Improvements in or relating to Cuff Adjusters.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 4th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 4th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 6th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Cuff Adjusters.
We,
WATSON SENIOR, of 3 Barber Street, Dewsbury, in the County of York,
Warehouseman, and MARK SCHOLES, of 22 Swindon Road, Dewsbury aforesaid,
Draper, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in means or appliances for adjusting
linen and other cuffs (fixed or removable) of shirts and the like article and its
object is to provide simple, ready, and inexpensive means for regulating the position
of the cuff when in use."
According to our invention two jaws with serrated edges are arranged so that
they may be pivoted together preferably nearer one end than the other, somewhat
like a pair of scissors, but with an opposite motion, that is to say when their rear
or shorter ends are pressed together the serrated jaws are opened. One of the
jaws may if desired be provided when required with double serrated edges and the
edge of the opposite jaw may be arranged to pass between them. The jaws are
kept closed by means of a suitable spring or springs fixed to their rear ends. The
pivot pin may be allowed to project a sufficient distance on one side of the jaws
around which a helical spring may be coiled to form a spring and screw thread
combined which is passed into the holes of the cuffs for attaching the adjuster
thereto, whilst the serrated jaws are employed for fixing the cuff in position by
gripping the inside of the coat or other sleeve.
Dad thic Seaond day of July 1892.
TAD
WATSON SENIOR,
MARK SCHOLES,
By W. Fairburn Hart,
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Cuff Adjusters.
We, WATSON SENIOR, of 3 Barber Street, Dewsbury, in the County of York
Warehouseman, and MARK SCHOLES, of 22 Swindon Road, Dewsbury, aforesaid,
Draper, 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 relates to improvements in means or appliances for adjusting
linen and other cuffs (fixed or removable) of shirts and the like articles and its
object is to provide simple, ready, and inexpensive means for regulating the position
of the cuff when in use.
In the drawings hereunto annexed
Fig. 1. is an elevation; Fig. 2. a plan looking at the top; and Fig. 3. a plan
looking at the underside of a cuff adjuster (hereafter termed the adjuster) con-
structed according to this invention.
Fig. 4 is an illustration with the coat sleeve turned back for the purpose of
showing the position of the cuff adjuster and how to take hold of the latter for
attaching it to the lining of the sleeve.
Fig. 5 is an illustration showing adjuster being fastened to the coat lining.
According to our invention two jaws with serrated edges are arranged so that
they may be pivoted together preferably nearer one end than the other, somewhat
pair of scissors, but with an opposite motion, that is to say when their rear
or shorter ends are pressed together the serrated jaws are opened.
like a

page_text: Or the adjuster, as illustrated in the drawings, consists of three jaws A, a a
made of any suitable metal, such as sheet brass, silver, or the like. The jaws a a
are formed out of one piece of metal, which is bent over as shewn at Fig. 1, to
form the jaw a' arranged to run parallel with, and at a suitable distance from the
jaw a.
The jaw a', preferably though not necessarily so, only extends to a short
distance beyond the point at which the jaws A, a a' are pivoted together. In the
space between the jaws a a¹ the jaw A is arranged to work. The edges of the
jaws are serrated respectively at a² a a¹ in order to obtain a better gripping power
upon the lining of the sleeve. The jaws are pivoted together, preferably nearer to
one end of. the adjuster than the other, by means of a pin B which projects a
sufficient distance from what constitutes the underside of the adjuster when in use
to form the stem of a screw. Around the projecting part of the pin B, is wound
spirally a piece of wire C, to form a screw and spring combined.
The ends of the wire C, are secured to pin B, by any suitable means such as for
instance soldering, or by inserting the end or ends of the wire C in a hole or
holes provided in the pin B, for it or their reception and with or without a slit or
slot to prevent the spring rotating whilst being inserted into or withdrawn from
the cuff.
Or when desired the adjuster may be arranged to be pivotably attached to any
suitable form of cuff stud, but we prefer making it separate and in the form
illustrated in the drawings. The short ends of the jaws A, a, are turned slightly
up at a, a to provide for the jaws being more readily opened. The jaws are kept
closed by means of a spring (or springs) D, which is or are wound round the pin B,
on what forms the upperside of the adjuster when in use, so that its two ends d, di
may be secured, by any suitable means, respectively to the jaws A, a, at a a
The ends d, d' may (or may not) be curved as shown.
The combined spring and screw is passed into one of the holes of the cuff E,
preferably the centre one, for attaching the adjuster thereto, whilst the serrated
edges a², a³, a of the jaws are employed for fixing the cuff in position, by gripping
the inside or lining of the coat or other sleeve F.
The mode of using the adjuster is as follows
:-
The adjuster is fixed to the cuff E, by screwing the spiral spring C, into the
centre hole of the cuff as shown at Fig. 4.
When the cuff is in the required position take hold of the adjuster with the
thumb inside coat sleeve F, and with the second finger outside coat sleeve (see
Fig. 5) force open the jaws, and with the first finger press down the coat between
the serrations a², a, a', of the jaws as at Fig. 5; the adjuster and thumb inside the
coat sleeve F, are shown in dotted lines.
When reversing the cuffs it is preferable to change them from one sleeve to the
other and simply turn the adjusters half way round.
To remove the cuff take hold of the adjuster on the inside of coat sleeve.
One pair of the above described adjusters may be used and readily removed from
one coat sleeve to another, also with dress shirts, and their use not only avoids the
constant fingering of the cuffs to keep them in position, but also permits, if desired,
of the cuffs remaining in the sleeve until they are soiled.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The improvements in or relating to cuff' adjusters substantially such as herein
described and illustrated at Figs. 1 to 5 whereby the two ends of a cuff may
be secured together by the projecting pivot pin of the adjuster, and the cuff after
being placed in position is secured to the inside of the coat sleeve by its gripping
jaws.
2. In cuff adjusters substantially such as herein described, the combination of
two or more gripping jaws pivoted together as shown by a pin, which is allowed
to project from one side of the jaws to form a screw for insertion into one of the

page_text: holes of the cuff for connecting its two ends together substantially as herein set
forth.
3. A cuff adjuster substantially such as herein described having jaws A, a, a¹
pivoted together as shown by a pin B, and held in a closed position by a
spring D, said pin being allowed to project on one side of the jaws, and armed
with a spirally wound wire C substantially as and for the purposes herein
described.
WATSON SENIOR,
MARK SCOLES,
By W. Fairburn Hart,
Agent.
Dated this First day of April 1893.
WATSON SENIOR,
MARK SCOLES,
By W. Fairburn Hart,
Agent.