US699847A - Collar-foundation. - Google Patents

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No. 699,847, Patented May l3, I902.

B. S. NICHOLS.

COLLAR FOUNDATION.

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(No Model.)

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UNIED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BLANCHE SQUIER NICHOLS, OF NEIV BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

COLLAR-FOUNDATION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 699,847, dated May 13, 1902.

Application filed October 23, 1901. Serial No. 79,609. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BLANCHE SQUIER NICH- cm, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Britain, Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar- Linings, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to wearing-apparel, and particularly to a simple, inexpensive, durable, and efiective means for preserving the shape of collars and the like.

Ordinarily flexible collars very soon crush down and become permanently bent or misshapen, and it is to overcome this disagreeable result that I have provided a means for reinforcing or stiffening a collar, so that, although sufiicient flexibility is provided, a collar, stock, or the like will always return to its proper shape after being bent down or crumpled.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of myinvention. Fig. 2 is a relatively enlarged portion of the device shown in Fig. 1, illuscrating details of construction.

A is a fabric forming the body of the collar reinforce or stiffening. The fabric of this collar is constructed partly of hairsfor example, horse-hairs-the same being woven into the texture, so that they will stand, by preference, upright relatively to the proper position of the device when in use. The balance of the fabric is preferably made up of suitable material woven in with the hairs. The fabric A is cut to a suitable size and shape, and the edge is bound with suitable materialfor example, leather-Which is impervious to the hairs of the central woven field. The binding 13 may be secured to the central fabric in a suitable manner-for example, by stitching. The completed article may be bent, but will not partake of any permanent creased form. The article is used as a foundation for stocks, ladies collars, or the like and is concealed within the same. In use the ends of the hairs being sheathed within the binding, which, as before stated, is impervious thereto, cannot work out so as to irritate or scratch the neck of the wearer nor become loosened and removed to such an extent as to impair the value of the device or render it useless.

When the foundation is made with the hair upright in that portion which would be the front or center thereof, it of necessity fol lows, the cloth being cut on a curve, that the hairs will lie on the bias out toward the ends. To reinforce the collar-lining or to give it added stiffness, I therefore prefer to use an additional thickness of the material at the ends, in which the hairs may be so laid as to offset those hairs which are on the bias. Inasmuch as the ends of the collar lap by each other and are usually pinned togetherit is not always necessary that they should be bound entirely around. I therefore find it conven ient to leave the ends as shown at C. This permits of the carrying in stock of a standardsize collar, which may be cut off at the ends to furnish a size suitable for any individual.

I prefer to use kid to other kinds of leather, because of its being thin and very supple. In some cases it may be desirable to secure the kid to the haircloth by means of gum.

By my invention I have provided a collarfoundation of greater flexibility than any heretofore used and one which will give the greatest comfort to the wearer.

What I claim is- 1. A reinforce for collars, stocks, and the like, comprising a central field of fabric having hairs woven thereinto, with a binding of leather-like material impervious to and covering the ends of the hair-like portion of said fabric.

2. A collar-foundation formed of the body part of hairclothA bound with leather B, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. A collar-foundation formed of a body part of haircloth bound at the upper and lower edges with leather and reinforced at the ends.

4. A collar-foundation formed of a body part of haircloth and bound at the upper and lower edges with leather, the hair at the central portion of the collar being substantially perpendicular to the edges and at the ends reinforced by haircloth for the purpose specified.

5. Areinforce for collars, stocks, and the like, comprising a central field of fabric having hairs woven thereinto, with a binding of a material impervious to, and covering, the ends of the hairs in said fabric.

Signed at New Britain, Connecticut, this 10th day of October, 1901.

BLANCHE SQUIER NICHOLS.

Witnesses:

F. S. BEOKLEY, J. M. BUnDIoK.

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