US2909783A - Collar tip construction - Google Patents

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1959 T. D. AINSLIE 2,909,783

COLLAR TIP CONSTRUCTION Filed May 5, 1956 2 FIGJ. FIG.2.

IN VEN TOR.

77/0 MAS 00 luvs-L aiiforggg United States Patent I 2,909,783 COLLAR TIP CONSTRUCTION Thomas Dow Ainslie, Metuchen, N.J., assignor to Philgps-Van Heusen Corporation, a corporation of New ork Application May 3, 1956, Serial No. 582,521

3 Claims. c1. 2-131 invention relates to collars, and particularly to those of the type which are permanently or detachably applied to mens shirts. It is one of the objects of the invention to provide a collar of improved appearance; to provide one which will have less bulk or thickness and particularly at the tips or extremities of the collar, and which will be longer lasting.

It is another object of the invention to provide an improved collar, and particularly in the tips or extremities thereof, and which provide thinner and flatter points; which enables the points to be made without a selvage edge and which will prevent raveling.

More particularly, the invention contemplates a collar body of substantially heavy material, such as duck or a multiply fabric, and in which the pointed extremities of the body are cut off and are replaced by a stitched-on section of a considerably thinner and softer, but wearresistant material, such as binding tape. As a result, when the collar body is finished along its edges and at the points thereof, the points will be primarily formed by the stitched-on sections'which can be compactly folded into position and will result in much thinner, flatter and more tapering points than would be the case if parts of the body of the collar were used for the formation of such elements.

With the above objects, and other objects to be hereinafter set forth in view, I have devised the arrangement of parts to be described and more particularly pointed out in the claims appended hereto.

In the accompanying drawing, wherein an illustrative embodiment of the invention is disclosed,

Fig. 1 is a face view of one end portion of a collar blank, showing the cut-oif tip or extremity;

Fig. 2 is a similar view, looking at the outside face of the part of the blank, showing the added tip portion and the bindings applied;

Fig. 3 is a face view of the supplemental tip portion;

Fig. 4 is a view of the construction shown in Fig. 2, looking at the reverse side thereof;

Fig. 5 is a view, looking at the inside face of the finished collar;

Fig. 5 is a view of the reverse side of Fig. 5.

Fig. 7 is a sectional view, taken substantially on the line 77 of Fig. 4, looking in the direction of the arrows, and

Fig. 8 is a sectional view, taken substantially on the line 88 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction of the arrows.

Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates one end of a collar blank for the production of a collar such as is applied to mens shirts. It will be understood that the collar may be of any of the conventional shapes known in the trade, and that both ends of the collar blank are alike and are substantially shaped as shown in Fig. l.

The upper edge of the collar, or that which is attached in the collar band of a shirt, is that indicated at 2; the lower edge of the collar being that indicated at 3, and the forward edge shown at 4. It will be noted that the 2,909,783 Patented Oct. 27, 1959 blank 1 departs from conventional collar construction by having its normally pointed tip or extremity cut away sharply and angularly to provide the edge indicated at 5.

The body of the collar may be made of a relatively heavy material such as duck, or may be composed of a multi-ply material of considerable thickness and weight, and I have found that the production of pointed tips or extremities on collars composed of such materials may be materially improved, by substituting for the body of the collar in such tips, a considerably lighter and thinner material. With this in view, a replacement or terminal piece, indicated at 6 and clearly shown in Fig. 3, has its selvaged edge 7 stitched to the edge 5 of the collar blank by the line of stitching indicated at 8. As a result, the section of fabric, or replacement piece 6, constitutes a sewed-on extension of the tip portion of the collar blank and actually forms the tip or pointed extremity ofthe finished collar, substantially as shown in Fig. 6. The

thereto as indicated at 8, the edges 3 and 4 of the blank are bound by the binding tapes indicated respectively at 9 and 10. The binding tape shown at 9 is stitched to the front edge 4 as indicated by the line of stitching 11, while the binding tape shown at 10 is stitched over the lower edge 3 by the line of stitching indicated at 12. The tapes 9 and 10 also extend over and are secured to the edges 13 and 14 of the piece 6.

The blank is now in condition as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, whereupon the reinforced edges 3 and 4 are inturned adjacent to the bindings 9 and 10 in a manner to bring the bindings 9 and 10 to the rear face of the blank so that the same are concealed and are invisible from the front, as will be apparent from Fig. 6 wherein an outer face view of the finished collar is shown. When the bound edges 3 and 4 are inturned as above described, stitching 15 is extended through these inturned edges in a manner to retain the inturned condition of the edges, the lines of stitching 15 being the only stitching visible on the outside of the collar as will be apparent from Fig. 6.

As the edge portions of the collar blank are inturned in the manner described, the terminal pieces 6 are infolded in a manner to form the tips, substantially as indicated at 16 in Fig. 6. Due to the fact that these terminal portions are made of relatively thin and easily foldable material, the pointed extremities of the collar formed from it will be relatively sharp, flat and strong.

The nature of the material employed for these terminals can be such as to make the tips of the collar non-r'avelling. Thus, the blank from which the collar is made need not have a selvage edge in these tip portions.

Having described a single embodiment of the invention, it is obvious that the same is not to be restricted thereto, but is broad enough to cover all structures coming within the scope of the annexed claims.

What I claim is:

1. A tipped collar having a collar body provided with several edges having bindings, a tip extension of material thinner than that of the body of the collar, said extension being sewed on an end of the collar body to form an extended, relatively pointed terminal piece thereon, the several edges of the body converging and forming a part of the tip of the collar to which the said extension is attached, said tip extension having converging side edges folded along lines parallel to the collarbody edges to form a pointed tip for the collar, said fold lines intersecting within the body of the tip extension, said tip extension projecting beyond the end of the collar to which it is secured, the bindings being applied over and secured to a plurality of edges of the tip extension, the bindings and the portions of the tip extension embraced by them being inturned to concealed position behind the collar body, said inturned portions being stitched to the collar body.

2. A collar having a body composed of relatively heavy fabric, said body having its lower and forward edges converging to meet a truncated terminal edge, a triangulated terminal piece of fabric thinner than that of the collar body forming a finished point for the collar, said terminal piece having an edge stitched to the said truncated edge so that said piece, after such stitched attachment, forms a tip extension of the collar body, said terminal piece having converging side edges constituting extensions of the converging edges of the collar body, bindings stitched over and enclosing the converging edges of the body as well as the converging edges of the terminal piece, the edges enclosed by the bindings being inturned to the back of the collar body and being stitched to said body.

3. A collar body provided with bindings secured along its lower and forward edges, and which edges converge towards the tips of the collar body, the body having a truncated tip portion, a terminal piece in the form of a truncated triangle having a single-edge secured at one of the truncated tip portions and forming an extension therefrom, said terminal piece being composed of a thinner fabric than the material of the collar body and having a pair of converging side edges, the terminal piece having its side edges folded along lines parallel to said edges to form a tip on the body, said bindings as well as the folded portions of the terminal piece being disposed against the back face of the body, and stitching for main taining said bindings at the rear of the body and concealed from the front thereof.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,496,292 Brass June 3, 1924 1,521,152 Hess Dec. 30, 1924 1,524,238 Griggs Jan. 27, 1925 1,934,154 Underwood Nov. 7, 1933 2,033,680 Campbell Mar. 10, 1936 2,035,849 Underwood Mar. 31, 1936 FOREIGN PATENTS 576,432 France May 13, 1924 8,182 Australia July 8, 1932

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