An Improved Device for Retaining a Necktie in Position upon the Collar.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 13th Dec., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 13th Sept., 1899-Accepted, 28th Oct., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Retaining a Necktie in Position upon the
Collar.
I, ALBION EDWARD GODWIN, of Tichbourne, Alresford, in the County of Hants,
Draper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved device for retaining a necktie in position
upon a collar, and is designed to provide a simple, inexpensive and efficient means
for holding the back of a necktie in position at the back of a collar, so as to.
prevent such necktie working up same and becoming untidy, such retaining device
doing away with the necessity of pinning the necktie to the collar or adjusting
same under the back collar-stud.
In carrying my invention into practice I form the retaining device of a longi-
tudinal strip of resilient metal (preferably thin brass) which is bent or other-
wise fashioned into an approximate N-form or in other words is bent at a point
about one third of its length downwardly back upon itself and then up again
to form three parallel legs which together constitute two loops whose openings
are in reverse positions to one another. The ends of the said device are preferably
given an outward curve.
In operation the device is fitted onto the underneath of the back of the collar
and the back of the necktie inserted between those portions of the device provided
for the purpose.
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HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
For the Applicant.
An Improved Device for Retaining a Necktie in Position upon the
Collar.
I, ALBION EDWARD GODWIN, of Tichbourne, Alresford, in the County of Hants,
Draper, 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 relates to an improved device for retaining a necktie in position
upon a collar, and is designed to provide a simple, inexpensive and efficient means
for holding the rear part of a necktie in position at the back of a collar so as to
prevent such necktie working up on the collar and becoming untidy, such retain-
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page_text: ing device doing away with the necessity of pinning the necktie to the collar
or adjusting same under the back collar stud.
In carrying my invention into practice I form the retaining device of a
longitudinal strip of resilient metal (preferably thin brass) which is
bent or otherwise fashioned into an approximate N-form, or in other
words, is bent at a point about one third of its length downwardly and back
upon itself and then up again to form three approximately parallel legs or
members which together constitute two loops whose openings are in reverse
positions to one another.
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The ends of the said device are preferably given an outward curve..
In operation, the device is fitted on to the underneath of the back of the collar
and the back of the necktie inserted between that portion of the device provided
for the purpose.
In order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet
of illustrative drawings, wherein;
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the device shewn independently,
Fig. 2 being a rear elevational view of the device in use, while, Fig. 3 is a
side elevational view of the device.
Referring to the drawings, wherein like letters of reference indicaté corre-
sponding parts throughout the several figures, a b c represent the three members
comprising the device, which are formed from one strip of resilient material by
bending same into the position shewn.
The end c of the member c is preferably extended somewhat below the loop
formed by the two members a and b, such extended end being given an outward
curve to facilitate the insertion of the tie d between the members b and c.
The member a is inserted beneath the lower edge of the collar è so as to cause
the latter to be gripped between the two members and b.
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:-
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The improved device for retaining a necktie in position upon a collar, consist-
ing in a rectangular strip of resilient material bent into three approximately
parallel members which form two loops whose open ends are oppositely situated,
substantially as described and as illustrated by the drawings.
Dated this 13th day of September 1899.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C.,
For the Applicant.