An Improvement in Neck-ties or Scarfs.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 27th Apr., 1892-Accepted, 28th May, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Neck-ties or Scarfs.
We, ROBERT SUTTON FOSTER, of The Laurels, Montague Road, Hornsey,
London, Hosier and Outfitter, and JAMES EDMOND JACK, of 6, Birchington
Road, Crouch End, London, Warehouseman, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to neckties and scarfs of all kinds, and has for its object to
obviate the tendency which these articles at present possess of sagging down and
leaving a gap at front, thus exposing the band of the collar and in many cases the
collar stud or button.
To counteract this tendency it is customary to unduly tighten the tie or scarf
around the neck to the manifest discomfort of the wearer and, in the case of, say,
a plain scarf tied by the wearer himself into a sailor's knot to draw the knot so
tight as to take the stiffness out of the fabric and otherwise detract from its
appearance.
The object of our invention is to avoid these objections and effectually secure
the scarf or tie snugly in position without any special attention on the part of the
wearer.
To this end the scarf or tie, instead of being continuous as usual, is divided into
two portions which are secured together by a length of material of a sufficiently
elastic character to yield when drawn on in the act of applying the scarf or tie and
adjusting it in position, and then contract and draw the tie at the front closely up
against the collar.
This elastic portion would preferably be covered with the material of which
the tie or scarf is made and be situated immediately over the collar stud at back
and be provided with a hole to admit the collar stud and be thus retained in
position.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Neck-ties or Scarfs.
We, ROBERT SUTTON FOSTER of The Laurels, Montague Road, Hornsey,
London, Hosier and Outfitter, and JAMES EDMOND JACK of 6, Birchington
Road, Crouch End, London, Warehouseman, 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 :-
Our invention relates to neck-ties and scarfs of all kinds whether tied or knotted
by the wearer or whether "made up" and secured by making fast the end of the
neck-band to the body of the scarf or tie in the ordinary manner, and it has for its
object to obviate the tendency of these articles to sag down and leave a gap at
front, thus exposing the band of the collar and in many cases the collar stud or
button.
To counteract this tendency it is customary to unduly tighten the tie or scarf
around the neck to the manifest discomfort of the wearer and in the case of, say, a

page_text: plain scarf tied by the wearer himself into a sailors' knot the knot is necessarily
drawn so tight in order to retain it in place as to take the stiffress out of the fabric
and otherwise detract from its appearance.
The object of our invention is to avoid these objections and effectually secure
the scarf or tie snugly in position without any special attention on the part of the
wearer.
To this end the neck-band portion of the scarf or tie instead of being continuous,
as usual, is divided at about the middle into two portions, which are connected
together by a length of material of a sufficiently elastic character to yield when
drawn on in the act of applying the scarf or tie and adjusting it in position and
then contract and draw the front part of the tie or scarf closely up against the
collar.
This elastic portion would preferably be made of a material to match that of
which the tie or scarf is made or it may or may not be enclosed in a sheath of the
same material as the scarf, such sheath being puckered or cut on the bins to
admit of stretching sufficiently to allow of the extension of the elastic portion
within it.
The elastic portion is preferably so situate as to be immediately over the collar
stud at back and may be divided longitudinally throughout a part, or the whole, of
its length or may be formed of two separate parallel pieces with an intervening
slit to engage with the stud or button at back whereby the band portion will be
retained in position and prevented from riding up on the collar at back.
The improvement is illustrated in Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings as
applied to a scarf tied into a sailor's knot or other form, wherein a is a short length,
Bay about two inches more or less, of ordinary elastic webbing connecting the two
adjacent portions bb of the neck-band of the scarf.
Figure 2 shews part of the neck-band of a scarf in which the elastic portion is
composed of two parallel strips a a with an intervening slit.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we, declare that what we
claim is―
The combination, with a scarf or tie, of a length of elastic webbing inserted in,
and forming an intermediate part of, the neck-band portion thereof, substantially as
and for the purpose specified."
Boted the 974th dov ot Anal IROD
Deted this 97th day of
R. S. FOSTER,
J. F. JACK,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.