A NEW OR IMPROVED DEVICE FOR RETAINING OR HOLDING NECKTIES IN POSITION
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Croft Wise of Belvedere in the County of Kent
for an Invention of A NEW OR IMPROVED DEVICE FOR RETAINING OR HOLDING
NECKTIES IN POSITION
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Croft Wise at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd February 1883.
EDWARD CROFT WISE of Belvedere in the County of Kent
IMPROVED DEVICE FOR RETAINING OR HOLDING NECKTIES IN POSITION
"A NEW OR
"
My Invention consists in a device for retaining mens neckties in place and is
designed for use with stand up collars The Invention has for its object to avoid
the inconvenience caused by the necktie riding up in front and otherwise becoming
displaced which it is liable to do unless retained by some fastening.
The device consists of a pair of flat metal plates or discs centrally pivoted upon
a common axis so as to work the one upon the other and each provided with a
notch or opening extending in opposite directions and of such form that when the
discs are turned the one on the other so as to make a certain portion of the one
notch or opening correspond with a certain portion of the other notch or opening
the double disc will admit the collar stud or button and when rotated in the
opposite direction the aperture through the two discs will be so contracted as to
imprison the shank of the collar stud or button within it and lock the device
securely thereto. The discs have oppositely directed arms or extensions whose
extremities are turned downwards to overlap or embrace the band of the necktie
in order to hold it in place.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Edward Croft Wise in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
3rd August 1883.
"
EDWARD CROFT WISE of Belvedere in the County of Kent. A NEW OR
IMPROVED DEVICE FOR RETAINING OR HOLDING NECKTIES IN POSITION.'
"
My Invention consists in a device for retaining men's neckties and cravats in
place when worn with stand up collars. The invention has for its object to avoid
the inconvenience caused by a necktie, or made bow riding up in front twisting
round and otherwise becoming displaced which it is liable to do unless retained by
a pin or some fastening.
Figure 1. represents the device as worn.
Figure 2 is a face view of the device, the parts being adjusted for application to
the collar stud. Figure 3 shows a face view of the device with the parts in the
position they occupy when fixed on the stud. Figure 4 is an edge view of the
device, the stud being represented in dotted lines as imprisoned therein. Figure 5
represents a rear view of the device showing how it engages with the necktie.
Figure 6 shows a modification. Figures 2. 3. 4. 5 and 6 are drawn twice full size.
The device consists of a pair of flat metal plates a. connected together by a
rivetted pin or pivot b on which they work and provided with oppositely directed
notches or slots c. of the form shown so that when the plates are adjusted to the
position shown in Figure 2 the mouths or openings c. of the notches correspond so
as to admit the collar stud or button, and when adjusted to the position shown in
Figure 3 the aperture through the two plates is so contracted as to imprison the
shank of the collar stud or button within it and lock the device securely thereto.
The notches c are in the form of slots concentric to the pivot b. and open out at
the edge of the plate at one extremity. The two slots are precisely alike in form
and radius but extend in opposite directions so that by turning the plates the one
on the other about their pivot the mouths c. of the two slots may be made to
coincide as in Figure 2 to give entrance to the collar stud or they may be moved
past one another sufficiently to bring the curved portions of the slots opposite one
another so that the plates mutually close the entrance c¹. to each other's slot as
shown in Figure 3 leaving only a closed through aperture for the shank of the
collar stud.
It will be evident that both slots need not be concentrically curved but one may
be of the form shown in Figures 2 and 3 and the other c* might be a mere
notch as in Figure 6 the entrance to which would be closed by the other plate
as before.
The plates or discs have oppositely directed arms or extensions d. whose end
portions d' are turned downwards to overlap or embrace the band of the necktie
în order to hold it in place as represented in Figure 5 these arms being concealed
from view by the bow.
Instead of these arms d' embracing the band of the tie, the plates a might be
provided with other means of holding the tie down.
Having described the nature of the said Invention and the manner of performing
the same I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
herein before in part recited Letters Patent is :-
First. In a device for application to a collar stud or button, the combination of
a pair of plates pivotted together and respectively provided with notches or slots
of such form as, when adjusted so that their openings coincide, to give admittance
to the stud or button and when adjusted so that their openings do not coincide to
form a closed through aperture to retain the shank of the stud or button,

page_text: substantially as specified, said plates being provided with any suitable means of
taking hold of the necktie.
Second. The device for application to a collar stud or button for retaining
neckties or cravats, said device consisting of a pair of plates a. rivetted together
and pivotting the one on the other and respectively provided with notches or
slots c. adapted to mutually close one another as described and with extensions d
and downwardly bent arms d'. adapted to engage with the band of the necktic,
substantially as shown and described.
In witness whereof I the said Edward Croft Wise have hereuuto set my hand
and seal this second day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eighty three.