Improvements in Cuffs for the Sleeves of Shirts or other Wearing: Appar
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application. 18th Sept., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 15th June, 1894-Accepted, 21st July, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cuffs for the Sleeves of Shirts or other Wearing:
Apparel.
I, WILLIAM MUIR ANDREWS, of 217, St. George's Road, Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows, that is to say:
My said invention relates to cuffs either attached to or separate from the sleeves.
of shirts or other wearing apparel, and has for its object to make the button holes or
link holes of such cufts of an improved form and so as to facilitate the use and
secure the retention of sleeve links or linked buttons in a more satisfactory
manner than heretofore.
In carrying out my invention I have each button hole made to consist of a
straight or nearly straight slit; with or without a small enlargement at the outer
end; but instead of the button-hole slit being at right angles to the edge of the
opening to be connected by the links or linked buttons, i make it diagonal or
inclined, the end nearest the said edge being towards the outer cucircling edge of
the cuff.
Dated this Sixteenth day of September 1893.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cuffs for the Sleeves of Shirts or other Wearing
Apparel.
WILLIAM MUIR ANDREWs, of 217 St. George's Road, Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, Manufacturer, 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, that is to say:
My said invention relates to cuffs either attached to or separate from the sleeves
of shirts or other wearing apparel, and has for its object to make the button holes
or link holes of such cuffs of an improved form and so as to facilitate the use and
secure the retention of sleeve links' or linked buttons in a more satisfactory
manner than heretofore.
In carrying out my invention I have each button hole made to consist of a
straight or nearly straight slit, with or without a small enlargement at the outer
end; but instead of the button-hole slit being at right angle to the edge of the
opening to be connected by the links or linked buttons, I make it diagonal or
inclined, the end nearer the said edge being towards the outer encircling edge of
the cuff.
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same may
be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings, to be
hereinafter referred to, and showing examples of my improvements.
Figure, 1, of the drawings is a view of a cuff, as spread flat out, and part of the
shirt sleeve to which it is attached.
Figure, 2, is a view of a separate or detachable duplex reversible cuff, as spread.
flat out.

page_text: In these drawings the same reference letters are used to mark the same or like
parts wherever they are repeated.
In carrying out my invention I have each button hole, A, made to consist of a
straight or nearly straight slit, with or without a small enlargement at the outer
end; but instead of the button-hole slit being at right angles to the edges, B-B,
of the cuff I make it diagonal or inclined, the end nearer the said edges being
towards the outer encircling edge, C, of the cuff, D. Button holes, E, in the
separate cuff, D, are for fixing it to the shirt sleeve.
The improvements are shown as applied to cuffs of a plain style but they may be
applied to cuffs of other forms.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
Forming cuffs for the sleeves of shirts or other wearing apparel with button
holes which are diagonal or inclined to the meeting or connecting edges of the cuffs,
substantially as hereinbefore described.
Dated this Twelfth day of June 1801
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.