US2269769A - Necktie holder - Google Patents

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Jan. 13, 1942. P, KENNEDY 2,269,769

NECKTIE HOLDER Filed July 14, 1939 INVENTOR we? M ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 13, 1942 UNlTED STATES PATENT OFFICE NECKTIE HOLDER John P. Kennedy, Medina, N. Y.

Application July 14, 1939, Serial No. 284,515

3 Claims.

This invention relates generally to a neckwear article or appliance but more particularly to a holder for neckties.

It has for one of its objects to provide an article of this character which has been designed to not only aid the forming of the knot and facilitate the tying of a four-in-hand tie, but also to hold the knot at all times neat and firm against the wearers collar.

Other objects of the invention are to provide a necktie holder which is simple, compact and inexpensive in construction, which is in the form of a split sleeve capable of expanding and. contracting, and which is so constructed as to afford the necessary slippage for tying the knot and yet prevent the knot becoming loose after tying.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a collar and knotted tie showing the holder in place by dotted lines. Figure 2 is a similar view showing the holder in place on the tie before forming the knot about it. Figure 3 is an enlarged vertical section of the holder taken substantially in the plane of the formed knot. Figure 4 is a detached perspective view of the improved holder. Figure 5 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical section taken on line 5-5, Figure 4.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

This improved necktie holder is designed to aid the forming as well as to facilitate the tying of the knot in a four-in-hand tie, and it consists generally of a tubular or sleeve-like member [0 which is adapted to be slipped over the short end H of a four-in-hand tie in the manner shown in Figure 2, and about which the longer end l2 of the tie is adapted to be looped to form the knot, the sleeve constituting a core or support for the knot to hold it neatly and firmly in place against the collar. I

By preference, the holder I0 is substantially in the form of a split sleeve which is frusto-conical in shape and which is provided with a smoothsurfaced bore 13 and a roughened exterior 14, whereby the tie is free to slip relative to the holder during the adjusting of the tie-knot against the collar, while the knot itself is held against undue slippage about the roughened exterior surface of the holder. If desired, this holder may be made of a mesh-like material which provides the desired roughened exterior surface for the holder, while its bore may be coated with a lacquer or otherwise lined to provide the smooth-surfaced bore l3.

By constructing the holder in the form of a frusto-conical split sleeve, it is free to contract and expand to readily adapt it to the style of knot desired by the wearer, for example, a tight or loose knot, and to this end its marginal longitudinal edges overlap each other and are suitably joined to limit the expanding and contracting movements of the sleeve, the latter normally assuming an expanded position. The marginal face of the underlying portion of the sleeve is preferably smooth-faced, as indicated at l5, so that the overlapping edges will slide freely in response to any contraction or expansion of the sleeve. A pivotal connection l6, which may be relatively loose, serves to join the upper marginal edges of the sleeve, while a pin and slot connection I! serves to join the lower or contracted end of the sleeve. By this construction, the frusto-conical sleeve is free to expand and contract within certain limits and the conoidal shape of the sleeve is effectually retained in any of its positions.

In use, the sleeve 10 is slipped over the short end of the tie to a point adjacent the collar, as shown in Figure 2, after which the long end of the tie is looped about the sleeve and the knot formed in the usual way, as shown in Figure 1. As the wearer slides the formed knot upwardly against the collar, the holder retains the knot firmly in place and yet permits the necessary slippage for so doing. Furthermore, depending upon the firmness of the knot desired by the wearer, the holder sleeve is free to contract to adapt itself to the size of the knot desired, and the resulting tension and roughened surface exterior effectually retains the knot firmly and neatly in place.

I claim as my invention:

1. A necktie holder of the character described, comprising a normally-expanded split sleeve having its marginal edges in overlapping relation, a pivotal connection between such overlapping edges at one end of the sleeve, and a slip connection between such edges at the opposite end of the sleeve to limit the contraction and expansion thereof.

2. A necktie holder of the character described, comprising a normally-expanded split sleeve of substantially frusto-conical form having its marginal edges in overlapping relation, a pivotal connection between such edges at the larger ends of the sleeve, and a pin and slot connection between such edges at the smaller end of said sleeve, whereby to limit the contraction and expansion thereof.

3. A necktie holder of the character described, comprising a normally-expanded split sleeve of substantially frusto-conical form having its marginal edges in overlapping relation, a pivotal connection between such edges at the larger end of the sleeve, and a pin and slot connection between such edges at the smaller end of said sleeve, whereby to limit the contraction and expansion thereof, the bore of said sleeve being smooth to permit free slippage of that end of the tie inserted therethrough and the exterior surface of the sleeve being of a roughened character to hold the knot-forming end in place against slippage.

JOHN P. KENNEDY.

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