Year: 1894

page_text: HENRY WARDLE 94 Market Street Manchester Estate Agent do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
:-
A steel spring cuff retainer or holder to fit on to the cuffs with clips in various
sizes to suit the cuffs.
The linen cuff retainer or holder is a thin, narrow steel spring, fixed around
inside the top of the linen cuff, with three small clips, which when the cuff is
placed inside the sleave of the coat, the cuff retainer or holder presses the linen
cuff against the coat sleave preventing the cuff slipping down over the hand as the
user walks, enabling him to shew as much or as little of the cuff as he desires to,
without the annoyance as before mentioned.
Dated thin with don of s. 100.1
I HENRY WARDLE Estate Agent 94 Market Street Manchester in the County
of Lancashire 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 :-
My invention relates to an appliance for holding or regulating linen cuffs which
enables them to be worn so as to display as much of the cuff below the coat sleave
as the wearer desires, without the inconvenience of the cuff slipping over the hands,
also enabling the cuff to be worn, but not to extend below the coat sleave, by way
of keeping the cuff clean, when at business or driving during wet weather, &c., and
it consists of a thin piece of straight spring steel on which are rivetted or fastened
at some distance from each other, three small spring steel clips which when clipped
on the top part of the cuff, the spring being inside, forces the cuff against the coat
sleave with sufficient strength, that prevents the cuff slipping down or moving from
the desired position.
Fig. 2 is a view shewing such retainer or holder fixed on the linen cuff, ready
for use & placing in the cuff of the coat sleave.
Fig. 1. represents a suitable form of construction of my improved cuff retainer or
holder, which is composed of a straight piece of thin spring steel "D. D" made
a. b. C.
from a single piece of metal, upon which are rivetted three small clips
made of the same material.
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To use this retainer or holder, after you have fixed on the linen cuff the
ordinary cuff link, bend the retainer or holder, see Fig. 3. so that it will fit inside
the other end of the linen cuff to which the cuff links are fasteued, then fix on the
linen cuff, the clips Fig. 1. a. b. c. which will hold the spring inside the cuff in the
position as shewn in Fig. 2, then put the linen cuff inside the cuff of the coat sleave
to the desired position, that is, so as to shew the linen cuff at the end of the coat
sleave or as extending beyond it, as the wearer desires, when it will be held by the
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page_text: "spring" of the cuff retainer or holder, which being inside the linen cuff & having
sufficient spring force so as to hold the linen cuff in the desired position as
aforesaid: The linen cuff can be moved upwards within the coat sleave or
downwards as the wearer desires by simply pushing the linen cuff upwards or
pulling it downwards, as the cuff retainer or holder only presses against the coat
sleave as aforesaid so as to hold the linen cuff as placed, but it does not prevent
the wearer from moving the linen cuff upwards or downwards as desired.
Although I prefer to form my cuff retainer or holder of metal, it will be readily
understood, that the same might be made of any other suitable material, & the size
& shape of same may be varied without departing from the nature of my invention,
instead of having three clips, two might be used placed at a suitable distance from
each other.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is-
1. A retainer or holder for holding linen cuff in a desired position inside the
coat sleave, composed of a straight piece of thin spring steel upon which are
rivetted or fastened two or three small steel clips, which when fastened on the
linen cuff, forces the cuff against the coat sleave substantially as described.
Dated the 23rd day of January 1895.
HENRY WARDLE.