Improvements in Shirts and Cuffs.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 20th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 4th May, 1895
Improvements in Shirts and Cuffs.
I, CHARLES WALTER SNELL, of 59 Palace Road, Crouch End, in the County
of London, Insurance Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This my invention has reference to certain new and useful improvements in shirts
and shirt cuffs; the object of the invention being to provide firstly, an improved
cuff capable of being quickly applied to a shirt sleeve, and secondly, to adapt said
shirt sleeves for attachment thereto of my improved cuffs.
By this invention, the cuff when attached to the sleeve, has the appearance of
being a part thereof, and is not visible when looking up the sleeve.
In carrying out my invention, the shirt sleeve is made with a short and preferably
stiffened wrist-band. This wrist-band has two, three, or more loops or slits arranged
equi-distant and parallel with and preferably near to the junction of the wrist-band
with the softer material of the sleeve.
The cuff is formed in the usual manner at one end and provided with loops or
slits for links; but its opposite end is stitched across in such manner as to form two
flaps. One of these flaps is adapted to pass beneath the wrist-band of the shirt
sleeve, and the other one to pass over it. The under flap has two, three, or more
tags equidistantly arranged along its edge and adapted to pass through the loops or
slits aforementioned, in the sleeve, from the underside.
When the tags are placed through the loops or slits and folded forwardly over
the wrist-band, the upper flap of the cuff folded over the tags, and the cuff and
wrist-band bent around and held by cuff links, the cuff cannot be detached from the
wrist-band.
Dated this 15th day of March 1895
CHAS. W. SNELL.
Improvements in Shirts and Cuffs.
I, CHARLES WALTER SNELL, of 59 Palace Road, Crouch End, in the County
of London, Insurance Agent, 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 my invention has reference to certain new and useful improvements in shirts
and shirt cuffs; the object of the invention being to provide firstly, an improved
cuff capable of being quickly applied to a shirt sleeve, and secondly, to adapt said
shirt sleeves for attachment thereto of my improved cuffs.
By this invention, the cuff when attached to the sleeve, has the appearance of
being a part thereof, and is not visible when looking up the sleeve.
Reference being had to the accompanying drawings hereunto annexed,
Fig. 1, represents a shirt cuff made in accordance with my invention.
Fig. 2 represents my improved cuff opened out.
Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the cuff, taken on the line x x of Fig. 2.

page_text: Fig. 4. illustrates my improved cuff attached to the shirt sleeve, and partly
broken away to show the method of attachment.
Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on the line y y of Figs. 1 and 2, shewing the cuff
attached to the wristband and the method of attachment.
In carrying out my invention, the shirt sleeve A is made with a short and
preferably stiffened wrist-band B. This wristband has two, three, or more loops
or slits arranged equi-distant and parallel with and preferably near to the
junction of the wristband with the softer material of the sleeve.
The cuff D is formed in the usual manner at one end and provided with loops or
slits E for links; but its opposite end is stitched across at F in such manner as to
form two flaps G, H; one of these flaps G is adapted to pass beneath the wrist-
band B of the shirt sleeve, and the other one H,'to pass over it. The under flap G
has two, three, or more tags I, equidistantly arranged along its edge and adapted
to pass through the loops or slits C, in the wrist-band, from the underside.
When the tags I are placed through the loops or slits C and folded forwardly
over the wrist band, as shown in Fig. 4, the upper flap H of the cuff folded over
the tags 1, and the cuff and wrist band bent around and held by cuff links, (Fig. 4),
the cuff cannot be readily detached from the wrist-band.
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) The herein described improvements in shirts, consisting in forming the
sleeves thereof with a narrow wrist-band, and two, three, or more slits or loops made
in the wrist-band, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth and
illustrated in the drawings hereunto annexed.
(2) The herein before described improvement in cuffs, consisting in forming the
cuff with flaps, adapted to enclose the wrist-band of a shirt between them, and one
flap having tags formed at its edge, all substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described and illustrated in the drawings hereunto annexed.
Dated this 19th day of March 1895.
CHAS. W. SNELL.