An Improved Clip or Device for Retaining Ties, Scarves, and the like in Place on their Collars.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Mar., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 6th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 12th Jan., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Clip or Device for Retaining Ties, Scarves, and the
like in Place on their Collars.
I ARTHUR JOHN MORRIS of Heath House, Blyth Bridge, Stoke-upon-Trent,
in the County of Stafford, General Manager do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention is to provide an inexpensive and yet an effective device the use of
which will avoid the inconvenience of ties, scarves and the like slipping on their
collars, which most people have at one time or another experienced.
I take a strip of metal, or other suitable material, and in the one half stamp
or otherwise form a tongue, to be pressed out a little, and at the end of the same
half I also form or stamp on the sides two small lugs with holes for engaging the
pivots of a flat spring; the pressed out tongue tends to keep this spring against
the strip of metal one half of which latter is turned back on the other to form,
as it were, a kind of stirrup.
In using the clip or device, the bent up strip is slipped up over the lower edge
of the collar, the spring will then be to the outside and the band of the tie scarf
or the like is slipped between the spring and the one half of the strip and is thus
retained in place on the collar.
March 5th 1894
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Birmingham.
An Improved Clip or Device for Retaining Ties, Scarves, and the
like in Place on their Collars.
I, ARTHUR JOHN MORRIS of Heath House, Blyth Bridge, Stoke-upon-Trent,
in the County of Stafford, General Manager, 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 to provide at a small cost an effective clip or
device for doing away with the inconvenience and disagreeableness caused by
neckties, scarves and the like slipping on the collar of the wearer.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I will describe the same by
aid of the accompanying sheet of drawings
Figs. 1 to 4 of which show how the clip is manufactured,
Fig. 5 shows the clip holding a tie in place on its collar, and
Fig. 6 shows the same collar looked at from the inside.
In carrying out my invention I take a strip A B of metal, or other suitable
material, and in the one half A is stamped out, or otherwise formed, a tongue C
to be pressed out a little so that it will act as a spring as will be hereinafter seen.
At the end of the same half A of the strip is also provided two small lugs D with
holes E for receiving the pivots F of a finger piece G. The pressed out tongue C
tends to keep the finger G against the strip of metal A, one half B of which
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page_text: latter is turned back on the other half A whereby a kind of stirrup is formed for
the reception of the collar.
In using the clip, the bent up strip is slipped up over the lower edge of the
collar, as will be seen from Fig. 6, the finger G being to the outside as in Fig. 5.
The finger G is then turned up on its pivots so that the tie or scarf can be
arranged on the collar, after which the finger is turned down and, under the
influence of the spring tongue C, presses on the tie or scarf so that it becomes
impossible for it to slip on the collar.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A clip or device for retaining ties, scarves and the like in place on their
collars formed of a strip of metal (A B), or other suitable material, with lugs (D)
having holes for the reception of the pivots of a finger piece (G) and with a strip
or tongue (C) formed in it so as to serve as a spring for acting on the finger piece,
all substantially as hereinbefore described and shown.
2. The clip or device for retaining ties, scarves and the like in place on their
collars, hereinbefore described and illustrated on the accompanying sheet of
drawings.
The 5th December 1894
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.