Improvements in Appliances for Holding and Adjusting Shirt-cuffs.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 9th May, 1890-Accepted, 3rd Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION,
Improvements in Appliances for Holding and Adjusting
Shirt-cuffs.
I, ROBERT HENKY NIELD, of 14, Great Underbank, Stockport, in the County of
Chester, Music Dealer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to appliances for holding and adjusting shirt cuffs and has
for its object to simplify and make the same more effective than heretofore has
been the case.
To this end I employ inside or outside at the back end of the cuff, which may be
loose or form part of the shirt, a hoof or similarly shaped spring, of flat, round or
other suitable section, which has a tendency to expand and press the cuff against the
interior of the coat sleeve, thus attaching the same loosely thereto in any desired
position. Each extremity of the said spring I form or furnish with a button head or
stud, to be passed through and engage the button holes at the back of the cuff. When
applying the said spring inside the shirt cuff, if deemed necessary, I form or furnish
the middle portion of the said spring, or a convenient part of its continuity, with one
or more similar button heads or studs as aforesaid, or with one or more spikes or
indents for the purpose of preventing the said spring from slipping, and thereby
retain it always in its proper position in the cuff.
Dated this 3rd day of April 1890.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Appliances for Holding and Adjusting
Shirt-cuffs.
I, ROBERT HENRY NIELD, of 14, Great Underbank, Stockport, in the County of
Chester, Music Dealer, 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 appliances for holding and adjusting shirt cuffs and has
for its object to simplify and make the same more effective than heretofore has been
the case.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to be
appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indicating
like parts in the various figures.
Figs. 1 & 3, are cross sections of a coat or dress sleeve and cuff showing the said
appliance employed inside and outside the cuff respectively.
Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is an end view of the appliance detached.
Figs. 5 & 6 are end views of the middle and end portion of the said appliance
respectively, showing various modifications thereof.
Fig. 7 is a side view of the middle portion of the appliance showing another
modification thereof.
In carrying out my invention and referring to the figures generally, I employ
inside or outside at the back end or middle of the cuff a, which may be loose as
shown in the drawings, or form part of the shirt, a hoof or similarly shaped spring b,
of flat, round or other suitable section, which has a tendency to expand and press
the cuff a against the interior of the coat or dress sleeve c, thus facilitating the
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page_text: attachment of the same loosely thereto in any desired position. Each extremity of
the said spring b, I form or furnish with a button head or stud d, to be passed
through and engage the button holes e at the back end or middle of the cuff a.
When applying the said spring b inside the shirt cuff a, see Figs. 1 & 2, if deemed
necessary, I form or furnish the middle portion of the said spring b, or a convenient
part of its continuity, with one or more similar button heads or studs as aforesaid,
or with one or more spikes or indents d', as shown in Fig. 4, for the purpose of
preventing the said spring 6 from slipping, and thereby retain it always in its proper
position in the cuff a.
The same object may be attained. by providing the middle or any other convenient
portion of the spring 6, with a spring finger f see Fig. 2, or with a spring clip g,
see Fig. 7, which bears against or grips the cuff a respectively.
In lieu of forming the spring b in one piece, the same may be formed in two or
more sections 6, 6' as shown in Fig. 5, and connected together by means of a sleeve b³,
which permits of the spring being lengthened and shortened as may be required, by
sliding the sections b, 61, in or out of the sleeve b².
The button beads or studs d, aforesaid, I may form straight as shown in Fig. 6,
instead of round as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3 & 4, which gives the spring b a firm hold
in the button holes e and thus prevents it from moving about in the cuff a.
In lieu of forming the button heads or studs d rigid on the ends of the spring b,
the samé may be jointed thereto or the ends of the spring b formed with a spring clip
to engage the ends of the cuff a respectively.
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 :-
In appliances for holding and adjusting shirt cuffs, the application of a spring b
(or modification thereof) to the exterior or interior of the cuff a, which spring b has
a tendency of expanding and pressing the cuff a against the interior of the coat or
dress sleeve c and retaining it therein in any desired position, substantially as in the
manner hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 8th day of May 1890
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicant.