Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Sept., 1888
Specification Accepted, 26th Oct., 1888
1, WILLIAM ROCKLIFFE, of 7 Sutton Street, Durham, in the County of Durham,
Engineer, 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 stateinent:-
This invention relates to improvements in or connected with neckties made up on
frames of the nature or type set forth in the Figures of my specification
number 988388. My improvements consist in part in the provision of a com-
pensating or elastic connection between the frame on which the tie or scarf is arranged
and the eyelet which connects the frame and tie or scarf to the shirt or .collar
stud so that when the tie is in use its correct position on the wearer shall by the
means hereinafter described be ensured.
The compensating connection may consist of an elastic band or mechanical spring
soarranged that the tendency shall always be to keep the tie-frame in its correct position
relatively to the collar stud.
My improvements consist further in a new or improved form of neckstrap
connection with neck-tie-frames and in other details to be more particularly herein-
after referred to.
I will now proceed to fully describe my invention having reference to the
accompanying drawings and throughout this description similar letters of reference in
the specification and in the drawings designate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a necktie frame and connections Fig. 2 is a plan of
the same and Figs. 3 and .4 are sectional elevations on line m n in Fig. 1 representing
respectively the several parts as seen when not in use and when in use or being worn.
Fig. 5 is a back elevation of a necktie frame and connections and Fig. 6 is a
sectional elevation of the same on line m n in Fig. 5, these two views showing
modifications or variations in the means employed to effect results identical with
those effected in reference to Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4. Figs. 7 and 8 show side elevations
of another method of effecting similar results by springs, the tie frame and eyelets in
these two views appearing in sectional elevation and Figs. 9 and 10 represent details
harainafter avain alluded to

page_text: Referring to Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 a. is an elastic band acting as an automatic com-
pensatory connection between the base of the necktie frame and the end of the
stud-eyelet c. The elastic band a may be connected to and either by stitching
through holes punched or pierced in the several plates or by clamping and soldering
or otherwise. The length of the band a must be so adjusted as that when the band
with its eyelet is bent round as shown in Fig. 4 the top of the eyelet hole shall not
quite reach the neck of the collar stud e¹ without being first stretched for this purpose.
It is therefore evident that the fact of this stretching will keep band a in tension
which has the effect of keeping the tic-frame in its correct position relatively to the
collar-stud e as shown in Fig. 4. Further to prevent lateral movement, the plate d
is slotted as shown at e and into this slot the neck of the collar-stud fits as shown in
the Figures.
Referring to Figs. 5 and 6, instead of the band a as above described by another
arrangement I place an elastic band a' in the position shown in Fig. 5 on the back of
the tie frame and I attach one end of an eyelet e to this band. The band a¹ being
first fitted in tension it is obvious that the position of eyelet c² is controlled thereby
so that when the eyelet is hooked onto the collar stude³ the band a¹ will leave its
normal position shown in dotted lines and assume the position shown in full
lines in Figs. 5 and 6 the effect of which arrangement together with the slot e
for collar stud c³ being precisely the same as set forth in reference to Figs. 1, 2, 3
and 4.
Figs. 7 and 8 show the tie frame and eyelet connected by means of a spring a²
instead of an elastic band which being merely a modification produces like effects to
those above set forth the figures showing the eyelet as seen when connected with and
disconnected from the collar stud respectively.
In
Referring again to Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 I construct the hoop or
bridge h of the tie frame by stamping the plate in such a manner as that while
forming the desired shape of tie frame I corrugate the hoop or bridge h for the
purpose of forming a rounded edge for the material forming the tie to pass over.
my specification hereinabove alluded to I made special mention of wire for this and
other purposes but I also propose to use tie frames with corrugated hoops stamped
out of sheet plate for these purposes as illustrated in the figures annexed
hereto whereby the use of wire and solder may be dispensed with while I
produce a frame having substantially similar attributes at one and the same
operation.
The elastic or compensating spring connection hereinabove described can be fitted
to each and all of the necktie frames illustrated in the drawings annexed hereto as
well as to the necktie frames and any mere modifications thereof illustrated and described
in my specification number 98838 but it will be understood that according as the
different types of "stand-up" or "low" collars are worn, so will the necessity for
neckstraps to be attached to the tie frames vary, for it is evident that when ties for
example of the "Sailor's Knot" type are worn with stand-up or high collars, a
vacancy would appear at the sides of the knot were neckstraps not used and further
neckstraps form the most convenient method of fitting such apparel for wear. On
the other hand when low collars are worn, such as are frequently made in one with
the shirt the use of neckstraps is cumbersome but the improved arrangements of eyelet
and automatic elastic connection with the stud as above set forth possess exactly the
attributes of novel and efficient substitution for such straps.
In Fig. 5 are shown two methods of attaching nockstraps to a necktio frame con-
structed according to my invention. By one method a short of piece of wire p has
its ends turned down through holes in the plate d which are then secured by solder
or otherwise to the plate and by another method the wire may be dispensed with by
stamping out two slits p¹ p² and raising or bulging out the intermediate part p² as
shown on the right hand side of the same figure, figs. 9 and 10 being further illustrative
of these arrangements. One end of the neckstrap is then attached to one bridge and
the other end is passed through the corresponding bridge and hooked to a pin p³ in
the ordinary way.

page_text: As a protection against chafing of the material forming the tie on the edges
of its frame, the frames may be coated with a solution of India Rubber or other
equivalent material or they may be lapped with thin India rubber sheet for this
purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
1 claim is:
1. The combination with necktie frames of the nature hereinbefore described and
referred to and any mere modifications thereof of an elastic or compensating spring
connection between the tie frame and the stud eyelet substantially as and for the
purposes herein before set forth.
2. The combination with necktie frames of the nature herein before described and
referred to and any mere modifications thereof of the methods employed for attaching
the neckstraps to the tie frames substantially as herein before set forth.
3. The combination with necktie frames of the nature hereinbefore described and
referred to and any mere modifications thereof of the method of preventing chafing of
the material forming the tie by the use of an India Rubber or equivalent skin or coating
thereon substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
Datad this 10th dox of Santambon 1080
A. CRAWHALL CHAPMAN,
2, St. Nicholas' Buildings, Newcastle-on-Tyne,
Patent Agent for Applicant.