IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR CRAVATS NECKTIES AND SCARFS to be as follows:
Year: 1884

page_text: I THOMAS KOSSUTH SCRUTON of Nos 64 and 65 New Street Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Outfitter do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR CRAVATS NECKTIES AND SCARFS to be as
follows:-
"
My invention consists of fastenings constructed substantially as herein after
described to be applied to stand-up and other collars for the purpose of fastening
the cravat necktie or scarf and for preventing the neck band or neck part of the
cravat necktie or scarf from rising up the collar.
I will describe my invention as used with a stand-up collar to which it is
particularly applicable.
Each of my improved fastenings consists of two parts namely of a body or base
to which a narrow lever or grip is jointed at one end studs on the sides of the
jointed end of the lever or grip working in ears at the sides of the broader body or
base. By turning the lever or grip on its joint it can be opened out so as to be
nearly in the same line as the body or turned down upon the body so as to
be parallel there with a spring made out of the body acting upon a heel on the
lever or grip maintaining the latter firmly in its open and closed positions
respectively. On the inner face of the edges of the lever or grip teeth or points are
made. I prefer to use two of the fastenings described with the stand-up collar.
For this purpose I make in the collar at points preferably equi-distant from the
ends of the collar and the back button hole holes or slits through which the levers.
or grips of the fastenings can be passed when the two parts are opened out.
the levers or grips have been passed through the holes or slits from the inner side
of the collar the two parts of each fastening are turned down on opposite sides of
the collar. The collar is now ready to be worn the grip parts of the fastenings
being situated on the outer side of the collar.
After
The cravat or necktie to be fastened by the use of my improved fastenings is
without the ordinary fastening but is furnished with a divided neck band that is
a band made of two pieces one piece being attached to each side of the body of the
cravat or necktie. The collar having been buttoned to the shirt and the cravat
put in its place the levers or grips on the collar are raised upon their joints and
the two parts of the neck band are passed under the raised levers or grips. By
then shutting down the said levers or grips they close upon the two parts of the
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page_text: neck band, their teeth or points piorcing the said neck, band and thereby fasten
the cravat or necktio in its place and also prevent the neck band rising up
the collar.
A continuous neck band of the ordinary kind may be used, with the cravat
instead of the divided neck band described.
When the fastenings are to be used only for retaining the neck band in its place
the teeth or points on the levers or grips are omitted and the neck band is fastened
to the body of the cravat or neck tie in the ordinary way.
One or more than two of the improved fastenings may be used with the stand-up
or other collar.
Dated
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, THOMAS KOSSUTH SORUTON, of Nos 04 and 65 New Street, Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Outfitter, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
'IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GRAVATS, NECK TIES AND SCARFS " and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention consists of fastenings constructed substantially as herein after
described to be applied to stand up and other collars for the purpose of fastening
the cravat neck tie or scarf and for preventing the neck band or neck part of the
cravat neck tie or scarf from rising up the collar.
I will describe my invention as used with a stand up collar to which it is
particularly applicable.
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Each of my improved fastenings consists of two parts namely of a body or base
to which a narrow lever or grip is jointed at one end studs on the sides of the
jointed end of the lever or grip working in ears at the sides of the broader body or
base. By turning the lever or grip on its joint it can be opened out so as to be
ncarly in the same line as the body or turned down upon the body so as to
be parallel thorewith a spring made out of the body acting upon a heel on the
lever or grip maintaining the latter firmly in its open and closed positions
respectively. On the inner face of the edges of the lever or grip teeth or points
are made. I prefer to use two of the fastenings described with the stand up
collar. For this purpose I make in the collar at points preferably equi-distant from
the ends of the collar and the buck button holo holes or slits through which the
lovers or grips of the fastenings can be passed when the two parts are opened out;
After the levers or grips have been passed through the holes or slits from the inner

page_text: side of the collar the two parts of each fastening are turned down on opposite sides
of the collar. The collar is now ready to be worn the grip parts of the fastenings
being situated on the outer side of the collar:
The cravat or neck tie to be fastened by the use of my improved fastenings is
without the ordinary fastening but is furnished with a divided neck band that
is a band made of two pieces one piece being attached to each side of the body of
the cravat or neck tie, The collar baving been buttoned to the shirt and 'the
cravat put in its place the levers or grips on the collar are raised upon their joints
and the two parts of the neck band are passed under the raised levers or grips..
By then shutting down the said levers or grips they close upon the two parts of
the neck band their teeth or points piercing the said neck band and thereby fasten
the cravat or neck tie in its place and also prevent the neck band rising
up the collar.
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A continuous neck band of the ordinary kind may be used with the cravat
instead of the divided neck band described.
When the fastenings are to be used only for retaining the neck band in ite place
the teeth or points on the levers or grips are omitted and the neck band is fastened
to the body of the cravat or neck tie in the ordinary way.
One or more than two of the improved fastenings may be used with the stand up
or other collar.
In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 represents a stand up collar to which my
improved fastenings are applied for the purpose of fastening a cravat neck tie or
scarf having a divided neck band; Figure 2 is a part cross-section on line Y. Y. of
Figure 1 and Figure 3 represents the same view as Figure 2 with the lever raised
for the purpose of unfastening the band. Figures 1, 2 and 3 will also serve to
illustrate how my invention may be applied for fastening a continuous neck band
or neck part of a cravat neck tie or scarf and preventing it from rising up the
collar. Figure 4 is a front elevation and Figure 5.is a side elevation of one of
the fastenings represented in Figures 1, 2 and 3; Figures 6 and 7 are a front and
side elevation respectively of a modified form of the clip part of the fastening
shown in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
The same letters refer to similar parts throughout the several Figures.
A, A are the two parts of the divided neck band and B is the stand up collar;
C is the lever or grip of the fastening by which the two parts A, A of the neck
band are fastened and D is the body or base of the fastening partly projecting
through the button holes or slits 6', b in the collar B. The lever or grip C is
jointed at one end to the body or base D by means of studs c' on the sides of the
jointed end of the lever or grip C which work in ears d¹ at the sides of the body or
base D. The lever or grip C can be turned on its joint and opened out as shewn
in Figures 3, 4 and 5 or turned down so as to be parallel with the body or base as
shewn in Figures 1, 2, 6 and 7. A heel c' is provided at the end of the lever or
grip C which is acted upon by a spring inade out of the body and thereby
maintained in its opened and closed positions respectively. On the inner face of
the lever or grip C I provide teeth or points c³ which pierce the neck band when
the lever or grip is shut down (see Figures 1 and 2).
In using the fastening the levers or grips C are passed from the inner side of the
collar through button holes or slits made preferably equi-distant from the back
button hole 6* (see Figure 3). The lever or grip part of the fastenings will thus be
situated on the outer side of the collar. The collar having been fastened in front
and the levers or grips C being raised the cravat neck tie or scarf is put in its
place and the lever grips C, C are shut down upon the two parts A, A of the neck
band. The teeth or points thus pierce the said neck band and fasten the cravat,
neck tie or scarf in its place without the use of the fastening ordinarily placed at
the front of the body of the cravat or neck tie and they also prevent the neck band
rising up the collar.
My improved fastenings may be used with a continuous neck band of the
ordinary kind instead of the divided neck band described and represented. When

page_text: Bo used the continuous neck band is passed round the collar in the usual way, the
said neck band crossing the bodies or bases D, D of the fastenings under the
ears d, d. The neck tie or cravat having been adjusted the levers or grips C, C are
shut down upon the neck band which is thereby fastened and prevented from
rising up the collar.
In the fastening, represented by Figures 6 and 7 the lever or grip Ċ is madė
without the teeth or points c³ as the fastening is intended to be used only for
retaining a continuous' neck band in its place and prevent it from rising up
the collar.
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
i The improvements in fastenings to be applied to stand up and other collars for
securing the cravats neck ties and scarfs.in their places and for preventing the neck
bands or neck parts of cravats neck ties and scarfs from rising up the collars herein
before described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing; that is to say, the
combination of a body or base D with a lever or grip O jointed to the top thereof
for closing upon the two parts of the divided neck band or upon the continuous
neck band or neck part of the cravat neck tie or scarf for the purpose and
substantially as described and illustrated.
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