Year: 1899

page_text: I, THOMAS DUGDALE STUBBS, of Victoria Buildings, Corporation Street, in
the City of Birmingham, Iron Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has relation to sleeve, cuff and like links, and has for its object,
to so construct or connect the buttons or heads to the connecting fetters that the
same admit of being easily threaded through the button holes of a garment.
This I propose to accomplish by dispensing with the old shanks and employing in
substitution therefor, or in lieu thereof, a bar which lies flush or nearly so
with the back of the button or head and diametrically crossing a middle or
other sinking.
In carrying out one form of my invention, I make up the button from two
shells, viz., a back shell and a front, with the said back part sunken or having a
well formed within its middle and crossing it at the mouth or entrance, is a
straight or other bar or wire constituting a flush shank, which either lies in the
same plane as the back, or is set slightly below it within the sinking and to this
bar an end of a fetter link constituting the means of connecting the two heads
of the fastener together, or comprising one of a series of links, is jointedly attached.
In order that there shall be no obstructions standing above the back of the
button or head to form an impediment to easy threading, I also propose to
form within the said back, another sinking or channel or sinkings directed from
the aforesaid middle sinking either to the one edge or to both the opposite edges,
wherein the fetter lies flush during the time the head is being passed through a
button hole. When the head is of an elliptical figure, the flush bar may lie in the
direction of either the minor or the major axis of it. The button or head may be
formed from a single shell and the well or sinking at the back of it may be
made to form an embossed ornament at the front, or it may constitute a setting
for a stone or other embellishment.
The crossing bar may be fetched up from the metal at the bottom of the sinking,
or it may be cut out from, and be formed solid with, the metal of the back, with
the clearance or sinking formed as a hole or opening. Where the back is made
as a disc without an attached front, then the edges of the said disc may be turned
or rolled over but not to such an extent as to interfere with the flatness or impair
the easy threading of the head.
The ends of the fetter link or links which join onto the flush bar, may be turned
down at right angles so as to admit of the same lying flat to the back.
As a further form of my invention, I may raise within the bottom of the
sinking, a teat or swelling which is shaped to the form of an eye or shank which is

page_text: made solid with the metal of the back, whilst I form channels or depressions leading
from the sinking to the opposite edges of the head and in which the fetter link
lies and comes below the plane of the back of the stud. Or the hole in the back
may be sunken with a raised part to form the shank, or it may be provided with
a crossing bar.
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1000
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sleeve, Cuff, and like Links.
I, THOMAS DUGDALE STUBBS, of Victoria Buildings, Corporation Street, in
the City of Birmingham, Iron Merchant, 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 has relation to sleeve, cuff and like links, and has for its object,
to construct the buttons or heads and connect them to the joining up links or
fetters in such a manner that they admit of being easily threaded through the
button holes of a garment. This I propose to accomplish by dispensing with
the ordinary outstanding shanks and employing in substitution therefore, or in
lieu thereof, a set-down bar which lies flush or nearly so with the back of the button
or head, diametrically across a middle or other sinking.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents an underside plan of a
pair of sleeve-links constructed in accordance with one form of my invention.
Figure 2 shows a longitudinal vertical section of the links upon the dotted
liner.
Figure 3 is a transverse vertical section of Figure 1 upon the dotted line r¹.
Figure 4 shows an edge view of the link with the heads placed in position for
threading through the button holes of a cuff or the like.
Figure 5 shows the links in position within a cuff.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the said Figures 1
to 5.
In carrying out this form of my invention, I preferably make up each button a
from two shells, riz., a hack shell ' and a front a², with the said back part a¹
being sunken or having a well a³ formed within its middle and crossing it at the
mouth or entrance, is a straight bar or wire & constituting a flush shank, which
either lies in the same plane as the back, or is set slightly below it within the
sinking and to this bar, the eved end c¹, of a fetter link c constituting the means
of connecting the two heads of the fastener together (or comprising one of a
series of connecting links) is jointedly attached.
In order that there shall be no obstruction standing above the back of
the button or head to form an impediment to easy threading, I also propose to form
within the said back another sinking or channel or sinkings d, directed from the
aforesaid middle sinking either to the one edge or (as shown in the drawings) to
both the opposite edges, and wherein the bar of the fetter lies flush during the time
the head is being passed through a button hole. When the head is of an elliptical

page_text: figure, the flush shank bar may lie in the direction of either the major axis of it
as represented, or transversely across it in the minor axis.
Figure 6 represents in plan and Figure 7 in longitudinal section, a modifica-
tion of my invention in which one of the heads a¹, is made from a single shell with
the well or sinking a² formed out of the back of it, which said well is crossed
as before by the flush shank band may be made to form an embossed ornament at
the front, or it may constitute a setting for a stone or other embellishment.
Figure 8 represents a plan of another form of sleeve link embodying a modifica-
tion of my improvements, according to which the flush shank-bar is cut out from
and formed solid with the metal of the back and the necessary clearance for
the movement of the eyed end of the fetter is provided by making holes or
openings on either side of the said bar.
Figure 9 is a plan of the heads of this link separately, and Figure 10 a complete
longitudinal section of the back shells.
a, a, are the heads, a' the back shells thereof, and b are the flush shanks or
bars, formed out of the metal of the said backs, with holes or openings at a²,
on either side of the said bar to provide the necessary clearances for the ends c¹
of the fetter c to work within. Sinkings d are also formed, as before, in the
said backs, extending from the said openings to the edges and of a depth sufficient
to receive the middle part of the fetter which, during the operation of intro-
ducing a head or button through a cuff, lies flush with the back and so provides
no impediment to the threading.
The crossing bar or flush shank may be also fetched up from the metal at the
bottom of the sinking or well, and where the back is made as a disc without an
attached front, then the edges of the said disc may be turned or rolled over but
not to such an extent as to interfere with the flatness or impair the easy threading
of the head.
The ends of the fetter link or links which join onto the flush or set-down bar,
may be cranked down at right angles so as to admit of the same lying flat to
the back.
As a further form of my invention, I may raise within the bottom of the sinking,
a teat or swelling which is shaped to the form of an eye or shank made solid with
the metal of the back, whilst I form channels or depressions leading from the
sinking to the opposite edges of the head and in which the fetter link lies and
comes below the plane of the back of the stud. Or the hole in the back may be
sunken with a raised part to form the shank, or it may be provided with a
crossing bar.
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:-
:-
First: In sleeve, cuff and like links, the employment of a set down or flush
shank bar or equivalent, crossing or formed within a sinking, well or clearance
formed in the back of the head, and to which the inner end of the fetter bar or
joining up link is jointedly connected substantially as and for the purpose herein
described and also as set forth in the accompanying drawings.
Secondly-In sleeve cuff and like links, the employment in combination with a
set-down or flush shank bar or equivalent formed across or within a well, sinking
or clearance in the head, or the back thereof, and to which the fetter link or
bar is jointedly connected, of one or more sinkings or channels directed from
the middle well or clearance to the edge of the head for the reception of the
fetter bar when the link is being threaded through a button hole, substantially
as herein described and also as set forth in the accompanying drawings.
Thirdly-Sleeve, cuff and like links, one or both of the heads or buttons of
which are formed from a single shell having a middle well or clearance crossed
by a flush or set-down shank bar to which the fetter is jointedly connected, with

page_text: or without transverse or longitudinal sinkings or channels for the fetter to lie within
during the threading of the link through the button hole of a cuff, substantially
as herein described and also as set forth in the accompanying drawings.
thin 94th day of February 1900
THOMAS DUGDALE STUBBS,
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham,
Agent for Applicant.