US88239A - Improvement in neck-tie retainers - Google Patents

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v forni orconstructiouofthelretainer.

parts.

other like article of wear, lthe use or more prominent 'object of which is to conceal'the button or stud to collar there meeting, and to forni an ornament at such sl1aped'plate,ha\'ing anydcsired `emblem or ornament possess the necessary elasticity iu itself to pcrinit'of. its receiving the lbut-ton between said clip and catch,

and close 'o'ver thelatlter, or the clip may be hinged -t-o e Wholly of metal it maybe got up cheap, and the shield.

lice-t d Stimuli @met 'it t c Letters Patent No; 88,239,

dated Mit/rolt 23, 1869; antedatedMzvrch 15, 1869.

vnvxprubvzilvir:NT 1N NECK-TIE RETAINERS.

f i i The Schedule referred` tom these Letters Patent and making part of the Inmo.

To all heh-omit may concern 'Be it known that I, JAMES VARLEY, of ,Hudson City, lin the county'of Hudson, and State of'-New Jer'- sey, have invented a new, and useful' Neck- Tie 1tetainer, of which the following is a full,- clear, and exact description, reference being h ad to' the accompauying drawing, forming part of this specification,l and in whichf Figure I represents a front vi'ew of a retainer, constructed in accordance with my invention; Figure 2, a back viewof the same; and Figure 3, a tlansvcrse section. Figures4, 5, and (i are similarviews of a modifiedV Similar letters ot' reference indicate corresponding This, my invention, relates to a spring-collar brooch, 'designed as a substitute for, or retainer of a neck-tie, or

which tbecollar vis fastened in tron-t, also ends of the My invention consists in a shield -or'oth'cr fancifullyiipon it, or it maybe plain, or, instead of a plate, an ordinary brooch or brooch-face piece, such portion, or device carrying, or having united to it, at its back, a `spring, or yielding ueclcclip, slotted to receive the shank of the bnttonn' stud-stitching, which unites the button to the garment, for action in concert with a-catch, or projection on the rear face of the shield, or its equi 7aient, arranged to. hold or lap over the edge ofthe but-ton after the salnelias been entered by said slot receiving its shank between the shield In thus speaking of a spring, or yielding neck-clip, i it should be understood that the same may either be iixedlyunited to the broochiiwe piece', or shield, as to and ati/er the catch has passed the button, t o .spring to the shield, and be acted i'ipon'by an independent spring to thus operate.

When this spring-collar, or neck-tie retainer is made or platelin front be.ornamentcdwith the insignia of any particular order, or society, the saine, too, being more dniable than a neck-.tie or other like article of res-s.

`l15aving thus specified at largev the character and pecularity of niy invention, the following continuons descriptiop, with reference to the accompanying drawing, will sutiice to explain howr'the'saine is or inay be 'carried out'and applied. Thus, referring,-in the 3, of the drawingv A is the shield, or brooch-face piece, and

B, 'the spring, or yielding neck-clip, formed of curved 'side arms au, body part b, slotted-as at c, and united,

by an upwardl -extending elastic arm or leg, d, to the back of the shield, near its top, as at e, where there is fa fixed catch, ortoothedprojection, f, arranged in line' with the slot c. This' Incdeofattachment and construction of fthe clip gives an elastic character to the latter, which allowsof the buttonl heilig received between it and the catch, and of the brooch 'being slid upward, so as to passthe catch above the button, the slot c in the clip receiving the shank of the button, or

that which fis equivalent thereto, and after the broochhas been thus adjusted, the yielding neck-clipallowed to spring back,-or close toward thc shie ld, or latterV toward the clip, to shoot "thecatch, or projection f over the button, and so, in connection with the slotted portion embracing the shank of the button, to securely hold it from falling, or slippingoli thehutton;

In figs. 4, 5, 'and 6 ofthe drawing, the neck-clip B, s ixnilarly'formed of side 'arms twg, andl body-part b, with slot c inrit, is hinged, as at g, tothe shield A, and closed against or toward the-latter byan independent spring, It, or projection j', as in the former case,`tl`1e independent spring htaking the place of the elastic arm or leg d.

What is hereclaimed, and desired to besectu'ed by 'Letters Patent, is:-

l.' Aneckftieretainer, formed of a shield or broochface piece A', and yielding neck-clip B, composed of curved arins u. a, and bodygb, having a slot, c, in "it, in combination with a catch, or projection, j, in real-of the 'shield or brooch-face piece, for operation together,

irst instance, to ligs. 1, 2, and

for operation in connection `with the catch

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