IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOP FASTENERS FOR CRANDRI Th HANDERS AWD Rawng SECURING TIES, HANDKERCHIEPS, AND BANDS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Nash, of Royston, in the County of
Hertford, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOP FASTENERS FOR
CRANDRI Th
HANDERS
AWD Rawng "
Sealed the 17th November 1871, and dated the 27th May 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Nash at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
27th May 1871.
I, ARTHUR NASH, of Royston, in the County of Hertford, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOOP
FASTENERS FOR SECURING TIES, HANDKERCHIEPS, AND BANDS," to be as
follows:-
This relates to certain improvements in loop fasteners for securing
ties, handkerchiefs, and bands upon the necks or waists of persons at
any part of their length.
The Invention consists in forming loops or apertures at the back of a
ring or plate of any suitable shape; the loops are preferably formed by

page_text: separate pieces or from one piece of metal bowed out or projecting from
the ring or plate so that the ends of the tie, band, or handkerchief can
be passed through them and then drawn tight, the ends crossing each
other or not, as desired.
In some cases the loops are provided with set stones or other ornaments,
and then they can be brought to the front of the tie, handkerchief, or
band; thus the fastener would form a double or two-faced one, each
face being of a different character.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Arthur Nash in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
27th November 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ARTHUR
NASH, of Royston, in the County of Hertford, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-seventh day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Arthur Nash, Her special licence that
I, the said Arthur Nash, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Arthur Nasn, 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 LOOP FASTENERS FOR
SECURING TIES, HANDKERCHIEFS, AND BANDS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Arthur Nash, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Arthur Nash, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings here-
unto annexed, that is to say:
:-
This relates to certain improvements in loop fasteners for securing
ties, handkerchiefs, and bands upon the necks or waists of persons at
any part of their length.
The Invention consists in forming loops or apertures at the back of
a ring or plate of any suitable shape. The loops are preferably formed
by separate pieces or from one piece of metal bowed out or pro-
jecting from the ring or plate, so that the ends of the tie, band, or
handkerchief can be passed through them and then drawn tight, the
ends crossing each other or not as desired.
In some cases the loops are provided with set stones or other ornaments,
and then they can be brought to the front of the tie, handkerchief, or
band;
thus the fastener would form a double or two-faced one, each face
being of a different character.
Several forms or shapes of loop fasteners as herein-before referred to
are shown in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, Figure 1 being a per-
spective view looking on to the back, and Figure 2 a similar view looking
on to the front of an oval shaped ring a, to which a cross bar with its four
legs (loops) b, b, are secured. The legs spring from a centre c which may
or may not be set, as in Figure 3, with a diamond or other precious gem
or object, or it may be left plain, the legs being bent or looped outwards
to permit of the ends of the handkerchief, band, or tie to be passed
through diagonally, as indicated by the arrows, so that the ends cross
one another and form a secure attachment to hold the fastener in
position. The ring a is open at the centre, and the fabric of which
the tie, band, or handkerchief is composed is not compressed at that part,
so that a bulb or
"
"fulness is formed which prevents the fastener
slipping down or loosening itself by the movements of the neck or the
body of the wearer.
The fastener is at all times capable of being worn with the face or the
cross to the front, and the face may be ornamented or set or mounted to
the same pattern or design as the cross, or differently ornamented or "set,"

page_text: as desired, in which case it could be made to suit the style or colour of
the article of dress in wear, at the will of the wearer. Figure 4 represents
an open ring of circular shape, the face of which is supposed to be set
with pearls upon a blue enamel ground, but it will be understood that
any form of "setting," or "ground," or device can be arranged upon it
as before explained. Figure 5 is a view of a fastener with the face piece a
formed like a horse-shoe with a bar d to connect the heels and to form
a support to the leg 6'. The bar may be shaped to form a hunting crop
or a walking or other stick. Figure 6 represents a square shaped face
piece with the cross bars or loops b, b, at the back. Figure 7 shows
an oval ring face a with four separate loops b, b, the loops being formed
of wires bent into shape before being inserted into holes provided for
them in the back of the face piece. These loops answer the same
purpose as the cross bars, but do not admit of the fastener being a
reversible one unless a plate be attached to them. Figure 8 is a view of
the back of an oval shaped fastener with crossed wires b, b, but the
loop wires or the cross bars may be of any shape or material to obtain
the object proposed, namely, that of a self-attachment fastener into or
through the loops of which a tie, band, or handkerchief can be passed
in a diagonal manner to hold the fastener secure. In Figure 9 I have
shewn the back of a face piece a of a flat or sunken plate with a looped
plate 6 attached to it, spaces e, e, e, e, being left at opposite corners for
the tie, band, or handkerchief to be passed through, as in the previous
Figures, but this back plate 6 need not be pinned to the front plate in all
cases, as it may be brazed, soldered, or otherwise attached. The front
and back pieces may also be formed as represented in the sectional view
Figure 10, into which cameos or device plates can be set or mounted.
Figure 11 represents two plates connected by pins f, f, arranged respec-
tively at the top and bottom and at the two sides for the same purpose as
the loops in the previous Figures.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,—
Firstly. The construction of loop fasteners for securing ties, handker-
chiefs, and bands in the manner herein-before described and shewn, whether
such loops be formed of wire or other material or of bars or plates.
Secondly. I claim the combination of front and back pieces through
or between which the ends of ties, handkerchiefs, and bands can be

page_text: passed diagonally for the purpose of securing such articles, as I have
herein-before described and shown in the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Nash, 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-one.