Improvements in Sleeve-links.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Aug., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 27th Apr., 1891—Accepted, 30th May, 1891
Improvements in Sleeve-links.
ROBERT WESTRAY 40 Lowther Street Carlisle Cumberland, House Decorator,
does hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The great difficulty hitherto attending the use of "two button" sleeve links has
been-
1st. The necessarily stiff and unbending condition of the wristbands as they
come from the laundress making it impossible to pass the buttons through the
button holes without soiling or otherwise giving to the linen a crushed or untidy
appearance.
2nd. Great inconvenience, resulting in damage to the fingers and finger-nails
from the effort necessary to force the buttons into their places."
3rd. The size and shape of at least one of the buttons being restricted to such
dimensions as will admit of its passing through the ordinary sized button hole.
By the principle of attachment herein adopted I claim to completely overcome
all the foregoing difficulties thus-in illustration I.
In
1. 1 attach to one of the buttons a simple hook A with a globular enlargement B
at its extreme end. In the other button I employ a neck of flat metal through
which is pierced a slot C made so as to receive and hold the hook referred to.
order to place the links in the wristbands, pass the hook A from the outside of one
button-hole through to the outside of the opposite button-hole until the crook is
completely exposed to view, then after attaching the other button draw the hook
back through the button-hole. The result of this process will be that the upper or
wider part of the slot C of the neck will now be choked or obstructed by the
thickness of the wristbands, so that the hook A owing to its enlarged end B
cannot become detached without being again passed through to the outside of the
button-hole. (If preferred, a spring-hook (D) can be used instead of the
ordinary hook A).
II. In illustration II. I employ on one button the ordinary link X and on the
other button a hook Y having at its termination a broad lip in the form of the
letter T. To adjust the links in the wristbands, pass the link X from the outside
of one button-hole through to the outside of the opposite button-hole until the
complete link is exposed to view, then attach the hook y of the other button to the
link X and draw back the link through the button-hole. The result of this
process will be that the hook and the link will interlock each other in such a
manner that owing to the width of the lip in the hook being greater than the
width of the link, they cannot become detached without both being passed through
to the outside of the button-hole in the manner first described. I therefore
claim
1. That my employment of a hook so as to dispense with the necessity of
passing the buttons through the button-holes is not only a novelty which does not
exist in any "two-button sleeve-links hitherto in use, but a material improvement
through the ease with which they can be adjusted, whilst the passage of the hook
or link through the button-holes involves neither the soiling nor the crushing of
the wristbands.
2. That this arrangement will admit not only of uniformity in size of buttons,
but of any size, design, or shape that taste may suggest.
3. The absence of complicated or minute springs or levers, or any delicate piece
of mechanism liable to get out of order.
4. Simplicity, security, and cheapness of application.
Dated this 22nd dow of Au1000

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sleeve-links.
1, ROBERT WESTRAY of 29 Lismore Terrace Carlisle, in the County of
Cumberland, House Decorator, 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 obviate the difficulty attending the insertion of
two-button links into the holes in stiff wristbands.
Now according to this invention, I construct the link in such a manner as to
avoid the necessity of passing the head or button of the link through the button
hole in the cuff or wristband, by making the said link with one of the heads or
buttons detached from the shank thereof. The two heads or buttons may be of
any suitable shape and size, and are connected by a hook or spring ring passing
through holes or openings in projections thereon, so that when fastened, there is no
risk of the sleeve link being displaced.
And in order that my said invention may be clearly understood, I will proceed
to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which
Figs. 1 and 2 show the two parts of a sleeve link constructed according to my
invention.
Fig. 3 shows the sleeve link when inserted into the cuff or wristband.
Figs. 4, 5, and 6 show a modified form of my invention.
Fig. 7, another modification, the link being fastened.
The two heads or buttons A. B. of the links are provided at the back with
projections D. E. In the projection D is inserted the hook C, having a knob F at
its extremity.
The hook C is passed through the two button. holes of the wristband or cuff
from the outside thereof, and inserted in the keyhole slot G in the projection E,
the shank of the hook C drops into the narrow part of the slot G, and holds the
link in place by preventing the knob F of the hook from being displaced
accidentally. In Figs. 4, 5, and 6, a spring hook or ring H, opening at H', is
substituted for the hook. In Fig. 7 the projections I. I. on the link D hold the
hook C in the requisite position for insertion through the button holes, and prevent
it falling down.
When the sleeve link is in use, the connecting hook C or spring ring H is
passed through the two button holes of the wristband from the outside and through
the slot or hole G of the head or button A.
The stiffners of the wristband offers no obstruction to the passage of the hook
or spring ring through the button holes, as is the case with sleeve links where the
button or head of the link has to be passed through the button hole, and the
absence of delicate or complicated parts renders it practically impossible for
the sleeve link to get out of order.
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 1
claim is :-
The improved sleeve links substantially as hereinbefore described and shown in
the accompanying drawings.
ERNEST SALAMAN,
61 and 62, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.