improved Connections or fastenings for Wrist Buttons or sleeve Links, Applicable also to Buttons for other Purposes.
Year: 1885

page_text: improved Connections or fastenings for Wrist Buttons or sleeve
Links, Applicable also to Buttons for other Purposes.
I, SAMUEL WAINWRIGHT WHITHAM, of 22 Park Place, Leeds in the County of
York, Merchant do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVED
CONNECTIONS OR FASTENINGS FOR WRIST BUTTONS, OR SLEEVE-LINKS, APPLICABLE
ALSO TO BUTTONS. FOR OTHER PURPOSES, to be as follows:―
My invention relates to improved connections, whereby the buttons or studs
forming wrist-links, or for other purposes, are more readily coupled together,
without passing such buttons or studs through the button holes of the cuffs or
wristbands.
To carry out my invention, I form the connecting link, or bar, with a spring
hook at one end, or at both ends thereof, such spring-hook, somewhat resembling
in its construction, the swivel attached to an ordinary watch-chain.
The shanks, or loops, of the studs or buttons, are passed through the buttonholes
of the cuffs, or wrist-bands, from the outside, and the spring-hook connecting link
is then clasped upon both such shanks or loops, one end to each sbank or loop.
When the connecting link is formed with only one spring-hook, the end of the
connecting link, opposite to the spring-hook, is formed into a loop, and the shank
of one of the studs is clasped in the opened spring hook, and passed up to the
looped end of the connecting link. The connecting link is then passed through
one of the button holes of the cuff, from the outside to the inside of the cuff,
thereby bringing one of the studs or buttons into the required position. The
other stud or button then has its loop or shank passed through the other button
bole, and is clasped by the spring-hook end of the connecting link.
By means of this improved connection, much trouble and time is saved in fixing
and securing the links, by passing only the shanks or loops through the button
holes, as herein described, and the cuffs are not soiled, creased, or unduly worn, as
is the case when the button or stud has to be forced through the button-hole.
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Dated this nineteenth day of June 1885.

page_text: Amprovem
Links, Applicable also to Buttons for other Purposes.
I, SAMUEL WAINWRIGHT WHITHAM, of 22 Park Place, Leeds in the County of
York, Merchant do hereby declare the nature of the said 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 improved connections or fastenings for wrist buttons,
whereby the buttons or studs forming wrist links, or for other purposes, are more
readily coupled together, without passing such buttons or studs through the button
holes of the cuffs or wristbands.
To carry out my invention, I form the connecting link or bar with a spring
hook at one end, or at both ends thereof; such spring hook somewhat resembling
in its construction the swivel attached to an ordinary watch chain.
The shanks or loops of the studs or buttons are passed through the button holes
of the cuffs or wristbands from the outside, and the spring hook connecting link is
then clasped upon both such shanks or loops, one end to each shank or loop.
When the connecting link is formed with only one spring hook, the end of the
connecting link opposite to the spring hook is formed into a loop, and the shank of
one of the studs is clasped in the opened spring hook and passed up to the looped
end of the connecting link. The connecting link is then passed through one of
the button holes of the cuff, from the outside to the inside of the cuff, thereby
bringing one of the studs or buttons into the required position. The other stud or
button then has its loop or shank passed through the other button hole and is
clasped by the spring hook end of the connecting link.
By means of this improved connection much trouble and time is saved in fixing
and securing the links by passing only the shanks or loops through the button
holes, as herein described, and the cuffs are not soiled, creased, or unduly worn, as
is the case when the button or stud has to be forced through the button hole.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood, I will proceed to
describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1
represents a perspective view of a pair of wrist studs or buttons, connected by
means of a single spring clip or loop, the combination forming what are commonly
known as wrist-links. Figure 2 represents a perspective view of a pair of wrist
studs, in other respects similar to those represented at Figure 1, but connected
by means of a double spring clip. Figure 3 represents the studs or buttons
connected by means of an elongated, and slightly elastic "S" hook, and Figure 4
the "S" book as applied to Figure 3..
Simular letters refer to similar parts in each Figure. The studs or buttons are
represented at A and the shanks thereof at B. The spring-clip or other device for
connecting or coupling the two wrist studs or buttons is represented at C.
In the wrist links represented in Figure 1, one end of the single spring clip may
be permanently attached to one of the studs or buttons, and in fixing the studs to
the wristband the clip attached to the stud is first passed through the button hole

page_text: and the stud pulled into its place. The shank of the other button is passed
through the other button hole and the loose end of the spring clip is then hooked
upon this shank, whereby the two studs are connected or coupled.
The modifications represented at Figures 2 and 3 may be fixed in their
required position in the wristbands by passing the shanks of both studs or
buttons through their button holes, and then hooking the double spring clip or
8" hook upon the projecting shanks of such studs or buttons, thereby connecting
or coupling them.
"
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 single or double spring clip or "8"hook C, for connecting or coupling
wrist studs, or buttons, substantially as set forth, and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.
WILLIAM JAMES BAKER,
Agent for the Applicant.