Improvements in Cravat Adjusters.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd June, 1889-Accepted, 20th July, 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cravat Adjusters.
I HUGO VON MANN-TIECHLER, of 12 Westermühl Strasse Munich, in the Kingdom
of Bavaria, Retired Lieutenant of the Army, do hereby declare the nature of my
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of this invention is to provide a tie or cravat with an improved device
whereby its position with regard to the front of the collar may be adjusted so
that it may be secured in place with its upper edge covering but a small part of the
collar.
Hertofore such adjusters have been made with one hook to pass under the edge of
the collar and prevent the tie or cravat from rising up upon the collar, or they have
been made with two hooks close together so that the tie is held centrally by the collar
stud or button. These however have the drawback that the tie or cravat so adjusted
is apt to assume an inclined position to the right or left and does not fall or lie
vertically from the collar.
To obviate this I have made the improved adjuster shown in Fig. 1 in which the
two hooks b attached to or formed on the plate a sewn to the back of the tie, are
placed at a sufficiently wide distance apart, and are themselves sufficiently shallow
or short to hold down the tie or cravat to cover as little of the collar as may be
consistent with the fashion. Fig. II shows the plate a in cross section.
To render this appliance adjustable so that more or less of the collar may be
covered by the cravat at the desire of the wearer, I prefer to provide on the plate a
a threaded pin and set nut in place of the books b aforesaid. On the plate a slides
the plate d having along the greater part of its length the vertical slot e terminating
below in the cross-slot e¹, these slots being for receiving the pin f. On the upper end
of the plate d is hinged the plate c with a hole sufficient to pass over the head of a
collar stud or button. The plate c is preferably bent as shown in the cross section in
Fig. IV to allow for the thickness of the two ends of the collar. In putting on a
cravat provided with this adjuster, the plate d is detached from the plate a and the
loop c is passed over the collar stud before the collar is buttoned. After buttoning
the collar the cravat is fixed by passing the pin f into the slot e¹e and adjusting the
position of the plate a and fixing it by the set nut. The adjustment is rendered much
easier by the hinging of the plates at c¹.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
In tie or cravat adjusters.
1) The combination with the plate a of the two hooks b b set at wide distance
apart substantially as illustated and described.
2) The combination with a plate a of a screw threaded pin thereon, and set nut
on said pin, a hinged loop plate c and slotted plate d substantially as and for the
purpose set forth.
ed this ora day or June 2009.
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London, Agents to Applicant.