Improvements in Links for Securing Sleeves, Cuffs, and for other like purposes.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14'h Apr., 1591
Complete Specification Left, 14th Jan., 1892-Accented, 20th Feb., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Links for Securing Sleeves, Cuffs, and for other
like purposes.
We, CHARLES JENNENS and WILLIAM FREDERICK JENNENS, both of
12, Northwood Street, Birmingham, Jewellers, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
Sleeve and like links as heretofore usually made consist of two similar parts
loosely connected together by a link at the back, these front parts or one of them
having to be passed through the holes in the sleeve or cuff to link the two sides
of the sleeve or cuff together.
As is well known, there is often considerable difficulty in passing the front
parts or one of them through the holes in the sleeve or cuff, particularly when
the said fronts are large and the sleeve or cuff is stiff and this difficulty we
overcome by making one (or both) of the said front parts detachable from the link
in the manner which we will now describe.
In carrying out our invention instead of making the eye or loop on the back
of the front part (with which the said link engages) in one piece rigidly fixed to
the front part as is usual, we make this eye or loop in two pieces each connected
to a separate slide on the front part. These slides project beyond the edge of the
front part. A suitable spring presses these slides outwardly and keeps the ends
of the two pieces of the eye or loop together. By pressing the projecting ends
of the slides inwardly the two pieces of the eye or loop are separated and the
said front can be removed from or connected to the link.
It will be seen that by making the sleeve link as above described neither of the
front parts have to be passed through the holes in the sleeve or cuff.
In a modification of our invention only one of the two said pieces of the eye is
fixed to a slide and made movable, the other piece of the eye being fixed to the
back part.
Dated this 13th day of April 1891.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Links for Securing Sleeves, Cuffs, and for other
like purposes.
We, CHARLES JENNENS and WILLIAM FREDERICK JENNENS, both of
12, Northwood Street, Birmingham, Jewellers, 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 :-
Sleeve and like links as heretofore usually made consist of two similar parts
loosely connected together by a link at the back, these front parts or one of them
having to be passed through the holes in the sleeve or cuff to link the two sides of
the sleeve or cuff together.
As is well known, there is often considerable difficulty in passing the front parts
or one of them through the holes in the sleeve or cuff, particularly when the said
fronts are large and when the sleeve or cuff is stiff; this difficulty we overcome
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page_text: by making one or both of the said front parts detachable from the link in the manner
which we will now describe by referring to the accompanying drawings on which
Fig. 1 is a back elevation, Fig. 2 is n side view and Fig. 3 is a plan of a sleeve
link constructed according to this invention;
Fig. 4 shews the two parts of the same detached from each other;
Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8 represent details of the said sleeve link as hereinafter
described and
Fig. 9 illustrates in back and side elevations and in plan a modification of our
invention.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.
A and B are the two front parts of the sleeve link and C is the link which
secures the two front parts A and B together this link being permanently jointed
to the front part B in the usual way.
In carrying out our invention instead of making the eye or loop on the back
of the front part A (with which the said link engages) in one piece rigidly fixed
to the front part A as is usual, we make this eye or loop in two pieces marked
respectively each formed with a separate slide marked respectively e¹² on
the front part A. One of these pieces d' of the eye or loop with its slide e' is
shewn separately by Fig. 8. The slides are partly contained within the
casing which is secured to the back plate of the front A by the prongs g
passing therethrough and being clenched over inside before the front is fixed
thereto. There are slotted holes in the casing for the halves d' of the eye
or loop to pass through. The spring fitting between the slides and engaging
with the projections thereon presses the slides outwardly and keeps the ends of
the two pieces of the eye or loop together. The outer ends e³ of the
slides el project beyond the edge of the front part A so that by pressing thesc
projecting ends inwardly towards each other as shewn in Fig. 4 the two
pieces of the eye or loop are separated and the front part A can then be
either removed from or connected to the link C.
It will be seen that by making the sleeve link as above described neither of the
front parts have to be passed through the holes in the sleeve or cuff.
In the modification of our invention shewn by Fig. 9 only the piece of the
two pieces is made to slide as above described the other piece of the eye
being fixed to the box or case of the back.
The front part B may if desired be constructed for disconnecting from the link C
like the link A but this we find is unnecessary.
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 :-
The improvements in links for securing sleeves cuffs and for other like purposes
so as to enable the parts of the link to be readily connected together or disconnected
as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, that is to
say, making the eye or loop of one or of both of the front parts of the link in two
pieces held together by a spring and adapted to be forced apart by pressing the
front part of the link between the finger and thumb all substantially as herein before
set forth and illustrated.
Dated this 13th day of January 1892.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.