An Improvement in Dress Fastenings-a Combined Collar Stud and Locking Necktie Holder.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 19th May, 1893-Accepted, 24th June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Dress Fastenings-a Combined Collar Stud and
Locking Necktie Holder.
OWEN GEORGE COOPER Kilean Station Road Chingford, Essex Merchants
Cominercial Manager do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
A combined collar stud and locking necktie holder-to hold a collar in its place
upon the band of a shirt, and retain a necktie in proper position at the back of the
neck by means of a folding metal flap.
This combined stud and necktie holder is intended to supersede the ordinary
sewed button for fastening a shirt and collar, and to supersede loose clips or
fastenings as necktie retainers.
The combined collar stud and necktie holder is intended to be made of metal or
other suitable material.
It comprises two parts-the one forming the base and upright portion or bar,
which terminates in a top enlarged on two sides, and has on one front a projecting
portion which will hold the collar in its place. At each of two sides of the upright
bar, and immediately under the enlarged top, a little of the metal is cut away.
thereby reducing the width of the apright bat at those points, and a hole is there
drilled, through from one side to the other.
Into this hole I insert at the two ends a bent flap of steel, or other spring
material, which fits close in to and against the reduced width of the upright bar,
and is the remaining part of the top of the stud.
This flap being moveable can be turned over to either side.
As at the points where the bent Hap enters the fixed upright bar the width of
the upright bar is reduced, and as immediately above there is the top of the
upright bar enlarged on two sides as aforesaid, the said steel flap expands in its
width when moved out of a horizontal position and contracts to its normal width
under the enlarged top of the upright bar when folded down into a horizontal
position, to retain a necktie or other similar article in its place.
By means of the enlarged top of the bar, as also by means of the reduced width
of the said bar at the points where the moveable flap works, the moveable flap is
sufficiently locked when in a horizontal position to hold a necktie or other article of
dress in its place, until some amount of force is n-ed.
To insert or withdraw the combined stud and locking necktie holder through
button holes, the moveable flap is turned over to the same side as the fixed pro-
jecting portion; and the said flap is turned over to the opposite side when the stud
is in position for use.
Annexed hereto are drawings, which illustrate my invention' or improvement,
and in order that the same may be the more readily under-tood I now describe
them as follows—namely,
Drawing No. 1. is a plan of the stud and necktie-holder shewing the moveable
flap turned over to the same side as the fixed projecting portion for convenience in
passing the stud through button holes.
Drawing No. 2. is a plan of the stud and necktie-holder shewing the moveable
Alap turned over into position as a necktie holler after having passed throngh
button holes.
Drawing No. 3. is a side elevation of No. 2.
Drawing No. 4. is a front elevation of the stud shewing the fixed projecting
■idak of unright bar.

page_text: Drawing No. 5. is a front elevation of the stud shewing a front view of t
noveable flap in a horizontal position.
The letters A. B. C. D. E. F. used in the illustrations represent various par
as follows—namely.——
A. The circular base of the combined collar stud and locking necktie holder.
1. The fixed upright bar.
C. The enlarged top of the upright bar.
D. The fixed projecting portion forming one side of the top of the stud.
E. The moveable spring locking flap.
F. The drilled hole in which the moveable flap works.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Dress Fastenings a Combined Collar Stud and
Locking Necktie Holder.
OWEN GEORGE Cooren Kilearn, Station Rad Chingford, Essex, Merchants
Commercial Manager 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 object of this invention, or improvement, is to provide a combined collar
stud and locking necktie huldir, to hold a codlar in its place upon the band of a
shirt, and also retain a necktie in proper position, at the back of the neck, by
means of a fobling flap of steel or other suitable spring material.
This combined and necktie holder is intended to supersede the ordinary
sewed button for fastening a shirt and collar, and to supersede loose clips or
fastenings as neektie retainers.
The combined cullar stud and locking necktie holder is intended to be made of|
metal or other suitalde material.
It comprises two parts: the one part forms the base and upright portion or
bar, which bar terminates in a top, enlarge on two sides, and has on one front,
below the enlarged top, a projecting portion, intended to hold the collar in
its place.
The base will be circular, or of other suitable shape, and the upright portion
or bar will be of an oblong section, and of a size suitable for passing through
ordinary button holes,
At each of the two sides of the upright bar and immediately under the enlarged
top, a little of the upright bar is cut away, thereby reducing the width of the
upright bar at those points, and a hole is there drilled through from one side to
the other. Into this hole I insert, at the two ends, a bent flap of steel, or other
spring material, and it is this flap which is the second part of, and completes,
the stud.
This bent flap fits close in to, and against, the reduced width of the upright bar,
and forms halt of the top of the stud.
The bent flap being moveable can be turned over to either side.
As at the points where the bent flap enters the fixed upright bar, the width of
the upright bar is reduced, and as immediately above, there is the top of the upright
bar enlarged on two sides as aforesaid, the said spring flap expands in its width
when moved out of a horizontal position, and contracts to its normal width under
the enlarged top of the upright bar, when folded into a horizontal position to retain
a necktie or other similar article in its place.
By means of the enlarged top of the upright bar, as also by means of the
reduced width of the said bar at the points where the moveable flap works, the said
moveable flap is sufficiently locked, when in a horizontal position, to hold a necktie
or other similar article in its place, until some amount of force is used.

page_text: To insert, or withdraw, the combined collar stud and locking necktie holder
through button holes, the moveable flap is turned over to the same side as the fixed
projecting portion, and the said flap is turned over to the opposite side when the
stud is in position for use.
The drawings which illustrate my invention or improvement were left with my
Provisional Specification No. 5960 dated March 21st 1893 and I hereby adopt the
same for this my Complete Specification.
In order that the drawings may be the more readily understood I now describe
them as follows.
Drawing No. 1. is a plan of the stud shewing the moveable flap turned over to
the same side as the fixed projecting portion, for convenience in passing the stud
through button holes.
Drawing No. 2
plan of the stud shewing the moveable flap turned over into
position as a necktie holder, opposite to the fixed projecting portion, after having
passed through button holes.
Drawing No. 3 is a side elevation of No. 2.
Drawing No. 4 is a front elevation of the stud, shewing the fixed projecting
portion, as also the enlarged top and reduced width of the upright bar.
Drawing No. 5. is a front elevation of the stud shewing a front view of the
moveable flap, in a horizontal position.
The letters A. B. C. D. E. F. used in the drawings represent various parts as
follows-
A. The base of the combined collar stud and locking necktie holder.
B. The fixed upright bar.
C. The enlarged top of the upright bar.
D. The fixed projecting portion forming one part of the top of the stud.
E. The moveable spring locking flap, forming the other part of the top of the
stud.
F. The drilled hole in which the moveable flap works.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, declare that what I
claim is
The combination of a collar stud and a necktie retainer, and the use of a bent
and moveable spring flap, expanding and contracting in its width, being operated
upon by, and becoming locked under, projections in the width of the upright bar of
collar stud, to retain a necktie in its place, or a similar article in a similar
manner.
Dated this Nineteenth day of May 1893.
OWEN GEORGE COOPER,
Kilearn, Chingford.