Improvements in Sleeve, Cuff, and other like Links or Fastenings.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 31st May, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 11th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sleeve, Cuff, and other like Links or Fastenings.
I, WILLIAM ERNEST PATTERSON of Warstone Lane, in the City of Birmingham
Manufacturing Jeweller do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention pertains to the principal loop member, of sleeve and cuff links, and
other like fastenings, such, for example as cloak and garment connectors.
The said sleeve links or fastenings comprise, as a rule, five or seven essential or
material parts, viz. :-the stud heads or discs, the shank connections, the primary or
principal loop, or in addition thereto, shank loops.
Heretofore, the said principal or primary loops have been made in manner that
the terminal ends, or the parts of the terminal ends, of the wire or strip metal
composing them, have been connected or united together, by soldering.
Now, the method of connection, is inadvantageous, inasmuch, that it has to be
accomplished, after the fitting or uniting together of the finished parts, and further,
the use of the blow pipe in soldering, renders the principal or primary link, soft,
which is undesirable, as it impares the efficiency and strength of the link.
By my invention the said principal or primary loops are connected together in a
hard state, and without soldering.
In carrying out my invention in connection with a cuff link, a length of round or
other sectioned wire, of sufficient length to form the principal or primary link, is
taken, then by bending the said length of wire, at some distance from its middle
part, into enlarged or bulbous ends, and after, returning the terminal ends parts
parallel to the middle part, and with the said ends meeting, or coming together,
forming an open jointed or elongated loop, with circular or enlarged ends, of a
greater breadth than the breadth of the middle part.
Thus, we have, in the middle part, parallel and straight members, separated from
each other, and with the terminal ends of the one side, coming together, or meeting.
Added to this said middle part, I arrange a bonding clip, consisting of a U or trough
shaped blank, of a shorter length than the middle and straight parts of the link,
and which blank is of the inside breadth of the cross section of the said middle
members.
In connecting the clip, the middle members of the loop are placed longitudinally
within the trough of the clip, then by means of a descending tool, the top boundary
edges of the sides, are turned inwards over and around the middle parts of the said
side members of the loop, hence the connecting together of the said middle member
parts of the loop, and the breaking of the joint of the meeting ends of the metal
composing it.
From this discription, it will be seen that the side members of the loop are
bonded together crosswise, by the turning of the edges of the clip into tubes or
sleeves, which envelope the said members, and break the joint, or the open joint
of them.
I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the shape of the loops,
sometimes called links or fetters, and that the said loops, links or fetters may be
employed as supplementary or intermediate loops if necessary. Or the bonding,
staying together, and joint breaking clips may be of any figure, other than that of
two tubes, connected by a web.
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1000
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sleeve, Cuff, and other like Links or Fastenings.
I, WILLIAM ERNEST PATTERSON of Warstone Lane in the City of Birmingham,
Manufacturing Jeweller, 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 :-
My invention pertains primarily to the principal loop member, of sleeve and
cuff links, and other like fastenings, such, for example as cloak and garment
connectors.
The said sleeve-links or fastenings comprise, as a rule, five or seven essential or
material parts, viz., the stud heads or discs, the shank connections, the primary or
principal loop, or in addition thereto shank loops.
Heretofore the said principal or primary loops have been made in manner that the
terminal ends, or the parts of the terminal ends, of the wire or strip metal composing
them, have been connected or united together, by soldering.
Now this method of connection has drawbacks, inasmuch, that it has to be
accomplished, after the fitting or uniting together of the finished parts, and further,
the use of the blowpipe in soldering, renders the principal or primary link, soft,
which is undesirable, as it impairs the efficiency and strength of the link.
By my invention, the said principal or primary loops are connected together
in a hard state, and without soldering.
In carrying out my invention in connection with a cuff link, a length of round
or other sectioned wire, of sufficient length to form the principal or primary link, is
taken, then by bending the said length of wire, at some distance from its middle
part, into enlarged or loop ends, and after, returning the terminal end parts parallel
to the middle part, and with the said ends meeting, or coming together, forming an
open jointed or elongated loop, with circular or enlarged ends, of a greater breadth
than the breadth of the middle part.
Thus we have, in the middle part, parallel and straight members separated from
each other, and with the terminal ends of the one side, coming together, or
meeting.
Added to this said middle part, I arrange a bonding clip, consisting of a U or
trough-shaped blank, of a shorter length than the middle and straight parts of the
link, and which blank is of the inside breadth of the cross section of the said middle
members.
In connecting the clip, the middle members of the loop are placed longitudinally
within the trough of the clip, then by means of a descending tool, the top boundary
edges of the sides, are turned inwards, over and around the middle parts of the said
side members of the loop, hence the connecting together of the said middle member
parts of the loop, and the breaking of the joint of the meeting ends of the metal
composing it.
It will thus be understood that the side members of the loop are bonded together
crosswise, by the turning of the edges of the clip into tubes or sleeves, which
envelope the said members, and break the joint, or the open joint of them.
I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to the shape of the loops,
(sometimes called links or fetters) and that the said loops, links or fetters may be
employed as supplementary or intermediate loops if necessary. Or the bonding,
staying-together, and joint-breaking clips may be of any other figure than that of
two tubes, connected by a web as described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents upon an enlarged scale a
sleeve or cuff link, having a principal link or loop member made or provided
according to my invention.
Figure 2 represents a length of wire, suitable for making the said principal link
or loop member.

page_text: Figure 3 represents the same turned up into a partially formed link or loop and
Figure 4 shows the same introduced upon the shank loops of the heads and then
closed up, while Figure 5 is side elevation of the principal link of the same.
Figure 6 is a sheet metal blank, which is converted into a trough shaped closure
or clip, Figure 7, and then after placing the middle part of the link Figure 4
(after the same has been connected to the shank loops of the studs or heads) within
the trough as in Figure 8 and closing the edges of the said trough blank over and
around the members of the said middle part, a link or principal loop member as
shown in Figure 1 is thereby produced.
Figure 9 is a transverse vertical section upon the dotted line A. B. Figure 1.
Thus, in carrying out one form of my invention in connection with a sleeve link,
I take a length of wire a, (Figure 2) of sufficient length to form the link. Then
by bending, I form the same into a principal link alike unto Figure 3 but with the
sides slightly opened out and consisting of two stem or shank members b, b¹ and
end loop members 62, and with terminal ends of the shank or middle member part b
being separated by an intervening space, sufficient to pass over the shanks d', of the
heads d, then after introducing the said semi-closed head Figure 3 over the shanks
as in Figure 4 and closing the side members, an open joint 63, is made by the
terminal ends coming together.
In Figure 6, c is a thin sheet metal plate, of about the inside length of the shank
or stem part of the open-jointed link Figures 3, 4 and 5. By means of tools this
said plate is troughed into Figure 7, and the middle or stem part of the loop or
link placed in the said trough, as in cross section Figure 8. Then by means of
further tools, the opposite sides of the troughed blank are turned inwards, and over
and around the stem or shank members b, b', as represented in Figures 1 and 9,
hence the production of a primary link or loop without soldering, and with the
joint formed by the meeting ends of the wire composing the said article, broken.
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:-
First In a link, loop or fetter for sleeve, cuff and other links and dress
fastenings, breaking the joint of the meeting ends of the wire composing the said
articles, and uniting or connecting together the middle member parts or stems of
the same, by an embracing or bonding clip, which envelopes the said middle
members, substantially as and for the purpose described and set forth.
Secondly-The improvements in the construction or making of the links, loops
or fetters for sleeve links and like dress connectors, as described and set forth.
Dated this 7th day of February 1892
WILLIAM ERNEST PATTERSON,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.