AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR NECKTIES, SCARFS, AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Solomon Maurice, of Monkwell Street,
in the City of London, Commission Agent, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR NECKTIES, SCARFS, AND OTHER ARTICLES."
-A communication from abroad by Simon Hayem, ainé, of 38, Rue
du Sentier, Paris, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Solomon
Maurice at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 26th June 1868.
I, SAMUEL SOLOMON MAURICE, of Monkwell Street, in the City of
London, Commission Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR NECKTIES, SCARFS, AND OTHER
ARTICLES," communicated to me from abroad by Simon Hayem, ainé,' of
38, Rue du Sentier, Paris, France, to be as follows:-
My improved fastening consists of a' roller or otherwise shaped piece
mounted and working excentrically, so that when worked in one
direction it exerts pressure on and retains in' place the tongue, slide
band, or moveable piece of the necktie or other article to which the

page_text: apparatus is applied, which tongue, slide, or moveable piece it releases
when worked in the other direction.
In one arrangement this may be effected by mounting, arranging, or
hanging a roller or other working piece excentrically on axes in a
flanged plate or frame sewn or attached to the cravat, such excentric
piece having a finger piece or projection, by working which the excentric.
pressure piece is actuated in the required direction either to fasten or
unfasten the cravat or article.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Samuel Solomon Maurice in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 26th December 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
SOLOMON MAURICE, formerly of Monkwell Street, in the City of London,
and now of Cornhill, in the said City, Commission Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by. Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Samuel Solomon Maurice, Her special
licence that I, the said Samuel Solomon Maurice, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel
Solomon Maurice, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at
any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and yend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR NECKTIES, SCARPS, AND OTHER
ARTICLES," communicated to me from abroad by Simon Hayem, ainé,
of 38, Rue du Sentier, Paris, France, upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Samuel Solomon Maurice, my exccutors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain

page_text: the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was
to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE that I, the said Samuel Solomon Maurice, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, as communicated to me,
reference being had to the accompanying Drawings and to the letters
and figures marked thereon; that is to say :-
My improved fastening consists of a roller or piece shaped as herein-
after described, mounted and working excentrically in such manner
that when worked in one direction it exerts pressure on and retains in
place the tongue, slide band, or moveable piece of the necktie or other
article to which the said fastening is applied, and which tongue, slide;
or moveable picce it releases when worked in the other direction.
In this my arrangement this is effected by mounting the roller or
working piece excentrically on axes in a flanged plate or frame sewn or
attached to the necktie, scarf, cravat, or other article to which the
fastening is applied, this roller having a finger piece or projection,
by working which the excentric roller or working pressure piece is
actuated in the required direction either to fasten or unfasten the
necktie, scarf, cravat, or other article.
The employment of this fastener prevents the fraying of the cravat or
other article to which it is applied, as the working pressure piece
presents a rounded surface to the part against which such piece presses;
acts, and works.
The accompanying Drawings represent a fastening constructed
according to this Invention.
Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views; Figures 3 and 4 are
elevations; Figure 5, plan or top view; Figure 6; edge view of a
fastening constructed according to this Invention; Figure 7 is an end
view of the roller. Figures 3 to 7 inclusively are shewn on an enlarged
scale for the sake of clearness. In Figures 1 and 3 the fastening is
shewn in its closed position, that is to say; as it appears when in use for
fastening a scarf. In Figures 2, 4, 5, and 6 it is shewn open or in the
position in which it unfastens or releases the scarf:
'

page_text: A is a metal plate flanged at the sides, that is to say, the lateral
edges a, a, are bent up at right angles to the body of the plate. B is a
metal roller or cylinder having axes b, b, which pass through and work
in holes in the flanges or sides a, a, of the plate A whereby the
cylinder B is supported. The axes b, b, are placed excentrically, that
is to say, they are not in the centre of the circular ends of the roller or
cylinder, and therefore not in a line with its central (imaginary or
geometrical axis), but they are placed in the ends of the cylinder B
excentrically in each said end. The cylinder B thus works excentrically
in the sides of the plate A when actuated by a knob, handle, or finger
piece Cattached to the said cylinder B. The cylinder is preferably
fluted longitudinally; it forms the working pressure piece. d, d, are
holes in the plate A to sew the plate to the scarf or other article to be
fastened. The fastening is thus used. The plate A is sewn to the body.
of the scarf, the finger picce C projecting so as to be attainable. The
fastening is opened by moving the handle C upward, thereby moving
the cylinder B partly round in a corresponding direction as shewn in
Figures 2, 4, 5, and 6, and as it is mounted excentrically it leaves a
greater space between itself and the plate A when turned in that
direction than when in its former position. The part to be fastened or
retained in position, as, for instance, the slide tongue or neck band g, g,
shewn in red lines in Figure 1 is passed between the plate A and the
roller B and pulled down. The cylinder is then restored to position
by moving its handle C downward, as shewn in Figures 1 and 3, and
when in that position, the roller being mounted excentrically as
described, contracts the space between itself and the plate A, and the
tongue or slide is held or pressed between the roller B and plate A,
and it is thereby fastened or held in place. It is released by raising the
handle, as first described, and thereby moving the cylinder B so that it
frees the slide or tongue g and allows it to be drawn out from between
the plate A and cylinder B. The surface pressing against the tongue g,
being rounded or cylindrical it does not fray the scarf.
Although I have shewn the piece B as of cylindrical shape its, form
may be varied without departing from the nature of the Invention,
provided that the said piece be mounted and work excentrically, and
act substantially in the manner above described, and provided especially
that such piece at the part thereof presented to, acting on, and working
against the scarf or other article to which the fastening is applied be of

page_text: a rounded form or have a rounded surface so as not to present at such
part or surface an angle or sharp edge or the like.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, I declare that I claim, the improved
fastening in which a cylindrical or otherwise shaped piece is mounted
excentrically and arranged, constructed, and worked, substantially in
the manner and for the purpose described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Solomon Maurice, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of
December, in the year One thousand eight hundred and sixty-
eight.
Witness,
M. HENRY,
68, Fleet Street,
London.
SAMUEL S. MAURICE. (L.S.)