US41294A - Improvement in molded cloth and paper collars - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SOLOMON S. GRAY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MOLDED CLOTH AND PAPER COLLARS..

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4 l,294,"ated January 19, 1864; antedated January 17, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SOLOMON S. GRAY, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and Oommonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cloth and Paper Shirt-Collars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the acforming a part of this Specification.

The drawing represents a perspective View of the collar as fastened round a persons neck.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my improvement, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation.

My invention relates to what is known as cloth and paper77 shirt-collars, or shirt-eollars made of a fabric composed of paper and cloth pasted or united together. All collars of this material hitherto constructed have been iiat strips without curve or angle in their sides; and the trouble with such collars has been that, owing to the straightness of their sides, they nt too closely round a persons neck, and cut and ehafe the skin with their upper edges, while at the same time,from the -same cause-1'.. c. the straightness of the collars7 sides-a necktie or handkerchief around them is liable to slip up unless confined by a pin.

The nature of my invention, therefore, consists in making the said collars with a curve or angle in their sides anda Somewhat daring top, so as t0 have the shape of a perfect linen collar.

I make my collars of .any desirable style, and confine them to the shirt by means of butt0n-holes c in the usual manner.

. In the rst place the collar with its button-v holes is out or punched, with suitable knives or dies, from aflat piece of the cloth and paper material, and is consequently flat or straight sided, like all the cloth and paper collars now in general use; butin Order to give the upper part, A, from the line d, the desirable flare, as shown in the drawing and for the objects specified above, I press, roll, or hammer it out. The lower part, B, may be either flat, as represented in the drawing, Or made a little flaring, if desirabe; or instead of the angle d the side of the collar may have a gradual curve.

There are various ways in which the material may be shaped; but to perform the operation most effeetually and rapidly, I make use of a die or former-such as is generally used for striking up or forming sheet-tin and other metals. The cut-out collar being placed in the machine a single blow or pressure permanently expands and gives it the requisite form.

I am thus enabled to produceacollar of this cheap material shaped exactly like the nicest linen collars, in which the lower part, B, is a separate piece of cloth sewed to the upper part, A, the latter being concave at the bottom in order to give the requisite flare to the collar and cause it to stand out from the wearer7s neck, and also keep the tie or handkerchief from slipping up.

What I claim as my improvement, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a cloth and paper shirt-collar struck up7 or pressed from a flat piece into any desirable form, substantially as described and for the objects specified.

l SOLOMON S. GRAY. Witnesses:

N. AMEs, N. EVANS, J r.

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