IMPROVEMENTS IN SCARF FASTENINGS AND SCARF SLIDES
Year: 1884

page_text: I RICHARD BALL BLACKHURST of N° 56 Vyse Street Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Engraver do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SCARF FASTENINGS AND SCARF SLIDES" to be as follows:-
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in scarf
fastenings and scarf slides whereby the scarf is very efficiently secured and the
accidental sliding or movement of the fastening or slide upon the scarf prevented.
In constructing a scarf fastening according to my invention I make it of a back
plate and a front plate hinged together between which plates the scarf is gripped
or held. The two plates are hinged together at bottom and are secured together.
when closed by a spring snap fastening at the top of the plates. The front plate
may have a circular elliptical or other form and be ornamented in any desired way
or may carry a jewel or other ornament. In the hinged back plate which has a
bow form a slot is made having a figure somewhat resembling the letter T
inverted. The cross lower part of this slot has a size suitable to pass over the
collar button or stud at the front of the shirt band and the upright part of the
slot which opens into the cross part has a size suitable to fit upon or engage with
the stem or shank of the said button or stud.
In using the scarf fastening the two parts are opened and the back bowed part
is engaged by means of its slot with the collar button or stud so as thereby to
suspend the fastening to the said button or stud. The scarf is crossed and the
crossing parts are placed within the bow shaped back of the fastening.
The front plate is now closed upon the back plate and fixed thereto by the spring
snap fastening. Those portions of the scarf enclosed between the fastening are
thereby gripped between the two closed plates. Thus besides fixing the scarf to
the fastening the fastening itself is secured in its place by the arrangement
described and the slipping or movement of the fastening upon the scarf prevented.
The inverted T shaped slot or the vertical part of the slot described with respect
to the hinged fastening may be applied to the back half of scarf slides for
In this case the
preventing the slipping or movement of the slide upon the scarf.
slide is passed upon the scarf in the usual way and when the said slide has reached
the neck of the wearer its slotted back half is engaged with the collar button or
stud in the manner before described thereby suspending the slide at the said
button or stud and preventing its accidental sliding upon the scarf.
1004
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

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I RICHARD BALL BLACKHURST of No 56 Vyse Street Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Engraver, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SCARF FASTENINGS AND SCARF SLIDES and in what manner
the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement :---
My invention consists of the improvements herein after described in scarf
fastenings and scarf slides, whereby the scarf is very efficiently secured and
the accidental sliding or movement of the fastening or slide upon the scarf
prevented.
In constructing a scarf fastening according to my invention I make it of a back
plate and a front plate hinged together, between which plates the scarf is gripped
or held. The two plates are hinged together at bottom and are secured together
when closed by a spring snap fastening at the top of the plates. The front plate
may have a circular, elliptical or other form and be ornamented in any desired
way, or may carry a jewel or other ornament. In the hinged back plate, which
has a bow form, a slot is made having a figure somewhat resembling the letter T
inverted. The cross lower part of this slot has a size suitable to pass over the
collar button or stud at the front of the shirt band and the upright part of the
slot, which opens into the cross part, has a size suitable to fit upon or engage with
the stem or shank of the said button or stud so as to suspend the fastening to the
button or stud.
The inverted T shaped slot.or the vertical part of the slot described with
respect to the hinged fastening may be applied to the back half of scarf slides for
preventing the slipping or movement of the slide upon the scarf.
Figure 1-of-the-accompanying-Drawing_represents in front elevation a scarf
fastening constructed according to my invention, with a scarf secured by the
fastening; Figure 2 represents in front elevation and Figure 3 in side elevation
the searf fastening opened and Figure 4 represents the same closed the scarf being
omitted.
Figure 5 represents in side elevation; Figure 6 in back elevation and Figure 7
in end elevation, the scarf fastening drawn to a larger scale detached from the
collar.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of
the drawing.
The scarf fastening consists of a front plate a and a back plate or part b hinged
together at bottom by a hinge joint c the said plates when closed upon one another
being secured together at top by the spring snap fastening d (see Figure 5). The
front plate a may have any desired ornamental form given to it. The hinged back
plate b has somewhat of a bow form and in it an inverted T shaped slot is made
(see Figure 6) the upright part of the slot being marked e² and the cross lower
part of the slot, into which the part e² opens; being marked c.
The cross lower
part e of the slot has a size and form suitable to pass over the collar button or
stud fat the front of the shirt band and the upright part e² of the slot has a size
suitable to fit upon or engage with the stem or shank of the button or stud ƒ (see
Figure 3). At the middle of the front plate a of the fastening is a spike or pin g
for assisting in holding the scarf in the fastening but the said spike or pin may be
omitted.

page_text: In using the scarf fastening, the two parts a, b are opened and the back bowed
part b is engaged with the collar button or stud f by its cross slot e as represented
in Figures 2 and 3. The fastening is then depressed so as to engage the vertical
slot c with the stem of the collar button or stud f as represented in Figure 4 and
thus suspend the open fastening to the said button or stud.
The scarf is crossed and the crossing parts are placed within the bow shaped
back of the open fastening. The front plate a is now closed upon the back
plate band fixed thereto by the spring snap fastening d as represented in Figures 1
and 4. Those portions of the scarf enclosed between the fastening are thereby
gripped between the two closed plates a, b the scarf at the same time being
pierced by the pin or spike g. Thus besides fixing the scarf to the fastening the
fastening itself is secured in its place by the arrangement described and repre-.
sented and the slipping or movement of the fastening upon the scarf prevented.
A vertical slot instead of the inverted T shaped slot may be made in the bow
shaped back plate of the fastening.
Figure 8 represents in back elevation and Figure 9 in end elevation a scarf
slide drawn to a large scale constructed according to my invention. h is the front
of the scarf slide and i is the back of the same. In the said back i is a vertical
slot k, open at bottom for suspending the scarf slide to the collar button or
stud. The slide is passed upon the scarf in the usual way and when the said slide
has reached the neck of the wearer the slot k in the back part is engaged with the
shank or stem of the collar button or stud in the manner herein before described
with respect to a scarf fastening, thereby suspending the slide at the said button
or stud and preventing its accidental sliding upon the scarf.
An inverted T shaped slot instead of the vertical slot & Figures 8 and 9 may be
made in the back of the scarf slide.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is .
First Making scarf fastenings of a front plate a and a bow shaped back plate b
the two parts a and b being hinged together at bottom and secured together at top
when closed by a spring snap fastening, the bow shaped back plate b being
provided with an inverted T shaped slot or a vertical slot for suspending the
fastening to the collar stud or button, the parts of the fastening being constructed
combined and used substantially as herein before described and illustrated in
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly Making the back half of scarf slides slotted in the manner herein
before described and illustrated in Figures 8 and 9 of the accompanying Drawing.
for suspending the scarf slides to the collar stud or button.
Dated this Twentieth day of January 1885.