IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN FASTENING OR SUPPORTING NECK-TIES, CRAVATS, AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES OF DRESS ON THE PERSON
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Valentine Vyso at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 30th April 1883. Communicated to him
from abroad by Frederick Smiley of the City and County of San Francisco,
State of California in the United States of America.
VALENTINE VYSE of N° 20 Ludgate Hill in the City of London, Manufacturer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS OR APPARATUS EMPLOYED IN FASTENING OR SUPPORTING
NECK-TIES, CRAVATS, AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES OF DRESS ON THE PERSON." (com-
municated to me from abroad by Frederick Smiley of the City and County of
San Francisco, State of California in the United States of America).
This invention relates to new and useful means of supporting or fastening
cravats and such like articles of dress on the person, the object being to conveniently
and effectively secure cravats and such like articles to collar buttons or studs.
In carrying out the invention I provide a metal loop, hinged to the lower back
edge or part of the stiffener, and having spring wires within, and guided by it to
forin with its head a means for grasping the shank of the button.
There is a small metal plate having end prongs fitting through and clamped
behind the stiffener, and having a prong in its lower edge which is adapted to be
bent around and under the lower edge of the stiffener.
These prongs secure the plate to the stiffener, the lower one holding it well to its
place.
The lower edge of the plate may have a small socket-bearing, in which is hinged
the base of the metal or wire loop.
This loop may have a wide base, and a small head, the latter being adapted to fit
over the shank of the button or stud of the collar.
In order to insure its fastening spring wires are provided, these may be made of
single piece, conforming below to the shape of the loop and soldered thereto, or
may be otherwise formed and their ends may extend up on each side gradually
converging and then diverging and fitting loosely around the sides of the loop and
their ends may be carried down again and soldered to their sides in order to form
extended slots which guide and secure them upon the loop.
These springs thus form with the head of the loop a means for completely
ncircling the shank of the button, and holding it.

page_text: These springs yield-sufficiently to slip over the shank of the button when
fitting the cravat or such like article to its place, and spring back to secure it.
It inakes a neat and convenient fastening and may be readily removed when the
cravat is worn out, and placed upon a new one.
Upon the head of the loop, I solder a small projecting plate which acts as a
guard to prevent the head from getting into the button hole when the cravat is
being put on or taken off.
Modifications of the parts may be made without departing from the nature of
the invention as for instance; The loop may be made of a metal strip, and the ends
of the spring wires pass through slots in the sides of the strip, and be thereby
guided, instead of embracing the loop themselves, and otherwise the construction
of the parts may be varied.
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