Improvements in Collars, Ties, Scarfs, and other like Wearing Apparel for the Neck.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Sept., 1886.
Complete Left, 6th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 6th May, 1887.
Improvements in Collars, Ties, Scarfs, and other like Wearing
Apparel for the Neck.
HENRY MORGAN, Clyde House, Gravesend, County of Kent, Gentleman, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to the method of securing or fastening Shirt collars, and ties,
scarfs or the like, to the neck band of the shirt without the use of bottons, the object
being to enable the wearer to loosen or tighten such collar and tie or scarf at pleasure,
or adapt the same collar to different sizes of necks without interfering with the
appearance or in any way disarranging the collar and tie or scarf.
The manner of performing my Invention may be described as follows;
I provide the tie or scarf with hooks, prongs, or other suitable fastenings, and in the
collar I cause to be made slits or holes corresponding with and designed to receive the
said hooks or prongs of the tie or scarf which pass through their respective slits in
the collar, and catch on to a tape or other suitable appliance attached to the neck band
of the shirt. The tie or scarf thus secured to the collar is then fastened under the
chin of the wearer by means of a prong or other suitable fastener, somewhat similar to
the method now adopted for securing the bands of scarfs.
Dated this 2nd day of September 1886.
THOMAS WRIGLEY,
36, High Holborn,
Agent to Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Collars, Ties, Scarves, and other like Wearing
Apparel for the Neck.
HENRY MORGAN Clyde House, Gravesend County of Kent, Gentleman, 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 Invention relates to a method of securing or fastening shirt collars, ties, scarves,
or the like to the neck band of the shirt without the use of buttons, the object being to
enable the wearer to loosen or tighten such collar, and tie or scarf at pleasure or to
adapt the same collar to different sizes of necks without interfering with the
appearance or in any way disarranging the collar and tie or scarf.
In order that the Invention may be well understood and explained in detail I have
hereunto annexed a Sheet of Drawings on which letters of reference are marked on
corresponding parts on all the Figs. alike.
Before entering on the description of the drawings, I would remark that although
the Invention is applicable to all descriptions of made ties, bows, or scarves, combined
with a collar only, or with a collar and shirt front or "dickey," I will as an example
of its practibility describe the same as a collar and tie combined.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 represents the collar detached from the shirt band, shewing the slits in the
collar band through which the attachments connecting the neck tie or scarf with
collar and neck band are passed.
Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of the collar and tie connected, shewing it in
position for slipping the end of the tie into the bow and Fig. 3 represents a section of
the collar and tie through one of the slits shewing the manner in which the tie, collar
and neck band of the shirt are connected together.
In the above Figs. a is the collar, b the band of the tie or scarf, c the tape stitched
to the neck band of the shirt, and d the hooks or other form of attachment by which
the tie and collar are connected with the shirt and band.
The inner surface of the band of the tie or scarf 6 is provided with hooks, prongs,
buttons or other suitable fastenings d, and in the, band of the collar a, I cause to be
made horizontal holes or slits, d¹, corresponding in number with, and designed to allow
the said hooks attached to the band of the tie b to pass through the same. These
hooks or buttons when passed through these slits are so placed that they button to or
hook on the tape or band c or other suitable appliance attached to the neck band of the
shirt. When preparing the Collar and tie for use, the tab a¹ of the collar is inserted
in the bow end of the tie 2 and the opposite tab a is inserted at a² into a pocket
formed in the taper tag end of the tie b, at this time the hooks d or other form of
attachment are passed through their respective slits d¹ in the collar band a. The

page_text: collar and tie are then placed around the neck of the wearer in a manner which will
cause their hooks d to catch under the tape attached to the shirt band c. The collar
and tie being now in their place around the neck of the wearer, the tag end of the
tie 61 is then slipped into and behind the bow 62 where it is pulled into position and
caught by a fixed prong or pin in the manner usually adopted for adjusting and fixing
the bands of ties or scarves. By this means the collar and tie can be tightened or
loosened at pleasure and secured in position without disarranging the symmetry or
position of the bow as the central position of the bow at the time of loosening or
tightening the collar is always maintained by reason of the hooks or other attach-
ments d being so constructed as to allow the same to slide in their respective slits
thereby enabling the tie to be adjusted to a central position, whether the collar is
tightened to or loosened from 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 :-
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The novel combination of a neck tie or scarf with a collar, whether such collar is
simply a collar separated from or connected with a shirt front or dickey," and so
arranging the same that they can be readily attached to the neck band of a shirt and
enable the wearer to tighten or loosen the tie and collar at pleasure without
disarranging the position or appearance of the tie, substantially as herein described,
set forth and fully illustrated in the drawings annexed.
Dated HIS
day of April 1001.
HENRY MORGAN.
Thomas Wrigley,
36, High Holborn, W.C.,
Agent to Applicant.