US2250063A - Twin end necktie - Google Patents

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July 22, 1941. J. A. HlRscl-l TWIN END NECKTIE Filed sept. 18, 1959 Patented July 22, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TWIN END NECKTIE Julius Arthur Hirsch, Chicago, Ill.

Application September 18, 1939, Serial No. 295,424

4 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in neckties and a method of making the same, and has for its main object to produce a necktie of the four-in-hand type which is equipped with twin ends and is reversible to expose the outer face of either one of the twin ends selectively at the front of the tie and which is equally adapted for easy manipulation by left handed and right handed persons and which possesses other advantages hereinafter particularly pointed out.

The invention, insofar as it includes a method of construction, having for its object to produce the necktie of this invention at low cost and without sacrifice of any of the advantages incident to neckties of the type aforesaid as heretofore constructed.

A suitable embodiment of the invention is i1- lustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein Fig. l is a rear view in elevation of a completed neck tie constructed in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 2 is a View in elevation of the neck tie when partially completed.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary viewsimilar to Fig. l

showing the connected parts of the structure as shown in Fig. 2 disposed in position preparatory to turning the tie inside out to bring the parts into the position of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary rear View of the completed necktie shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary detail sectional view on an enlarged scale, taken on the line 5--5 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 is a detail cross section View on an enlarged scale taken on the line 6-6 of Fig. 3.

Fig. '7 is a detail cross sectional view on an enlarged scale, taken on the line 1-1 of Fig. 1.

In the manufacture of the neck tie of this invention,` two pieces of fabric A and B, respectively, are cut to proper pattern and are secured together by stitching along the line C, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, with the terminal portions of said line being shown at the points C-I and C-Z in Fig. 4.

After cutting the end portions A and B of the tie, the latter are folded once upon the line D shown in Fig. 2 to bring the opposite side edges to alignment with each other.

Strips of lining fabric E and F, respectively, are then secured by means of stitch chains G and H, respectively to the last-named edge portions of the end portions A and B, respectively, one of said lining strips being secured to the upper face of the end portion A and the other being secured to the lower face of the end portion B. The narrower ends of the lining strips become opposed to each other and spaced from each other'at the middle of the structure, it being understood, of course, that the parts A and B are inverted 0r reversed from the position in which they will appear in the completed tie.

The stitch chains G and H extend only through a portion of the length of each of the lining strips with their ends spaced from the ends of said lining strips, the ends of the threads of said stitch chains G and H being left of sufficient length to be passed through a needle and passed through the lining strips from the ends of said stitch chains, by loose hand stitching, to the respective ends of the lining strips, as loose stitching serves the dual purpose of preventing the machine stitch chains from unravelling and also affords the advantages incident to loose stitching with respect to enabling the lining strips to adjust themselves easily and properly to the fabric against wrinkles or displacement.

The stitch chains G and H are spa-ced from the free edges of the end portions A and B of the structure, and after said lining strips have been secured in place, as above described, a notch or slit I, is cut into the said free edges of the tie fabric between the opposed ends of the lining strips to a, depth substantially equal to the distance ofthe stitch chain G and H from the free edges of the end portions A and B.

It will be understood that the folds D are not pressed, but are loose so that after the lining strips have been secured in place, as aforesaid, the whole tie, so far as completed, is manipulated to cause both lining strips to be disposed on the same face of the tubular structure consisting of the fabric of which the ends A and B are made, and disposed with their side edges equidistant from the side edges of said end portions A and B as particularly shown in Fig. 3. When turned from position of Fig. 2, illustrated in Fig. 5, to therposition of Fig. 6, it will be noted that the free edge portions of the end portions A and B become oppositely disposed upon the face of the tubular structure to which said lining strips are secured. Thus the free edge portions of the end portion B will extend to the left of the stitch chain H, whereas, the free edge portion of the end portion A will extend to the right of the stitch chain G when the parts are disposed in the position of Figs. 3 and 6. The slit or notch I permits this opposite extension or projection of free edge portions of the end portions A and B as indicated at the middle of Fig. 3.

The structure is then turned inside out like a stocking and pressed, in the usual manner, whereupon the lining strips E and F become disposed within the tie in proper position relatively to the side edge portions of said tie to perform their proper functions.

The main reason for securing the lining strips to opposite faces of the initial tubular structure shown in Fig. 2, is to cause the outermost wall portions of the tie along the rear portion or face of the latter to be oppositely overlapped upon the companion portions of the rear wall as shown in Fig. l so that after the tie is knotted in the customary manner the outer or overlapping portion of the rear wall will be positioned similarly to the overlapped edge portion of the wearers shirt as is usual and customary as concerns the forward or outer end portion of the conventional four-in-hand tie.

In the latter the nether and usually hidden end portion of the knotted tie, which is narrower than the outer end portion, has the overlapped rear wall portions disposed reversely of the same p-ortions of the outer or exposed end portion of the knotted tie.

In the instant case it does not matter which of the two-end portions of the knotted tie is outermost since the overlapped rear wall portion of the said end will be positioned conventionally.

I claim as my invention:

1. A necktie comprising twin end portions and a neck-band connecting the same, separate lining strips for the said resepective end portions extending into said neck band and having their ends opposed to each other within said neckband, each of Vsaid lining strips secured to said respective end portions and said neck-band by a stitch chain extending along the middle of said strip and through opposed edge portions of the material of the body of the tie in spaced relation to the free edges of saidrmaterial and thereby forming a tubular structure, there being a notch or slit in said free edges between the opposed ends of the lining strips in the neck band extending to the line of said stitch chains.

2; A twin end necktie comprising two substantially equal strips of material secured together within the neckband of the tie, said strips being initially disposed to exposed the reverse faces of said strips and being folded midway between their side edges with their overlapped free edges disposed along one edge of the folded structure, two separate strips lof lining material secured to the respective pairs of free edges Vby means of stitch chains disposed parallel with and spaced from said free edges thereby to join the latter, said respective lining strips being disposed upon opposite faces of the respective end portions with their upper ends opposed to and spaced from each other at substantially the middle of the neck-band portion of the tie, there being a slit in the free edge portions of the structure between the opposed ends of said lining strips extending inwardly to the stitch chain line,'the resulting tubular reversed structure being adapted to be manipulated to cause said lining strips to lie upon one face of said structure with said stitch chains disposed midway between the thin side edges of said tubular structure, whereupon said structure may be reversed to expose the obverse face of the material with the free edg'e portions bordering the stitch-chain disposed in respectively opposed directions at opposite sides of said slit. 3. A necktie comprising twin end portions initially folded midway between their ends with obverse faces opposed to each other, a strip of lining material for each end portion, one of said strips overlapping in part the lower face of one end portion and the other overlapping in part the opposite face of the other end portion, stitching extending through the respective lining strips midway of the side edges thereof and through the free edge portions of said folded end portions, the upper ends of said strips being opposed to and spaced from each other and said stitching rendering the structure tubular, there being slits in the free edges of said tubular structure substantially midway between its ends, extending inwardly thereof a distance suflicient to permit the free edge portions of the tubular structure disposed outwardly of said stitching to be folded in opposite directions without forming a distortion, said tubuluar structure being adapted to be manipulated. to bring the lining strips upon the same face of and midway between side edges of said tubuluar structure preparatory to turning the latter to expose its obverse face.

4. The hereindescribed method of making neckties which consists in rst folding a strip of fabric along a line substantially midway'of its side edges with reverse face of the strip disposed outwardly, then securing strips of lining fabric, respectively, to opposite sides of the respective end portions of the folded strip by stitching extending through the lining strips midway between the side edges of the latter and through opposed free edge portions of the folded strip substantially parallel with and spaced from the said free edges, disposing said lining strips so that their upper ends are slightly spaced from each other, then cutting a slit in said free edges at a point between the upper ends of the lining strips extending inwardly a distance substantially equal to the spacing of the stitching from said free edges, then manipulating the resulting tubular structure to cause said stitching to become disposed midway between the side edges of the tubular structure and said lining strips to become disposed upon one facerof the latter with their side edges substantially aligned with the side edges of said structure, then pressing the tubuluar structure and turning the same to cause the obverse face thereof to be exposed and the linings disposed within the structure with the free edge portions of the latter extending in respectively opposite directions at opposite sides of said-slit.

J. ARTHUR HIRSCH.

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