Improved Means and Appliances for Placing and Retaining Neck-ties, Scarves, and the like in Position upon the Wearer.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Jan., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 28th Oct., 1898-Accepted, 3rd Dec., 1898
Improved Means and Appliances for Placing and Retaining Neck-ties,
Scarves, and the like in Position upon the Wearer.
I, ARTHUR LEOPOLD BAMBRIDGE, of 12, Edith Villas, West Kensington, County
of London, Artist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object, the construction or arrangement of appliances to
enable neck-ties, scarves, and the like to be readily placed in position and re-
tained squarely upon the bosom and centrally with the collar upon the wearer.
The appliance having this twofold advantage is composed of a tongue to enter
the overlap or pleat fold of the shirt or dress front and the back is provided with
a single or a couple of prongs with downwardly bent hooks which take over the
ends of the tie or scarf band at the side of the knot or the bow, by the width or
depth of which, the hook like ends are hidden while in wear.
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The invention is chiefly intended to be worn with standup collars or with collars
having small points" and is particularly adapted for placing and retaining the
bow of a tie, such as is worn with evening dress.
The appliance may be of any kind of metal and be gilded, nickelled, enamelled,
or otherwise coated, if not of one of the precious metals for which it is equally
applicable.
1000
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Arthur Leopold Bambridge.
Improved Means and Appliances for Placing and Retaining Neck-ties,
Scarves, and the like in Position upon the Wearer.
I, ARTHUR LEOPOLD BAMBRIDGE, of 12, Edith Villas, West Kensington, County
of London, Artist, 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;
This invention has for object, the construction or arrangement of appliances to
enable neck ties, scarves and the like to be readily placed in position and re-
tained squarely upon the bosom and centrally with the collar upon the wearer.
The appliance having this twofold advantage is composed of a tongue to enter

page_text: the overlap or pleat fold of the shirt or dress front and the back is provided with
a single or a couple of prongs with downwardly bent hooks which take over the
ends of the tie or scarve band at the side of the knot or the bow, by the width or
depth of which the hook like ends are hidden while in wear.
The invention is chiefly intended to be worn with stand up collars or with collars
having small "points" and is particularly adapted for placing and retaining the
bow of a tie such as is worn with evening dress.
The annexed sheet of drawings show the apparatus or appliance in single
pronged form at Figures 1 and 2 where the prong is indicated as formed from
opposite ends of the back plate respectively in double or duplicate pronged form
at Figure 3. Figure 4 shows the position the appliance occupies in the front of a
shirt and collar without the necktie or scarf, and Figure 5 a back elevation of
the appliance with a bow fronted necktie secured in the prongs of a double pronged
appliance of my invention.
A, tongue to be pushed in under the outer fold or overlap of a shirt front, Ba
recess in the top edge to engage under the stem of a collar stud C or sewing cotton
of a collar button to centralize the appliance in front of the bosom. D, D, arms
standing up from a plate E formed preferably by bending the metal back upon
itself the leading end of the tongue A being curved somewhat closer in sufficiently
to nip the bosom part of the shirt front for the better to locate it in conjunction
with the hold the appliance has upon the collar stud C.
The arm, Figures 1 and 2 or arms if they be in duplicate as at Figure 3 are
bent to form prongs F, F, into or under which the hand of the necktie or scarf
can be lodged or over which the appliance be forced with a slight grip directly
behind the bow H and at the side or sides and close to the knot I as to be hidden
from view while the article of dress is in wear.
Jis a portion of a stand up collar, but it may have turned down or spread out
points as indicated in dotted lines.
The appliance may be of any kind of metal and be gilded, nickelled, enamelled
or otherwise coated," if not of one of the precious metals for which it is equally
applicable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is:
The appliance represented at Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the annexed drawings, con-
sisting of tongue A plate E with arms D and prong or prongs F, F, for use with a
necktie or scarf constructed substantially in the manner shown for the purposes
explained with reference to Figures 4 and 5.
ZALI
Borobow
UILTA THIR ZALI
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London.
Agent for the said A. L. Bambridge.