A New or Improved Cravat or Tie Clip or Fastener.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Dec., 1897-Accepted, 5th Feb., 1898
CONTURIN DIECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Cravat or Tie Clip or Fastener.
I, LUDWIG UECHTING, of 80-88, Mauerstrasse, Berlin, in the Empire of 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:-
This invention has for its object an improved tie clip or fastener and is shown
in the accompanying drawings, in which
Figures 1-3 show one form of construction and
Figures 4-7 another form.
A fastening casing a Figure 1 is provided with a closed bottom in the corners
of which a springs is arranged. In front of the spring s recesses or projecting
edges c are arranged in the sides of said casing a and the neck of the casing is
widened towards the front in order to allow a key or fastener 9, such as shown
for instance in Figure 2, to be easily inserted or withdrawn. The key g Figure 2
is attached at its end gl to the band of the cravat or tie which passes round the
neck. If the key g be inserted in the lock or fastener as shown in Figure 3 only
the head of the key engages beneath one of the edges or projections c.
The key
is firmly held in the inclined position shown, by means of the natural inclined
position of the cravat band passing round the neck and by the spring s pressing
against the key head f. The key can thus be easily disengaged from the projection
and the cravat or tie unfastened and taken off the collar, when the end of the key
or the end of the band of the cravat as the case may be is pressed or pulled down-
wards, and thereby the key brought into a position parallel to the axis of the
lock and ejected by the spring s pressing behind or against the head f.
In the form of construction shown in Figures 4-7 the spring s does not act
directly on the key head of but only by the intermediary of a movable slide or
pusher h, Figures 6 and 7, arranged in the casing of the lock or fastener, said
pusher resting with its tongue h', Figure 7, against the head f of the key. The
action in this latter case is also the same as in the one previously described, as the
action of a spiral spring s and a pusher or slide h only serves to retain more firmly
the key g Figure 6 in the casing a of the lock or fastener.
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
1. In a cravat or tie fastener consisting of a lock or fastening device and a key,
a spring (s) arranged in the lock (a) which as shown in Figure 3 directly presses
against the head (f) of a key (g) inserted in the lock and thereby forces said head (f)
of the key into one of the edges or recesses (c) in the casing and thus retains it
therein obliquely to the axis of the lock, substantially as hereinbefore described
and shown in the accompanying drawing.
2. In a cravat or tie fastener consisting of a lock or fastening device and a
key, a spring arranged in said lock (a) which as shown in Figure 6 presses by

page_text: means of a slide or pusher (h) against the head (f) of a key (9) substantially as
herein before described and shown in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 24th day of December 1897.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.