US1239746A

US1239746A - Necktie-clasp.

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Publication number: US1239746A
Application number: US12992916A
Authority: US
Inventors: Edward P Tobie
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1916-11-07
Filing date: 1916-11-07
Publication date: 1917-09-11
Anticipated expiration: 1934-09-11

Description

E. P. TOBIE.

NECKTIE CLASP.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 7. 1916.

Patented Sept. 11, 191?.

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NECKTIE-GLASP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. jlil, 19M.

Application filed November 7, 1916. Serial No. 129,929.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD P. Tonm, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Necktie-Clasps, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to clasps purposed to engage the free ends of the necktie and to properly retain the same relatively to the clothing. The primary objects of my invention .are to accommodate the device to ties of varying widths; to tightly retain the tie in the clasp; to non-rigidly connect the tie with a button upon the clothing in such a manner as to permit a more or less free move ment of the tie in the vertical direction and to swing laterally to a limited extent whereby the tie may move gracefully but without deranging the shape of the same when the wearers body moves; to insure the attaching loop against accidental disengagement from the button; to insure the complete concealment of the loop by the tie; to afiord sufiicient resiliency in the parts to easily aocommodate neckties of varying thicknesses; to facilitate the engagement or release of the parts from the tie; and to attain these ends in a simple and inexpensive structure.

To the above ends essentially my invention consists of such parts and combinations of parts as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification and in which like figures represent like parts throughout the views,

Figure 1, is a front elevation of my novel device in engagement with a tie, a portion of the tie being broken away,

Fig. 2, a transverse section of the same on line 22 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3, a rear elevation of the clasp in open position,

Fig. 4:, a top plan-view of the'samein-like position, and

Fig. 5, a rear elevation of the device closed.

In the form of my invention herein illus-- trated an elongated, somewhat resilient metal body 7 has its end portions rearwardly directed as at 8 and 9 in curves terminating in

loops

10 and 11 respectively, the former serving as a keeper, and the latter as a hinge socket. The

portions

8 and 9 are resilient and form adjacent their respective loops interior curved

recesses

12 and 13 respectively adapted to receive the side margins of the tie when the latter is exceptionally wide. By reason of these recesses sizes of varying widths may be readily accommodated by this device.

Cooperating with this body is a hinged member or tongue represented in a general manner by the reference numeral 14:. This member comprises a bar 15 provided with a pivoting loop 16 at one end, which loop is offset from the bar portion forming a resultant shoulder 17 and upon an intermediate portion of the bar is a vertically disposed oblong loop 18 preferably of greater breadth at its top than at its bottom which constitutes a spring portion exerting pressure longitudinally of the member 15. Upon the outer extremity of the bar are transversely disposed or lateral loops 19 in alinement with each other adapted to frictionally engage the keeper 10 and whichare outwardly pressed by the action of the spring 18. The pivoting loop 16 pames loosely through the socket 11. Normally the bar 15 is of suficient length to be slightly overlapped by the keeper 10 when in closed position, but by virtue of the resiliency of the body 7 and the action of the springloop 18 the loops 19 may be manually engaged or disengaged with the keeper, passing beneath the loop 8 and clamping the tie against the portion 8 of the body. To facili tate such engagement or disengagement the loops 19 are so constructed as to project above and below the plane of the body 7. Thus, to disengage the bar, the first and second fingers are pressed against the loops 19 while the thumb presses in an opposite direction upon the keeper 10, thus making disenga ement easy and instantaneous.

n the present instance the construction of the bar is rendered extremely inexpensive by the use of a stiii yet resilient wire from which are formed, by bending, all the loops referred to, while the free ends of the

wire tilt

20 and 21 rest upon the

horizontal portions

22 and 23 respectively assisting to form the bar. The extremity of the

ends

20 and 21 abut against the lower portion of the loop 18.

In Figs. 1 and 2 areshown a tie 24 which tie overlaps the buttons 25 upon the front of a shirt 26. One of these buttons is inserted in the loop 18 of the tongue and by this means the tie is retained near the sur face of the shirt but is still capable of a slight vertical movement and will swing to a limited extent laterally which is desirable at times as already suggested.

It will be observed by reference to Fig. 3 that the spring loop 18 cooperates with the body 7 to clamp one margin of the tie between the loops 19 and the body portion 8; while the other margin of the tie is clamped by the shoulder 17 against the portion 9 of the body, thus preventing slipping of the tie relatively to the fastener itself.

It will be further observed that the loca tion of themember 14 in a plane in the rear of the body so ofi'sets the loop 18 as to permit ample room and free passage of the tie which would not of course be possible were the loop in substantially the same vertical plane as the body. Furthermore, this ofiset relation when the member 14 is engaged with the tie, results in forcing the lower ortion of the loop 18 tightly against the t1e, thus forming a barrier across the throat of said loop and preventing any accidental escape of the engaged button.

I claim:

1. A necktie clasp comprising an elongated body, rearwardly directed inwardly curved fingers upon the ends of the body adapted to guide the edges of the tie, a hinge socket on the end of one finger, and a tongue mounted in the socket and having a lateral spring loop intermediate its ends.

2. A necktie clasp comprising a flat elongated body, rearwardly directed inwardly curved fingers upon the ends of the body forming concave recesses, a hinge socket on the end of one finger spaced from the body, a loop on the end of the other finger also spaced from the body, and a tongue mounted in the socket adapted to abut against the first mentioned loop and having a lateral spring loop intermediate its ends.

3. A necktie clasp comprising an elongated .body, rearwardly directed inwardly curved 55 fingers upon the ends of the body, a loop on "one finger spaced from the body, a socket 'on the other finger also spaced from the body, a tongue pivotally mounted in the socket adapted to engage the loop, and having a lateral spring loop intermediate its ends, and an inwardly directed shoulder on the tongue adjacent the socket.

4. A necktie clasp comprising an elongated body, rearwardly directed inwardly curved resilient fingers upon the ends of the body, a loop upon the extremity of one finger spaced from the body, a socket integral with the end of the other finger also spaced from the body, a tongue pivotally engaging the socket, and having a lateral spring loop intermediate its ends, and a loop upon the free end of the tongue adapted to engage the first mentioned loop.

5. A necktie clasp comprising an elongated body, rearwardly directed inwardly curved resilient. fingers upon the ends of the body, a loop upon the extremity of one finger spaced from the body, a socket integralwith the end of the other finger also spaced from the body, a tongue pivotally engaging the socket, adapted to abut against the loop, and a lateral spring loop upon an intermediate portion of the tongue.

6. A necktie clasp comprising a fiat elongated body, rearwardly directed inwardly curved resilient fingers upon the body forming recesses for the edges of a tie, a hinge socket on the end of one finger partially inclosing the tie, a loop on the end of the other finger partially inclosing the tie, and a tongue attached to the socket adapted to slidably engage both the loop and the tie and having a lateral spring loop intermediate its ends.

7 A necktie clasp comprising an elongated body, inwardly curved resilient fingers on the ends of the body forming recesses, a socket on one finger, a loop on the other finger, a longitudinally yielding tongue attached at one end to the socket, and having a lateral spring loop intermediate its ends, and a loop on the other end of the tongue slidably engaging the first loopand movable toward a recess.

8. A necktie clasp comprising an elon ated body, curved fingers on the ends of the %ody, a loop on one finger, a tongue attached to the other finger slidably engaged by the loop, and a resilient open loop in the tongue exterading laterally therefrom intermediate its en s. 4

9. A necktie clasp comprising a fiat elongated body, integral rearwardly directed inwardly curved fingers upon the ends of the loop, and a lateral spring loop upon an intermediate portion of. the tongue located in a vertical plane in the rear of the body.

10. A necktie clasp comprising an elongated body, curved fingers upon the ends of In testimony whereof I have afixed my thehbgdy, afioop Ion one finger, a tongue atsignature in presence of two Witnesses. tac e to t e 0t er finger engaged by the loop, an open resilient laterally disposed EDWARD TOBIE' 5 loop upon an intermediate portion of the Witnesses:

tongue adjacent the body and in the rear HORATIO -E, BELLoWs, thereof adapted to form a barrier. MARY A. SULLIVAN.