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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2003
Seth R. Goldstein, Bethesda, MD (US);
Other;
Abstract
A machine for automatically tying a four-in-hand necktie knot in a necktie, includes ( ) a horizontal rotatable cylinder; ( ) a hooking mechanism capable of pulling a left hand short segment of the necktie through a loop of a right hand long segment of the necktie hanging from the rotatable cylinder; ( ) a finger mechanism capable of laterally moving the right hand long segment along the length of the rotatable cylinder; ( ) a whirler mechanism capable of flipping an end of the right hand long segment around the rotatable cylinder and up through a space between the right hand long segment and the left hand short segment and the necktie support, and ( ) an electronic and feedback control for operating various mechanisms in response to a sequence of voltage commands.