US408847A - Cape-collar - Google Patents

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CAPE COLLAR.

No. 408,847. Patented Aug. 13, 1889.

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E. POWERS. GAPE COLLAR.

No. 408.847. Patented Aug. 13, 1889.

W/m/as s jomswd UNITED STATES NOEL L POWERS,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF LANSINGBURG, ASSIGNOR TO \VILBUR, MILLER &

WVILBUR, OF TROY, NEV YORK.

CAPE-COLLAR,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,847, dated August 13, 1889.

Application filed March 5 1889. Serial No. 302,013. (No model.) v I To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NOEL E. POWERS, a resident of Lansingburg, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have in; vented certain new and useful Improvements in Cape-Collars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, that will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

My invention relates to improvements in cape-collars; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan view of the cape detached from the collar and laid out flat. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a single ply of fabric used in the formation of the collar proper. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the detached cape, taken at the broken line 00 as in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is'a cross-section of ply, taken at the broken line 00 a: in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a similar crosssectional view showing the cape secured along its folded edge to a single ply adapted to form a part of the collar proper. Fig. 6 is a view in perspective of a finished cape-collar. Fig. 7 is a cross-section viewed from the side opposite to that from which the section shown in Fig. 5 is viewed, and showing the single collar-ply B turned or folded back from the cape and two more similar plies B and B secured to it by a run seam. Fig. 8 is a vertical section of the completed collar, taken on the broken line 00 a: in Fig. 6.

The collar proper may be of any known form of ladys collar made up of two or more plies of fabric.

The cape is usually composed of a single ply of fabric secured to the lower edge of the collar proper in such a manner as to project downward and outward therefrom. The outer portion of the cape is preferably made of a either of them. It is projected a'ngnlarly from the collar proper to better fit the form of the wearer, is preferably re-enforced along the edge by which it is united with the collar proper to increase its strength and durability, and is preferably united to a single inner ply of the collar proper by a min seam to form a light seam and afford a smooth interior surface comfortable for the wearer. The cape is made to flare or project angularly to the collar proper by giving one edge a curved form and securing that edge to a comparatively straight edge on the lower part. of a collar. The cape A is made of a single piece of fabric, except the well-known binding A, which is a separate strip stitched to the outer edge of the cape, as by the line of stitching A The inner edge of the cape is curved, as indicated by the circular broken line A The curved edge is slitted at intervals, as indicated by the broken lines A, and the sections included between the slits folded back upon the body part of the cape. The edges of the sections thus folded back are turned in from the position indicated by the broken lines A to that indicated by the solid lines A forming the V-shaped openings A between the several sections and stitched to the body of the cape by line of stitching A".

It is evident that the curved edge A could not be folded back upon a circle having a larger radius without slitting the edge and that the slits would open, indicated by the broken lines at A to accommodate the folded-over edge to the larger circle or greater distance around the edges of the folded sec tions.

The slits A" are necessarily made at frequent intervals, as the folds A extending from one slit to another, must necessarily be folded on straight lines, as Well as the folds formed on the turned-in edges A and a better shape will be obtained if the straight sides 'are comparatively short, for the reason that the shorter these sides are the nearer will the folded-over edge A approximate a circle or true curve and produce a uniform outward flaring of the cape when attached to the comparatively straight edge of the plies forming the collar proper.

The cape so formed maybe attached to the lower edge of the collar proper in any known manner or as follows: The ply B, one of the plies forming the collar proper, is secured to the cape by a run seam 13, inserted along one edge 15 of the ply and the fold-edge A of the cape, as shown in Fig. 5. The ply is then turned or folded over the run seam, and the other plies 1S and B of the collar proper, similar in form to ply I are joined along one edge to the latter ply, as by run seam 13". The two plies B and 13" are then turned or folded over the seam B and the folded-in edges B" secured to the fold-edge of the cape by a line of stitching 13 as shown in Figs. 6 and S, the collar being completed by securing the ends of the plies forming the collar proper in any known manner and when desired by inserting a line of stitching 13*.

I am thus able to produce a collar having a flaring, flexible, one-ply cape re-enforced by retroverted sections (J integral with the cape and located at the line of junction of cape and collar, and at the same time present aconr paratively smooth surface on the inner side of the collar.

It is obvious that the binding-strip A can be omitted when desired.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a cape-collar, the combination, with the collar proper, of a cape consisting of a ply of fabric having a series of retroverted sections integral with such ply ranged on a curved line along its inner edge and a line of stitching through such inner edge and the lower edge of the collar proper substantially as described.

2. In a cape-collar, a cape consisting of a ply of fabric having a concaved inner edge and a series of retroverted sections integral with such ply ranged along, such concavcd edge, the several sections being connected with the ply at one edge by a [old forming part of the concaved inner edge and at their other edges by lines of stitching, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 2d day of March, 1889.

NOEL E. POWERS.

\Vi tnesses:

FRANK C. CURTIS, Guns. L. ALDEN.

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