US1543604A - Reenforced collar - Google Patents

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Jam: 23, 1925. 1,543,604

C. A. FISH ET REENFORCED coLLAR Filed April 5,1925

Patented June 23, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. FISI il AND HENRY W. FISCH, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

REENFORCED COLLAR.

Application filed. April 5, 1923. Serial No. 630,003.

To all whom 2'25 may concern: 7

Be it known that we, CHARLES A. Fisrr and HENRY W. Freon, citizens of the United States, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Reenforced Collars, of which the following is a specification.

Our present invention relates to the reenforcement of launderable collars, and especially ordinary plural-ply launderable collars of linen, or a like textile material.

It is a further object of our invention to utilize linear elements, such as cords or tapes, in strengthening collars, especially in the region of the edges and the folds thereof.

Other objects of our invention will appear from the following description of preferred and alternative embodiments thereof and from the appended claims, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 illustrates a form of our invention in which we employ a cord extending adjacent the end of a collar and across a fold thereof.

Fig. 2 is an alternative form in which we disclose the use of a thin flat flexible ele mentwhich may be a tape extending diagonally adjacent the end of a collar and so folded upon itself and secured as to reenforce the same.

In view of the simple character of the invention herein presented, it will be understood that 1 is in each case a collar, and that in that form of our invention which is shown in Fig. 1, the reenforcement of this collar is a mere cord 3 which, although strong, is preferably slender, unless a beading effect is intended to be produced thereby. It will be obvious that, unless the manufacturer intends to produce a conspicuous enlargement at the front edge of the collar, for an artistic effect, the cord employed in reenforcement should be so slender that its presence cannot be detected after the collar has been laundered in the usual way.

In the form of our invention shown in Fig. 2, we have suggested the use of an alternative linear element, which may be a tape 4, which may advantageously be invention,

stitched down on the line 8-5, before the outer elements of a plural-plycollar are secured together; and it should be understood that in those forms of our invention shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the working of the button holes need not be so conducted as to cooperate in securing the respective linear rcenforcing elements which we have described.

Ordinarily it may be preferable to so design even the external reenforcements which fall within our invention that they shall be comparatively or wholly inconspicuous, and we-prefer internal reenforcement.

Although we have shown various alternative forms of our invention, it should be understood that various parts thereof might be independently employed, and that numerous modifications might be made without departing from the spirit and scope of our as the same is indicated above and in the following claims, it being understood that in any case the reenforcement which we employ is so disposed at the ends of the fold of a collar as to prevent tearing or ripping 1n order to prolong the useful life of any collar to which our invention may be applied.

lVhat we claim is:

1. In a plural-ply fabric collar adapted to be folded longitudinally, a lineal reenforcement disposed between the plies and extending across the fold upon a bias.

2. In a plural-ply fabric collar adapted to be folded forcement disposed between the plies and extending across the fold upon a bias, said reenforcement being adapted to reenforce the fold and the button hole of said collar.

3. In a plural-ply fabric collar adapted to be folded longitudinally, a reenforcenient disposed between the plies and inwardly from the end edges of said collar, said reenforcement extending across the fold and having a portion folded upon itself between the plies adapted to reenforce the button hole of the collar.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification.

CHARLES A. FISH. HENRY W. FISCH.

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