A New or Improved Detachable Tab or Clip for Securing in Position the Band of a Cravat or other Necktie.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Apr., 1886.
Complete Left, 21st Jan., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 22nd Feb., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Detachable Tab or Clip for Securing in Position
the Band of a Cravat or other Necktie.
I, GEORGE TAYLOR trading as George Taylor and Company of Bartholomew Close,
London in the County of Middlesex, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object the production of a detachable tab or clip, for securing
or keeping in position the band of a cravat or other necktie, when placed around a
collar or the like when worn by a person; that is, the means thus employed which is
hereinafter described, prevents the band of a cravat or other tie from riding or working
up from a determinate or fixed position with respect to a collar around which the said
band passes.
Heretofore, such means have been permanently attached either to the collar itself,
or to the band of a cravat, without being able to be detached after the collar or the
cravat has been used; or else with a button, that can be inserted through a button
hole in the collar, and with a free tongue attached which clips the necktic, but cannot
be removable to any side of the collar, as in my invention, and is necessary fixable-in
one place only.
Now my invention consists in making the aforesaid band-securing expedient in the
form of a detachable tab or clip, which grips when in use, the bottom edge or the
underside portion of a collar, and remains attached thereto, so long as the collar is
used, but is capable of being detached therefrom and placed upon another, collar when
required; so that the holding tab or clip is a removable one, and is able to be used in
common with different collars.
The detachable clip consists essentially of a frame formed of continuous parallel
clipping bars or sides directed or lying in different planes, but running parallel to each
other with a depending or reversed hook or tongue between the middle bars, which
forms the back of the clip, while the other bars form the front of the clip when placed
in position; that is, the bars or body of the clip, and the yielding spring tongue in the
middle (with its free end directed downwards) is pierced and shaped from a single
blank or from one piece of metal. The outside bars are connected together at top by

page_text: a continuous cross bar, while the lower ends of the inside bars are connected to tho
lower ends of the outside bars by the continuation or return of the one bar into the
other.
The securing tongue which comes in the middle of the clip is attached to the top
bars by the connecting metal; so that the outside bars and inside bars, and also the
spring tongue are formed continuous. Thus the outside bars are connected to the
inside bars at the bottom of the clip, while the tongue is connected to the inside bars
of the top, and the division between the inside and outside bars forms a space between
which the material of the collar passes, in consequence of the back bars being disposed
in a slightly backward plane to the front bars, so as to make a space or division
between which a collar is gripped.
In using the appliance, slip the lower or under edge of the collar between the
outside and inside bars which constitute spring clips, so that the outside bars come at
the front or on the inside of the collar, while the middle bars come at the back, with
the free end of the depending tongue coming just below the bottom edge of the said
collar with which it is used. This is done preparatory to a collar being put on by the
wearer.
When in position around the neck of a person, the band of a cravat is simply
placed around the collar in the ordinary way, and slipped under the free end of the
tongue, until the top edge comes against the closed end; which prevents the band from
rising, but admits of longitudinal displacement for adjustment.
GEORGE TAYLOR.
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham,
Agent to the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Detachable Tab or Clip for Securing in Position
the Band of a Cravat or other Neck-tie.
I, GEORGE TAYLOR trading as George Taylor and Company of Bartholomew Close,
London in the County of Middlesex, Merchant, 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 :-
My invention has for its object, the production of a detachable tab or clip, for
securing or keeping in position the band of a cravat or other neck tie when placed
around a collar or the like, when worn by a person; that is, the means thus employed
which is herein after described, prevents the band of a cravat or other tie from riding
or working up from a determinate or fixed position with respect to a collar around
which the said band passes.

page_text: Heretofore, such means have been permanently attached either to the collar itself,
or to the band of a cravat, without being able to be detached, after the collar or the cravat
has been used, or else with a button that can be inserted through a button hole in the
collar, and with a free tongue attached, which clips the necktie, but cannot be removable
to any side of the collar as in my invention, and is necessarily fixable in one place
only.
Now my invention consists in making the aforesaid band-securing expedient, in the
form of a detachable tab or clip, which grips when in use, the bottom edge or the
underside portion of a collar, and remains attached thereto, so long as the collar is
used, but is capable of being detached therefrom, and placed upon another collar when
required; so that the holding tab or clip is a removable one, and is able to be used in
common with different collars.
The detachable clip consists essentially of a frame, formed of continuous parallel
clipping bars or sides directed or lying in different planes, but running parallel to each
other with a depending or reversed hook or tongue between the middle bars, which
form the back of the clip, while the other bars form the front of the clip when placed
in position; that is, the bars or body of the clip, and the yielding spring tongue in
the middle (with its free end directed downwards) is pierced and shaped from a single
blank or from one piece of metal. The outside bars are connected together at top by
a continuous cross bar, while the lower ends of the inside bars are connected to the
lower ends of the outside bars, by the continuation or return of the one bar into the
other.
The securing tongue which comes in the middle of the clip is attached to the top
bars by the connecting metal; so that the outside bars and inside bars, and also the
spring tongue are formed continuous. Thus the outside bars are connected to the
inside bars at the bottom of the clip, while the tongue is connected to the inside bars
of the top, and the division between the inside and outside bars forms a space between
which the material of the collar passes, in consequence of the back bars being disposed
in a slightly backward plane to the front bars, so as to make a space or division between
which a collar is gripped.
In using the appliance, slip the lower or under edge of the collar between the outside
and inside bars which constitute spring clips, so that the outside bars come at the front
or on the inside of the collar, while the middle bars come at the back, with the free
end of the depending tongue, coming just below the bottom edge of the said collar
with which it is used. This is done preparatory to a collar being put on by the
wearer.
When in position around the neck of a person, the band of a cravat is simply placed
around the collar in the ordinary way, and slipped under the free end of the tongue
until the top edge comes against the closed end, which prevents the band from rising,
but admits of longitudinal displacement for adjustment.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing, the
manner in which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in back elevation, a dress collar provided with an adjustable
clip, made according to my invention. Figure 2 represents the same in use, for the
keeping down, and in position, the band of a cravat or other necktie. Figure 3 repre-
sents an inside view of a portion of the back of a collar, showing the inside back of the
clip. Figure 4 shows a transverse section upon the dotted lines A B figure 2. Figure 5
is a front elevation of the clip separately, on a larger scale, and figure 6 is a side
elevation of the said clip figure 5.
a, b, are inside and outside frames, consisting of continuous parallel clipping bars or
sides, in which the bars of the back frame a, lie back to a different plane to the bars of
the front frame b, so as to leave a space between the insides of the bars of one, and the
back sides of the bars of the other, so as to form a spring and holding clip; and between
these spring sides, the material of a collar is embraced and clipped, with sufficient.
force, that on the clip being placed in position, it requires some force to remove it.
The front side b is provided with a depending and free tongue c, which latter is
connected to the former, by a continuation of the metal at its top at c, while the front

page_text: part a is connected to the front part c, by the continuation of the metal at ³ 12; thus
forming the whole of the clip froin a single blank or piece of sheet metal.
The free tongue e which comes in the middle of the front side b forms the means
whereby the band d of a cravat or other necktie is prevented from riding or working
up from a determinate or fixed position, with respect to a collar around which the said
band passes.
In using the appliance, the lower edge of a collar is passed through the open top a
of the clip, and then passed in position, with the clip gripping the sides of the collar.
When the collar is in position around the neck of a person, with the clip attached,
the band of a cravat is placed around the collar in the ordinary way, and slipped
under the free end of the tongue, when the said band is prevented from rising.
Two or more clips may be employed, secured at suitable intervals around the lower
edge of the collar aforesaid, instead of one as represented.
Although I have described that the clip is made from a flat blank, pierced bar form,
with the front part bent a little out of the plane of the back part, yet the said clip may
be made from thin sheet metal, folded about its middle, and upon itself, so as to make
a securing clip, essentially the same in construction as represented; and although I
have represented the clip as being made in one piece, yet the same may if neces-
sary, be made from two or more pieces, connected together by ears, cleats or
the like.
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 :—
First. A detachable collar clip, for securing in position, the bands of cravats and
other neck ties, and which said clip consists of two spring clipping bars, frames or
sides, and between which, the lower edge of a collar is gripped, while the outside bar,
frame or side aforesaid, carries a free depending tongue, under which, or between
itself, and the front of the clip, the band of a cravat or other necktie is held in position,
substantially as described and illustrated.
Secondly. A detachable spring or yielding collar clip, made from a single blank of
thin sheet metal as described and illustrated.
GEORGE TAYLOR..
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.