COMMIE DI MUITIVATION
Year: 1893

page_text: COMMIE DI MUITIVATION
Improvements in Sleeve and Cuff Links.
I, WILLIAM ERNEST PATTERSON, of Warstone Lane, in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturing Jeweller, 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 improvements in sleeve and cuff links, and is an
improvement upon or an amplification of the invention described and represented
in the Specification of my Letters Patent dated the 20th day of April 1889 and
numbered 6721.
My said former Letters Patent consisted of heads, buttons or discs connected
together by primary and supplementary links. The primary link, which forms a
middle fetter, is of an extended or broad construction, having sleeve or tubular
ends, wherein the joints of the supplementary links take.
Now if the stud heads be pulled asunder with considerable or undue force the
joints of the supplementary links may open out, which would lead to the parting of
the link.
Now the object of my present invention is the fitting or joining up of the said
links in such a manner that parting is impossible unless by actual rupture of the
links, as the whole of the primary links parts have no joints, no seams and are
unsoldered.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in back elevation a sleeve
link, made, fitted and provided with improvements according to my present
invention.
Figure 2 represents an edge view of the same, whilst Figure 3 represents a
horizontal section of the same upon the dotted lines A B Figure 2.
Figure represents the said primary and supplementary or shank links
separately, or after the primary one has been connected to the secondary ones.
Figure 5 shows how the supplementary or shank links are connected to the joint
ends of the primary one.
Figure 6 represents a topside plan of the primary or middle fetter, which is
made all in one piece and from a solid drawn and seamless ring of metal before the
same has been flattened.
Figure 7 represents a longitudinal section upon the dotted lines C D Figure 6.
Figure 8 is a topside plan and Figure 9 an edge view of one of the supple-
mentary or joining-up shank links separately.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
a, a are the stud-heads or buttons, having shank loops a², and connected together
by shank or supplementary links b, 6, and a middle fetter or primary link c.
The shank links 6, which are solid or in one piece, each consists of a ring loop b',
shank and a T or cross_gudgeon end 63, with a portion of the shank and the
middle portion 6, of the T end working within the gap c', and with the gudgeon
ends 63, taking and working within the knuckle bearings c³, of the primary link c
as joint centres, whilst the middle part ³, is flat.
By connecting the said stud heads by joining-up links, which are solid or seamless
in their make, it is impossible for the said links to part, unless by actual rupture of
the metal of which they are composed.
The joining-up of the shank links , b, with the middle link or fetter c, is
performed by first opening out laterally the knuckle joint ends c², of the link c, as
in Figure 5, and then introducing the gudgeon or T ends 63, of the links », in
manner also as represented in Figure 5, and when the said gudgeon or T ends are

page_text: in position, then to laterally close the said knuckle ends c², until the same come
parallel as represented in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4.
I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the exact way in which
the links b, may be united to the link c, as the said connection may be made other
than by opening out laterally the knuckle or sleeve ends c², as in Figure 5, but the
way as shown is the one I prefer to employ.
Instead of the primary links, being made from tubing or the like, they may be
stamped from the solid, and the knuckle joints 2, drilled in the ends thereof.
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:
First. In sleeve and cuff links, connecting together or joining up the shank or
supplementary links by an end gapped and knuckle jointed flat and broad seamless
link c, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly. In the supplementary or shank links of sleeve and cuff links, consisting
of a solid or unseamed link b, having a loop at one end and a T-head or cross-
gudgeon at the other end, and with a stem between them, substantially as described
and set forth.
Thirdly. In the joining-up links of sleeve and other links consisting of primary
and supplementary links c and b, constructed, applied arranged and fitted sub-
stantially as described and set forth.
Fourthly. The improvements in sleeve and other links and the construction,
arrangement and combination of the parts substantially as described and set forth.
Dated this 17th day of August 1893.
WILLIAM ERNEST PATTERSON,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.