US636996A - Necktie-fastener. - Google Patents

Description

Patented Nov. I4, 1899.

J. 0.' HUNT.

NEGKTIE FSTENER.

(Appliemon mad Aug. 24, 189s.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICEZ..

JESSE ORRA HUNT, OF CAIRO, ILLINOIS.

NECKTlE-FASTENER.

SPEGIFIGATIoN forming part of Lettere Patent Ne. 636,996, dated November 14, 189e. Application filed August 24,1898. Serial No. 689,417i (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JESSE ORRA HUNT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cairo, in the county of Alexander and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Necktie-Fastener, of which the followin gis a specification.

This invention is a safety necktie-fastener for use on all kinds of ready-made neckwear, but more especially on bow-ties; and the object in view is to provide an article Which will prevent the tie from moving in any direction when properly adjusted for the fastener to be engaged with the collar-button.

A further objectof the invention is to provide an article of simple and inexpensive construction which may be easily and securely fastened to a tie, may be quickly engaged with or disengaged from a collar-button, and which is not liable to break or get out of order.

With these ends in view the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings,forming a part of this specivication, in Which- Figure 1 is a perspective view looking at the rear side of an ordinary bow-necktie. Fig. 2

lis a vertical sectional view taken transversely throughthetieandthefastenertherefor. Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective View of the fastener detached from the tie. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the clasp-spring. Fig. 5 is a detail view of the sheet-metal blank from which the body of the fastener is made. Fig. 6 is a sectional elevation on the planeindicated by the dotted line 6 6 of Fig. 2, looking in the direction indicated by the arrow.

Like numerals of reference denote like and corresponding parts in each of the several iigures of the drawings.

Y The body lO of my improved necktie-fastener is stamped or struck up from a single piece of sheetmetal in theform represented by Fig. 5 of the drawings. This metallic blank consists of a fiat angular plate 11 and an elongated shank 12, which extends from one edge of the plate. In preparing the blank to produce a body which may be conveniently fastened to the necktie the shank and plate are bent or folded, as at 13, to bring the parts into parallel relation to each other, and this plate 11, is provided at its corners with transverse apertures 14, adapted to receive the stitches by which the body 10 may be secured to the fastener. The free end of the offstanding shank 12 is bifurcated to produce the forks 15 16, which are spaced and shaped to form the throat 17, leading to an opening 18 in the shank, and the width of this throat is less than the diameter of the opening, so that the shank of the collar-button may readily pass through the throat and enter the opening 18 in applying the fastener and necktie to the collar-button. The shank l2 of the metallic body has an arm 19 made integral therewith, and this arm extends from one edge of the shank adjacent tothe forked extremity thereof When the body is struck up in blank form. (Represented in Fig. 5.) The arm 19 is doubled or bent across the shank and around the opposite edge thereof, as at 20, thereby forming a keeper 21, which is arranged on one side of the shank and is adapted to receive the spring-clasp 22 in a manner to confine the latter properly in place on the fastener-body.

The spring-clasp is made from a single piece of wire, which is bent into the doubled stem 24 and the bowed arms 25. The arms are curved laterally from each other, and at their free extremities they are bent reversely tov their bowed portions into the loops 26, and the tension of the spring-clasp is sufficient to close the arms toward each other, and thereby y bring the loops 26 normally in contact. The spring-clasp is fitted to the inner face of the shank 12, so as to lie between the plate 1l and the shank, and the folded extremity of the stem 24 is arranged against a thickened portion 23 of the shank. This stem of the springclasp is secured firmly in place to the body by a rivet 26, which is attached to the thickened portion 23 of the shrank and is headed upon the doubled stem 24 of the spring-clasp, thus firmly securing the stem of the clasp against the inner face of the body-shank. The springclasp is arranged on the shank of the body for the bowed arms 25 thereof to be substantially coincident with the edge of the opening 18 in the bifurcated shank; but the looped extremities 26 of the spring-clasp extend normally across the throat 17 of said shank in IOO order to prevent the fastener from becoming disengaged accidentally from the shank of the collar-button.

My improved fastener may be readily attached to any kind of a necktie, and in the exampleillustrated by the drawings the plate l1 is designed to be fitted in the folded portion of the tie orbow. The plate is concealed normally by the fold of the tie, and it is attached thereto by the threads or stitches 27, which are passed through the fabric and the apertures l-l of the plate ll. The shank, with the spring-clasp mounted thereon, lies at the rear of the tie, and the forked end of the shank and the free end of the arms forming a part of the spring-clasp are disposed in vertical positions for the easy application or detachment of the fastener to or from a collarbutton at the front of the shirt-band. After passing the band of a necktie around the collar the operator moves the tie in an upward direction for the forked end of the shank to embrace the stem of a collar-button, and a continued movement of the tie and the fastener causes the button-shank to pass through the throat 17, spread the spring-clasp, and enter the opening 18 of the shank. As the button-stem enters the opening of the shank and the space between the bowed arms of the spring-clasp said arms of the clasp instantly return to their normal positions, and the clasp is thus made to embrace the stem of a collar-button in a manner to prevent the fastener and the tie from moving in any direction and wholly overcomes any tendency of the fastener to be detached accidentally from the collar-button. To disengage the fastener, it is only necessary to pull downwardly on the tie, and thus disengage the bifurcated shank and the spring-clasp from the collarbutton, whereby the tie may be easily removed.

It will be observed that the looped extremities of the spring-clasp present curved edges to the rounded stem of a collar-button, and this is advantageous because the clasp is made to yield or give to a pull 011 the necktie, so that the clasp operates automatically in fitting the fastener to a collar-button andY disengaging it therefrom; but at the same time the tension of the spring-clasp is strong enough to overcome accidental separation of the fastener from the collar-button. The spring-clasp of my fastener is carried or supported on a comparatively-stiff sheet-metal body, which takes up practicallyall the strain on the fastener when it is in service and contributes materially to the strength of the fastener, besides providing for its ready attachment to a necktie.

The device is simple in construction and can be manufactured very cheaply. It is readily applied or attached to any ordinary ready-made necktie, and it is efficient and reliable in service.

Changes may be made in the form of some of the parts, while their essential features are retained and the spirit of the invention em? bodied. Hence I do not desire to be limited to the precise form of all the parts shown, reserving the right to vary therefrom.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is- 1. Anecktie-fastenercomprisinganattachin g-plate, a shank parallel therewith and connected at one end thereto and provided at its opposite end with aforked extremity,a springclasp comprising terminally-connected elastic arms normally closed at their free ends across the throat in the forked shank and secured at their connected ends to the inner surface of the shank, and a keeper-loop 'extending transverselyof the shank and attached thereto between the forked end thereof vand the point of attachment of the elastic arms, the said keeper-loop embracing the arms just below the button-receiving opening and serving to brace said arms at the base of the fork while permitting their extremities to spring freely apart, substantially as described.

2. In a necktie-fastener, a body struck up from a single piece of sheet metal and comprising a flat plate and a shank which is donbled upon the plate to lie parallel therewith, said shank provided with a forked free 'e'X- tremity and with a laterally-projecting arm which lies below said forked extremity and is doubled around the shank to form a keeper on the inner face thereof at the base of the fork, combi-ned with a spring-wire clasp fitted against the inner face of the shank within the keeper thereof and 'arranged for its bowed arms to be closed normally across the throat of the forked shank, and a fastening yfor ati taching the lower end of the clasp to the shank below the keeper, substantially as described.

3. Anecktie-fastenercomprising an attaching-plate, an integral shank connected at one end thereto extending parallel therewith and having a fork at its free end, terminally-'connected spring-arms arranged between said plate and shank and secured at their connected ends to the shank and having their free ends arranged to close across the throat of the fork, and a keeper-loop integral with the shank and extending transversely across the inner surface of the shank and embracing the spring-arms at the base of the fork, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JESSE ORRA HUNT.

Witnesses:

SAML. HASTINGS, EMMA S. RILEY.

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