An Improved Combination Stud for Fastening the Shirt and Securing the Scarf in Position.
Year: 1885

page_text: An Improved Combination Stud for Fastening the Shirt and
Securing the Scarf in Position.
MAURICE JOHN ALEXANDER, Diamond Merchant. 16 Hatton Garden, in the
County of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "AN
IMPROVED COMBINATION STUD" FOR FASTENING THE SHIRT & SECURING THE
SCARF COMBINED to be as, follows:-
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My Invention is designed to afford means whereby gentlemen can securely.
fasten their scarf to prevent it becoming disarranged & to obviate the use of pins
in securing same thus preventing damage to shirt front & at same time giving
perfect security.
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For this purpose I provide an ordinary shirt stud with a pin attached in front
bent to shape of a hook which after having been passed through the button hole
of shirt forms a fastening to attach to scarf thus securing the scarf in position.
It is obvious that I might make the stud in many different shapes & designs but
the essential feature thereof being the securing of the scarf by means of the hook
attached to the stud.

page_text: Securing the scari in rosition.
I, MAURICE JOHN ALEXANDER, of 16 Hatton Garden, in the County of
Middlesex, 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:-
My invention relates to an improved device whereby the ends of a scarf or neck-
tie can be secured to the front of the wearer's shirt in such a manner that the, said
scarf or neck-tie will not be liable to disarrangement or displacement. The said.
device is, moreover, so constructed that it, will also serve as a stud for fastening
the front of the shirt.
When a scarf or neck-tie is passed around the wearer's neck and fastened by a
sailor's knot, or by a scarf-ring, or otherwise, so that the two ends of the tie hang
down in front of the chest, these ends, unless secured to the shirt-front, are liable
to become disarranged or displaced. This inconvenience has frequently been
obviated by fastening the tie to the shirt-front by means of an ordinary pin, but
this is objectionable by reason of the injury thus caused. to the shirt-front.
Moreover the pin is liable to become loose and fall out. By my invention,
I provide a device which cannot be accidentally withdrawn, and which will not
injure the shirt-front like an ordinary pin, and which is, moreover, very easily.
inserted into the 'shirt-front and tie.
My improved device consists of a shirt-stud made in the ordinary or any.
suitable manner and provided at its outer end with a pin extending at a right
angle, or approximately at a right angle, to the axis of the said stud.
The said device is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which
Figure 1 is a front view, and
Figure 2 an edge view of the said device.
a indicates the stud and b the pin. In using the said device, the pin and the
stem of the stud are first passed through button-holes in the two parts of the shirt-
front, to fasten the same in the ordinary manner. The device is then so placed
that the pin is horizontal, and the said pin is passed through the two ends of the
scarf or neck-tie. The pin is then turned down into a vertical position, thereby
securely fastening the scarf or neck-tie to the shirt-front.
I prefer that the angle formed by the pin and the stem of the stud should be an
acute angle, slightly less than a right angle, as shewn in the drawing, because the
turning of the device is more effectually prevented when thus made.
It is obvious that the construction of the said device can be somewhat modified
without departing from the nature of my invention. For instance, the pin may
be arranged to turn in, or upon, the stem of the stud, instead of being rigidly
attached thereto.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it understood
that I claim:-
The improved device consisting of the stud and pin combined substantially as
described for the purpose specified.