An Improved Fastening-device for Scarfs, Ties, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Oct., 1893-Accepted, 18th Nov., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fastening-device for Scarfs, Ties, and the like.
We, FRIEDRICH KOCH of 5 Senkenbergstrasse, Frankfurt am Main, Kingdom
of Prussia, German Empire, and CARL HUGO PISCHON of 12 Flensburgerstrasse,
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, both Manufacturers, 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:--
Our invention refers to devices for preventing the scarf, or its neck-band respec-
tively, from spontaneous displacement, and our improvements in such devices relate
to the combination of a frame-like guide-piece secured to the neck-band, with a
stud having an elastic head, and adapted to couple the neck-band of the scarf to
the neck-piece or collar of the shirt, as will be more fully described hereinafter.
In order to make our invention more clear, we refer to the accompanying drawing,
in which similar letters denote similar parts throughout the several views, and in
which:
Fig. 1 is a front view of a scarf provided with our improved fastening-device.
Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through a part of the neck-band, taken on
line 10-11 of Fig. 1.
Figs. 3, 4 & 5 represent the elastic stud, the same being drawn to a larger scale,
Figs. 6 & 7 represent a cap, used in connection with the stud,
Figs. 8 & 9 show a modification.
Our improved fastening-device consists of a frame-like guide-plate a, Figs. 1, 2, 6
& 7, sewed to the neck-band 6 of the scarf c. Guided by the said plate is a hollow
cap d, Figs. 1, 2, 6 & 7, the circumference of which has a groove e, with and into
which the edges of the two long sides of plate a engage.
The head of the stud g consists of the elastic wings h, (Figs. 3, 4 & 5)
which are compressed, when the cap is pressed onto the head f. This stud g is
passed through the button-hole or holes in the neck-band of the shirt, and through
that of the collar proper, and the hollow cap, which is constantly connected with
the neck-band 6 by means of the frame a, is pressed onto the head of the stud as
soon as the neck-band is put in place and fastened.
The frame a consists of thin sheet-metal or any other pliable material, and
adapts itself to the curvature of the neck-band; so that the latter cannot move
upwards or downwards, even if the fastening-device for connecting the end-piece
of the neck-band with the scarf proper should get loose, and also side-movements
are nearly fully prevented, the parts a and e fitting together very exact.
We may dispense with the hollow cap by using the modification shown in
Figs. 8 & 9, in which a' is the guide-piece which is provided with a longitudinal
slit . One end of this slit is widened at and this widened part forms the
entrance for the elastic head fh of the stud g. The spring-like parts of the elastic
head are compressed when the head is passed through the entrance i', behind which
the said parts extend again.
In all other points the manner of working of this modification and the advantages
attained thereby are the same as above described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare, that what we
claim is :-
1. In a scarf. the combination with the neck-band thereof, of a frame secured

page_text: thereto, a stud with an elastic head, adapted to be coupled with said frame, for the
purposes as described and shown.
2. In a scarf, the combination with the neck-band thereof, of a frame secured
thereto, a hollow cap being displacable in said frame, and a stud with an elastic
head, adapted to be coupled with said hollow cap, for the purposes as described and
shown.
Dated this 11th day of October 1802
FRIEDRICH KOCH,
CARL HUGO PISCHON,
By Geo. Thos. Hyde,
4, Moorfields, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicants.