Improvements in Links for Fastening Cuffs and other similar articles.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 31st July, 1891
Complete Specification Left. 12th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 14th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Links for Fastening Cuffs and other similar
articles.
ARTHUR JOSEPH NEEDHAM HORACE CANNING NEEDHAM and WALTER
CECIL NEEDHAM Manufacturers 6, Hammersmith Terrace, London W. do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our improvements consist in constructing the buttons and link so that the said
buttons may be turned down and fastened, or snapped, into the link, parallel with
said link, thereby making the link and buttons similar to a solid bar, so that it may
be pushed, or pulled through the button holes in cuffs and other similar articles
with ease, and when through, the said buttons are released from catch in link, and
returned into the ordinary position.
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T. 1001
ARTHUR JOSEPH NEEDHAM.
HORACE CANNING NEEDHAM.
WALTER CECIL NEEDHAM.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Links for Fastening Cuffs and other similar
articles.
We ARTHUR JOSEPH NEEDHAM, HORACE CANNING NEEDHAM, and WALTER
CECIL NEEDHAM, Manufacturers, all of 6 Hammersmith Terrace, Hammersmith,
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 :-
The object of this invention is to facilitate the insertion into shirt cuffs and
other articles of wearing apparel, of what are known as sleeve links.
To attain this end, we so construct the buttons on the loop link constituting
together the sleeve link, that by applying pressure to the buttons they may be
brought parallel to the link, and held rigidly in that position, to facilitate their
entrance end wise into, and passage through the button holes of the shirt cuff or
other article. When thus inserted endwise into the button holes, the buttons may
be made readily to resume their acting position at an angle to the link.
In the accompanying drawing,
Fig. 1 shows a back view of the sleeve link constructed according to our inven-
tion, laid out rigidly, or in the position for insertion into a cuff.
Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same, and Fig. 3 is a side view of the sleeve link
in its acting or retaining position.
In these figures, a a are the buttons, coupled together by a loop link b.
The buttons are each furnished at back with a rib c, which serves the purpose of
a shank, being pierced to receive the loop link through it. These ribs have also
another object, viz. :-to snap into the loop link, when pressed into the position
shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and thereby give rigidity to the buttons while being
inserted in the cuff.
The loop link is made preferably of round wire, as usual, and the lateral elasticity
of the link is made available for retaining the buttons, for the time being, in a
position parallel to the link. To secure the snapping action desired, the face of
the rib is slightly broadened by burnishing or otherwise, so that when the button is
pressed against the link, the broad face of the rib will slightly distend the loop
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page_text: laterally, and, on the broadened part passing through the link, the recoil action of
the wire will grip the rib firmly.
It will now be understood that on the insertion of the sleeve link into the cuff or
other article to which it is to be applied, the buttons may be readily tipped into
the position of Figure 3, to make the attachment complete.
In some cases, we propose to form the loop links with projections, as at d, Fig. 4,
for the purpose of retaining the buttons in contact with their respective button
holes, and keeping the sleeve link at tension.
It will be obvious that instead of giving the rib, at the back of the buttonhole,
a length equal to the length of the button, as shewn at Fig. 1 in the drawing,
which allows of the button being snapped into the loop link at either side thereof,
the rib may extend to one end only of the buttons, as shewn at Fig. 4, but we
prefer the arrangement shewn at Fig. 1, as the snapping of the button into its
fixed position is thereby facilitated.
Again, in carrying out our invention, we do not consider it necessary to form
both buttons with a snapping rib at the back, as the advantage of our invention
may be obtained when one button only is thus furnished, the other being provided
with an ordinary shank.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is :--
Constructing sleeve links with a button or buttons, which will, when turned back,
snap into the looped coupling of the link, and be held fast thereby, as and for the
purpose above set forth.
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1001
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicants.