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US 5,353,438 AGranted
Necktie restraint
AssigneeTie-Mate, Inc.
InventorReggie Voiles
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Abstract
A device and method for restraining the tail of a necktie to the front of a shirt. The device includes a longitudinal strip of flexible material with a sewn longitudinal button hole on one end and a circular hole on the other.
Claims1
A method for securing a necktie on a shirt having a plurality of spaced apart buttons comprising the steps of:
- providing a necktie having a relatively wide tail with a sewn in place label and a relatively narrow tail being knotted in any suitable well known manner;
- placing the relatively narrow tail through the sewn in place label on the relatively wide tail;
- placing a removable, reusable necktie restraint having a longitudinal strip of flexible material, a sewn button hole on one end and a circular hole on the other end longitudinally through the sewn in place label;
- looping the removable, device around the sewn in place label such that the end with the sewn button hole passes through the circular hole on the other end;
- and
- attaching the end with the button hole to a most proximate button on the shirt having a plurality of spaced apart buttons.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.