the Purpose of forming a Combined Article of Ladies' Attire.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1887.
Specification Accepted, 25th Mar., 1887.
the Purpose of forming a Combined Article of Ladies' Attire.
I JOSHUA JACOBS, of 37 Jewin Crescent, in the City of London, Furrier, 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, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of Drawings and to the
letters and figures marked thereon that is to say:—
The object of my invention is to combine a ladies muff and boa in such manner
that the two articles may be easily connected with each other so as to form a combined
article of attire, and be as easily separated from each other so that either the muff or
the boa may be worn either separately, or both at the same time although not
connected together. For this purpose I take an ordinary muff and boa composed of
fur or any of the usual materials, and I form at the back of the muff, that is the part
thereof which comes next to the wearer, two horizontally placed loops or straps, and
through each of these loops or straps, I pass or thread one end of the boa, drawing
the said ends through the said loops in the muff until the latter is brought into such a
position on the boa that when the latter is passed round the neck of the wearer the
muff shall be situated at the correct height to receive the hands.
In the Drawings hereto annexed Figure 1 is a front view, of a muff and boa
connected together in accordance with my invention Figure 2 is a side view of the
same and Figure 3 a view of the muff detached from the boa and showing the afore-
said loops.
A is the boa, B the muff, and C the loops thereon through which the ends of the
boa are passed as shown. The loops Care preferably formed by cutting slits in the
fur or other material of the muff and then lining the inner surface of the loops C so
formed, with silk or other suitable material. By this means the loops are to a great
extent concealed in the substance of the muff. But instead of forming the loops out
of the material of the muff, as above described, they may be formed by sewing or
otherwise attaching strips of suitable material to the outer surface of the muff.
The two sides of the hoa A may be fastened together when in use by loops E and
buttons F and it will be seen that when one of the said loops is fastened to its

page_text: corresponding button below the muff it is impossible for the latter to slip down off
the boa.
It will now be understood that when the muff and boa are to be worn together the
ends of the latter are passed through the loops C in or on the former, and the muff is
adjusted to a height on the boa suited to the stature or convenience of the wearer;
and the nature of the materials composing the boa and the muff are usually such that
the muff is held in position on the hoa by friction so that there is little or no chance
of the muff slipping down on the boa but the fastening together of the loop and
button below the muff is always sufficient to prevent the possibility of the muff
slipping off and being lost. If it is required to wear the muff or boa separately that
is to say not combined as above described, it is only necessary, in order to detach the
one from the other to unfasten the button and loop below the muff and draw the ends
of the boa out of the loops in the muff and then both boa and muff become ordinary
separate articles of attire."
An important feature of this method of combining a muff and boa is that the muff
is readily adjusted on the boa to suit any height of person and therefore the articles
may be manufactured without regard to the size of the wearers and without any
fitting to them.
An equally important feature is that in order to produce the
combination no special shaping of material is required as is necessary so far as I am
aware in all combined articles of this kind heretofore made, because according to my
invention nothing but the ordinary boa and the ordinary muff slightly modified by the
addition of the loops are required.
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 :—
The improved method or means of connecting a muff to a boa, consisting in the
employment of loops or straps formed in or secured to the muff, and through which
loops or straps the ends of the boa are passed, as hereinbefore described, and
illustrated in the Drawings hereto annexed and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 24th day of February 1887.