An Improved Device for Securing Scarf Pins and other Ornaments.
Year: 1894

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Securing Scarf Pins and other Ornaments.
I, ARTHUR OLDCORN of 7 and 8, Princes Buildings, Coventry Street,
Haymarket, London W, Chemist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved device to be used in securing scarf pins
and other ornaments to the dress, and is intended to provide a simple and
inexpensive arrangement which can be easily fixed in place, and which will hold
the pins safely.
The device consists of a small spring clip which may be similar in construction
to the clips at present in use for securing dress ties to the front of the shirts.
These clips cominonly consist of two plates hinged together, with a spring, closing
them at one end, that end being provided with teeth, gripping the tie.
According to my invention I cover the inner surfaces of the clips with rubber,
or other soft and resilient material, so that the pin is gripped between two rubber
surfaces, and owing to the pressure on the spring is held firmly in place. The
rubber can be placed on the clip as a solution and allowed to dry, on the surface of
the plate can be covered in any other suitable manner.
According to a convenient arrangement, the two sides of the clip may be made
Cucular with sei rated surfaces coated as above mentioned, so that on closing they
will have a circular form and hold the pin more firmly. The pin is released by
simply pressing the outer ends of the clip together. Another form of clip which
may be used for this purpose is made from a split sping ring with bent ends which
are pressed together by the spuing and grip the pin or other article between thein
These clips may be arranged to open on pressing the ring. Other forms of spring
clip can be employed if desired, which will serve the desired purpose.
Studs, links, solitaires, brooches and the like can also be secured with this
arrangement in a sunilar manner to that already described
Dated this 4th day of October 1894.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
An Improved Device for Securing Soarf Pins and other Ornaments.
1, ARTHUR OLDCORN of 7 and 8, Princes Buildings, Coventry Street,
Haymarket, London, W. Chemist, 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 :-
This invention relates to an improved device to be used in securing scarf pins
and other ornaments to the dress, and for fastening articles of dress, and N
intended to provide a simple and inexpensive arrangement which can be easily
fixed in place, aud which will hold the pins safely.

page_text: The device consists of a small spring chip which may be similar in construction
to the clips at present in use for securing dress ties to the front of the shits.
These clips commonly consist of two plates hinged together, with a spring, closing
them at one end, that end being provided with teeth, gripping the tie.
According to my invention I cover the inner mifices of the chips with rubber,
o other soft and resilient material, so that the pin is gupped between two rubber
surfaces, and owing to the pressure on the spring is held firmly in place. The
rubber can be placed on the clip as a solution and allowed to diy, on the surface
of the plate can be covered in any other suitable manner.
According to a convenient arrangement, the two sides of the clip may be made
circular with serrated surfaces conted as above mentioned, so that on closing they
will have a circular form and hold the pin more firmly. The pin is released by
simply pressing the outer ends of the clip together.
Another form of chip which may be used for this purpose is made from a split
spring ring with bent ends which are pressed together by the spring and grip the
pin or other article between them These clips may be arranged to open on
pressing the ring.
Other forms of spring clip can be employed if desned, which will sorve the
desired purpose.
Studs, links, solitanes, brooches and the like can also be secured with this
arrangement in a similar manner to that already described.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had to
the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which
Fig. 1 is section of a clip according to my invention shown as applied to a
scarf piu, Fig 2 is an elevation of the same fastener,
Fig. 3 is a section of a slight modification, and
Fig. 4 shows another modified construction of clip.
Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, the clip is constructed from a strip of spring metal
bent on doubled to form two sides A. From one of these sides the jugs a project
forming beatings in which a gripping lever B is carried. This gripping lever 18
of ordinary construction, having a bent end which bears upon the upper side of
the chip, causing the two sides to approach each other. On the mer faces of the
bent strip and at the ends the pads C of nbber on like resilient material are
fixed by cement or other suitable means The pin D is gripped between these
pads when the lever B is turned into gripping position, being released in the
ordinary manner when the lever is turned up
The pads may be secured simply by the projections a¹ at the extremities of the
chip which are bent over and grip the edges of the pads.
As shown in Fig. 3 the clip is formed from two strips A' hinged together at
about the middle and provided with the spring a causing the ends to come together
with considerable force and grip the pin between them. The pads C are secured
in the bent on recessed ends of the chip, the recesses being preferably roughened
o formed with serrated surfaces to give better gup.
In the aangement shown in Fig. 4 the clip is formed from a single strip of
metal A³ bent into ring form, the extremities of the strip being formed with the
recessed gripping aims C carrying the pads C. The ring itself forms a spring
causing the in or other article to be gupped tightly between the pads. These
clips are applicable for all the purposes to which ordinary clips are applied, but
do not mjure the cloth or other material owing to the soft gripping pads.
Having now particularly descubed and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what mauner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1.) Improvements in clips for use with scarf pins, articles of dress and the like,
consisting in securing between the gripping surfaces gripping pads of rubber or
other soft and resilient material, substantially as described and for the purposes

page_text: (2.) Improvements in clips for securing scarf pins and articles of dress,
substantially as described and shown in the accompanying drawings, and for the
purposes specified.
Dated this 4th day of July 1895.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.