US2890509A - Necktie clasp - Google Patents

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June 16, 1959 Lw. c. Bonjrs n 2,890,509

NECKTIE CLASP Filed July 3. 195s IN VEN TOR.

am 1 am@ United States Patat O NECKTIE CLASP William C. Boots, Rumford, 'R.I., assignor to Foster Metal Products, Incorporated, Attleboro, Mass., a corporation of Massachusetts Application `uly 3, 1956, Serial No. 595,708

1 Claim. (Cl. 24-49) This invention comprises a necktie clasp having new and improved structural and ornamental features and also a novel sort of action in use.

One of its features is a chain fast at one end to a part of the clasp, arranged to span the necktie, pass freely through an eye or hook and being provided at its free end with an ornament of sufficient weight to draw the chain into horizontal posi-tion when the clasp is in operative position. 'Ihis construction not only provides automatic adjustment of the clasp to neckties of various width but insures the particularly neat appearance of the wearer in that the ornamental weight tends to draw the chain taut and hold it in horizontal position instead of allowing it to sag in a discouraged loop as heretofore.

The eye may be closed or open in the form of a hook and in the latter case the chain may be slipped into the open eye at an intermediate point in its length instead of requiring threading of the necktie through the clasp as a whole.

The invention includes within its scope various details of construction by which the desired results are secured and the clasp may be produced by the most eiiicient manufacturing processes.

These and other features of the invention will be best understood and appreciated from the following description of a preferred embodiment thereof selected for purposes of illustration and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a front view of the clasp shown in operative position on the garments of the wearer and on a somewhat enlarged scale,

Fig. 2 is a top view showing the necktie in section,

Fig. 3 is also a front View of the clasp, and

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view showing an eye of closed shape.

The clasp as herein shown comprises a flat main bar 5 having at its left end an inwardly directed U-bend 11 and at its right end an outwardly directed U-bend 12. The bend 11 is extended inwardly into a short clamp and carrying arm upon which is pivotally mounted a clamp 2,890,509 Patented .lune 16, 1959 ice 13 carrying a corrugated plate or foot 14. This may be of the construction disclosed and claimed in my prior Patent No. 2,723,429, dated Nov. l5, 1955, although its shape is of secondary importance.

The bend 12 is extended inwardly into an eye-carrying arm having an open or hook-shaped eye 1S at the free end and this is turned inwardly and so concealed in wear. As already explained the eye 15 may be of open shape or it may be closed like the eye 15' of Fig. 4. It will be seen that the main bar 10 with its U-bends, the clampcarrying arm, the eye-carrying arm and the eye may all be formed from a single continuous length of metal plated or ornamented as desired.

A light flexible chain 16 is fastened at one end to the clasp, preferably by means of an ear located at or near the inwardly directed U-bend 1l at the left end of the bar 10. An ornamental weight, herein shown as an anchor 17, is attached to the free end of the chain and this of course may be of any desired design such as a Masonic emblem or fraternity insignia.

The clasp may be placed in operative position by lift ing the clamp foot 14 and slipping it with the clampcarrying arm inside the shirt of the wearer, then passing the chain 16 about the necktie 18 and looping it through the eye 15. The weight of the anchor 17 now acts to draw the chain into the horizontal position shown in Fig. 1 and hold it there and at the same time accommodating itself to the width of the necktie it is holding in place.

Having thus disclosed my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A necktie clasp including in its structure an elongated bar disposed horizontally when the clasp is in operative position and having an outwardly directed bend at one end and an inwardly directed bend at the other end, the inwardly directed bend being extended into a clampcarrying arm and the outwardly directed bend being provided with an eye, a chain fast at one end to the inwardly directed bend and passing freely through the said eye, and a weight on the free end of the chain effective to maintain a portion of the chain between said one end and said eye substantially horizontal when in operative position.

References Cited in the iile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS D. 96,880 Woolnough Sept. 10, 1935 2,031,004 Pollack Feb. 18, 1936 2,192,379 Ingleby Mar. 5, 1940 2,528,527 Lavanish Nov. 7, 1950 FOREIGN PATENTS 678,888 Great Britain Sept. 10, 1952

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