IMPROVEMENTS IN SCARFS AND CRAVATS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph James Welch, of the Firm of Messrs. Welcb,
Margetson, and Company, of Cheapside, in the City of London, for the
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph James Welch at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th January 1861.
I, JOSEPH JAMES WELCH, of the Firm of Messrs. Welch, Margetson, and
Company, of Cheapside, in the City of London, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SCARFS AND CRAVATS," to be as
follows:-
The Invention relates to the manufacture of scarfs and cravats for gentlemen's
wear, more especially adapted to be worn with the turn-down collars at present
in use. I propose forming the scarf or cravat in the shape of the lower part
of the Grecian capital letter A, which will give it the form thus
the sides thereof being more than double the width of the top or neck piece.
The top or cross piece is to be placed around the back of the neck, and the
two outside edges brought together in the front and secured by a breast-pin or
other suitable fastening; the side pieces or flaps will thus lie flat on the chest
of the wearer, and in some cases, for ease or variation in the size of the neck,
the top piece may be divided and a piece of elastic material inserted, which
will allow of any motion of the head or neck by yielding to any undue pressure.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Joseph James Welch in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th July 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
JAMES WELCH, of the Firm of Messieurs Welch, Margetson, and Company, of
Cheapside, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Joseph James Welch, Her special licence that I, the said Joseph James Welch,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Joseph
James Welch, 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 vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SCARPS
AND CRAVATS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Joseph
James Welch, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain 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 Joseph James Welch, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to bo per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, that is to say:-
This Invention relates to the manufacture of scarfs and cravats for gentle-
men's wear, more especially adapted to be worn with the turn-down collars at
present in use. I form the scarf or cravat in the shape of the lower part of
the Grecian capital letter A-, which will give it the form thus
,
the
sides thereof being more than double the width of the top or neck piece. The
top or cross piece is to be placed around the back of the neck and the two
outside edges brought together in the front and secured by a breast-pin or
other suitable fastening; the side pieces or flaps will thus lie flat on the chest
of the wearer, and in some cases, for ease or variation in the size of the neck,

page_text: the top piece may be divided and a piece of elastic material inserted, which
will allow of any motion of the head or neck by yielding to any undue
pressure.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention of "Improvements
in Scarfs and Cravats," and the manner of performing the same, I would remark
in conclusion that I do not intend in all instances to apply elastic material at
the back of the neck of such scarfs or cravats, as that may be used or not,
according to the taste of the wearer; but what I claim as my Invention
intended to be secured to me by the herein in part recited Letters Patent is,
the manufacture of scarfs and cravats of the shape and in the manner herein
described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph James Welch, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
Witness,
JOSEPH JAMES WELCH. (L.S.)
ALEX. PRINCE, Agent for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross.