US41692A - Improvement in turn-over shirt-collars - Google Patents

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PATENT OFFICE.

NATHANIEL EVANS, JR., OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN TURN- OVER sHmT-COLLARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 4 1,692, dated February Q3, 1864.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, N ATHANIEL EVANS, J r., ot' Boston, in the county of Suii'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Turn-Over Shirt-Coll irs 5 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 t0 the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a plan of the collar before it is turned over; and Fig. 2 the same turned over and brought into a circular form, as on a persons neck.

Like parts are represented by the sameletters ot reference in both iigures.

What arelrnown asstand up shirt-collars have been made with regular and, irregular concave bottoms, but no turn-over7 shirtcollar has ever before been made with a concave bottom and turned over on alineparallel with the bottoms, but the bottoms of all such collars have either been straight or convex, in whole or part, and not turned over on a line parallel with the bottom, and the objection to all such is that the back of the collar being straight or convex, and higher than the front, consequently causes the collar when on a persons neck to pitch or crowd forward or in ward, so as to chate the wearers neck.

The nature of my improvement therefore consists in making a turnlover shirtcollar with a concave bottom, and turned over on a line parallel with thew bottom, whereby the collar when completed shall be of the same height all the way round, and the inner part-t'. e,

that which is attached to the shirt-shall are outward from the bottom, so as not to chafe the wearers neck, leaving at the same time l sufficient space between the two parts of the collar for a necktie or cravat.

I make my collars of any material in general use for such a purpose, and of any desirable style.

Fig. l represents a plan of one of my eollars before it is turned over, e and d being the usual button-holes. The bottom of the collar, as shown in Fig. 1, is concave, or the arc of a circle, and the part B is turned over onto the part A on the linel w, parallel with the bottom, so that, when the collaris brought intoa circle, as on a persons neck, the part A shall be all the way of a height and Hare from the bottom outward, as represented by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, and for the purpose -specified above, while at the same time the two parts stand out from each other enough to aii'ord the requisite space for a necktie or handkerchief. My plan of cutting out such collars, moreover, involves less waste of material than any turn over shirt-collars known or used before, and requires no stretching of the material (which operation is both expensive and weakening) to give the requisite daring form to the inner portion or binding, A. ln fine, my improvement makes, I think', a better-fitting and cheaper turn over shirtcollar than any other extant.

Having thus described the construction and operation of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

A turn-over shirt-collar with a concave bottom and turned over on a line parallel with said bottom, substantially as sett'orth, and for the purpose described.

Vtnesses NATH L. EVANS, JR.

Jus. F. ELLIS, N. AMES.

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