US1386429A - Neckwear - Google Patents

Description

W. C. SCHMIDT.

NECKWEAR.

APPLICATION FILED sPT.9, 1919.

1 3 429 Patented Aug. 2, 1921.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM C. SCHMIDT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

NECKWEAR.

Application filed September 9, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVIL IAM C. SCHMIDT, a citizen of the United States, residingin the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and use ful Improvement in Neckwear, of which the following is a specification. 7

My invention consists of an improvement in an article of neckwear known generally as a neck scarf of the character more particularly that of a four-in-hand, the same embodying such scarf when made up adapted to be adjusted on a collar and to be removable therefrom without disintegration.

It consists also in forming the band portion of the scarf in such manner that it will slip easily through the knot portion of the scarf.

The invention is satisfactorily illustrated in the accompanying drawing, but the important instrumentalities thereof may be varied, and so it is to be understood that the invention is not to be limited to the specific details shown and described, as long as they are within the spirit or scope of the claims.

' Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a neck scarf in normal condition embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 represents a rear elevation of a portion of the scarf showing the same in madeup condition.

Fig. 3 represents a rear elevation of an end portion of the scarf on an enlarged scale.

Fig. 4 represents a perspective view of a detached member of the scarf embodying my invention.

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the figures.

Referring to the drawings 1 designates a portion of the body neck scarf of the order of a four-in-hand which primarily is well known.

The narrow or movable portion 2 of the neck band of the scarf above the extreme end thereof is folded or turned in longitudinal direction and its sides are brought together and stitched or otherwise secured as at 3 forming the reduced neck 4 comprising a round or if desired, a flat tube, the extreme end portion of said band below said neck being wide or flaring as at 5.

The scarf is made up primarily in the form that a four-in-hand possesses when it is on the collar, the neck 4. occupying the plural tubular portions 6, and 7 of the knot Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 2, 1921. Serial No. 322,667.

of the four-in-hand and extending downwardly below said portion 7 as in Fig. 2. The other portion of the neckband opposite to said neck is continuous of the loop 7, the latter being'stationary on thetop of the body portion of the able through both tubular portions or loops 6, 7. Then there is introduced into the wide and flaring end 5 of the narrow band and secured by being stitched thereto the plate or piece 8 of card-board or other suitably stiff material which widens or flares from the adjacent terminal of the neck 4 toward the terminal of the narrow band, it being of greater width than the diameter of the lower end of the tubular portion 7 of the knot, thus forming a stop which prevents the end of the narrow band from being drawn upwardly through the knot, thus preventing disintegration of the made-up scarf.

The stitches that connect the piece 8 with the sides of the spreading terminal length of the scarf that it occupies, are shown in dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2, while in Fig. 3 which shows a longitudinal section of said length, the stitches have been cut off and so the dots in said piece 8 show the needle holes caused by the stitching.

As the piece is made of cardboard as has been stated and so is flat, thin and stiff, it preserves the flaring and flat shape of the aforesaid terminal length without materially increasing the thickness of the latter.

The band is opened out or spread from the loops 6 and 7 a sufficient extent forming a large loop which is passed over the head of the wearer and the open collar on the neck thereof, then the collar is buttoned and the band is tightened on the collar by drawing down the end portion of the narrow band as usual in four-in-hand scarfs through the plurality of loops 6 and 7 and the scarf is adjusted on the collar when the neck 4 engages frictionally the interior of the knot composed of the two loops 6 and 7 sufiicient to hold it in place, and so prevents the band from loosening and displacement.

, In order to remove the scarf, the collar is unbuttoned and the narrow band is drawn up through the two loops of the knot when the band opens sufliciently, limited by the stop piece 8 to be passed over the head of the wearer and to be removed from or with the collar, it being noticed that said stop piece prevents disintegration of the four-inhand and so the form of the latter is prescarf, while said neck is slidserved leaving the scarf as made up ready to be re-applied over the head and to be adjusted on the collar as previously stated.

Attention is drawn to the fact that the reduced neck 4 is adapted to occupy the portions 6 and .7 of theknot and slide freely therein, its movements being accomplished sides of said part. 7

2. A made up four in hand having a plurality of communicating loops one portion of the length of the scarf being fixed to said loops, and another portion of the length of the scarf being of the form of a tube of narrow diameter which is slidable in one of said loops the terminal portion of the length which is continuous of said tube having therein a retaining deviceadapted to prevent the withdrawal of said slidable portionlthrough the loop which it occupies, said retaining device consisting of a flaring piece of flat and comparatively stiff Vmaterial which is inclosed and concealed in saidterminal portion and secured to the sides thereof. p

WILLIAM C; SCHMIDT.

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J OHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, N. BUssmeER.

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