An Improved Neck-tie.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Mar., 1890—Accepted, 19th Apr., 1890
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Neck-tie.
I, WILLIAM KENNEDY of Lewes in the County of Sussex Gentleman do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in & by the following
statement:
This Invention relates to an improved necktie designed to avoid the several incon-
veniences attendant upon the use of the "twice round" necktie as hitherto made.
Such latter device consists of an inner neck encircling or collar-like part and of an
outer encircling or tie-part which latter part is made in half parts forming continuations
of the intermediary collar like part; and the device is made with a through opening
at the part thereof which when in use is situated at the back of the neck which
permits of the one end portion of the device being passed therethrough or is so
otherwise adapted at such part as to allow of the said inner and outer encircling parts
slipping past each other or being caused to assume different relative positions when
being placed and secured around the neck. This facility is, however, detrimental in
that it allows of the collar-like part being drawn endwise and inconveniently com-
pressed around the neck of the wearer by the mere act of drawing the continuing tie-
parts sufficiently tightly to form the front scarf knot, which necessitates resort to
various temporarily used or applied artifices to cause the collar-like part during the
tieing of the tie-part to keep distended in the position it is subsequently required to
keep when in use; but the aforesaid facility is of further disadvantage in that it
allows of the said collar-like and tie parts shifting the relative positions in which they
are desired to remain when in use, the collar-like part being liable to tighten around
the neck of the wearer and the tie part correspondingly loosening, in consequence of
which the device is liable to become untidy in appearance and uncomfortable to the
wearer and such disadvantage can only be avoided in the present make of such
device by well securing the collar-like and tie parts thereof by a multiplicity of pins
or the like, the use of which in articles of attire it is desirable to avoid to the greatest
possible extent. Moreover, unless the device be specially made for the wearer so that
the collar like part will fit and conform to his neck and that the terminating tie-parts
are connected thereto with a proper inclination or pitch, the tie parts thereof are very
liable to fall with a pitch which will not allow of their being tied into a scarf knot
without the formation in the said outer encircling part of a more or less plaited part
which also detracts from the neatness of appearance of the device and is inconvenient
to the wearer.
To avoid such and other inconveniences attendant upon the use of such neckties, I
make the said collar-like and tie parts of such device discontinuous in relation to each
other, so that each such part may be made of a size and formation suitable and com-
fortable to the intendant wearer, and otherwise as in the improved manner hereinafter
described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which Fig. 1, represents
the improved tie distended, and Fig. 2, represents it in use.
3. represents the collar-like part which may he cut either straight as represented or
may be shaped or formed more or less crescent-like. It is made of a length con-
formable to the size of the neck of the wearer, and of such a depth in front at 4,
(where it is secured to the shirt or like garment by a stud or the like at 5.) as that
when in use, vide Fig. 2, it will appear at such part as a continuous collar rising well
above the scarf knot of the tie part. Its end parts, 6, are gradually tapered off in
width so that when in use (when they are situated at the back of the device where
they are held together and to the shirt or like garment by a stud or the like, 7. vide
Fig. 2.) they will permit of all desirable freedom of movement of the neck without
liability of chafing the same, and will not appear at such back part of the device, they

page_text: being narrowed down to a width preferably less than and never exceeding that of the
height of the juxtaposed part, 8, of the tie part of the device. In use, the collar-like
part of the device is preferably starched or otherwise stiffened in any suitable manner
so that it will resist the tendency of the tie part to compress it about the neck when
the tie part is being tied.
9. represents the tie part, which I make in one continuous piece (instead of making
it in half parts forming continuations of the intermediary collar-like part as in the
existing device) making it of a length conformable to the size of the neck of the
intendant wearer and with the usual side hollowed or narrowed portions 10. so disposed
as that the tie is enabled to take its own pitch according to the formation of the neck of
the wearer.
Its back part may be made of any convenient height according to the
required appearance and the length of the neck of the wearer, such height preferably
exceeding and never being less than that of a line connecting the points X of the
collar when in use, so that, as aforesaid, the back part of the collar-like part will not
appear when in use. The centre part of the length of the tie part is made with a
stud hole and is connected to the stud or the like 7. connecting the collar ends, which
permits of the tie part being pulled (in the act of tieing the scarf-knot sufficiently
tightly to obtain a comfortable fit of the tie part without liability of its shifting round
the neck in so doing, and subsequently secures the back of the tie-part in position.
Moreover, when in use, the collar-like part will sustain the slight pressure of the
encircling tie part and the neck can be moved with freedom and comfort, and the
parts of the device being discontinuous, there will be no liability of their shifting to
the tightening of the one part and the loosening of the other part as in such devices as
hitherto made.
In use, after tieing the first knot of the tie part, I find it of advantage to secure the
latter to the front of the collar like part by a "safety-pin" or the like which serves to
keep the scarf-knot of the tie in its desired position of elevation, and also to cause a
slight extra bending away from the neck of the collar-like part just in front of the
bone of the throat avoiding all pressure thereon.
The aforesaid improvements are of further advantage in enabling the wearer to tie
the scarf-knot with less inconvenience and with greater celerity and certainty at first
trial than can be done with the existing device, and in enabling the tie or knot to be
made centrally of the shirt front with greater certainty, such advantages being
principally due to the avoidance of the liability of the parts becoming displaced or
shifting their positions when in use.
The said improved parts may be made and used disconnected the one from the other
excepting when secured together by a back stud or the like as aforesaid when in use,
or for a short distance as at, 11, one end of the collar like part may be sewed or
detachably secured to about centrally of the length of the tie part.
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 hereinbefore described improved "iwice-round" necktie made in discon-
tinuous parts.
Dated this 11th day of 1907
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.