US1729597A - Necktie - Google Patents

Description

Sept. 24, 1929.

l. COHEN NECKTIE Filed July 18, 1929 ATTOR EY/O Patented Sept. 24, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ISSAKHAR COHEN, F NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO SALVATORE BONAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A COPARTNERSHIP CONSISTING OF SALVATORE BONAN AND ISSAIK- HAR COHEN Application led .Tuly 18,

pecially adapted for embodiment in a four in-hand necktie.

An object of the invention is to provide a stretchable garment of knitted or woven fabric, capable of `resisting rupture at the stitching or .permanent deformation even a under stretching strains.

Another and more specific object is to provide a four-in-hand necktie capable of resisting rupture or permanent distortion-under the severe endwise pulling stresses imi posed thereon when sliding the tie through a turnover collar or tightening the knot, while avoiding the use of loosely anchored or flapping ends of thread which might be inadvertently snagged on shirt buttons or l the like with resultant ripping of the tie.

Another object is to provide a lined fourin-hand tie so constructed that the lining will neither rumple nor slip relative to the tie body, 'and even careless handling or usage i of the tie is ineffective to cause permanent displacement of body and lining relative to each other.

Other objects are to provide a tie of the above haracter and of simple construction,

. of ,appearance conforming with the requirements of style, and capable of embodiment in fabrics of a wide range of cost, all Without resort to the use of rubber or other material subject to rot or deterioration.

A four-in-hand necktie constructed in accordance with one embodiment 'of the invention `may conveniently include a fabric body cut on the bias or otherwise conventionally rendered resilient, and a resilient lining, these elements being sewed together by a hand-stitched longitudinal line of elas- Vtic thread, the ends of which are irmlyvanchored. Preferably the thread is knitted to give a' high degree of elasticit and preferably also the lining is of a itted material, combining bulk, lightness in weight'and indeformability under pulling stresses.

When this tie is pulled endwise to slide it through a collar, or to tighten the knot,

the body and lining yield together, the

i Nnox'rin 1929. Serial No. 379,151.

tive slippage between the lining and body.

The invention may be more fully understood from the following description in connection with the accompanying drawings, wherein Fig. 1 is a broken rear face view of a tie constructed in accordance with the invention with parts in section for clearness.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse sectional View on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. y

Fig. 3 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional View on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. is a plan View of the lining, and Y. Fig. 5 is a detail of the thread on a great` lyenlarged scale.

The tie body may be of entirely conventional construction comprising the usual bias-cut woven fabric, or it may be of knitted fabric. It has in either case the usual flaring folded over tying ends and the usual narrow collar encircling portion. The lining 11 is cut in general conformity with the ,contour of the finished body and is housed in and concealed by the folded over body fabric in the completed tie. In order to give substance to the tie, I prefer to use as the lining,

a light-Weight knitted fabric preferably square cut which, while it has substantial bulk, is quite resilient in all directions.

In accordance with usual practice the free ends of the body are folded back and sewed down at 10a and the edges of the folded back portions of the tying ends and the neckband portion are overlapped, the raw edges tucked under at 10b and sewed-to each other and the lining by a longitudinal line of stitching 12.A

',Ihis line of stitching is preferably handuse in the outer fabric and in the lining of the completed necktie. The elasticity of5 the thread for this purpose may approximate and preferably it is as great as that of the necktie fabric or of the lining fabric, but in at least as great as that of the more resilient of said two members.

This sewing thread is disclosed and claimed both per se and as an element of fabrics or garments other than neckties with linings in my companion application, Serial No. 383,092 filed August 2, 1929, and for a full understanding of the present invention, one form of the thread has been shown here (Fig. 5) on a greatly enlarged scale. The thread may conveniently comprise four, six or more running strands 12 of relatively -non-,elastic fiber knitted together in a continuous composite thread. The thread ,resembles a closely bunched or tightly bundled series of interlocked chains of strands each chain including a series of overlapping or overlying loops 122, this looping serving to provide-sufficient excess length of strands to render the thread longitudinally extensible, and by virtue of the tightness of the knitting, elastically retractible. The thread in cross section is of generally flattened polygonal cross section aording good friction at the thread holes to further resist slippage. In fact the thread is in most cases slightly compressed laterally, as it is drawnthrough the thread hole. The thread can be stretched to about 11/4 times its normal length without exceeding its elastic limit. Less elastic threads knitted more loosely, for instance, may in many cases be employed but ordinary spun thread, while theoretically having a slight elasticity, say l per cent, is unsuitable for the purpose.

When a tie, constructed in this manner is pulled, body, lining and thread stretch together, and when the pulling strain is released, they return or retract together to their normal length. There is no appreciable slippage of either body or lining relative to the thread, and there is consequently no slippage of body and lining relative to each other, such as might ultimately result in creeping of the lining and resultant wrinkling of the body. The elastic thread furthermore acts as a positive restoring means toy aid in pulling the tie back into shape without relative displacement of the body and lining. rThe body, lining and thread act, in fact, as three cooperating interlocked deformation resistmeet the requirements of practical use. a particularly satisfactory arrangement it is As vmany changes could be made in the above construction, and many apparently widely diferentembodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. As a new article of manufacture, a fourin-hand necktie, including a resilient body, a resilient lining therein and a thread of relatively non-elastic fibre and of resiliency approximating that of said body and connecting the body and the lining whereby the thread may stretch and retract with theA necktie fabric.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a fourin-hand necktie including a resilient body and lining and a line of stitching of resiliency approximating that of said lining and connecting the body and lining together throughout the entire length of the lining whereby the thread may stretch and retract with the lining.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a fouriIl-hand necktie, including a resilient body and a resilient lining therein, a thread of resiliency at least as great as that of said body and connecting the body and the lining, said thread extending longitudinally of the necktie and firmly anchored at its ends whereby the thread may stretch and retract as a unitary part of the necktie.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a fourin-hand necktie including a woven fabric body cut on the bias, a resilient knitted fabric lining for said body and means yieldingly connecting the body and lining comprising a knitted resilient thread anchored at its en s.

5. As a new article of manufacture, a fourin-hand necktie, including a resilient body, a resilient lining therein and a resilient thread of relatively non-elastic fibre connecting the body and the lining, said thread having an elasticity at least as great as that of the more resilient of the two members which it connects.

6. A four-in-hand necktie including a body defining flaring tying ends, a narrower collar encircling portion and a lining extending substantially the full length of the tie,

the body being folded back upon itself to enclose the lining, the folded back body

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