Year: 1897

page_text: I, HENRY RICHARD HOWLAND, residing at 315 Hart Street, Brooklyn, in the
County of Kings, and State of New York, United States of America, Draughtsman,
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 relates to neck-tie holders, and the object thereof is to provide
an improved device of this class which is adapted to operate in connection with a
collar button to hold the neck-tie in position; a further object being to provide
a device of this class which is adapted to prevent the neck-tie from slipping up
over the collar,
The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification of which the
accompanying drawing forms a part, in which:-
Fig. 1 is a back view of an ordinary bow tie with my improvement connected
therewith.
Fig. 2, a partial section on the line 2, 2.
Fig. 3, a side view of a collar button which I employ;
Fig. 4, a plan view thereof; and,
Fig. 5, a view similar to Fig. 2, showing a modified form of construction.
In the drawing forming part of this specification the separate parts of my
improvement are designated by the same numerals of reference in each of the
views, and in said drawing I have shown an ordinary bow tie 7, which is provided
centrally with a loop or band 8, a section of which is given in Fig. 2, and in the
practice of my invention I secure on the inside of the loop or band 8, in any desired
manner, a hollow elliptical, spring metal receiver 9, which is provided with an
elliptical opening 10, the sides of which are provided with outwardly curved spring
jaws 11, which extend through the loop or band 8, and in practice, the collar
button is passed between the spring jaws 11, and enters the receiver 9, in the
manner of an ordinary glove. button.
In Figs. 3, and 4, I have shown a collar button which I employ, and which con-
sists of a base plate 12, provided with a screw threaded shank 13, on which is
mounted a short supplemental tubular shank 14, which is screw threaded interiorly,
and provided with an elliptical head 15, and in practice the distance between the
head 15, and the base 12, of the button may be adjusted as will be readily under-
stood, by turning the supplemental shank 14, on the screw threaded shank 13, and
it will also be apparent that this device will operate as above described, the
head 15, being passed through the opening 10, into the receiver 9, between the
spring jaws 11.
In Fig. 5, I have shown a modification of the construction shown in Fig. 1,
by which my improvement is adapted to serve in connection with an ordinary tie,
and in this connection, the receiver 9, is provided at the front thereof with loops 16,
through which the tie 17, is passed, and this device may be used in connection
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page_text: with an ordinary four in hand tic, or in connection with any other form of tie
which is adapted to be tied by hand.
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. The herein described fastening device for a neck-tie, consisting of a hollow,
spring metal receiver, provided at one side with an opening at the opposite sides of
which are formed spring jaws, said receiver being adapted to be secured to a tie,
substantially as shown and described.
2. The herein described fastening device for a neck-tie, consisting of a hollow,
spring metal receiver, provided at one side with an opening at the opposite sides
of which are formed spring jaws, said receiver being adapted to be secured to a
tie, and said opening being adapted to receive a collar button, substantially as
shown and described.
3. The herein described fastening device for neck-tics, consisting of a hollow
spring metal receiver 9, which is provided a one side with an opening 10, at the
sides of which are formed spring jaws 11, and a collar button consisting of a base
disk or plate provided with a screw threaded shank, and a supplemental shank
which is mounted thereon and provided with a knob or head, substantially as shown
and described.
Dated the 19th day of Tul.. 1007
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents..