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I've been noticing over the past few seasons that event regulations for our side of the hobby continuously refer to federal bayonet scabbards as Gaylord Pattern scabbards. Considering we consider ourselves the authentic ones we really need to discontinue using that designation. Emerson Gaylord was a contractor to the Ordnance Department. His company produced goods to Ordnance Department standards, not to his own patterns. Gaylord held a patent for a method of finishing a bayonet scabbard to make it hard and waterproof. His patent ONLY relates to the finishing method, NOT the pattern of the scabbard. The confusion seems to come in from the line drawing of a standard Federal scabbard in the patent papers, if you read the text of the patent you will see that it has nothing to do with the pattern, only the finishing.
So please, let's live up to the standard we set for ourselves and STOP calling federal scabbards Gaylord Pattern, it just undermines the credibility of the research put in to event regulations with that glaring of a mistake.
https://www.google.com/patents/US28269 - Here is a link to the patent for reference.
So please, let's live up to the standard we set for ourselves and STOP calling federal scabbards Gaylord Pattern, it just undermines the credibility of the research put in to event regulations with that glaring of a mistake.
https://www.google.com/patents/US28269 - Here is a link to the patent for reference.
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