US663197A - Necktie-fastener. - Google Patents

Description

No. 663,!97. Patented Dec. 4,1900.

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(Applicatipn filed M1125, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES REYNOLDS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO JACOB KLOTZ, JR,

OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,197, dated December 4, 1900.

- Application filed May 25, 1900. Serial No. 17,918. (No model.)

To 00 whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES REYNOLDS, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Necktie-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to necktie-fasteners, and it has particular relation to that class of fasteners which are adapted to retain the tie in position during the operation of tying and also maintain the tie in proper relative position with respect to the collar.

The object of myinvention is to provides. simple and improved necktie-fastener of the class above set forth which can be inexpensively manufactured and easily adjusted or operated, which will effectively operate in position upon the tie in lieu of being attached to the collar, which can be readily connected with or detached fromthe tie, which will effectively operate to retain the tie in position not only during the operation of tying, but also after it is tied, and which will, furthermore, possess advantages in point of convenience, ease of operation, effectiveness, and general efficiency.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating the operative position and connection of the fastener when the necktie is completely tied. Fig. 2 is a perspective view illustrating the relative position of the fastener and necktie before the operation of tying. Fig. 3 is a detail view showing the front side of the fastener in its operativeposition with relation to the tie. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective View of the fastener.

Corresponding parts in all the figures are denoted by the same numerals of reference.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the fastener, which is preferably constructed of a single piece of wire bent to produce the membershereinafterdescribed. Thefastener comprises at its central rear portion a socket or loop 2, which is preferably approximately U-shaped and which when in its normal operative position with relation to the collarbutton (shown at 3 in Fig. 4) has its open end 4 at the top. From each side of the central socket'loop 2 extends a semiloop, as at 5, which is adapted to embrace the edges of the necktie, as represented at 6 in Figs. 1 and 2. Said semi side loops 5 are respectively arranged at the top and bottom of the device and project in reverse directions, as will be readily understood by reference to Fig. 4.

In the detail features of construction of the fastener and the bending of the wire of which the same is constructed the top ends of the arms 7 of the central U-shaped loop 2 are curved or turned over and downwardly, as at 8, and extended to form outer side arms, as at 9, which are approximately parallel in their position with relation to the arms 7 of the loop 2 and terminate at their lower ends at approximately the central or middle horizontal plane of the loop 2. From the lower ends of said side arms 9 the wire is carried forwardly from and with respect to the loop 2, as at 10, and from thence outwardly to form the front members of the side loops 5, as at 11. To form the upper side loop 5, the wire is continued upwardlyin a bend or curve, as at 12, and thence horizontally across the front of the device 1 at a point in front of the top portion of the loop 2 to form a crossbar 13. In like manner to form the lower and reversely-extending bottom side loop 5 the wire is bent or curved, as at 14:, from the other front member 11 and extended horizontally, as at 15, to form a cross-bar at a point in front of the lower portion of the central loop 2.

It will be noted that the construction and arrangement as hereinbefore described provides for the arrangement of the side loops 5, which form the means of detachable connection with the necktie on a plane somewhat in front of the main or central front loop 2, which forms the means of connection with the collar-button, thus providing a space for the head of the collar-button and facilitating the general operative functions and convenient manipulation of the device. The ends of the reversely-projecting cross-bars or arms 13 and 15 of the respective side loops 5 are preferably turned, as represented at 16, to form a rounded end or eye, whereby any tearing of the fabric of the tie by the end of the wire is obviated. It will be noted that in the bending of the fastener from a single piece of wire the central portion of the wire will form the rear main or middle loop 2, while the end portions will form the side loops 5.

The operation and advantages of my invention will be readily understood.

To attach the fastener 1 to the necktie, (represented at 17,) it is only necessary to slip one edge 6 of the tie into engagement with one of the side loops 5 in position in front of the rear central loop 2, when the other edge 6 of the tie may be similarly engaged with the other side loop 5. This operation is simple, as will be readily understood, and can is thus greatly facilitated, and it may be in stantly applied at any desired point upon the necktie without occasion for sliding it from the end of the tie into position. This provision for the quick mounting of the fastener at any desired point upon the tie extends the adaptable use of my invention to all the various forms of lies, such as those whichhave wide end portionsfour-in-hands, As-

cots, puif-ties, and, in fact, all kinds of ties which have a neckband portion which by reason of its narrow width is adapted to operatively carry the improved fastener device constituting my invention.

It will be further noted that the construction of the fastener 1 is such that it can be readily slid to various positions upon the necktie and that the reversed arrangement of the retaining side loops 5 provides a broad front bearing area which retains the main central loop 2 in a firm operative position with relation to the collar-button and does not permit a loose or swinging movement of said loop 2. The specific arrangement of the curves and bends forming the connection between the central loop 2 and side loops 5 is such that considerable structural strength is assured at the point of greatest strain and bending of or damage to the fastener is preeluded.

In use of the fastener it is first mounted upon the necktie in the position shown in Fig. 2, with the rear looped portion 2 on the outside face of the tie and with the loop 2 in upside-down position when the tie is first placed around the neck. The tie is then crossed at the collar-button, as represented in Fig. 2. The end of the tie carrying the fastener is then inserted upwardly and over and downwardly around the other portion of the tie and the fastener 1 is put up under the neckband, so that the loop 2 is brought into normal operative position at the front of the collar-button, as represented in Fig. 1.

The fastener is then pushed up into engagement with the collar-button, as represented in Fig. 4a, and the other end of the tie is pulled to tighten the neckband around the collar. The fastener will then operate to effectively retain the tie in position during the operation of tying, and it will also serve to retain the tie in operative position with respect to the collar during use. The ends of the tie may be conveniently regulated by sliding the fastener and varying its position before adjusting the tie.

It will be noted that myimproved fastener is a direct attachment to the tie itself, and it does not depend upon any connection with the collar for sustaining it in position.

I do not desire to be understood asrestricting myself to the exact details of construction and arrangement as herein shown and described, as manifest variation and'modification may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention and improvements. I therefore reserve the right to all such variation and modification as properly comes within the scope of my invention and. the terms of the following claims.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A necktie-fastenerof the class described, comprising a rear loop or socket adapted for connection with acollar-button and carrying at'its opposite sides open side loops consisting respectively of upper and lower cross bars or arms and adapted for engagementwith the side edges of a necktie.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a necktie-fastener of the class described,bent from a single piece of Wire and comprising a rear loop or socket adapted for connection with a collar-button and having its ends each extended outwardly at opposite sides and inwardly in-free position across and in front of said rear loop to form loops adapted for engagement with the side edges of a necktie.

3. As an improved article of manufacture, a necktie fastener of the class described formed of a single piece of bent wire and comprising a central loop-or socket adapted for connection with a collar-button and having its ends each turned forwardly and thence outwardly and inwardly in free position to form side loops adapted for engagement with the edges of a necktie.

4:. As an improved article of manufacture, a necktie fastener of the class described, formed of a single piece of bent wire and constituting an approximately U-shaped central rear loop the end portions of which are turned forwardly and thence outwardly and inwardly, to form open side loops, the inwardly-directed portions ofsaid side loops being relatively reversely arranged so that one of said portions is at the upper and the other of said portions is at the lower part of the device.

5. A necktie-fastener of the class described,

comprising a rear loop or socket adapted for In testimony whereof I have signed my connection with a collar-button and carrying name in the presence of the subscribing witat its opposite sides loops consisting each of nesses.

an upper and lower cross-bar or arm and CHARLES REYNOLDS. adapted for engagement with the side edges Witnesses: of a necktie, said cross-bars projecting oppo- JOE WILLIAMS,

sitely in a plane forwardly of said rear loop. I J AGOB KLOTZ, Jr.

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