An Improvement in Sleeve Links with Spring.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Mar., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 17th Aug., 1895--Accepted, 14th Dec.. 1895
An Improvement in Sleeve Links with Spring.
JEAN ANTOINE MALAN Back of 33 Graham Street St. Paul's, Birmingham
Engraver do hereby declare the nature of this improved invention to be as
follows:-
That it is made with one front iminovably fixed at the back to one end of any shaped
bar, and the other front has two bits of round tubing wire fixed apart one another,
while the other end of bar has a square tubing fixed ou it, the length of which is
exact to the distance which separate the two bits of round tubing, bofore fixing the
square tubing between them the surface of the said front lins some of its surface
cut out between the tubings to enable to put and keep a small spring made of some thin
steel sheet. When the spring is in its place between the two bits of round tubings,
fixe the square tubing, secured at the other end of the fixed bar, on the top of the
apring between the round bits of tubings that done, pin the tubings together
with some solid wire. The advantage of this improvement is manifest at first
sight, the movable front acting on spring and do away with the looseness very
objectionable of the movable front of my Patent 509/94.
Dated this 2nd day of March 1895.
JEAN ANTOINE MALAN.
An Improvement in Sleeve Links with Spring.
I, JEAN ANTOINE MALAN, of Back of 33 Graham Street, St. Paul's, in the
City of Birmingham Engraver 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 links, and has for its objecta,.
the holding or retaining stiff of the heads or front of the said links in a determined
position in order to facilitate the threading of the same through the button holes
of a cuff, and to make the said heads, when threaded, fall to the contour or curve
of a cuff.
My said invention consists in connecting the heads or fronts of a sleeve link
together by a fetter bar terminating differently or formed with stops at each end,
one said end being made slanting and straight and the other rounded off but also
slanting, so as to limit the extent of the change of position of the fronts relative to
the bar, and also in connecting one end of the said bar to one of the fronts by a double
joint, which is stiffened and retained in the required position for steadying the fronts
during insertion through a button hole by a spring and which admits of the said
front or head turning flat upon the bar and also changing its angular position
relative thereto in order to better follow the curvo of a cuff.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing ropresents my improved sleeve link, with
the one front turned flat with the fetter bar and showing the double jointed end of
the said bar and the spring for steadying or stiffening the joint and retaining the
front in position during insertion.

page_text: Figure 2 is a similar view as Figure 1, but with the bar turned upon its joint.
Figure 3 is a plan of the link.
Figure 4 is a view of the link with the joints in section and showing the shapo
of the stop ends of the fetter bar.
Figure 5 is a section of the double joint head upon the dotted line x-a
Figure 3.
A, A' are the two fronts or buttons, connected together by a fetter bar D,
jointed at its ends D', D' to ears E, E; the said bar E' is made fast to the
front A', whilst the car E is a part turning one and is pivoted at C, to the back of
the front or button A, in a right augled direction to the pivot D., so that the
fettor is connected to the back A, by a double and right angled joint.
The underside of the ear E is flat and presses upon a spring B which is, at one
end, fixed within a sinking B1, in the back of the button A, so that when the car is
turned upon its side or brought upright it is thero held or steadied.
The ends D', D', of the bar D, are formed into stops for limiting the angular
movement of the fronts relative to the fetter.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declaro that what I
claim is :-
First. In sleeve links, connecting the fronts or heads to the fetter bar by a
double and right angled joint to admit of the said frouts turning flat to the bar for
insertion and turning back again when in position in the cuff, substantially as
described and set forth.
Secondly. In sleeve liuks, forming the ends of the fetter bar with stops for
limiting the angular movement of the heads relative to the said bar, substantially
as described and set forth.
.
· Thirdly. In sleeve links, the general construction, arrangement and combination
of the parts, substantially as and for the purposes described and set forth.
Dated this 28th day of November 1895.
JEAN ANTOINE MALAN,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.