A Fastening for Fixing the Back of the Collar and Necktie to the Back of the Shirt.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 28th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 30th Mar., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Fastening for Fixing the Back of the Collar and Necktie to the
Back of the Shirt.
CHARLES JOHN SAYER 9 Kemble Road Croydon Surrey Artist do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A spring pin of fine wire is attached to the lower edge of a thin metal plate, and a
hook of stout pin wire to the upper edge by bending over laps on the outer edges of
the plate on to the two wires; with a lap on the corner of the plate bent over to form
a sheath for the pin.
The pin is passed through the back of the neck band the point being enclosed in the
sheath with the hook downwards.
The hook passes through the button hole of the collar and the necktie passes under
the hook.

page_text: A Fastening for Fixing the Back of the Collar and Necktie to the
Back of the Shirt.
I, CHARLES JOHN SAYER of 9 Kemble Road, Croydon, Surrey Artist, 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:
I first stamp or cut out of a thin sheet of metal a flat plate, forming the body of the
fastening and marked A in drawing Fig. 1, with laps or extensions-of the-plato,
beyond the shape of the fastening (marked G H K and L Fig. 1), for bonding over
certain wires herein described and called attaching parts (the portions of them shown
in Fig. 1 are marked D and J). On the left hand bottom corner is a lap (marked B
in Fig. 1) to form a sheath for the point of a spring pin (F Fig. 1); and on the right
hand botton corner the plate is extended out under the spring and terminates in a
semi-circular form; and marked C in drawing Fig. 1.
I next hend out of fine, tough, wire a spring pin having an arm or attaching part
(the portions of it shown in drawing Fig. 1 are marked D). This attaching part
continues into a spring (marked E in drawing Fig. 1) formed by a circular turn and
a balf in the wire and continues out on the upper side into a straight pin (marked F
in drawing Fig. 1), at such an angle with its attaching part that its point will remain
fixed in the sheath (B Fig. 1) when required. The spring pin is now fixed to the
plate by bending upwards and firmly over the attaching part the four laps as shewn in
the drawings Fig. 1 (and marked G and H), the extremity of the attaching part being
under the lap (marked G Fig. 1) farthest from the spring.
I next bend out of stout tough wire a hook (marked l in Fig. 1) having on either
side attaching parts (the portions of them shown in drawing Fig. 1 are marked J)
continuing from the hook.
These attaching parts are fixed to the plate by bending upwards and firmly over the
attaching parts the ten laps as shewn in the drawings Fig. 1 (and marked K and L),
the extremities of the attaching parts being under the lap (marked K Fig. 1) next
the sheath on the left and terminating at the spring (E Fig. 1) on the right.
The left hand corner lap (B Fig. 1) is now bent upwards and down towards the
plate leaving sufficient room for the passage over and into it of the pins point and
forming its sheath.
The Drawings sent herewith and referred to are an enlargement of the representation
of the fastening. Fig. 1 representing a full view with the pin open Fig. 2 repre-
senting a perpendicular side view from the left hand side, the pin being enclosed in
the sheath.
The size and shape of the fastening is subject to variations, it may be oval, crescent
shaped or any other suitable shape, and consequently the size and shape of the various

page_text: parts are subject to variations. The thickness of the two wires (marked respectively D
EF and I J in Fig. 1) is also subject to variation and the laps (G HK and L Fig. 1)
may be fixed to the plate by soldering or by any similar process. The various parts
of the fastening may be made of any suitable metal and may be ornamental.
The objects of my invention are performed as follows:-
The Fastening may be used as a detachable shirt button and back fastening for the
necktie combined or separately by passing the point of the pin (F Fig. 1) through the
double thickness of the seam of the shirt and neckband or in such part of the back
of the shirt that the head of the hook may be in the position usually occupied by the
back shirt button. The point of the spring pin is now enclosed in the sheath
(B Fig. 1). The hook (I Fig. 1) which is outwards and pointing downwards
passed through the back button hole of the collar and the necktie is passed under
the hook between the collar and the hook.
now
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.) A Fastening having a hook which forms a substitute for the ordinary shirt
button or other common means of attaching the collar to the shirt and which also
forms a means of keeping down the necktie or scarf such fastening being easily
attached to and detached from the shirt by means of a spring pin with protected
point.
(2.) A detachable substitute for the ordinary back shirt button such substitute being
easily attached to and removed from the shirt without necessitating a stud hole, sewing
or severing sewn work and such substitute combining in itself a means of keeping
down the back of the necktio.
(3.) The Fastening as shewn in the drawings and subject to the variations as berein
set forth for the purposes herein set forth or for any other purpose that the same is
applicable.
This Theatre th
CL1000
CHARLES JOHN SAYER,
Applicant.