An Improved Fastening or Holding Device for Scarves, Cravats, Slips, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 14th Apr., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fastening or Holding Device for Scarves, Cravats,
Slips, and the like.
A communication by ERNST LOUIS KOCH, of 141, Bahnhofstrasse, Mittweida, in-
the Empire of Germany, Manufacturer.
1, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster and 323 High Holborn, in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has for its object an improved fastening or holding device for
scarves, cravats, slips and the like, whereby the latter can be simply and rapidly
fastened and unfastened.
As shown on the accompanying drawing, in Figures 1-3, this improved holder
or fastener consists of a spring loop which is attached by means of a plate to the
back of the scarf or slip.
This plate b, attached to the rear side of the scarf, has two small lugs f, f', in
which a loop piece c is movably arranged. This loop c is so bent as to form in its
centre a large opening g and a small one d, both of which are connected by means
of a narrow slot. The extended part of the loop, or the parallel shanks c, allow of
the opening g being increased in size by approaching these shanks to one another,
and by this enlargement of 9 a widening of the slot is caused. If, for instance, the
two shanks c be pressed together, as shown in Figure 3, the opening g is enlarged,
and thus also the slot between 9 and d.
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When a scarf or slip is to be attached to the button or stud intended to hold the
same, the opening g is enlarged by pressing on the two shanks c, and the head of
the stud is inserted in the opening thus enlarged. As however the slot between
the two openings is simultaneously thereby enlarged from g, the neck of the stud
may, by means of a pull, be easily caused to pass along the slot until it reaches the
opening d. The stud has then reached its final position in which it is retained, as
the shanks c have a tendency to separate with a spring action, thus again reducing
the size of the openings.
As the spring loop is movably attached to the plate b, the scarf fastener may be
placed over the stud without any special difficulty and as easily again removed
without thereby affecting the good setting of the slip or cravat, as the spring loop
has only a slight thickness of wire.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
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An improved fastening or holding device for scarfs, cravats, slips and the like,
consisting of a spring loop movably attached to a plate, this loop being so. bent
that the larger of two openings formed in its centre and which are connected by
means of a slot may be enlarged by means of pressure on the two outer shanks,
the slot being also simultaneously widened from this opening, with the object of
enabling the stud to be easily inserted, substantially as described and shown.
Dated this 5th day of Mauch 1001