US3225358A - Article of neckwear with suspended ornament - Google Patents

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Dec. 28, 1965 L. L. LESS 3,225,358

ARTICLE OF NECKWEAR WITH SUSPENDED ORNAMENT Original Filed Oct. 4, 1962 INYENTOR. LOUIS L. Less ATTORNEY 5' United States Patent 3,225,358 ARTICLE OF NECKWEAR WITH SUSPENDED ORNAMENT Louis L. Less, Clinton, Iowa, assignor to One-in-Hand Tie Company, Clinton, Iowa, a partnership of Iowa Original application Oct. 4, 1962, Ser. No. 228,378, now

Patent No. 3,167,784, dated Feb. 2, 1965. Divided and this application May 20, 1964, Ser. No. 379,773

2 Claims. (Cl. 2-150) This invention relates to neckwear, and more particularly to neckties having ornaments depending from them. This application is a division of my copending application Serial No. 228,378, filed October 4, 1962, now Patent 3,167,784, issued February 2, 1965.

An object of this invention is to provide articles of neckwear which have a new and unusual appearance.

A further object of the invention is to provide such articles of neckwear which are convertible, and may be Worn in a number of difierent Ways, each presenting a different appearance. A still further object is to provide an easy method of making the neckwear of the invention.

The invention may be understood by reference to the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the drawings, which form a part of the specification, and in which:

FIG. 1 is a front view of the torso of a person wearing an article of neckwear constructed in accordance with one embodiment of this invention, illustrating the general appearance of the article of neckwear when worn;

FIG. 2 is a front elevation of an article of neckwear constructed in accordance with one embodiment of this invention, and comprising a short, pre tied necktie with a detachable ornament;

FIG. 3 is a rear elevation of a portion of the neckwear shown in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a front elevation of a portion of the neckwear shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, with the ornament removed;

FIG. 5 is a rear elevation of that portion of the neckwear shown in FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a front elevation of a portion of the neckwear of the embodiment shown in FIG. 2, with the ornament removed and with the end of the necktie arranged in a slightly different fashion than shown in FIGS. 4 and 5;

FIG. 7 is a rear elevation of that portion of the embodiment shown in FIG. 6;

FIG. 8 is a rear elevation of a portion of another embodiment of the neckwear of this invention, in which the necktie has no tail;

FIG. 9 is a rear elevation of a portion of the embodiment shown in FIG. 8, with an ornament attached thereto;

FIG. 10 is a front elevational view of another embodiment of neckwear in accordance with this invention; and

FIG. 11 is a side elevational view of the embodiment shown in FIG. 10, with the ornament removed.

FIG. 1 illustrates the overall appearance created by the neckwear embodiment of FIGS. 2-7 when worn in the manner shown in FIGS. 2 and 3. The neckwear comprises two parts: A shorty tie portion and an ornament 21 depending from its end. The novel nad unusual appearance of the neckwear of this embodiment is due both to the shortness of the tie and to the ornament depending from the end of it. While conventional ties have varying lengths, they customarily eXtend from the neck of the wearer down to a point close to the top of his pants (or the top of his belt). There are various shorty type ties on the market, but these are invariably of the string type; that is, they are customarily constructed of a very thin or string-like material, and do not use a conventional knot. They are clearly distinguishable and not at all related to, the conventional four-inhand tie. The tie portion of the neckwear of this and many of the other embodiments of this invention, on the contrary, provides a knot and depending tie portion which is identical in appearance to the conventional fourin-hand tie in every respect save for its length. The unique appearance is obtained by making the length of the tie, from the top of the knot (which is normally the same as the top of a collar of the wearer) to the bottom of the depending portion, susbtantially less than half the distance from the top of the collar to the top of the pants (or top of the belt) of a normal adult wearer. inches.

Referring now to FIGS. 2-7, the neckwear embodiment shown therein may be seen to comprise a tie having a knot 22 and a depending portion comprising a front portion 23 and a tail 24. The tie may conveniently be of the ready-tied type shown in FIG. 2, formed upon a knot forming device 25, although it may be of the conventional self-tied type as well. However, the relatively accurate positioning of the ends of front portion 23 and tail 24 with respect to each other required for attachment of ornament 21 make the use of the ready-tied type more convenient.

Ornament 21 (FIGS. 2 and 3) comprises a medallion 26 and a tie-attaching loop 27, attached to it. Medallion 26 may be of any desired ornamental configuration, as it comprises that portion of ornament 21 designed to be displayed.

Since the particular configuration of knot forming device 25 or of knot 22 forms no part of this invention insofar as it relates to neckwear structures, the knot and the knot forming device have been omitted from FIG. 3 and most of the other figures. As may be best seen in FIG. 3, front portion 23 is of conventional width, having two generally parallel sides 28. Toward the bottom end of front portion 23, generally parallel sides 28 merge into converging sides 29 (FIGS. 3 and 4) which meet in a point. Similarly, tail 24 has generally parallel sides 32 ending in merging sides 33 which meet in a point. Tail 24 may be slightly narrower than front portion 23, as shown in FIGS. 2-7, or it may be of substantially the same width, but in either case it is adapted to completely underlie front portion 23 in the same manner as the tail of a conventional four-in-hand tie. Ornament 21 may be attached to the end of the tie, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, by bringing the pointed end of front portion 23 upward and to the rear, passing it through loop 27, and attaching it to the bottom of tail 24. The ends of front portion 23 and tail 24 are attached in the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, by a snap 34. As may be seen in FIG. 5, where the ornament has been removed, snap 34 comprises two halves, 35 and 36, with the former being attached to the rear of front portion 23 adjacent to the pointed end thereof and the latter similarly attached to the rear of tail 24 adjacent to its pointed end.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, the width of loop 27 is less than the width of front portion 23 of the tie, and therefore the inside of loop 27 is engaged by converging sides 29 and supported thereby, resulting in the tieengaging loop 27 being pulled up somewhat behind front portion 23 (as viewed from the front in FIG. 2) so that only a small portion of it is in view, presenting a neat appearance. Alternatively, loop 27 could be sufiiciently wide so that it would be supported, instead of by converging sides 29, by the fold formed at the bottom of front portion 23 by the turned-up end.

The versatility of this neckwear embodiment is illus- The length may typically be about five or six trated by the two optional methods of wear shown in FIGS. 2 and 5, and in FIGS. 6 and 7, respectively. FIGS. 4 and 5 show front and rear views, respectively, in which the ornament has been removed, snap 34 opened, and the tie is worn with pointed ends, differing from a conventional pointed-end four-in-hand type tie only in its short length. In FIG. 5, dotted line 37 illustrates the line along which front portion 23 is folded when its end is brought upwardly and to the rear and snap-fastened to tail 24.

FIGS. 6 and 7 are front and rear views, respectively, of this neckwear embodiment worn in yet another fashion. The ornament 21 has been removed, and the tie portion is worn with front 23 and tail 24 snapped together, resulting in a squared-01f end.

Thus, it will be seen that the neckwear embodiment shown in FIGS. 2 through 7 is highly versatile, capable of being worn so as to provide three separate and distinct appearances. The snap-engaging feature, in addition to providing support for ornament 21 and permitting alternatively a pointed or squared-off end, is also adapted, when the snaps are engaged, to maintain the alignment of the front and tail portions of the tie, preserving a neat appearance.

FIGS. 8 and 9 illustrate a neckwear embodiment in which the tie portion is of short length, as is the embodiment of FIGS. 2-7, and comprises only a single depending portion 40, withno tail; and which may be worn either with or without an attached ornament. Depending portion may be of conventional tubular construction, having a seam 41 running vertically down the back and having roughly parallel sides 42 which merge near the bottom of the tie into converging sides 43, which form a point at the bottom of the tie. Upper and lower halves 44 and 45, respectively, of a snap fastener 46 are attached to the rear of tie portion 40. The upper snap half 44 is shown in FIG. 8 attached at the junction of the bottom of seam 41 where it meets diverging edges 47 which connect with sides 42. The lower half of snap 46 is attached to the rear of depending portion 40 adjacent to the point formed by converging sides 43. This tie may be worn as shown in FIG. 8, without an attached ornament and with the snap unfastened; in which case its appearance from the front will be identical to that of the embodiment shown in FIG. 4.

The tie shown in FIG. 8 may also be worn without an attached ornament by folding the bottom of depending portion 40 up and to the rear and fastening the two halves 44 and 45 of snap 46. This transforms it into a square-ended tie, the appearance of which from the front is identical to the embodiment shown in FIG. 6.

The tie of FIG. 8 may also be worn with an attached ornament, as shown in the rear elevational view of FIG. 9. Note that the method of attachment of the ornament to the tie in FIG. 9 is similar to the attachment of ornament 21 to the tie, as shown in FIG. 3. However, in FIG. 9, the tie is shown in combination with an ornament having a silghtly different configuration of tie-attaching means than loop 27 of ornament 21, as shown in FIG. 3. The ornament of FIG. 9 comprises a medallion 51 to which is attached a tie-attaching loop 52 comprising a horizontally disposed bar-like portion 53 attached to the rear of medallion 51, arms 54 extending upwardly and outwardly from the ends of bar 53 and bent over at their ends into horizontal, inwardly extending portions 55. Loop 52 is open, there being a space between the ends of the two horizontally extending portions 55. The ornament is attached to the tie by folding the bottom of depending portion 40 to the rear and upwardly, passing it through loop 52, and fastening together the two halves 44 and 45 of snap fastener 46. Here, as was the case with ornament 21 in FIG. 3, the the width of loop 52 is less than the width of depending portion 40, and therefore the sides of the loop are engaged by, and the loop is supported by, converging sides 43. Because of the opening between the ends of horizontally extending arms 55, snap 46 need not be disconnected in order to attach or remove the ornament; the tie material may be slipped through the opening in the loop.

The embodiment of FIGS. 10 and 11 is like that of FIGS. 8 and 9, in that it has a necktie of the same short length, whose depending portion comprises only a front portion with no tail. Front portion 57 is defined by two substantially parallel sides 59 and a horizontal bottom edge 58, giving the tie a squared-off appearance. Depending portion 57 is fabricated of more than one thickness of material, so that it may be said to possess an outside and an inside. Provision for suspending an ornament from the tie is made by providng two holes 60, one in each of the sides 59 (shown in FIG. 11) adjacent bottom edge 58, and extending from the exterior of the tie to the interior.

The ornament comprises medallion 61, to the rear of which are attached two outwardly and upwardly extending arms 62, which latter are terminated by two horizontal, inwardly extending arms 63 which do not meet. Arms 63 fit into holes 60 to suspend medallion 61 below the end of the tie. The space between the ends of horizontal arms 63 premits the tie material to be slipped off of the arms, making the medallion removable. This embodiment may be worn with the ornament attached, as shown in FIG. 10, or as a square-ended shorty tie without the ornament, as in FIG. 1.

What is claimed is:

1. An article of neckwear comprising, in combination a necktie including a knot and a portion depending from said knot,

said depending portion terminating in a lower end which, when the tie is worn with said knot at the wearers collar, is located at a point substantially less than half the distance from the top of the collar to the beltline of the average wearer,

said depending portion comprising at least two thicknesses of material defining an interior and an exterior and being provided with a plurality of apertures extending from said exterior into said interior adjacent said lower end; and

an ornament suspended from said lower end of said depending portion of said necktie, said ornament comprising a medallion, and

attaching means secured to said medallion and ining means engaged in said apertures, whereby said medallion is suspended from said depending portion of said necktie. 2. An article of neckwear according to claim 1, wherein said depending portion includes two substantially vertical, substantially parallel sides and said apertures include two opposed apertures located each in a different one of said sides, and said attaching means comprises two arms each having a generally horizontally extending upper end portion and a lower end portion,

said lower end portions of said arms each being secured to said medallion, said upper end portions of said arms each being engaged in a different one of said opposed apertures.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,860,346 11/1958 Siebler et a1 2146 X FOREIGN PATENTS 894,954 4/ 1962 Great Britain. 467,469 12/ 1951 Italy.

JORDAN FRANKLIN, Primary Examiner.

Claims (1)

1. AN ARTICLE OF NECKWEAR COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION A NECKTIE INCLUDING A KNOT AND A PORTION DEPENDING FROM SAID KNOT, SAID DEPENDING PORTION TERMINATING IN A LOWER END WHICH, WHEN THE TIE IS WORN WITH SAID KNOT AT THE WEARER''S COLLAR, IS LOCATED AT A POINT SUBSTANTIALLY LESS THAN HALF THE DISTANCE FROM THE TOP OF THE COLLAR TO THE BELTLINE OF THE AVERAGE WEARER, SAID DEPENDING PORTION COMPRISING AT LEAST TWO THICKNESS OF MATERIAL DEFINING AN INTERIOR AND AN EXTERIOR AND BEING PROVIDED WITH A PLURALITY OF APERTURES EXTENDING FROM SAID EXTERIOR INTO SAID INTERIOR ADJACENT SAID LOWER END; AND AN ORNAMENT SUSPENDED FROM SAID LOWER END OF SAID DEPENDING PORTION OF SAID NECKTIE, SAID ORNAMENT COMPRISING A MEDALLION, AND ATTACHING MEANS SECURED TO SAID MEDALLION AND INING MEANS ENGAGED IN SAID APERTURES, WHEREBY SAID MEDALLION IS SUSPENDED FROM SAID DEPENDING PORTION OF SAID NECKTIE.

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