Improved Fastenings for Cravats.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Nov., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 4th Aug., 1891-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1891
Improved Fastenings for Cravats.
I CARL RICHARD ULBRICH of No. 44 Blasewitzerstrasse, Dresden in the
Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows
This invention refers to means for fastening and disengaging cravats which are
carried in front only, and without any tie or band around the neck. The part for
fixing or fastening such cravats for wear consists mainly of a peculiarly shaped
button, which joins the two ends of the collar, and of a plate provided with a spring,
which plate is secured by sewing or other means to the cravat.
Particular attention is paid in this new device to ensure an easy and ready
fastening or disengaging of the cravat, and a firm hold of the latter, in spite of the
bending on the part of any person wearing such cravats with the improved device,
which bending might be expected to cause an involuntary disengagement or strain
in the combined parts. The intention is also to provide against all pressure of the
attachment device on the throat of the wearer, such defects being frequent in the
cravat holding devices hitherto in common use.
The attachment device consists of a stud having a back plate which rests towards
the throat of the wearer; the stem of the stud passes through the button-holes
of the shirt collar, the ends of which are usually kept together by a stud or
button.
The stem is provided, at its side intended to be uppermost, with a notch or
recess, and with another notch or recess on its lower surface, so that at both places
noses are formed. A metal plate is fixed to the cravat by sewing, or by any other
suitable means, within the folds or pleats of the cravats, so that the plate is
covered in front by the cloth or fabric of the cravat. This plate has in it a suitable
hole it has also a spring rivetted or properly fixed to it, or punched out in one
with the sheet of the plate, said spring being so bent as to pass through the hole,
and ending in an upward direction. The cravat plate is slipped over the stem,
which passes through the hole therein, so, that the plate takes into the notch on the
upper surface of the stem, whereas the spring engages with the notch in the lower
surface of the stem; the cravat is thus fixed or fastened in a convenient and ready
manner to the stem, the parts yielding to the bending or stooping of the wearer's
neck, so as to avoid any inconvenient pressure against the throat.
To remove the cravat from the stem, the cravat with its backing plate is brought
into, or nearly into, a horizontal position, the backing plate and spring thus coming
into a nearly parallel position to each other, and allowing of ready and easy
disengagement of the stem from the hole in the cravat plate.
The stem, as preferably made, is of a flat form. The cravat, if properly fixed or
fastened in the above described manner, will entirely cover all the parts used for its
fixture.
As a modification of the above device, the plate, which may be of any convenient
form, but preferably of the form of a shield with the ends slightly turned upward,
and having slots or perforations for the connection of same with the cravat, has its
middle part in the form of a case or box. The stem of the stud, which has only one
notch, and that in its upper surface, is inserted into the back of the box, and a
spring is constructed to press against the lower and smooth surface of the stem,
near the point below the notch.
1000
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Fastenings for Cravats.
I, CARL RICHARD ULBRICH of No. 44, Blasewitzerstrasse, Dresden, in the
Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire, Merchant, 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 :-
This invention refers to means for fastening and disengaging cravats which are
carried in front only, and without any tic or band around the neck. The part for
fixing or fastening such cravats for wear, consists mainly of a peculiarly shaped
button, which joins the two ends of the collar, and of a plate provided with a spring,
which plate is secured by sewing or other means to the cravat.
Particular attention is paid in this new device to ensure an easy and ready
fastening or disengaging of the cravat, and a firm hold of the latter, in spite of the
bending on the part of any person wearing such cravats with the improved device,
which bending might be expected to cause an involuntary disengagement or strain
in the combined parts. The intention is also to provide against all pressure of the
attachment device on the throat of the wearer, such defects being frequent in the
cravat holding devices hitherto in common use.
The cravat herein described offers the advantage that it can be worn without
any band or tie around the neck, notwithstanding it may also be used for standing
collars.
Fig. 1 is an end view of the parts for holding or fastening the cravat.
Fig. 2 is a side view, shewing the parts in proper position, when fixed.
Fig. 2 shews the parts in position when the person wearing them is bending or
stooping.
Fig. 3 is a plan corresponding to Fig. 2.
a is the button, the plate of which rests towards the throat of the person wearing
the cravat, the stem of the button passing through the button holes of such wearing
apparel (shirt, shirt collar, &c.) which are usually kept together in their place by a
button.
The stem is provided at its upper surface, at 6, with a notch or recess, and with
another notch or recess at e at its lower surface, so that at both places noses are
formed. To the cravat the plate d is fixed, by sewing, or by any other suitable
means, within the folds or plaits of the cravats, so that the plate is covered in front
by the cloth or fabric of the cravat. This plate has a suitable hole e, and a
spring, which spring is rivetted to the plate d, or properly fixed to it, or punched
out of the sheet of the plate, said spring being so bent as to pass through the hole e,
and ending in an upward direction. The plate d with the cravat is slipped over
the stem, so that the plate takes into the notch at the upper surface of the stem,
whereas the spring engages at the notch at the lower surface of the stem, the
cravat thus being fixed or fastened in a convenient and ready manner to the stem,
allowing of bending or stooping of the person's neck, in which case the parts will
take the position illustrated in Fig. 24 without disengaging or without pressing or
squeezing against the throat. In this case the plate d remains with its hole in the
notch of the button stem, and turns in or on said notch, the spring shifting on the
lower surface in such a manner that it presses the stem against the plate, thus
securing or holding the parts together, and taking their former position (Fig. 2) if
the person straightens the neck.
For easy removal of the cravat from the button stem, the cravat with its plate d
is brought into, or nearly into, a horizontal position, the plate d and spring thus
becoming nearly in line with each other, and allowing of ready and easy disengage-
ment of the cravat from the stem.
The stem is preferably made in a flat form of horizontal extension, as shewn in
Fig. 3.

page_text: The cravat, if properly fixed or fastened in the above described manner, will
entirely cover all the parts used for its fixture.
In Figs. 4, 5, and 6, a modification of the above device is shown, in which
modification the same parts as above, but slightly modified, are made use of for
fixing or fastening the cravat.
d is the plate, which may be of the form as in Fig. 1, or in any convenient form,
but which, in the case of Figs. 4 and 5, is shewn as a shield, the ends of which are
slightly turned upward.
The shield has slots or perforations for the connection of same with the cravat.
The middle part of plate d is made in the form of a case or box by the part d', to
which the lower part of d is fixed, by being bent backward and rivetted to.. The
upper part of d is bent horizontally towards the plate d, and provided with a hole or
holes into which some part or parts of the plate are inserted, which part or parts
first extend horizontally, and are then bent in a downward direction. It is the
part d' in which the hole e is made in this instance. The stem of the button a has
only one notch at bon its upper surface, the lower surface being smooth, and the
spring is constructed to press against the
point where the part rests on said stem.
as shewn in Fig. 6, that is to say, the flat
button plate a and the recess b, so that the
confined to this narrowed part of the stem.
the case of Figs. 1 to 3.
lower surface of the stem near that
The latter may take the form, in plan,
stem being made narrow between the
button holes of the wearing apparel are
This form of stem may also be used in
For the purpose of using the cravat fastening device described for narrow
cravats, it may be preferable to provide the plate d with two metal strips g lying
partly around the neck. To such metal strips, hooks may be secured, engaging
below the under rim of the collar, whereby a lateral movement of the narrow cravat
may be avoided.
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
A cravat fastening device consisting of a button u, with a stem to enter through
the hole or holes of the shirt or under-garment, said stem being provided with a
notch on one side, or with notches and at both sides, in combination with a
plate d, or compound plate d d', provided with a spring, said plate being sewn or
otherwise fixed to the cravat, the said stem of the button a, for the purpose of
fastening the cravat, entering through an aperture of said plate, and engaging with
the said plate and spring.
Dated this 4th day of August 1891.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.