IMPROVEMENTS IN SCARF RINGS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO BROOCHES, DRESS HOLDERS, AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Wright, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Jeweller, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SCARF RINGS,
WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO BROOCHES, DRESS HOLDERS, AND
SUCH LIKE ARTICLES."
Sealed the 5th August 1879, and dated the 12th February 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Wright at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 12th February 1879.
WILLIAM WRIGHT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Jeweller.
"IM-
PROVEMENTS IN SCARF RINGS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO BROOCHES,
DRESS HOLDERS, AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES."
My improvements in scarf rings consists in making them more secure than those
heretofore in use, by dispensing with springs or mechanism, but at the same time
making them more ready or casier to connect to or disconnect from the scarf or
other article of dress requiring to be fastened, which I effect in the following
manner :-
To the front or ornamental part of scarf rings I hinge two arms, which from their
shape come in contact with each other when closed or pressed together and hold.
securely the scarf or article of dress, the removal, of which can only be effected by
the user withdrawing one arm from contact with the other which at once releases
the garment. By this arrangement I reduce the possibility of loosing the rings.or
releasing the article of dress accidentally, as any strain upon the rings causes the
two arms to hold more firmly together.
This Invention can be applied as a fastening for brooches. by securing the arms
before described to the brooch front; by these improvements any quantity of the
article of dress may be taken hold of, and may be so modified as to be applied to.
dress holders or other like purposes.

page_text: formed in the arm B, as shewn in the edge view. By this arrangement, when the
ring is worn with the ornamental strap J outwards the scarf is divided by the two
arms where brought together. At Fig. 8 I dispense with the use of two hinge
joints, using only one, as at L, the same effect being produced as in the other
Figures, the ornamental front M being secured to the arm A', and resting on
the body or ornamental part E at c. Fig. 9 represents an edge view of this modi-
fication open or disconnected from the scarf.
In adapting my improvements for dress holders I extend the body part E, as
shown at Fig. 10, and connect the two arms A and B together by a hinge joint N
or its equivalent. Fig. 11 represents an edge view of the same, the material of the
dress being held between the body E and junction of the arms A and B, as shown;
the ring O is for the purpose of releasing the dress by opening the arms A and B,
as shown in dotted lines.
At Figs. 12 and 13 I have exhibited the same arrangement of bringing the arm
A and B, as at Fig. 10, for dressholders, but applied in this instance for scarf rings;
and it will be seen that in this case the scarf must be passed through the ring
and the ring drawn into the position desired and the arms A and B closed, as
shown in dotted lines, when the scarf will be securely held. But to obviate the
necessity (with this construction) of passing the scarf through the ring and then
sliding the ring into position, as in this case, instead of uniting the arms A and B
by the fixed hinged joint, I construct the arms A and B with an open joint, as
shown at Figs. 14 and 15, by which the same result is effected as at Fig. 1.
In adapting my improvements to brooches it is simply necessary to secure the
arms A and B to the front or ornamental portion of the brooch, when the parts
may be secured as in the case of the scarf rings described.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, it will be seen that the same
is capable of considerable modification without departing from the spirit of my
Invention; but what I claim and wish protected by these my in part recited Letters
Patent is, the construction of scarf rings and other dressholders or connectors, as
herein described and exhibited, or their equivalent.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Wright, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Eleventh day of August, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy nine.
5 Witness,
WILLIAM H. TAYLOR,
Draughtsman,
11. Cannon Street,
Birmingham.
WILLIAM WRIGHT. (L.S.)