US2739313A - Knot fold guiding necktie - Google Patents

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March 27, 1956 L. P. BURTON 2,739,313

KNOT FOLD GUIDING NECKTIE Filed Oct. 8. 1954 72 5. l8 l2 ll n V II l2 k w l l 25 B F .j I .4. |3- j J United States Patent KNDT FOLD GUIDING NECKTIE Linwood P. Burton, Brooklyn, N. Y., assignor to Gladys E. Johnson, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Application October 8, 1954, Serial No. 461,128

4 Claims. (Cl. 2146) This invention relates to an improved four-in-hand necktie, and one of its objects is to provide an attractive balanced V-shaped or triangular knot, which can be tied to prevent slipping, so that the original setting of the necktie will remain throughout the day to improve the appearance of the wearer.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a four-in-hand necktie with preformed side edges which automatically center the fold lines of the knot forming area of the tie, so that a neat V-shaped or triangular shaped knot may be formed, with both ends of the tie disposed in a common plane, one behind the other, so that only the wider front wing of the tie will be observed in looking at the wearer of the tie.

A furt er object of the invention is to provide a fourin-hand necktie with diagonal side edge recesses on opposite sides of the knot forming zone of the tie, so that centered formation of the tie knot is made possible to an unskilled person, and the two ends of the folded and knotted tie will neatly meet at a common level, with the narrower end or wing concealed behind the wider front end or wing.

A still further object of the invention is the construction of a four-in-hand necktie with means for locating the starting fold to make the tie knot, so that a V-shaped or trianguluar knot will be produced by the conventional interlooping of the necktie band, and the resulting knot will be neat and well balanced along its upper and bottom edges and guessing and time consuming experimenting will be avoided.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a tie of the four-in-hand type with guides formed on the opposite side edges of the tie band, which will enable any unskilled person to correctly fold and loop the tie band to provide a neat V-shaped or triangular knot with ends in equal level positions.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention comprises certain new and useful constructions, combinations and arrangements of parts, clearly described in the following specification and fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a front view showing the tie in its completed condition on a person.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the tie, enlarged, showing the knot forming area of the wider front wing of the tie.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the entire tie, on a reduced scale.

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary plan view of the knot forming area of the tie, showing a modified fold guiding construction.

Fig. 5 is a front view of the completed V-shaped or triangular knot, with the neck band of the tie and the front wing of the tie shown broken away for convenience.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view, on a reduced scale, showing how the knot forming operation is started against the recessed fold guides of the knot forming area of the tie.

Fig. 7' is a similar view showing the next step of forming the tie knot.

Fig. 8 is a similar view showing the third step of forming the tie knot.

Fig. 9 is a similar view showing the final step of looping the front wing of the tie hand through the previously formed loop to complete the dress tie knot.

Many persons experience considerable ditficulty in making neat dress knots in conventional four-in-hand neckties, and make repeated trials before forming a knot which will be acceptable.

They find that an acceptable knot may be formed but that the narrower rear end of the tie may hand well below the wider front end, giving the appearance of careless dress to women and men friends, and lowering one end of the tie well below the level of the belt line.

Various efforts have been made to simplify the knot forming operation, so that uniform results would be obtained in forming the dress knot, but none of these efforts have been accepted as providing the necessary solution for this difiicult problem.

To solve this problem of making neat tie knots and to arrange that the draped ends of the tie will be in a common level position, I have designed a tie finished to produce self contained guides for starting the knot folding operation, which will remain at all times regardless of the number of times the knot is formed, and which will not produce any undesirable bulging of the completed knot, no forms being added to the tie to determine the knot formation.

Referring to the drawing, which illustrates the practical embodiment of my invention, It designates the body of the four-in-hand necktie, which is made up of the wider front wing 11, the neck band section or portion 12, and the narrower rear wing 13 of the tie.

The knot forming area of the tie is between the neck band portion and area and the wider front Wing of the tie, at 14. The conventional practice of tie design and manufacture is to produce neckties with diagonal or tapered side edges extending along the sides of the knot area 14.

In the construction of the four-in-hand necktie embodiment of my invention, a diagonal recess or fold guide 15 is formed on one side of the tie, and a similar diagonal recess or fold guide 16 is formed on the opposite side of the tie, but at a diagonally lower level.

Each recess or fold guide comprises a main diagonal edge 17, and a short diagonal or transverse edge 18, disposed at a sharp angle to the diagonal edge 17. The long diagonal edge 17 of the fold guide 15 extends from the outer edge 19 of the tie upwardly and inwardly to join with the short diagonal edge thereof. The long diagonal edge of the fold guide 16 extends downwardly from the outer edge 20 of the tie and inwardly to join with the short diagonal edge of said fold guide.

The lower and outer portion of the long diagonal edge of the fold guide 15 projects into a common plane with the upper and outer portion of the long diagonal edge of'the fold guide 16, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

In Figs. 2 and 3 the long and short diagonal edges of each fold guide recess meet at a sharp corner angle, but in Fig. 4 I show concave curved edges forming the meeting lines of the long and short diagonal edges of the fold guide recesses, at 21 and 22.

In both cases the longitudinal edges of the necktie in the knot forming area 14 thereof, are cut-away or inset, to provide loop fold lines 23 and 24, diagonally across the nectie'band, so that the inset fold guide edges become the top and bottom edges of the tie knot when it is completed.

The dress knot 25 of the tie is of neat V-shaped or triangular shape, and the adjacent upper portion of the wider front wing of the tie form decorative folds at 26, which add to the appeal of the completed dress knot The design of the knot forming guides is such that the user is induced to start the looping of the tie only along the diagonal fold guides, so that equal edges will appear at the top and bottom of the knot. When this is done the ends of the tie will drape to a common level, with the narrower rear wing of the tie neatly concealed behind the wider dress or front wing of the tie.

No additional material is used in carrying out the invention, the tie itself providing the necessary fold guides and these guides disappear in the final formation of the dress knot of the tie.

In forming the dress knot the tie is placed around the neck within the collar of the shirt, in the usual manner, and the wider front wing of the tie is placed across the narrower rear wing of the tie, so that the diagonal fold guide edges will be aligned to the longitudinal side edges of the narrower rear wing of the tie. The front Wing is then wound around the narrower rear wing, so that the diagonal fold edges of the front wing will be crosswise of the narrower rear tie wing, and the front wing is then looped through this basic loop formed around the rear tie wing, and is extended downward to a frontal display position in advance of the draped rear wing. By tightening the neck band the knot is closed so that the diagonal side edges of the tie appear at the top and bottom of the completed knot, with nothing to reveal their functional use in the formation of the finished knot.

Due to the fact that the diagonal fold guides are located in calculated distances from the ends of the tie, the front and rear wings of the tie, which drape below the triangular or V-shaped knot so formed, will be balanced, with their lower ends in a common horizontal plane, and the narrower rear wing fully concealed behind the dress front tie wing.

When the dress knot is finally formed the area of the flexible band of the tie between the long diagonal edges of the fold guiding recesses is established as the front wall of the dress knot, with one of these diagonal side edges constituting the upper edge of this front wall of the knot and the other diagonal side edge constituting the lower edge of this front wall.

By locating one short diagonal or transverse edge 18 opposite the outermost end of the longitudinal edge 17 of one inset recess, and locating the other short or diagonal or transverse edge 18 opposite the outermost end of the other inset recess, the dress wing of the tie is confined between these transverse recess edges, and thus held against longitudinal shifting when being knotted, so that a neat tie knot is formed, with the length of the knot modified by the longitudinal side edges of the inset recesses.

With the dress knot thus formed and established both ends of the tie band will drape in balanced relation to each other and the shirt of the wearer, with both ends disposed in a common horizontal level or plane, one behind the other.

Having described my invention I claim as patentable:

1. A four-in-hand necktie, comprising a flexible band formed with a front dress wing and a rear wing and a connecting neck band, the front dress wing having an inset recess on each side thereof having L-shaped outer .4 edges providing long diagonal longitudinal side edges for the recesses and short diagonal shoulders therefor, the short diagonal shoulder of one recess being located in opposition to the outermost end of the long diagonal side edge of the other recess and spaced longitudinally thereof, the longitudinal side edges of the recesses being disposed in approximate parallel relation to each other, the dress knot being formed by winding the dress wing around the other wing with the inset recesses forming guides for the development of the dress knot, with said diagonal longitudinal side edges forming the top and bottom edges of the completed dress knot.

2. A four-in-hand necktie, comprising a flexible band having a neckband portion and pendant wings outwardly theseof, one of the pendant wings having an inset recess on one longitudinal edge thereof, said inset recess having a longitudinal edge disposed in diagonal relation to the length of the flexible band and extending from the side edge of the band inwardly and provided with a minor edge portion disposed in diagonal relation to said longitudinal edge, and thereby providing a recess increasing in depth from one end thereof to the other end of the recess, the dress knot of the tie being formed by wrapping said wing with said inset recess around the other wing, so that the recessed wing will engage said diagonal edges when fully wrapped around the other wing and itself, whereby the longitudinal edge of said recess will form one end of the completed dress knot of said four-in-hand necktie.

3. The construction set forth in claim 2, said pendant wing having an inset recess on each of its longitudinal edges, the short diagonal edge of one such recess being located in opposition to the outer end of the longitudinal edge of the other recess and advanced longitudinally thereof, whereby one longitudinal edge of one inset recess will form one end of the dress knot when it is formed and the other longitudinal edge of the other recess will form the other end of the dress knot when formed.

4. A four-in-hand necktie, comprising a flexible band having a front dress wing and a rear pendant wing and a connecting neckband portion, the front dress wing having an inset recess on each side thereof, each recess being of approximate L-shaped form to provide a longitudinal edge and a transverse edge, the longitudinal edge of the recess starting at the longitudinal edge of the band and extending diagonally inwards and the length of the transverse edge limiting the maximum depth of the recess, the transverse edge of one inset recess being located in diagonal relation to the outer end of the longitudinal edge of the opposite inset recess, whereby each transverse recess edge forms a guide for controlling the location of the dress knot and to prevent endwise displacement of the dress knot formed by wrapping the dress wing around the other wing and against said longitudinal recess edges, said longitudinal recess edges forming the upper and lower ends of the dress knot when completed.

References Cited in the tile of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 599,177 Guild Feb. 15, 1898 1,917,651 Krakower July 11, 1933 2,153,683 Walsh Apr. 11, 1939 2,679,050 Dzus May 25, 1954

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