Improved Device for Attaching Neckties.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 24th Dec., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Device for Attaching Neckties.
We, GEORG CORDES Salesman, Neurhamm and HEINRICH WESSELS Book-
binder and BERNHARD KERSTING, Watchmaker, both of Breitestr. all in Ovelgönne,
Oldenburg in the German Empire, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to he particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention relates to a device for attaching neckties to the collar in
convenient manner, said device further preventing the displacement or loss of
the tie.
Our invention consists mainly of a stud which is inserted into the shirt front,
and is provided with a hollow or tubular stem having an enlarged recess at its inner
end. The tie is provided with a split pin or stem having small projections on its
ends, both limbs being elastic so that they can be pressed together and inserted into
the hollow shirt stud and will when fully inserted expand pressing their projections
into the recessed interior end of the stud and thus securely connecting the hollow
stud with the limbs of the pin or stem.
In order to make this Specification more easily intelligible we refer to the
accompanying drawings in which similar letters denote similar parts throughout the
several views.
Fig. 1 shows in perspective view a tie provided with our improved fastening.
Fig. 2 is a section through the stud and pin.
Fig. 3 is a plan of the pin.
Figs. 4, 5 and 6 show a flat button and pin in section, side elevation and plan
respectively.
Figs, 7, 8 and 9 show in section, side elevation and plan a modification in which
the pin is rigid and the stud elastic.
The stud, which is inserted in the shirt front, has a flat round or other shaped
hollow or tubular part a provided with a round or flat disc b, the boring c¹ of the
stem being increased or extended at the rear end so as to form a cavity into
which the catches or projections d³ of the pin or stem d of the fastening which is
attached to the tie may engage.
The stud a is bored or reamered out conically at the front end c to enable the
more convenient insertion of the pin or stem d. The latter is split to form the two
spring catches d' d' having hooks d³ the whole being mounted on the plate
which is sewn to the tic or attached in any other convenient manner to
the same.
e
The device is manipulated in the following manner :
The stud is arranged in
the shirt front and the pin of the tie inserted in the boring of the same, when the
catches will engage in the recess c³ and hold the tie in place. To remove the
tie it is only necessary to pull the pin sharply out of the stud.
Figs. 4, 5 and 6 show a modification in which the shank of the stud a¹ is
flat as also the pin having spring limbs f₁f and hooks ; the boring is
recessed at the interior end at 92 and made conical in front at g. The section
of the stud is in this case not round but rectangular or oval as may be desired.
Figs. 7, 8 and 9 show a modified form of our invention, in which the pin / is
solid and provided with a groove h', whilst the stem of the stud is formed of two
springs a a³ each having a catch a engaging in the groove of the pin. The
drawing shows this form of our device in connection with a flat stud shank but it is
obvious that the same can also be of circular section, it only being necessary to split
the stud stem to allow of the necessary elasticity.

page_text: In order to simplify the manufacture of the studs, the parts a and b of the same
may be made separately and screwed together.
The device herein before described entirely obviates the necessity of elastic loops
or other fastenings on the ties, and also prevents the tie from getting displaced. The
stud also serves for fastening the shirt.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :
1. The combination of the stud a having hollow shank c¹ recessed at c' and the
pin or stem d attached in suitable manner to the tie and formed of the two spring
catches d' having hooks d substantially as described.
and made
2. The combination of the stud a having hollow shanks e recessed at
conical at c and the pin or stem d having plate e and catches d' d' having hook d³
substantially as described.
3. Our improved device for attaching neckties substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 7th day of November 1891.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, Agents.