piece construction, that is, does not have separately cut neckband and cape portions. Since this type of collar is generally worn open at the neck, the only portion that assumes the function of the neckband portion is the crescent shaped area 5231 (outlined by dotted line and shown shaded). This crescent shaped area is to be considered the neckband portion of such shirts. As can be seen when the cape portion is turned down to accept a tie, the neckband portion. 520 being crescent shaped has a zero height when the confronting

end edges

536, 538 are brought together. Further, the normal fold line occurs along the dotted line 520B. Thus, the displacer 550 is astraddle that line as previously described with reference to the other embodiments.

Further, the invention may be applied with success to the modified sport shirt collar in which there is a single ply outer facing which performs the role of cape and neckband portions. The under ply or facing is composed of a separately cut capeand neckband portion, in which the neckband portion is cut in the shape of the crescent 520 shown in FIGURE 8. Thus, this construction is known as a disappearing. neckband. The displacer would be applied to this construction in the same position as shown with reference to the construction of FIGURE 8.

One skilled in the art can recognize that the displacer can be applied to any form of attached collar having portions which serve the function of cape and neckband, to displace the natural fold line upwardly as taught herein.

FIGURE 12 illustrates a made-up collar constructed in accordance, with my Patent 3,114,152 as adapted to a so-called one-piece collar and in which the construction of FIGURE 7 is incorporated. Thus the combined facings (see 20 and 32, 26 and 30 of FIGURE 9) are each cut from a single piece of cloth instead of being separately cut as the other embodiments illustrate. Thus, FIGURE 12 contains the edge displacer 450, the edge stiffener 452 and a semi-rigid generally triangular member 66.

The semi-rigid material that may be used for the fold line displacer 50 could be thin sheets of polyethylene theriphthalate, polyethylene, cellulose acetate, polypropylene, nylon, polyoxymethylene and the like. Further, the semi-rigid material can be a woven cloth that has a thermoplastic coating. Such coated fabric generally may be fused to the other material used in the shirt by the application of heat and pressure in the range of about 320 F. to 370 F. and 20 to 50 p.s.i. for about to seconds,

It is important to note that the present invention provides a definite controlled fold displacement in the vicinity of the confronting ends of the cape portion of an attached collar construction so that the line of attachment or demarcation between the cape portion and the neckband portion cannot be seen in the vicinity of the necktie knot irrespective of how slack the knot may become. Further, the fold line displacer tends to keep the neckband closer to the wearers neck and thus prevents the droop which is sometimes attendent with shirts of the types illustrated. The semi-rigidness of the material used and the strong edge of the fold line displacer are the features that give the 'mvention the characteristics of positively controlling the fold and the extent of its displacement.

In addition the collar construction is provided with a semi-rigid cloth edge support which is permanently secured within the collar'cape portion so as to form a device which extends along the confronting'edges of the collar cape portion 'in which its warp direction is generally parallel to those edges. More particularly, when the warp direction of the edgesupport device is in a direction that is perpendicular to an interlining warp direction that a may be interleaved in the collar constructions there results a controllable and flexibly stiff edge which will hold its shape and, if desired, in a button-down collar due to the placement of buttons will tend to hold the desired rolled shape that is produced when the necktie knot is.

properly positioned. While in accordance with the provisions of the statutes there has been illustrated and described herein a specific form of the invention now known, those skilled in the art will understand that changes may be made in the formof the product or the method of making it disclosed without departing from the spirit of the invention covered by the claims and that certain features of the invention may sometimes be used to advantage without a corresponding use of other features.

I claim:

1. A shirt with attached collar comprising a cloth body having a neck opening and an attached collar including a neckband portion secured, at its lower edge, to said body along the edge of said neck opening, a collar cape portion turned downwardly from the top of said neckband portion to form a normal fold line at the line of demarcation between the neckband and cape portions, and

an elongated semi-rigid member in said cape portion rigid member is gradually curved downwardly toward' said normal fold line.

3; A shirt according to claim 1 in which said semirigid member is permanently secured in position and is made of cloth with the warp direction of said member being generally perpendicular to said line of demarcation.

4. A shirt according to claim 1 having a cape end support device extending from said displaced fold line along the edge of each confronting end of said cape, said device being permanently secured in position and made of semirigid cloth with its warp direction generally parallel to said edge of said cape.

5'. A shirt according to claim 4 in which said cape end support device is narrow of width and is gradually curved toward said edge in the direction of the point of said cape.

6. A shirt according to claim 1 in which said semirigid member in said cape portion is formed generally as an inverted L-shape with the base leg lying astraddle and extending along said normal fold line with the upper longitudinal edge of said base forming said upwardly displaced fold line and its upright leg is narrow of width and extends from said displaced fold line along the edge of each confronting end of said cape to act as a cape edge roll support device.

7. A shirt according to claim 6 in which said semirigid L-shaped member is permanently secured in position and is made of cloth with its warp direction being generally perpendicular to said line of demarcation.

8. A shirt with attached collar comprising a cloth body.

having a neck'opening and an attached collar including a neckband portion secured, at its lower edge, to said body along the edge of said neck opening, a collar cape portion turned downwardly from the top of said neckband portion to form a normal fold line at the line of demarcation between the neckband and cape portions, a semi-rigid member incorporated in said collar comprising a generally triangular member in the confronting ends of the neckband portion with the apex portion thereof extending across the normal fold line into the cape portionv device extends from said displaced fold line along the edge of each confronting end of said cape portion and is permanently secured in position and is made of semirigid cloth with its warp direction generally perpendicular to said displaced fold line. Y

9 10. A shirt as in claim 9 wherein an interlining is provided in the cape portion with its Warp direction extending longitudinally of the cape.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,303,363 5/1919 Murphy 2-132 1,826,176 10/1931 Hutchison 2132 Palher 2132 Metzger 2-131 Cohn 2-131 Less 2132 Bellanti 2-132 Dethier 2-132 RICHARD J. SCANLAN, 111., Primary Examiner.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTION Patent No. 3,363,263 January 16, 1968 Sidney D. Blue It is hereby certified that error appears in the above numbered pat- Patent should read as ent requiring correction and that the said Letters corrected below.

line 65, for "contrstruction" read construction for "FIGURE" read FIGURE 2 at column 6, line 71,

Column 2, column 3, line 37,

column 4, line 17, for "an" read after "upper" insert and under Signed and sealed this 8th day of April 1969.

(SEAL) Attest:

EDWARD J. BRENNER Edward M. Fletcher, Jr.

Commissioner of Patents Attesting Officer

Claims

1. A SHIRT WITH ATTACHED COLLAR COMPRISING A CLOTH BODY HAVING A NECK OPENING AND AN ATTACHED COLLAR INCLUDING A NECKBAND PORTION SECURED, AT ITS LOWER EDGE, TO SAID BODY ALONG THE EDGE OF SAID NECK OPENING, A COLLAR CAPE PORTION TURNED DOWNWARDLY FROM THE TOP OF SAID NECKBAND PORTION TO FORM A NORMAL FOLD LINE AT THE LINE OF DEMARCATION BETWEEN THE NECKBAND AND CAPE PORTIONS, AND AN ELONGATED SEMI-RIGID MEMBER IN SAID CAPE PORTION ASTRADDLE AND EXTENDING ALONG SAID NORMAL FOLD LINE AT LEAST A SHORT DISTANCE FROM THE EDGES OF THE CONFRONTING ENDS OF SAID CAPE PORTION WITH THE UPPER LONGITUDINAL EDGE OF SAID SEMI-RIGID MEMBER DISPLACING SAID FOLD LINE FOR SAID DISTANCE AT SAID CONFRONTING ENDS OF SAID CAPE PORTION A VERTICAL DISTANCE ABOVE SAID LINE OF DEMARCATION BETWEEN SAID CAPE AND NECKBAND PORTIONS TO PROVIDE A NEW FOLD LINE.