An Improved Device for Drawing Back the Sleeves of Shirts, Coats, and like Garments, and for Holding the same Back on the Arms of the Wearer.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th June, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 23th Mar., 1892-Accepted, 30th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Drawing Back the Sleeves of Shirts, Coats,
and like Garments, and for Holding the same Back on the Arms
of the Wearer.
1, FREDERIC ALBERT ADEY, of Glenelg, Weston-super-Mare, in the County
of Somerset, Manager of Insurance Office, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in a device for drawing and holding back sleeves of shirts,
coats and like garments whereby the same may be kept out of contact with water
in the operation of washing the hands or face of the wearer of such garments, and
out of contact with other liquids or substances from which it is desired to protect
the sleeves.
The device consists of a band or cord of india rubber, or other sufficiently elastic
material, fitted at the outer or lower end with a hook preferably attached by a
swivel joint. At the outer end the band or cord is provided with means whereby
it is capable of attachment to a garment. The appliance is interposed between
the shirt sleeve and the sleeve of the coat or other outer garment, the hook being
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towards the cuff. The attachment of the band or cord to the garment may
made, by buttoning or otherwise, to either of the sleeves between which it lies.
When it is desired to draw up the sleeves and retain them in the drawn-up position,
the hook is seized and the elastic band or cord is stretched until the hook is drawn
down and made to engage with the rim or bottom of the sleeve. By contraction
of the band or cord the sleeve is drawn back and is retained in that position until
the hook is disengaged. The hook may be single so as to draw and hold back the
sleeve of one garment, as, for instance, a shirt, or it may be double and thereby
capable of drawing back simultaneously both a shirt sleeve and a sleeve of a coat,
jacket or the like, thus obviating the necessity of removing the outer garment.
Dated this 50th day of June 1891
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol Bank Buildings, Bristol, Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Drawing Back the Sleeves of Shirts, Coats,
and like Garments, and for Holding the same Back on the Arms
of the Wearer.
I, FREDERIC ALBERT ADEY, of Glenelg, Weston-super-Mare, in the County
of Somersetshire, Gentleman, 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 will be best understood by describing it with aid of the
accompanying drawings:
Figure 1, illustrates the invention; and Figure 2 its mode of application.
A, is a piece of elastic web, which has a safety pin B, or other device to enable
it to be attached to a shirt sleeve E; C, is a second safety pin having a guide
bar F, through which the elastic part passes; on the bottom of the web A,
connected a hook D, preferably double.
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The use and mode of applying the invention, are as follows:
Before drawing on the coat, the device is pinned on to the sleeve of the shirt at
a position that when the elastic web is unstretched the hook D, is some distance

page_text: above the bottom of the cuff'; the second pin C, is then pinned on the shirt sleeve
just above the hook D; the object of this second pin is to retain the hook in a
known position where it can be readily found when the coat sleeve is drawn over
it; when the device, is to be applied the hook is pulled down thereby stretching
the elastic, and one of the hooks, is passed under the edge of the shirt cuff,
and the other under the edge of end of coat sleeve, as shown at Figure 2, the spring
of the elastic then draws up both shirt cuff and coat sleeve and holds them up. Of
course it will be readily understood, that the device can be used to hold up either
shirt cuff or coat sleeve separately.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A device for the purposes stated, consisting of an elastic part A, attaching and
guiding parts B and C, and hook D, preferably double, as and for the purposes
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 28th day of March 1892.
FREDERIC PRINCE,
1, Quality Court, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for Applicant.