US1232826A - Necktie. - Google Patents

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w. K. MEYER.

"NECKTIE APPLICATION FILED JUNE 24, ISIS Pate tediuli 10, 191?.

WILL K. Mn'znn, or BrwoKLYn', nnw roan, nssrenon 'ro iunrnn, nncnannc AND FRIEDHEIM, OF'NEW 'YQEK, N. 1., A FIRM COMPOSED'OE WILLIMML K. MEYER,

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WIILIAM K. Mnrne a citizen of the United States, residin at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and tate of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Neckties, of. which the following is a specification.

The primary object of this invention is to preserve the shape and prevent the breaking down of the stitching and material of neckties of the four-in-hand or analogous type, due to the strain which these ties are sub: jected to in adjusting them on a collar, particularly turnover collars in which they frequently stick.'

I am aware that others have sought to reinforce ties of this type by a fabric strip stitched to the inner'face of the tie and provided with lines of reinforcing Stitching such, for example, as shown in U. S. patent to W. E. Webb, Jr, No. 1,079,382.

It will be observed, however, that in the Webb tie the reinforcing stitching; that is such stitching as passes entirely through the body of the tie, is confined to the neckband. The strip attached to the back of the tie extends throughout the neck-band portion, over the knot tying portion, and to the ends of the rear longitudinal seam of the tie, or up to the points where the ends of the tie open, but the stitching which extends longitudinally over these portions of the tie extends through the reinforcing strip and the rear folds of the tie alone, and does not pass entirely through the body of the tie.

In carrying out my invention, I secure to the rear face of the tie a reinforcing strip which, in the case shown, extends from the end of the main rear longitudinal seam of the tie, or where the material of the smaller of the enlarged ends of the tie commences to open, to about the middle of the neckband portion, and this strip 1s secured to the tie by lines of reinforcing stitching, which extend throughout the length of the strip and pass entirely through the body of the tie throughout such length; that is to say, the stitches appear on the outer as well as the inner face of the tie.

By this arrangement the weakest EQItlOIl of the tie, or that portion which is su ecte d to the greatest strain and wear and tear 1s efiectively reinforced and held in shape. I

In order to more fully describe my said NEGKTIE;

Specification of Letters Patent.

invention, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein,

Figure 1, is a view of the outer face of a four-in-hand tie embodyingmy invention;

Fig 2, a view of the rear face or back of said tie, and

Fig. 3, an enlarged Fig. 1. I The tie shown in the accompanying drawings, aside from the staying or reinforcing feature hereinafter described and which constitutes the present invention, is a well known form of four-in-hand tie, consisting of two pieces of silk or other material joined by a bias seam 1, folded longitudinally, and stitched together by a seam 2 extending from section on line 3 point 3 to point 4:, from which points to the (l'ldS of the material the adjacent edges are ree.

The material when thus folded forms a neck-band 5 which merges more or less gradually into two enlarged tying ends 6 and 7, one of which ends, the end Gin the present case, is smaller than the other.

Inclosed within the outer material of the tie is an inner lining 8 of any suitable material.

In tying neckties of this character, it is that portion of the tie from the smaller of the enlarged tying ends to the neck-band, or What will be called the knot tying portion of the smaller end of the tie, which is subjected to the greatest strain and wear and tear, because it is this portion which is pulled in adjusting the tie on the collar after the knot is tied or partially tied. l his strain has not only a tendency to pull the tie out of shape and cause it to become stringy, but it often results in breaking down bias seam 1, and in displacing the inner lining.

The object of the present invention therefore is to reinforce or stay this portion of the tie and cause it to hold its shape, and this I do in the present case by a strip of flexible fabric 9, stitched to the rear face of the tie by rows of stitching 10, which extends-entirely through not only the strip 9, but the outer face as Well as the inner face of the outer material of the-tie. This strip extends from the point 3, or the end of the longitudinal seam 2, at the small end of the tie, to a point at or near the middle of the neck-band, the said strip being slightly nar- Patented July to, rear,

Application filed June M, 1915. Serial No. 36,040.

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rower than the neck-band of the tie, and

the stitching 10 extending longitudinall of said .strip adjacent its longitudinal e ges,

and then transversely thereof to form two a tag or label on which to place a name or trade-mark.

Theforegoing is-a description of one specific embodiment of my invention which is susceptible to modification without departing from the spirit of the invention here claimed. a

What I claim is:

A necktie having a neck-band which merges into expanded or enlarged tying ends the knot forming portion of the tie being embraced between the neck-band and sald enlarged ends, a reinforcing strip of fabric forming an inner facing for the tie, and extending from said neck-band to one of said tying ends and over one of the knot forming portions of said tie, and lines of stitching extending through said reinforcing stri and through the outer face of the body 0 the tie and longitudinally of said tie from the neck-band to one of the tying ends.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

WILLIAM K. MEYER.

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