US258336A - Collar-button and cravat-fastener - Google Patents

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3. WILLIAMS. COLLAR BUTTON AND URAVAT FASTENER- Patented May 28, 1882.

UNITED STATES ATEN'I Fries.

SYLVESTER M. WILLIAMS, or SAN FRANCISCO, onmronum.

COLLAR-BUTTON AND CRAVAT- FASTE'NER.

LSPEGIFIGAI'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 258,336, dated May 23, 1882.

Application filed March as, 1882. (No model.)

, To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SYLVESTER M. WIL- LIAMS, of San Francisco, county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improved Combined Collar-Button and Oravat Attachment; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to a combined collarbutton and cravat attachment; and it con sists in a peculiarly-constructed button having a flat head and a wide thin shank provided with a hole, said shank being adapted to pass through the button-hole in the shirt, through the holes in the collar, and into a slot or aperture in the back stiffening of the cravat or scarf, and to engage with a peculiar spring upon the other side of the stiffening, whereby 'itfis held in the shirt and the cravat supported.

The object of my invention is to provide aready means for attaching and supporting the cravat to the shirt, and at the same time to fasten the collar, all of which will hereinafter fully appear, reference being made to the accompanying drawings.

Figure lis a view of a shirt-band. Fig. 2 is aview of a collara Fig.3 shows front and back View of the button. Fig. 4 shows the shape of metal for making the button. Fig.5 shows the manner of forming the button. Figs. 6 and 7 are front and back views of the fastening device on the cravat.

Let A represent a portion of a shirt-front, showing the collar-band, with the usual front button-hole, a.

B represents the collar, showing its ends with their button-holes b. V

0 represents the collar-button. This consists of a fiat head or disk and a thin wide shank, c, in which is a hole, 0. This button, for the sake of economy, I make from a strip of metal of the shape shown in Fig. 4. This strip is cut out bya die, and is bent at the middle, the rounded ends being turned at right angles and forming the head of the button, while the central portion of the strip forms the shank. The small cars m at one end of the strip fold over into notches m at the other end, and thus hold the two sides together. The button thus made is cheap and efiective, and

may be easily inserted without danger of tearing the button-holes.

Let D represent the back stiifening of a eta vat, such as is usually found in scarfs. At the top center, upon the back of it, is a small plate, 01, havinga slot or aperture, d, which extends through the stiffening.

Upon the front side of the stiffening is a plate, E, having a vertical guide-socket, 0, above and below the slot d.

F is a spring-wire, one end of which is sharpened and extends outwardly, forming a pin. It extends upwardly through a guide-socket in the plate E, and thence curves around and passes a little above the top edge of the stiffener, which is cut away a little to allow it to be pressed down, thence downwardlythrough a guide, and to one side and upwardly through theguide-soeketeandacrosstheslotd. Itseud is beveled to allow the button to be pressed in.

By pressing down the top of the spring F, which passes above the cravat for this purpose, its end is pressed downward in the guidesocket 0, having the slot (1 free and open. The cravat being held in position in front of the shirt, the shank of the collar-button is passed from behind through the shirt-hole, collarholes, and through the slot d. The spring F, after the shank passes, rises in the socket e and passes through the hole cin the shank of the button. This engagement of the button and spring holds the button in place, thus securing the collar, and also furnishes a support for the cravat.

To remove the cravat, the spring is pressed down on top and the button released, when the cravat may be slipped off.

The sharpened end of the spring F serves the same purpose as the pin upon ordinary scarfs when for any reason a band is passed about the neck.

The device is simple and is not likely to get out of order. The readiness with which it can be inserted and removed and the security it affords are its advantages.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The collar-button and necktie-fastener having the button 0, provided with an apertured flat shank, 0, combined with the spring F, having an L-shaped arm, and the plate E, having a central slot, and above and below said slot a guide-socket, e, substantially as and 3. The collar-button O, constructed ofa piece or strip of metal having rounded ends and ears m, and notches m, said strip being folded at the middle, its body forming the flat wide shank c, in which a hole, 0, is punched, and its rounded ends turned at right angles, forming the head of said button, substantially as here- 20 in described.

In witness whereof I hereto set my hand. SYLVESTER M. WILLIAMS. Witnesses:

G. D. COLE, J. H. BLOOD.

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