IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS FOR SCARFS AND LIKE ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL
Year: 1885

page_text: Wearing Apparel.
1 REGINALD HAUSLER ROKEBY WILKINSON, of No 3, Alfred Place, West in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "
IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS FOR SCARFS AND LIKE ARTICLES OF WEARING
APPAREL," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a device for fastening or securing scarfs to the collar
of the wearer, thereby preventing the scarf from working up with the friction of
the coat or waiscoat collar.
The fastener consists of two or more pieces of metal hinged together and main-
tained in either close or open position by means of a sort of knife spring. To one
of the hinged portions a pin is attached, the other portion being recessed to receive
the point thereof. To apply the fastener it is opened to the full extent and placed
under and around the lower edge of the collar and tie or scarf. The two portions
are then fixed together and the pin caused to perforate the collar and scarf or tic
thereby binding the two together. The fastener may be made in any metal, such
as gold, silver, or steel, which possesses the requisite elasticity.
HUGHES & SON,
Agents for the Petitioner.

page_text: wearing Apparel
I, REGINALD HAUSLER ROKEBY WILKINSON, of No 3 Alfred Place West, in the
County of Middlesex, Gentleman, 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 a device for fastening or securing scarfs to the collar of
the wearer, thereby preventing the scarf from working up with the friction of the
coat or waistcoat collar.
The fastener consists of two or more pieces of metal hinged together and main-
tained in either close or open position by means of a knife spring. To one of the
hinged portions a pin is attached, the other portion being recessed to receive the
point thereof. To apply the fastener it is opened to the full extent and placed
under and around the lower edge of the collar and tie or scarf. The two portions
are then forced together and the pin caused to perforate the collar and scarf or tie
thereby binding the two together. The fastener may be made in any metal, such
as gold silver or steel, which possesses the requisite elasticity.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have hereto
annexed a sheet of drawings illustrative thereof.
In Figure 1 my fastener is shewn closed.
In Figure 2 it is partially open.
In Figure 3 it is shewn open to the fullest extent, and,
Figure 4 illustrates the method of applying the same.
It is obvious that the fastener may be constructed in various ways, but I have
found it convenient to stamp out the parts marked a from a single piece of metal,
thereby forming the tail piece a which receives the pin c the tumbler a¹ and the
two wings a². The two wings support a pin or pivot which serves as a fulcrum for
an arm b in which the pin c is fixed. To the extremity of the arm b is soldered a
"knife
spring & which bears upon the "tumbler" a¹ and makes the fastener
secure.
"
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is :-
The construction of fasteners for scarfs and similar articles of wearing apparel
substantially as herein shewn and described.