US91153A - Improvement in neck-tie retainers - Google Patents

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'id-nitrati, gisten PORTER C.. MOLTON, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 91,153, dated June S, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT I NECK-TIE RETAINERS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

To all whom 'it v'wuz/y concern:

, Beit known that I, PORTER O. MoULToN, of New i Haven, county of New Haven, and State of Connecticnt, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Neck-Tie Holder; and I do hereby decare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to tbe letters, of reference marked thereon. Said drawingsconstitute part of this specification, and represent in- Y Figure 1, a front View Vof my improvement, attached to the bow, and in its proper position upon the collar;

Figure 2, a top view ,showing the method of attaching the same to the collar; in Figure 3, a back view of my improved holder, de- Ytached from the collar; and in Figure 4, a top view of the same. Similar letters of reference, when they occnrin the separate views, indieatelike parts.

My invention relates to an improvement in a device for holding a bow, or neck-tie, to the collar, and consists in placing upon the back of said bow, or tie, two steel springs, or their equivalents, held together in the centre, making a clasp at each end, within which` the ends of the collar are inserted and retained.

The object of my invention is to produce a neck-tie holder which may be easily adjusted, andone that is not liable to be accidentally removed from the collar.

In the common Inodel of attaching neck-ties, es-

` pecially where an elastic cord is used, the said'cord very soon wears or stretches ont, and becomes unfit forV use; and in cases where the-tie is held by means of a Wire, or other spring over the button, the objection is, that, it is very liable to cnt the button from the shirt, and thus render its use very inconvenient. In my invention all this is avoided, the tie being i held in any position upon the collar, where it may be placed, without any extra wear, and without any danger of its becoming accidentally detached.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my improvement, I will, proceed to describe the same.

A is a bow, or neck-tie, which is held securely upon aplate, B. This plate B is made suciently long to extend across the opening between the two edges of the collar, when the said collar is upon the neck.

Pivoted to', or otherwise fastened upon the said plate B, another plate or spring, C, is placed, which is made a little shorter than the plate B, to allow the thumbs of each hand to be placed upon the said plate without interfering with the plate C.

The object of this spring-plate C is to clasp the edges of the collar between it and the outer plate B.

In placing the tie, or bow, upon the collar, the thumbbf each hand is placed upon the ends of the spring-B, and by curving it forward, as shown in fig. 2, the two ends of the plates B and C are opened or separated snilciently to allow the edges of the collar to pass between them; this brings the plate or spring C upon the inside, and the plate or spring B upon the outside.

When the bow is in proper position upon the collar, the ends of the spriug'B are released, and the two edges of the collar are grasped between the two springs, which will continue their'hold upon the co1- lar, as before described, until the same operation is gone through with to release them.

lhe inner surfaces of the springs may he ronghened, in order to still further guard against their slipping from the collar; but I do not consider this as essential.

Having thus fully described my invention,

What I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with a neck-tie, the retainer, con` sistingof a supportingplate, B, and a spring, C, between the outer ends of which the edges of the collar are clasped, and the neck-tie held in position, substantially as shown and described.

PORTER O. MOUL'ION.

Witnesses:

JAMES W. MonLroN, Burns H. SANFORD.

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