US1088890A - Buckle and band. - Google Patents

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G. E. FIGG.

BUCKLE AND BAND.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. B, 1912.

Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

wi lwwoow CZ A6 COLUMBIA PLA adjacent to and parallel with the saw edge GEORGE EDWARD FIGG, 0F MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

BUCKLE AND BAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 3, 1914.

Application filed March 8, 1912. Serial No. 682,500.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnoncn EDWARD Free, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of 715 Wellington street, in the city of Montreal, in the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckles and Bands; and I do hereby de clare that the following is a full, clear, an exact description of the same.

The invention relates to improvements in a buckle and band, as described in the pres ent specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings that form part of the same.

The invention consists essentially of the novel construction and arrangement of the buckle and band, more fully disclosed hereinafter.

The objects of the invention are to devise buckle and band particularly applicable as a necktie holder for double collars, to provide a very simple article for supporting the apparel on the wearer and generally to cheapen such devices so as to bring within the reach of the most modest consumer.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of the band and buckle used as necktie holder. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the buckle. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the band and buckle showing the position of the tie in dotted lines.

Referring to the drawings 1 is the eye opening at one end of the thin piece of sheet material, the said material being preferably bent in arc-shape and said eye opening having the saw edge 2 at the inner side thereof forming substantially a part moonshaped opening adjacent to one end of the piece of material.

3 is a cross slot in the piece of material 2. 4 is a cross slot at the other end of the piece of material corresponding in size to the slot 3, said slot coming out through the piece of material under the outwardly extending lip 5.

6 is the band of elastic material and corresponding in width particularly at the ends thereof to the cross slots 3 and 4, one end of said band being first inserted through the slot 4: from the outer side and then through the eye opening 1 and back over the saw edge 2 and through the slot 3 from the outer side and then through the slot 4 from the inner side, the free end being loose as shown. Thus when the band is made taut 1n the buckle the saw edge 2 grips the over fold of the band in the inner side and effectually prevents any slip. 7 is a hook fixedly secured to the other end of the band 6 and adapted to engage in the eye 1.

In the use of this invention particularly, where it is applied as a necktie holder within double collars the necktie is first inserted between the buckle and band, where the band stretches along the inside of said buckle and looped or tied over the outside of the buckle according to the style of the tie that is to say whether it is a derby or a how.

The tying of the necktie may be done by the wearer or any one expert in the particular accomplishment, thus it is a hand made knot or bow and may be changed as often as desired. The act of placing it around the neck and over the collar band is very simple and it is here that the invention becomes a great aid to the dresser, for the face of the collar at the front vertical edge is slipped under the lip 5 and the elastic band run around the collar under said face. The collar is then put on in the ordinary way, the hook of the band catching the other vertical edge of the face, therefore as there is nothing more to be done when the wearer has secured his collar on to the shirt than to unhook the band from the edge of the face of the collar and slip it into the opening 1 then the buckle is moved slightly just sufficient to release the lip 5 from engagement with the other vertical edge of the face of the collar and thus each end of the buckle will disappear under the face of the collar and only the tie be in view. In other uses the ornamentation of the buckle is applied in any suitable way either by an ornament rigidly secured to the outer side thereof or a bow tied around in the same fashion as described. The elastic band is secured to the buckle in the same way and may be put around the waist of the wearer, the arm or any other part of the body and secured in the same way.

What I claim as my invention is In a buckle and band, a sheet material plate slightly enlarged at each end and having corresponding arc-shaped cuts in the material adjacent to the end edges, the metal bent in the form of a lip and the metal ininside of one of said cuts being outwardly the other end by being threaded through 10 the slots in the manner specified.

Signed at Montreal Que. Canada this fifteenth day of February 1912.

GEORGE EDWARD FIGG.

side of the other out being removed to form a crescent-shaped opening having aserrated inner edge, and a further cross slot parallel with said serrated edge, and a band having a fastener at one end adapt-ed to en- Witnesses: gage detachably the crescent-shaped open- W. HAMMOND, ing and removably attached to the plate at P. A.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of lPatents,

Washington, D. 0.

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