An Improved Necktie Retainer.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 21st Mar., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
An Improved Necktie Retainer.
I, ADOLPH BRENDLER of No. 39/41 Kleine Plauenschestrasse, Dresden,
Germany, Manufacturer, 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:-
For the purpose of firmly retaining in position cravats or ties when worn with..
stand-up collars, there have been employed small plates sewn on the neck-side of
the tie or cravat and provided with a rounded recess, surrounded by a prominent.
round border or edge. A plate of this kind is illustrated in Fig. 1 of the accom-
panying drawings. As is well known, the object of this arrangement is that the
said border or edge shall pass up on the neck side of the head of the collar-stud and
that the shank of the said stud shall fit into the said recess so that the tie will be
held firmly in the proper position.
But this arrangement has the drawback that the hold on the tie is not always.
quite secure, so that even a slight movement is often sufficient to cause the shank
of the stud, to slip out of the recess, in which case the tie must be secured again by-
moving the border or edge back again up on the neck-side of the head of the stud
so that the shank of the stud fits in the aforesaid recess.
Now according to this invention there is provided for the purpose referred to a
plate, which is suitably fixed to the neck-side of the neck-band of the tie or cravat
and which has two projecting horus arranged at such a distance apart that the-
shank of the collar-stud will fit in between them, and projecting from the plate to
such an extent as to be able to pass up on the neck side behind the stand-up collar..
By this means the device is enabled perfectly to secure a tie in position.
The embracing of the shank of the stud by the upwardly projecting horns.
secures the tie against lateral movement, whilst the hooking of the horns under the-
collar prevent the neckband of the tie from slipping upwards.
Figs. 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawings represent my retaining device before-
it is fixed to the tie.
a is the plate, which may as shown, be provided with the ordinary holes for
enabling it to be sewn on the tie. The side portions with their vertically super--
posed sewing-holes may be omitted, as shown in Fig. 24, in which case the two
lower horizontally arranged boles shown in that figure will be sufficient for the
adequate sewing-on of the plate.
In front of the plate a there rise two upright horns b b which are connected to
the plate a by means of a horizontal bent portion c.
From this construction it will be seen that the horns bb can be pushed from
below on the neck-side of a stand-up collar, because there are openings at their
sides which is not the case in the constructions of plates heretofore usual, since in
the latter the rearwardly projecting border is closed at the sides.
Fig. 4 is a section illustrating the plate a with the horns b and connecting piece c
in position. The stud is placed with its base m inside the neckband r of the shirt,
whilst the shank of the stud n passes through the button holes of the neckband r
and of the stand-up collars; the head t of the stud being outside the collar. As
will be seen, the plate a is situated on the neck-side of the tie p, to which it is sewn
and fixed; and the plate recess embraces the shank n of the stud, whilst its horns b b
are pushed from below on the neck-side of the stand-up collar that is to say,.
between the stand-up collars and the neckbaud r-so that the tie is perfectly
secured in position.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The hereinabove described improved necktie-retainer comprising a plate a having
a recessed portion that is adapted, when the parts are in their normal positions, to
take behind the head of a collar-stud and to receive the shank of the said stud, and
provided with upwardly projecting horns bb that are adapted to take behind the
overlapping ends of a collar and on opposite sides of the shank of the said stud,
substantially as described and shown.
Deted this 10th day of February 1896.
F. WISE HOWORTH,
46, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.