US690307A - Shirt-collar. - Google Patents

Description

No. 690,307. Patented- Dec. 3|, mm. 6. A. MAPES & N. R. MINOR.

SHIRT COLLAR.

(Application filed Mar. 20, 1901. Renewed Dec. 7, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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CHARLES A. MAPES AND NEWBURY R. MINOR,"OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SHIRT-COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 690,307, dated December 31, 1901. Application filed March 20, 1901. Renewed December 7,1901. Serial No. 85,086. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Beit known that we,CHARLEs A. MAPEs and NEWBURY R. MINOR, citizens of the United States, and residents of the city of New York,

5 borough of Manhattan,in the count yand State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Shirt-Collars, of which the followingis afull,clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to attachable shirtcollars of the overfolding or turn-down style, and has for its object to provide novel and simple details of construction for a collar of the indicated style which serve to retain the necktie in place at a desired point on the collar and facilitate its location thereon before or after the collar has been removably secured upon the neckband of the shirt.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view,partly broken away,of a collar having our invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is atransverse sectional view on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is aside view in part of the inner ply of the collar, a perspective view of a feature of the invention thereon, and a portion of a necktie engaged by the novel detail of construction; and Fig. 4 is a rear view of the middle portion of the provement in place thereon.

Ordinarily it is quite inconvenient to place and retain a necktie on a turn down shirtcollar before it is secured upon the neckband of the shirt, and also to hold a narrow necktie at a desired point, either high or low, upon the collar.

The improvement hereinafter described affords a very simple,practical,and inexpensive means of placing and detachably retaining the band portion of any style of necktie upon a turn-down collar between its inner and outer folds and either near the lower edge of the inner ply of the collar or at a suitable point above said edge, as may be desired.

In the drawings,which show an embodiment inner ply of the collar and a detail of the imof our invention'with a turn-down collar of conventional shape, 5 indicates the inner ply of such a collar, and 6 the outer fold thereof, integral with the inner ply and turned down therefrom, as shown at a in Figs. 1 and 2.

In the preferred construction two similar necktie-keepers are provided for the collar, each comprising an elongated strip 7 of fibrous fabric, which may with advantage be material like that used in the manufacture of the collar. The strips 7 are each formed by lapfolding the cloth, so as to give them a suitable thickness, and each strip should have sufficient length to afford material for two spaced hooks, constructed as follows: To render the same substantial, the material of each strip 7 may have its folds secured together by stitching the same along the edges or by waterproof cement, as may be preferred.

At a proper distance from one end of each strip 7 the material thereof is folded upon itself, so as to provide a hook-like keeper 8, and each strip so folded is located upon the outer side of the inner ply of the collar a suitable distance from a respective end of the collarand held thereon by the following-described means: The strips 7 are respectively positioned upright upon the collar-ply 5, so that the free ends of the keeper-hooks 8 project upwardly, a d each of said keeper-hooksis secured near its old upon the collar-ply, near the lower edge thereof, by cross-stitching, as shown at b in Figs. 1 and 3. Another row of stitching c is formed across each strip 7 at a suitable distance froinithe upper end thereof, and as the body of thestrip is loose from the collar-ply above said row of stitching it will be seen that an upper keeper-hook 9 is thus provided on each strip 7, properly spaced from the bend of thelower hook 8.

\Vhen the collar having the improvement is laundried,the keeper-strips will be stifiened by the starch and ironing, the latter operation serving to flatten the strips against the inner. ply 5 of the collar. When the collar is to be worn, the necktie A, if it is to be supported near the lower edge of the collar-ply 5, is passed around the collar between the ply 5 and depending portion 6 and then engaged with the lower keeper-hooks 8, the ends of the necktie being disposed at the front of two hooked strips 7, relativelypositioned, as-

indicated in Fig. 1.

It will be seen that a necktie of any preferred style may be held in position, either high or low, on the collar by the improved means and the collar be readily secured upon the shirt-band without displacing the necktie.

In Fig. 4, which represents the middle portion of the inner ply 5 of a turn-down collar, a single keeper-strip 7, having two spaced hooks Sand 9, is shown as secured at the longitndinal center of the collar-ply 5, this single keeperstrip affording support for the necktie at the rear of the collar and may be employed alone, dispensing withthe keeperhooks at the front of the collar or be used in conjunction therewith, as may be preferred.

Having thus fully described our invention, We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. Anecktie-support forashirt-collar,co1nprising a strip of fabric secured upon the band of the collar upright from its lower edge, said 30 strip being once folded and then stitched at two points, whereby two hook-like supports for a necktie are adorded one above the other.

2. A necktie-support for turn-down collars, comprising a thickened strip of fibrous fabric, folded and secured upright on the outer side of the inner ply of the collar, so as to provide two spaced hooks thereon for engagement with a necktie.

3. A necktie-support for turn-down collars, comprising two thickened strips of fibrous fabric, each secured upon the outer side of the inner ply of the collar, so as to extend upright thereon near a respective end of said ply, each strip being lap-folded and secured so asto provide two spaced hooks for engagement with a necktie.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

\Vitnesses:

RAYMOND H. DOREMUS, ROBERT J. MINER.

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