Ladies' Boa Fastener.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Sept.,
1894
Complete Specification Left, 10th May, 1895-Accepted, 15th June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Ladies' Boa Fastener.
FRANCIS HENRY WHITLOCK 60 Worsley Road Leytonstone London E. Coach
Trimmer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A means of fastening ladies fur or feather boas by a piece of tempered steel
wire or other suitable substance made into a coil with rounded or ball pointed ends.
Being readily attached or detached to the boa thereby obviating the necessity of
holding with the hands, and also embracing the following advantages, viz. :-Being
coiled half round to right and left it can easily be detached from either aide, while
the perfectly elastic nature of the fastener will allow it to hold or clasp to the other
side. It can be put on under the fur or feathers without injury to same, and as it
does not require to be sewn or fixed to the boa can readily be adjusted to any
position from the neck to the waist as required.
Dated this 12th day of September 1894.
FRANCIS HENRY WHITLOCK.
I, FRANCIS HENRY WHITLOCK of 60 Worsley Road, Leytonstone, in the
County of Essex, Coach Trimmer, 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 :-
A means of fastening ladies fur or feather boas, by a piece of tempered steel
wire or other suitable substance, made into a coil with rounded or ball pointed ends,
being readily attached to, or detached from the boa, thereby obviating the necessity
of holding the boa in its place by the hands, and also securing the following
advantages:-Being coiled half round to right and left it can be easily detached
from either side; it can be put on under the fur or feathers without injury to the
same; and as it does not require to be sewn on, or otherwise fixed to the boa, can
readily be adjusted to any position from the neck to the waist as required.
In order that my invention may be readily understood, I append a sheet of
drawings in which :-
Fig. 1 is an edge view, and
Fig. 2 a face view of a boa fastener according to this invention.
It will be seen that a boa fastener according to this invention consists of a length
of tempered steel wire or other suitable material, which has sufficient elasticity to
ensure its tending to assume its normal shape, or that shape which has been given
it before tempering or hardening. This shape as shewn in the drawings approaches
nearly to that of an ellipse, but the two ends cross each other at the point marked a,
and the ends being slightly turned in, the points 6 are covered with any suitable
substance, for the purpose of forming a safeguard, and preventing injury to the
materials of which the boa is formed; they thus form round or ball pointed ends.
In Fig. 1 the two ends are shewn as inclined to the plane of the ellipse, and
therefore some distance apart, but they can be made to touch each other at the
point marked a.

page_text: The exact shape shewn may be departed from or modified without going outside
the scope of my invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1st. A boa fastener consisting essentially of a wire bent into a shape suitable to
enclose and hold together two parts of a boa, and which is formed of such material
that it tends always to assume its normal or original shape, substantially as described
and shewn.
2nd. A boa fastener substantially as, and for the purpose herein before described
and shewn.
Dated this 10th dow of Mar 1905
WILLIAM J. MUNDEN,
106, Priory Park Road, Kilburn, London, N.W.,
Agent for the Applicant.