US2402795A - Neckerchief and method of making the same - Google Patents

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.G. WlPPER ET AL NECKERCHIEF AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME June 25, 1946.

Original Filed July 19 Patented June 25, 1946 NECKERCHIEF AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME George Wipper and Vivien Francis Wipper, Jacksonville, Fla.

Original application July 19, 1943, Serial No. 495,340. Divided and this application April 25, 1944, Serial No. 532,654

2 Claims. 1

This invention relates to a neckerchief for use particularly by the enlisted men of the United States Navy and also to the method of producing the same, the application covering said invention being a division of our application filed July 19, 1943, and bearing Serial Number 495,340. The invention provides for the making of tailormade neckerchiefs of such character as to enable the wearer of said neckerchiefs to proceed with less difficulty and labor in the pressing of said neckerchiefs for wear, and furthermore, to provide for the effective draping of the same upon the wearers neck in a comparatively simple and easy manner, and this when taking into consideration the method of making and using neckerchiefs of the usual design now worn at the present time. Although the neckerchief can be tied about the wearers neck in the usual way, said neckerchief is preferably to be used in association with our improved display knot, as covered in our application herein referred to above, namely, Serial No. 495,340, filed July 19, 1943.

An object of the invention is to provide a neckerc'nief which is preformed and so fashioned as to bring about a marked saving in the amount of material used for making the same, and at the same time provide sufficient material in folded form to be properly and neatly draped about the wearers neck.

Another object of the invention resides in providing a neckerchief of this general character and with a minimum number of folds to be pressed.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the improved method and combinations as set forth in the claims, and all equivalents thereof.

In the accompanying drawing in which the same reference characters indicate the same parts in all of the views;

Fig. 1 represents one face of a piece of material from which the strip is cut for forming the neckerchief, and indicating thereon several strips and the lines of fold therefor;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of our improved neckerchief when properly draped through our improved display knot to which reference has been made herein;

Fig. 3 is a face view of the neckerchief in its completed fashioned form; and

Fig. 4 is a cross sectional view of the neckerchief showing the several folds thereof.

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawing, it will appear that the improved method of producing a fashioned neckerchief of the character herein disclosed, comprises the following steps to be now set forth in detail:

- In this connection the neckerchief of the present invention is fashioned from a piece of material, such as rayon or the like, and the novelty resides in cutting a strip ll] of this material on the bias from the running yards of said material as it comes from the roll l4 (see Fig. 1), and thus providing a strip which has maximum length, said strip being cut to a width requiring a minimum number of folds to produce a finished neckerchief of the usual width for wear, and the material also being out along the line H) to provide the pointed ends for said neckerchief strip. This strip is folded upon itself along a medium longitudinal line H, after which said strip is pressed along said line, and then the folded strip is again folded upon itself along two parallel longitudinal lines l2 of approximately equal distances apart and from the edges of said folded strip, the material of said strip containing the medium line fold I l overlapping the material of said strip containing the free longitudinal edges of said strip, and the said strip again being pressed along these parallel lines.

The only additional step in the method of fashioning the finished neckerchief is the final step of sewing the several folds together at a point or points indicated at I3 midway the ends of the strip or finished neckerchief, the stitches at the point of points 13 serving to retain the neckerchief in proper condition, and with the folds thereof properly in position, to be draped about the wearers neck.

It will therefore be seen that by the method just set forth for the fashioning of a neckerchief of the character disclosed, there are a minimum number of folds to be pressed in the fashioning of the neckerchief, and in the pressing of the same after being cleaned or washed, whereby considerable saving in time and labor in keeping the neckerchief in proper condition for wear is brought about. At the same time, however, sumcient material is provided in the folded strip to bring about a neat flowing and properly draped neckerchief.

On the other hand, however, neckerchiefs issued to enlisted men in the U. S. Navy are usually fashioned from a piece of rayon one yard square. To form this into a neckerchief tie, this piece of material must be folded in half diagonally and the diagonal crease pressed. Then the points of the neckerchief opposite the diagonal crease are folded about two inches back toward the diagonal crease and the new fold is then pressed down. This process of folding and pressing is then repeated some nine or ten times until the last fold meets the first diagonal fold. It will therefore be seen that this last mentioned process of folding and pressing results in a long and tedious operation untilthe neckerchief is in its final condition for use, and the present invention obviates this tedious and unnecessary method, and thus a saving in the work necessary to keep the neckerchief in proper condition for wear in so far as time and labor are concerned.

It is also Well to note at this point that the discarded pieces of material from the roll of vmaterial from which our improved neckerchief strips are cut (as indicated for instance at [5 and I6 in the drawing), are not wasted, as these pieces are used in the making of the improved square knot which is preferably worn with said neckerchief as pointed out herein, which square knot invention is claimed in our copending application herein .notedand of which the present aplication is a division.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1, The method .of fashioning aneckerchi f with flowing ends, which consists in providing a strip of material of proper length to produce the finished product, said strip cut to a width to receive a number of longitudinal folds to produce a neckerchief of the usual width, first folding said strip along a medium longitudinal line, and then folding said folded strip upon itself along two parallel longitudinal lines dividing the original strip into six substantially equal widths to provide at least six thicknesses of material throughout the full width of the neckerchief, both free longitudinal edges lying adjacent one another, and the medium line fold and one of the parallel line folds constituting one longitudinal edge of the neckerchief with the other parallel line fold constituting the other longitudinal edge thereof.

'2. The method of fashioning a neckerchief with flowing ends, which consists in cutting a strip of material on the bias to form a strip of maximum length to produce the finished product, said strip cut to a width to receive a number of longitudinal folds to produce a neckerchief of the usual width, first folding said strip along a medium longitudinal line, and then folding said folded strip upon itself along two parallel longitudinal lines dividing the, original strip into six substantially equal widths, and with the material of said folded strip containing the medium line fold overlapping the material of said strip containing the free longitudinal edges of the original strip, the medium line .fold and one of the parallel line folds constituting one longitudinal edge of the neckerchief with the other parallel line fold constituting the other longitudinal edge thereof.

GEORGE WIPPER. VIVIEN FRANCIS WJPPER.

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