Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Feb., 1887
Complete Left, 8th Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 9th Dec., 1887
deciate the nature of this invention to be as TOTOWS:-
The object of this invention is mainly to provide a fastener which shall prevent a
neck-tie when being worn from working up at the back of the collar and getting out
of position.
Various clips and contrivances have been suggested for effecting this object but
none of them are entirely satisfactory or efficient.
I form a fastener of an oblong strip of metal bent over at one end to form a hook
to hook below the bottom edge of the collar. The other I form with two pins
projecting from it at a distance apart from one another and bent so as to lie parallel
with the surface of the metal strip and with their points in opposite directions.
Preferably also I curve both pins so that approximately they form part of one circle
and I slightly turn the extreme points of the pins outwards so as readily to enter the
neck-tie. When the fastener has been hooked on to the collar (the shirt and collar
being on the wearer) the part of the neck-tie which is to be at the back of the collar
is held and pressed against the clip, at the back of the collar not horizontally but
somewhat in an inclined position. The neck tie while so held and pressed is turned
from its inclined position to a horizontal position making it straight with the collar.
This movement causes both pins to enter the neck tie, and the neck tie may then be
brought round the neck as worn and is then securely held by the fastener during wear
and cannot be again released or become released from the fastener unless by again
inclining it out of its horizontal position and reversing the above movement.
If the fastener is to be used for holding down the ends of the tie in front of the
shirt then in place of the metal strip being formed with a hook at one end to hook
below the collar it may carry a stud head to be passed into a button hole in the front
of the shirt. The fastener with the stud head can also be used for holding down the
neck tie at the back of the collar and at the same time for securing the collar to the
shirt at the back.
Dated this 9th day of February 1887.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, PERCY GYE of Paper Buildings in the County of Middlesex, Barrister, 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 is to hold ties worn round an ordinary collar in their
proper position, and to keep them from slipping and also to hold the ends of a tie down
to the shirt front.
To make the fastening for the collar I form a hook out of a piece of flat thin metal
of about one quarter inch in width, and of a thickness sufficient to be stiff and to hold
to the collar, when hooked on to it. 1 bend the hook on the flat, bringing the two
parts so close together that the hook will fit tightly on to the collar. The hook when
so bent being about of an inch or an inch long. On one side of the hook I
have two pins of about inch long or such length as may be found suitable, one on
each edge of the hook, the points pointing in opposite directions. These pins lie
nearly parallel with the flat of the hook, and I prefer to bend them round so that the
point of each one points towards the direction of the base of the other, forming
approximately parts of a circle, or somewhat similar curve: the pins being about 16
inch apart, and being about 1 inch distance from the flat surface of the hook-or a
little more. The pins will, however, effect the object of holding the tie if left
straight.
These pins may be cut out of the solid in making the hook, or may be separately
attached and the position of them on the hook, supposing the hook to be in its place
on the collar, may be such that they point, either in a horizontal, or a vertical direc-
tion. I can place them pointing in any direction and they will effect the desired
object, in whatever direction they point but I prefer the horizontal.
The formation of the hook and pins for the above fastener is shown in the drawing,
Figures A.
To use this fastener, it is hooked to the lower part of the collar at the back; the
tie is then put round the collar over the fastener; the part of the tie over the fastener
is then twisted round a short distance out of its horizontal position in the direction in
which the pins point; the motion is then reversed, which causes both pins to enter
the tie and also brings the tie again straight round the collar. The tie is thereby
held in its position and cannot slip either upwards or downwards, or round the collar,
and cannot get free from the pins until the tie is again twisted in the direction in
which the pins point, so as to draw it off them.
To make the fastener for fastening the ends of the tie to the shirt front I take a
piece of flat metal-preferably rather wider than for the hook already described, and
of about an inch long; and form upon or attach pins to one side of it in precisely the
same manner and of the same form as to the hook. At about inch from the other
end of the piece of metal I cut into it from each side nearly to the centre, so as to

page_text: leave at the end a short T. I turn this down on the opposite side to which the pins
are as shown in the drawing, Figures B. The part turned down is fastened in the
stud-hole of the shirt front and the ends of the tie are then fastened on to the hooks
by a motion similar to that used to attach the tie to the collar fastener; as above
described.
I also form this fastener by placing an ordinary metal stud or cross-bar at the back
of the fastener for insertion in the stud-hole instead of cutting into and turning down
the metal, as shown at Figure C.
The advantages derived from forming neck-tie fasteners in the above manner
are:-
1. That the fastener takes an absolute and firm hold of the tie with its pins and
prevents that part of the tie which is round the collar from moving in any direction
and does not merely prevent it from moving upwards.
2. That this hold requires the tie to be intentionally moved out of its position in
order to unfasten it, so that the tie cannot slip accidentally or come loose unless the
adjusting motion is intentionally reversed.
3. That the fastener is small and neat and is covered by the tie and kept out of
sight, permitting the tie to remain straight and smooth round the neck.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. A neck-tie fastener with a hook or head to hold on to the collar or shirt and
with pins pointing in opposite directions to hold the neck-tie substantially as
described.
2. A neck-tie fastener with pins pointing in opposite directions, and with a
hook or head to hold on to the collar substantially as described with reference to
Figure A.
3. A neck-tie fastener with pins pointing in opposite directions with a T piece or
stud to hold on to the shirt substantially as described with reference to Figures B
and C.
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