AN IMPROVED CRAVAT WITHOUT CLASP
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to François Auguste Juin, of Boulevard Saint Denis, No. 1,
at Paris, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED CRAVAT WITHOUT
CLASP."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said François Auguste Juin at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th May 1879.
FRANÇOIS AUGUSTE JUIN, of Boulevard Saint Denis, No. 1, at Paris, Manu-
facturer. "AN IMPROVED CRAVAT WITHOUT CLASP."
In
My Invention has reference to a new kind of cravat with a tube or sheath, which
enables me to dispense with the various kinds of clasps hitherto employed for
securing or holding the free end of the neck band of made-up cravats or ties.
my new cravat the neck band is composed simply of a ribbon, cord, or other band,
left free, that is to say, not attached to the bow or knot of the cravat, and which
is kept in place by the friction caused by the meeting of the two ends of the band
in a tube or sheath attached for the purpose at the back of the bow or knot. The
two ends of the band are passed through the said tube or sheath and pulled
sufficiently tight, and they remain tight owing to friction, as before mentioned,
until intentionally pulled loose. The tube or sheath may be made of metal, card-
board, leather, textile fabric, or other suitable material, and its diameter is regulated
according to the thickness of the neck band, whose ends have to be passed through
it; when leather or fabric is employed the regulation will be effected by the sewing
or stitching, and when metal is employed it may be done by flattening the tube.
Instead of there being only one tube or sheath there may be a separate tube or
sheath for each end of the neck band. The ends of the band after having been
passed through the tube or sheath may be led through a ring of metal or other
material allowed to hang with the said ends below the tie; if the ring be of metal
it may be covered with silk or other fabric to prevent the metal coming in contact
with and soiling the shirt front.

page_text: The tube or sheath may be fitted horizontally or otherwise. Instead of having
a single neck band or cord I sometimes employ a double cord, so that there are four
instead of two ends to pass through the tube, which must be suitably shaped to
receive them. One portion of the one end of the double cord should go between
the two portions of the other end, and vice versa.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said François Auguste Juin in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
October 1879.
FRANÇOIS AUGUSTE JUIN, of Boulevard Saint Denis, No. 1, at Paris, Manu-
facturer. AN IMPROVED CRAVAT WITHOUT CLASP."
My Invention has reference to a new kind of cravat with a tube or sheath, which
enables me to dispense with the various kinds of clasps. hitherto employed for
securing or holding the free end of the neck band of made up cravats or ties. In
my new cravat the neck band is composed simply of a ribbon, cord, or other band,
left free, that is to say, not attached to the bow or knot of the cravat, and which
is kept in place by the friction caused by the meeting of the two ends of the band
in a tube or sheath attached for the purpose at the back of the bow or knot.
The
two ends of the band.are passed through the said tube or sheath and pulled suffi-
ciently tight, and they remain tight owing to friction, as before mentioned, until.
intentionally pulled loose. The tube or sheath may be made of metal, cardboard,
leather, textile fabric, or other suitable material, and its diameter is regulated
according to the thickness of the neck band whose ends have to be passed through
it; when leather or fabric is employed the regulation will be effected by the sewing
or stitching, and when metal is employed it may be done by Hattening the tube.
Instead of there being only one tube or sheath there may be a separate tube or
sheath for each end of the neck band. The ends of the band after having been passed
through the tube or sheath may be led through a ring of metal or other material
allowed to hang with the said euds below the tie; if the ring be of metal it may
be covered with silk or other fabric to prevent the metal coming in contact with
and soiling the shirt front.
The tube or sheath may be fitted horizontally or otherwise. Instead of having
a single neck band or cord I sometimes employ a double cord, so that there are four
instead of two ends to pass through the tube, which must be suitably shaped to
receive them.
One portion of the one end of the double cord should go between the two
portions of the other end, and vice versa.
The accou:pauying Drawings illustrate my Invention, Figure 1 is a front view ;
Figure 2, a back view; and Figure 3, a side view of one of my cravats with the
neck band formed of a cord a, which is not attached to the bow or knot, but has
its ends c, c', led through a tube or sheath b; d, Figure 1, is a ring, through which
the hanging ends c, c¹, are passed. Figure 4 is a back view of a cravat, in which
the band a is formed of a ribbon or other Hat piece; Figure 5 represents a cravat
in which the tube b, through which pass the ends c, c', of the band or cord a is not
attached to the knot or bow but comes at the back of the neck; Figure 6 represents

page_text: a neck band with four cords x led through the sheath b; and Figures 7 and 8 show
the manner of holding them in the sheath.
My Invention is applicable to cravats of various kinds for men, women, and
children.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
The improved cravat having a tube or sheath for the neck band or cord, arranged
and acting substantially as herein before described and represented in the annexed
Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said François Auguste Juin; have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighteenth day of October, One thousand eight
hundred and seventy nine.
Witness,
ALBERT CAHEN,
Civil Engineer,
of Boulevard Saint Denis, 1,
at Paris.
F. A. JUIN. (L.S.)