Improvements in Devices for Attaching Neckties or Oravats to Collar Studs.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 21st Jan., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Devices for Attaching Neckties or Oravats to
Collar Studs.
I, JOSEF KRETSCHMER, of Eulau near Bodenbach, Bohemia, in the Empire of
Austro-Hungary, Ironmonger and Stencil Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The subject of this invention is a device which when secured to a necktie or
cravat enables it to be attached to the collar-stud and there retained in its proper
position.
The invention will ha hant undanstand he reference to the accompanying drawings
Fig. 4 shows the device detached, and
Fig. 5 is a perspective view thereof, as it is applied to the stud.
The device mainly consists of a piece of wire a bent in the shape of a loop and
capable of spring-action. This loop is placed in a case b, stamped out of sheet-
metal and the back of which is adapted to be stitched or otherwise secured to the
cravat.
The attachment of the cravat to the collar-stud is effected by shifting the wire a
from the position, in which it is shown in Fig. 1, to that in which it appears in
Fig. 4. For this purpose its lower ends d are grasped and compressed in the
direction of the arrow I, until the shoulders c can enter the case b. The wire loop a
may then be drawn out or raised as indicated in Fig. 4.
When in this position the loop a is by means of the upper bent portion e
suspended from the collar-stud K' (Fig. 5). The loops are then grasped with
one hand and held back, while with the other hand the cravat is moved upwards
until the shoulders e protrude from the lower end of the case where through the
spring-action of the wire loop a they move apart and press upon the lower edges of
the side walls of the case 6 (which see in section Fig. 3). In this position it is
impossible to draw out the wire-loop a in the upward direction, while it is
disengaged in the opposite direction by the stud K' which consequently is retained
between the upper part e of the loop a and the case b and cannot of its own accord
be disengaged therefrom.
When the cravat is not secured to the stud the drawing out of the loop a is
prevented, upwardly, by the loops d, and downwardly, by a bent piece or flap / cut
out of the same sheet as the case b and turned back into the inside of this case.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
A device adapted to be secured to a cravat or necktie to enable it to be attached
to the collar stud, consisting of a case 6 fixed to the cravat in which is movably
arranged a bent wire a so that when it is suspended from the stud (Fig. 5) it may
be drawn downwards in the case until the shoulders c protrude from the lower
end when they take up their position against the edges of the case band prevent
the wire from being drawn out while the collar stud is in this position retained
between the upper part e of the wire a and the case band cannot of its own
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page_text: accord become undone the whole substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 14th day of December 1892.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.