AN IMPROVEMENT IN NECK TIES
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN NECK TIES."-A communication from abroad by
Madame Klotz, junior, Widow, and Eugène Klotz, Vitor Klotz,
and Hippolyte Meyer, comprising the Firm of Klotz, junior, and
Company, of 13, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville
Clark at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 5th January 1871.
I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN NECK TIES," to be as
follows:-
This Invention consists in the application of a guard piece of metal,
leather, or other material capable of resisting wear, to the ends or tabs

page_text: of neck ties, which are secured by a clasp or fastening, in order to
prevent the rapid wear of the fabric after frequent use, and also to
facilitate the insertion of the ends of the tie in the clasp or fastening.
This appendage may be made of any shape or design, and may be
attached by rivetting, sewing, gluing, or otherwise, to the ends of the
neck tie.
Figure 1 of the Drawing shows one form of guard; a is the end or
tab of the neck tie to be passed through the clasp or fastening (not
shown) in the usual way. b, Figure 4, is a cardboard, metal, or other
flexible stiffening introduced in the end or tab a of the neck tie. c is the
metallic or other guard applied on the end of a for preventing wear, and
which may
have a rounded or other form as desired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 1st July 1872.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALEXANDER
MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Alexander Melville Clark,
Her special licence that I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Alexander Melville Clark, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United

page_text: Figure 2 shows another form of guard c.
In Figure 3 the stiffening b, Figure 4, is dispensed with, and the
desired stiffness in the tab or end a of the neck tie is obtained by making
the guard c of increased length.
Figures 5 and 6 show another mode of attaching the guard c to the 5
end or tab of the neck tie. For this purpose a hole d is made in the
end of the stiffening 6 by means of a punch or otherwise, into which
hole the part of the guard c is pressed, so as to retain the latter in
place on the tab of the neck tie.
Having described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of 10
performing the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be
protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the
application to the ends or tabs of necks ties of a guard piece, substantially
as shown and for the purposes specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have 15
hereunto set my hand and seal, this First day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.