622 FSDSRAL^CPOBTBB. �advautages of the new collar in' the same terms that are used in the re-is8ue. The .bands are described in both as extend- ing from the center of the collar, or from some point between tBe center and the ends, each way to and beyond the ends. In the original the ba,nds are called "sectional bands" and "short or sectional bands." In the re-issue they are called "curved and graduated bands," and "graduated bands," and "shorter graduated bands." But in the original the bands are described as continuing, after they start, "with a gradu- ated curve to and beyond the ends of the collar," and "with a graduated curve and increasing width to and beyond the ends of the collar. " The drawings in the original and the re-issue are identical. The drawings show the rear button- hole as thrown into the top or body of the collar above the band, but the specification of the original omitted any de- scription of such location of the button-hole. The original specification states that "the use of the short or sectional bands produces a saving of material as compared to the old style of continuons band." The description in the re-issue states that "the shorter graduated bands produce also a con- siderable saving of material as compared to the old style of continuons band that extends at uniform width along the lower part of the collar." Tbis was a proper correction, as it is evident that the expression "continuons band" in the original, in that connection, meant a continuons band of uni- form width, because the original provided for a continuous band of decreasing width from the ends towards the middle, each way. The band would be continuous, if the two sec- tional bands started from the center, but would not be of uni- form width, because the parts proceed with a graduated curve and increasing width. A division at the center into two sec- tional bands would not make the whole band any less a con- tinuous band with ,a graduated curve and increasing width towards each end, nor would the use of a continuous band of the latter description make the parts of it each side of the center anj the less sectional bands. Neither would be a con- tinuous band of uniform width, and, as compared with that, there would be a saving of material by the use of either ar- ��� �
