Improvements in Necktie Retainers.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec.. 1892
Complete Specification Left, 5th May, 1893-Accepted 10th June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Necktie Retainers.
THOMAS HUBERT HUNDLEY 6 Alma Street New North Road London,
Toolmaker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A piece of folding metal about one inch and half in length and half inch broad
with an aperture down the middle about one twelfth of an inch wide, with holes
in for sewing on band of necktie and slide on shirt button or stud at back of
collar.
Dated this 30th day of January 1893.
THOMAS HUBERT HUNDLEY.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Necktie Retainers.
THOMAS HUBERT HUNDLEY of 6 Alma Street, New North Road Islington,
in the County of Middlesex, Toolmaker 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 relates to an improved device, to be sewn upon the inner surface
of the neck bands of cravats, neckties and the like, at the part that would be at
the back of the neck of the wearer, when the same was in use, and consists of, a
metallic plate, in or upon which a slot or aperture is formed by folding over or
raising, up, or both, portions thereof in such a manner that, the said raised or
folded portions engage with the button or stud upon the back of the collar during
the adjustment of the cravat or tie, the object of which is, to keep the band of the
tie or cravat in position, and prevent it from rising during wear.
In the accompanying drawings
Figs. 1, 2 and 3 are perspective views, and Figs. 4, 5 and 6 plan views respectively
of three methods I employ in the construction of the said device.
Figs. 7, 8 and 9 are cross sectional views of the same, the former (Fig. 7)
illustrating the manner in which the device, when in use, engages with the button
or stud, at or upon the back of the collar.
Fig. 10 illustrates the manner and position in which the said device is sewn upon
the band of the tie or cravat.
In carrying my invention into effect, I cut, stamp, press or otherwise produce
from any kind of sheet metal or metalloid, a suitable size plate A, preferably but
not imperatively of the shape shewn in the drawings, upon each side of which
wings or extensions may be formed in the manner shewn by the dotted outline B,
in Fig 4, which are then bent over towards each other as shewn by C and C¹ in
Figs. 1, and 7, so that a central slot or aperture is formed thereby, and by the
means of holes a and b formed in the ends or other part of A, the device thus con-
structed may be sewn upon the inner surface of the neck band D, of the tie or
cravat, in the manner shewn by Fig. 10, and in such a position thereon, as to slide
upon, and engage with, the button or stud E, at or upon the back of the collar, in
the manner shewn by Fig. 7, during the adjustment of the tie, and by this means
the band of the tie or cravat is prevented from rising during wear.
Or as an alternative method, I may form the said wings by cutting, punching or
pressing them up from, and out of the substance of the plate A, as shewn by
Figs. 2, 5 and 8, or these may be in the form of rectangular rims, also produced

page_text: by any of the said means, and from the substance of A, as shewn by Figs. 3, 6
and 9, or I may employ any combination of these methods and means in the
formation of C and Ci as may be desirable or convenient.
Whichever means, or combination I may employ, the position of the wings, and
the width of the slot or aperture formed thereby, and the manner in which the
said wings engage with the stud or button upon, or at, the back of the collar,
would be identically the same, and substantially as that shewn by the cross
sectional view Fig. 7.
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.
The construction and use of the herein described device, and the manner of
attaching the same to the neckbands of cravats, neckties and the like, for engaging
with the buttons or studs upon, or at, the back of the collar, for preventing the
said bands from rising during wear, substantially as herein set forth and shewn by
the appended drawings.
Dated this 5th day of May 1893
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
4, Moorfields, Fore Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.