IMPROVEMENTS IN NECK-TIES
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Thomas, of tho Firm of J. and R. Morley, of 18,
Wood Street, in the City of London, Manufacturers and Merchants, and
Bernard White, in the employment of the said Firm, for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN NECK-TIES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Thomas and Bernard
White at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st June 1881.
JOHN THOMAS, of the Firm of J. and R. Morley, of 18, Wood Street, in the
City of London, Manufacturers and Merchants, and BERNARD WHITE, in the
employment of the said Firm. "IMPROVEMENTS IN NECK-TIES."
In order to facilitate the application and adjustment of the parts of neck-ties to
the wearer, there are applied to them fastening or holding means, and the object of
the improvements is to simplify the arrangement or construction of the parts
containing such fastening or holding means.
For this purpose we produce by punching or otherwise from a sheet of thin
metal the form desired, and which may be circular with a segment cut therefrom
corresponding somewhat with the curve of a neck. We then turn up the edge of
the form produced into a shallow shell, punch in it the holes necessary for
subsequently sewing or other attachment to the neck-tie, as well as the hole or
holes for the fastening. We also cut a piece of millboard or other suitable material
to correspond with the interior of the turned up edge of the metal referred to, and
also a disc of linen, silk, or other suitable material somewhat larger in diameter
than the metal shell. We then place the disc of fabric in a dic, place the shell
thereon, gather over the edges of the fabric, and place the millboard or such like
material thereon with its holder or fastener, and at the same time press it into the
shell and close over the edges of that shell, thus completing the operation of these
parts ready for application by sewing or otherwise to the neck-tic.
The holder or fastener employed may be of the lock spring character, or a spike,
or otherwise.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows an outline of the inside view of that which in use is applied
next the wearer of part of a neck-tic with our improvements applied thereto.
In this case the arrangement of parts shown is adapted for the use of what is
known in the trade as the lock spring fastener, but the fastener may be varied;
Figure 2 shows by a similar view of parts adapted to the use of the ordinary point
holder, and Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, show details of parts in relation
to Figure 1.
In each of the Figures the same letters are employed to indicate corresponding
parts wherever they occur; a, indicates by outline that side of a scarf-tie which in
uso lies next the wearer; b', b', are portions of the tie to pass round the neck b
indicating the fixed end thereof, and b' that which has to be adjustably held by
the fastening or holding means employed; Figure 3 shows by side view a piece of
mill board or other suitable material cut to form for the interior of the parts now
under description; Figure 4 represents the same with various holes c, c, c, pierced
therein for the sewing on of the holder on to the tic, or for securing the parts
together, or to facilitate the operation of the lock spring; Figure 5 shows the
parts, Figures 3 and 4, with the lock spring fattached to it; Figure 6 shows a
pieco of zinc, or it may be other thin metal, punched or otherwise cut to size, and
Figure 7 shows the same with the edges thereof turned up or raised by punching
or otherwise, whilst the dotted lines c, c, thereon indicate parts enclosed by them
to be removed for stitching or rivetting holes, or to facilitate the free operation of

page_text: the parts of the lock spring f; Figure 8 shows the disc of linen, silk, or other
suitable material as a cover to the parts, whilst Figures 9 and 10 show front and
back views of the parts combined, with the edge of the linen or silk or other
suitable material turned over between the edge of the piece of millboard or other
suitable material and the interior of the turned up edge of the piece of metal so as
to be held by the pressing inwards of such metal edge somewhat as indicated by
the enlarged or exaggerated section of parts, Figure 11. In this Figure 11
represents a portion of the piece of millboard or other suitable material, the black
line the piece of zinc or other metal, and the dotted line the covering of silk
or other suitable material.
Figures 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, show parts in relation to the arrangement,
Figure 2. The blank of millboard or other suitable material in this case would
correspond with that indicated by Figure 3; Figure 12 indicates the holes
perforated therein suitable for the pin or point arrangement of fastener; Figures 13
and 14 show two opposite sides of Figure 12 with the point holder applied
thereto. In this case a saving of metal besides lightness is effected by cutting
away the centre portion of the metal shell, as indicated by Figure 15.
Figures 16 and 17 represent front and back views of the parts of the holding
means combined as described in respect of Figures 9, 10, and 11.
Having thus described our Invention and means which we adopt in carrying the
same into effect, we would have it understood that what we claim is, the arranging
or combining parts of holding means for neck-ties, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Thomas and Bernard White, have
hereunto set our hands and scals, the Seventeenth day of December, in the
year One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
JOHN THOMAS.
(L.S.)
BERNARD WHITE. (LS.)