Improvements in Appliances for Securing and Holding in Position Ladies' and Gentlemen's Cuffs.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 15th June, 1893-Accepted, 15th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for Securing and Holding in Position
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Cuffs.
We JOHN HAWTHORN and JOHN PEMBERTON LIDDELL of the Firm of
John Hawthorn and Company of New Town Stockport in the County of Chester
Engineers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
Our said invention relates to an appliance for securing and holding in position
the loose cuffs as usualy worn by gentlemen at the wrist and which are detached
from the shirt sleve.
Our invention consists of an automatic spring clip sewn inside the coat or jacket
sleve and which receives the cuff between its upper and lower arms securely
holding the same in any position desired.
We propose to make the said clip from wire which is bent, in form something like
a pair of ordinary sugar tongues but with only the required space between the arms
to admit a cuff to pass easily.
At the end of each arm we have in place of the spoon shaped ends as in sugar
tongues a ring formed by the wire in which is inserted a pad of india rubber or
other suitable material the spring of the wire presses these two pads together and
between the said pads and the top and bottom arm of the clip the cuff is passed.
The pads bearing upon the cuff with such pressure as to hold them in the desired
position as placed by the wearer.
We can also make our appliance by stamping the clip out of a piece of sheet
metal and afterwards bending into shape.
In each cuff holder suitable provision is made for stitching inside the garment
sleve.
Dated this 15th dor of Sontember 1899
JOHN HAWTHORN.
JOHN PEMBERTON LIDDELL.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for Securing and Holding in Position
Ladies' and Gentlemen's Cuffs.
We JOHN HAWTHORN and JOHN PEMBERTON LIDDELL of the Firm of
John Hawthorn and Company of New Town, Stockport, in the County of Chester,
Engineers, 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 and accompanying drawings:-
Our said invention relates to an appliance for securing and holding in position
the loose cuffs usually worn by gentlemen at the wrist and which are detached from
the shirt sleeve.
Our invention consists of an automatic spring clip sewn inside the coat or jacket
sleeve and arranged to receive the cuff between its upper and lower arms securely
holding the same in any position desired.
We propose to make the said clip from wire which is bent in form something
like a pair of ordinary sugar tongs but with only the required space between the
arms to admit a cuff to pass easily.
At the end of each arm we have in place of the spoon shaped ends as in sugar
tongs, a ring, formed by the wire, in which is inserted a pad of india rubber
or other suitable material; the spring of the wire presses these two pads together,

page_text: and between the said pads and the top and bottom arm of the clip, the cuff is
passed, the pads bearing upon the cuff with such pressure as to hold it in the
desired position as placed by the wearer.
We can also make our appliance by stamping the clip out of a piece of sheet
metal and afterwards bending it into shape. In each cuff holder suitable provision
is made for stitching inside the garment sleeve.
In order that our invention may be fully understood we will now proceed to
describe the same with reference to the annexed sheet of illustrative drawings.
Fig. 1 is a side view of our improved cuff holder formed from wire bent to the
required shape.
Fig. 2., is a plan of Fig. 1.
Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views of our improved cuff holder fashioned from sheet
metal.
Figs. 5 and 6 are enlarged views illustrating the gripping pads and the mode of
applying and fixing them to the cuff holder.
Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, the cuff holder is made by bending a piece of wire
into the sugar tong shaped clip shown at Fig. 1. The free end of the arm a of
the clip, is bent into an eye, which surrounds and holds a gripping pad b, of rubber
or other suitable material.
The opposite end of the arm a¹ is also bent into an eye to receive and hold
another pad which might be formed of bone, wood or other suitable material.
The centres of the two pads are exactly opposite to each other and are pressed
together by the spring action of the clip, so as to hold a cuff when placed between
the pads. The arm a¹ is slightly prolonged past the pad b' so as to form a small
eye a² at the end as in the diagram c. This can be utilised in stitching or otherwise
securing the clip to the inside of the coat sleeve.
The other point of attachment would be near the bend of the clip. The back
of the rubber pad b projects slightly above the surface of the metal arm a and
prevents the metal from coming into direct contact with the arm of the wearer.
When the improved cuff holder is fixed to the inside of the sleeve as directed, the
linen cuff can be thrust over the hand and up the sleeve. In passing up the sleeve
the cuff is slipped between the gripping pads and these pads will hold the cuff in
any adjusted position.
Referring to Figs. 3 and 4 the said figs. illustrate our improved cuff holder
formed from sheet metal.
We punch or form a flat strip of metal to the proper shape, and then bend it
into the sugar tongs form shown at Fig. 3, so as to comprise a clip composed of two
arms a and a¹. The arm a' is formed with eyes d d d d by which the cuff holder is
secured to the inner side of a coat sleeve or jacket. The gripping pads 6 b' are carried
by the free ends of the limbs a a' and the said limbs are so set as to press the pads
together with an elastic pressure. A hole is punched in the arm a to receive the
rubber pad b and this pad is sprung into the punched hole. In punching the hole
a tooth or projection e is left as clearly shown at Fig. 6, which engages with the
neck of the rubber pad and holds it so that the pad is not pulled out of its seat by
the rubbing action of the cuff. More than one tooth or projection e might be
used or a series of small serrations might be formed all round the inner circumference
of the hole. As has been said the pad 6' is preferably of wood or bone and in the
present instance this pad is contained in a seat pressed in the metal arma. The pad
and its seat are clearly shown at Fig. 5. The top of the pad b' is slightly hollowed
so as to fit the convex face of the pad b. This enables the opposing pads to grip
the cuff better.
As in the case of Figs. 1 and 2 the back of the rubber pad b projects slightly
above the surface of the metal limb a and so prevents the metal from touching the
arm of the wearer. The arms a a¹ might be plain or they might be corrugated or
ribbed as indicated in the drawings so as to confer additional strength.
Instead of the gripping pads being made one of wood or bone and the other of
rubber as described, both might be of wood or other suitable material; in which

page_text: latter case it would be advisable to roughen their faces to enable them better to
grip the glazed cuff.
We however advise the use of rubber in one or both of these pads. Pads fitted
and applied as herein before described might be used in conjunction with cuff holders
of construction different from those herein before described.
The metal from which our improved cuff holders are made should be of brass or
other metal not liable to oxydation. If made of steel and the like it would be
desirable to electro-plate or coat them so as to prevent the formation of rust spots
on the linen of the cuffs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is.
1) A cuff holder composed of a single piece of wire or sheet metal bent into the
form of a pair of sugar tongs, in combination with gripping pads of rubber or
rubber in conjunction with other material or with both pads of other material than
rubber to grip and hold the cuff as hereinbefore described and as illustrated in the
drawings.
2) As adjuncts to cuff holders of the indicated or of other analogous description
the employment of rubber gripping pads spring or inserted into holes or seats in
the limbs, arms or jaws of a cuff holder, the said holes or seats being formed with
a projection or tooth or projections or teeth to engage with and hold the rubber
pads when inserted substantially as described and as shown.
3) As adjuncts to cuff holders of the indicated description the employment of a
rubber pad sprung into a toothed hole in one of the limbs of the cuff holder and
opposed to a similar pad of wood, bone or other suitable material, held in a seat in
the other limb of the cuff holder, substantially as described and as shown in
Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings.
Dad thin 14th dow of T.
1000
E. K. DUTTON & Co.,
5, John Dalton Street, Manchester, Agents.