IMPROVEMENTS IN SCARP RINGS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Compton Weeks Jefferys, of Tottenham
Court Road, in the County of Middlesex, Jeweller, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SCARP RINGS."
Sealed the 25th July 1873, and dated the 26th May 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICAION left by the said John Compton Weeks
Jefferys at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 26th May 1873.
I, JOHN COMPTON WEEKS JEFFERYS, of Tottenham Court Road, in
the County of Middlesex, Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for “IMPROVEMENT IN Scarf Rines,” to be a follows :—
My improvements have for their object to facilitate the application of
the scarf ring to the scarf or neckerchief, and to secure it in place when
so applied.
Articles of this kind have been made in the form of a clasp consisting
of two half hoops hinged together and secured by a snap or other
fastening, the object being as in the case of my Invention to avoid

page_text: passing the ends of the scarf or tie through the ring. Clasps of this
kind are however expensive to manufacture.
According to my Invention the ring, which may be of circular, oval,
or other suitable shape, is not made continuous, but is cut across in an
oblique direction, or made with an inclined or oblique opening at the
back through which opening the scarf or tie may be readily passed.
The ends or points must overlap or pass beyond one another so as to
present when looking through the ring the appearance of a continuous
ring in order to prevent the scarf working out through the opening.
The ends may also overlap the one behind the other instead of one
above the other.
The shape of the opening may obviously be modified without altering
the effect, for instance, it may be partly inclined or curved and partly
straight, or instead of being at the back of the ring only it may form
part of the design of the ring by making the latter in the form of an
open spiral.
To secure the ring in any position in which it may be desired to place
it, I provide it with a pin like that of an ordinary scarf pin fixed to the
back part of the ring and inserted in the scarf at back, and a latch may
be applied to close the opening if required.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Compton Weeks Jefferys in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 26th November 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
COMPTON WEEKS JEFFERYS, of Tottenham Court Road, in the County of 2
Middlesex, Jeweller, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said John Compton Weeks Jefferys,
Her special licence that I, the said John Compton Weeks Jefferys,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the

page_text: said John Compton Weeks Jefferys, 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 SCARF RINGS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Compton Weeks
Jefferys, 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 John Compton Weeks Jefferys,
do hereby declare the nature of my said 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 Sheet of
Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked
thereon (that is to say) :—
My improvements have for their object to facilitate the application of
the scarf ring to the scarf or neckerchief, and to secure it in place when
so applied.
Articles of this kind have been made in the form of a clasp consisting
of two half hoops hinged together and secured by a snap or other
fastening, the object being as with my Invention to avoid passing the
ends of the scarf or tic through the ring. Clasps of this kind are
however expensive to manufacture.
According to my Invention the ring which may be of circular, oval,
or other suitable shape is not made continuous but has an inclined or
oblique opening at the back through which opening the scarf or tie may
be readily passed. The ends or points must overlap or pass beyond
one another (so that the ring when looking through it will appear
continuous) in order to prevent the scarf working out through the
opening.
The shape of the opening may obviously be modified without altering
the effect, for instance, it may be partly inclined or curved and partly
straight, or instead of being at the back of the ring only it may form.

page_text: part of the design of the ring by making the latter in the form of an
open spiral.
To secure the ring in any position in which it may be desired to place
it, I may provided it with a pin like that of an ordinary scarf pin fixed
to the back part of the ring and intended to be inserted in the scarf at
the back. A latch may also be applied to close the opening if required.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 shows a front view%; Figure 2 a back view, and Figure 3 a
plan of a plain scarf ring made non-continuous or with an oblique
opening at a. The ring is made from a piece of metal of the proper
length and form as in Figure 4, which is bent into the form of an
oval as in Figure 3, and the ends which are cut aslant are brought
past one another but not closed together so as to leave an oblique
opening as shown in Figure 2. The one point 6 may be bent very
slightly outwards as shown to facilitate the passage of the scarf through
the opening; c is a small knob or stud soldered inside the ring near one
of the points to prevent the ring working round back to front, or the
scarf working its way out through the opening a when in wear,
Figure 5 shows a similar ring with a somewhat differently shaped
opening which may be still further varied in form without departing
from my Invention. Instead of the knob c I may sometimes provide
the ring with a short pin d as shown in Figure 6, which shows a back
view of a similar ring with a sharp pointed pin d fixed in a socket
formed or attached at the back of the ring. This pin serves to prevent the
ring slipping down the scarf or working round back to front. Figure 7
shows a side view, and Figure 8 a plan of the same ring.
In this case
the ends of the piece of metal from which the ring is made are not cut
aslant but are tapered and bent, the one upwards and the other down-
wards as seen in Figure 7 to form the opening. If the ends were
continued an open spiral would be formed as in Figure 9, which shows
a ring of this form, the space a between each convolution serving the
same purpose as the opening before described.
In some cases I may provide the ring shown in Figures 1 to 7, with a
latch to close the opening a, as shown in Figure 10, when it is unprovided
with a pin, but it may have both pin and latch if necessary; fis the
latch pivoted at g at one end and having at the other end a notch which.
takes under the head of a stud.

page_text: The ring may be made of other substances than metal, such as bone,
jet, ivory, or hard wood, and either turned over and cut across after-
wards to make the opening a, or it may be made in some cases by
softening the material by any known process and bending it into shape
as in the case of metal.
Having described the nature of my Invention and the manner in
which the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim as my
Invention to be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters
Patent is,―
1st. A scarf ring made non-continuous or with an opening a,
substantially as and for the purpose described and shown in the various
Figures of the Drawings.
2nd. The combination with a scarf ring so made of the pin d,
substantially as and for the purpose specified.
3rd. The application to the opening a of the latch f, substantially as
described in reference to Figure 10.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Compton Weeks Jefferys,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of
November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-three.