An Improved Device for Attaching Neck-ties or Cravats to Shirts and Shirt Studs.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 30th June, 1896-Accepted, 8th Aug., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Attaching Neck-ties or Cravats to
Shirts and Shirt Studs.
A communication by JAN ACHLER, JAN ECKERT, and JOSEF NAVÁK, all of
No. 34, Wassergasse, Prague, in the Empire of Austria, Gold Workers and
Merchant respectively.
I, GEORGE CECIL DYMOND, M.I.M.E., of the Firm of W. P. Thompson & Co.,
of 6 Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in the County
of Lancaster, 118 New Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick
and 322 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, 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 to prevent the displacement of neck-ties or
cravats, which so frequently takes. place with the present mode of attaching the
same to shirt collars.
In the accompanying drawings-
Figures 1 and 2 show elevations of the improved arrangement with a cravat in
two different positions.
Figure 3 is a section on the line - of Figure 1.
Figures 4-7 are details in various aspects.
The arrangement consists essentially of a holder a which is attached (sewu) on
the rear face of the cravat. This holder is shown in plan in Figure 5.
Figure 5A is a side view of the same, and
Figure 5B a section on the line x-x of Figure 5.
This holder is formed of two curved plates 6 lying one above the other and
attached to one another so as to leave between the two plates
hollow space.
The upper plate has also two side flaps c which are provided with slots c' by means
of which the holder can be sewn to the back of the cravat A. This plate has
further an elongated four-cornered slot d through which a peculiarly shaped shirt
button, which will be hereinafter more particularly described, is passed.
In order to remove this holder a quickly and conveniently from a cravat and to
allow it to be fastened on to another cravat to save stitching the holder a to the
cravat, the modifications shown in Figures 7-7B may be employed.
In
In this case the upper plate 6 is extended at one side in the form of a flat
pointed flexible pin g whilst at the opposite side it is formed with an eyelet h.
order to fix this holder on to the cravat the pin is inserted through the material of
the cravat and then bent round and its point simply inserted in the hole of the
eyelet h, Figure 7³.
The shirt button k, Figures 4 and 4", in this case has a flat shank f which may
be easily and conveniently passed through the shirt and collar button holes, and
the upper part of the shaft f is provided with notches f.
The end or bar of this shank is intended to be inserted in the above mentioned
slot d of the holder a Figure 6.
The mode of attaching the cravat is as follows-
The button or rather its shank fis passed through the button holes of the
shirt and collar, Figures 1, 2 and 3, and the holder which is sewn or otherwise attached
to the cravat, is so placed over the button Figure 2 that the shank can be

page_text: pushed through the slit d into the holder, the cravat is then turned downwards
about 90°, Figure 1, so that the plate 6 engages into the notches f', Figure 3, and
holds the cravat immovably on the shirt stud. On taking off the cravat the
movement is reversed, the cravat being turned from a vertical position Figure 1
into a horizontal position Figure -2 and lifted off the shirt stud.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated
to me by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is-
1. A device for attaching neckties or cravats to shirts and shirt studs which
consists of a holder (a) adapted to be attached to the rear face of the cravat, and
provided with an elongated slot (d) to receive the flat shank (f) of a special shirt
stud (k) the said shank being provided with notches (f) whereby on the shank
being inserted in the slot and the cravat turned to 90° the edges of the slot (d)
engage into the said notches (1) and hold the cravat immovable, substantially as
herein before described.
2. A modification of the herein described cravat holder consisting in providing
the same with a flexible pin (9) adapted to be passed through the material of
the cravat, bent round and its point inserted in an eyelet h arranged on the holder
so that the stitching of the holder to the cravat is dispensed with, substantially as
described.
Dated this 29th day of June 1896.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.