US107634A - Improvement in fastenings for neck-ties - Google Patents

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QPETER nemers, Lor HIGHLAND FALLs'NEW rome l Letters 'Patent No. 107,634,1Zated September 20., l1870.

' i Ynvnnovnvmm' In FASTENINGS PoR NECK-Tres.

. The Scliidule :referred to' in these lLetters Patent and making part; of the vsame.

Falls,in the county of Oran ge and State of New York,

i haveV invented a new and useful Improvement in Necktie Fastenings,ofj which the'` following is' a full,- clear, and `exact description,reference 4'being had to theaccompanying drawing forming part of thisspecifcation, andinlwhich-Y y Figure 1 represents a rear view of a neck-tie with myiruproved fastening applied to it; j

Figure 2,a reverse viewof the fastening, on alarger scaleg, y i Figure', a side edge `View of the same; and Figure 4, a longitudinal section thereof. Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin My improvement `consistsgin' a slide madeup of plates, one of which is arranged towork over the hackof the other, andis drawn ynp byarubber springto gripe the shank otthe' stud orbutton of theshirt,

said stud or'ibu'tton' projecting througha hole inthe other plate, that is tacked or sewed at its top'edge to the neck-tie,` the whole forming a simpleand very lse- In the accompanying drawing--` i A represents a neck-gtie, and

B, a stud, applied as` usual to the neck-bandiof the shirt for attachment of the collar and tie'. C 'y G is the fastening by. which the neck-tie is hitched onto or removed, as required, from the stud.

`This fastening is made np of plates` aand 1),.the

front one, a, of which is secured by stitches c, at its ripper edge, to the neck-tie, and has a hole, el, through itA for passage therethrough of the outer head of.' the stud, in applying the fastening with its attached tic to the stud. l

The other plate, b, which slidesover the back of' -the plate a, and is connected'with it by free clips or bent-over portions s, `has a recess, e,'on itspupper Vedge, to gripe, in connection with the upper edge of the hole d in the other platejthc shank ofthe stud.

Said last-mentionedplate b isdrawn upward, to cstablish hold, by an elastic band or spring, j, arranged in front ofthe plate ct, and tacked at its'. upper end to said plate at its top, and at its lowerend to the ybottom of the plate l), so that by pulling downward on the latter platethe fastening is open for detachrnentof the tie, and, on releasing said plate b, the same made to securely attach itself onto the stud or button.4 t

That is here claimed, and desired to be secured by The neck-tie fastening, composed of plates ct and b,

thepne ot" which is arranged to slide over the other, y' and constructed to gripe the shank of the stud or'button, `in combination with the elastic band f, for appli` cation to theneck-tie, substantially as specified.

. EETER J. SHIRTS.

Witnesses C. CONWAY, H. APPELL.

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