A New or Improved Shirt-front and Neck-tie Adjuster.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Apr., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 27th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 16th Apr., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Shirt-front and Neck-tie Adjuster.
PHILIP O'NEIL, 16, Albany Street, Regent's Park, London, N.W., Electrical
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention which takes the form of an attachment to the shirt-front or other
articles of apparel, is intended to prevent by a new or improved method the bulging
and disarrangement of the front and neck-tie caused through the movements of the
wearer.
I call it the shirt-front and neck-tie adjuster.
In constructing it I use a strip or band of elastic, or other material, to which I
fasten in any convenient way such fittings as may be suitable to attain my object.
For convenience of explanation any combination of two or more of the following
articles may be taken to answer my purpose, viz.―
Tie clips,
Small rings,
Slide buckles,
Hooks,
Safety pins,
The following may be taken as a discription of one method of constructing my
invention, leaving variations of it to be more fully explained hereafter:-
To one end of the elastic band I attach a slide-buckle. The other end of the band
is passed through a slot or link in a tie clip and is then brought back through the
slide-buckle and made fast to a small ring.
My invention is used as follows-
The small ring is placed around any one of the buttons or studs in the lower part
of the shirt-front, and the tie clip or lower fastening is pulled down to grip a
portion of the under pants or trousers as may be convenient. The requisite rigidity
or tension of the elastic band is simply a matter of adjusting the slide-buckle to its
proper place, thus causing a strain that entirely obviates the disarrangement and
unsightly bulging of the shirt-front which would otherwise exist.
If it is desired to prevent the scarf neck-tie, as well as the shirt-front, from
becoming disarranged I have merely to use a tie-clip instead of the small ring and
so clasp together the shirt-front and the ends of the neck-tie.
Dated the 27th day of April 1897.

page_text: Safety pins.
The following may be taken as a description of one method of constructing my
invention, leaving variations of it to be more fully explained hereafter:
To one end of the elastic band I attach a slide-buckle. The other end of the band
is passed through a slot or link in a tie clip and is then brought back through the
slide-buckle and made fast to a small ring.
My invention is used as follows:―
The small ring is placed around any one of the buttons or studs in the lower part
of the shirt-front, and the tie clip, or lower fastening, is pulled down to grip a
portion of the under pants or trousers as may be convenient. The requisite rigidity
or tension of the elastic band is simply a matter of adjusting the slide-buckle to its
proper place, thus causing a strain that entirely obviates the disarrangement and
unsightly bulging of the shirt-front which would otherwise exist.
If it is desired to prevent the scarf neck-tie, as well as the shirt-front from
becoming disarranged I have merely to use a tie clip instead of the small ring and
so clasp together the shirt-front and the ends of the neck tie.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood, I will now proceed to
describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a plan view of the shirt-front and neck-tie adjuster which may be used
when a bow neck-tie is worn.
Fig. 2 is also a plan view of the shirt-front and neck-tie adjuster shown with
a tie clip (a) attached to the elastic band (c) at right angles and used when a scarf
neck-tie is worn.
Fig. 3 is a reduced view of the adjuster complete and is shown as it is worn on
shirt-front and trousers.
Fig. 4 is a side elevation of an ordinary tie clip which I adopt to describe the
nature of this invention. The action of it is as follows:-In pressing down the
lever (1) towards the base plate (p), the hook shaped spring piece (9) immediately
closes upon base plate at (p¹) and so forms the grip portion of the tie clip.
Fig. 5 is a plan view of the slide-buckle used and is shown in position on the
elastic band at (b) Fig. 1 and Fig. 2.
Figs. 6 and 7 are samples of tie-clips which I may so construct and apply
to further my object in carrying out this invention. In adapting them, clip
Fig. 6, is attached at right angles to the elastic band (c) to replace clin (a¹) Fig. 2.
Clip Fig. 7, is attached in a perpendicular manner to the elastic band (c,) to replace
the metal ring (d.) Fig. 1.
My new or improved shirt-front and neck-tie adjuster consists essentially of one
or more metal tie-clips, slide-buckles and rings attached by any suitable means to
and in combination with an elastic band so constructed and described as follows-To
one end of the elastic band (c) Fig. 1, is attached a metal slide-buckle (b). The other
end of the band is passed through a slot cut in the tie-clip (a,) and is then brought

page_text: back through the slide-buckle and made fast to the metal ring (d), or to any one
of the tie clips Figs. 6, 7, and that of (a) Fig. 2. My invention is used as
follows: The ring (d) Fig. 3, having been placed around one of the buttons or
studs in the lower part of the shirt-front, the tie clip (a) is then pulled down to
grip either the under pants or the trousers as may be convenient. The requisite
tension of the elastic band (c), to hold the shirt-front rigid is simply a matter of
adjusting the slide buckle (6) to its proper place. It will thus be seen that my
new or improved shirt-front and neck-tie adjuster while readily adapting itself to
any make of shirt has the further advantages of gripping the trousers, shirt-front
and neck-tie firmly, at the same time giving freely to the various movements of
the body.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is: :-
1. The new or improved shirt-front and neck-tie adjuster consisting essentially
of an elastic band or other suitable material (c) in combination with one or more
slide-buckles (b), one or more tie clips (a), (a') and Figs. 6 and 7, substantially as
herein described and shown in the accompanying drawings.
2. In a shirt-front and neck-tie adjuster as above claimed the use of a tie clip,
or other suitable fastening, (a¹) attached at right angles to an elastic band (c)
substantially as herein described and shown and for the purpose specified.
3. The new or improved shirt-front and neck-tie adjuster comprising essentially
an elastic band (c), in combination with one or more slide-buckles (b), one or more
tie clips (a) and rings (d), substantially as herein described and shown in the
accompanying drawings.
Dand thin 97th day of Ionvom, 1000