A New or Improved Device for Attaching Certain Cuff Links to their Show Cards.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 8th June, 1895-Accepted, 27th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Device for Attaching Certain Cuff Links to their
Show Cards.
I THOMAS MORTON, of Lodge Road, in the City of Birmingham, Stamper and
Piercer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved device whereby cuff links having a
connecting bar or link between them, may be readily and firmly secured to or
released from their show cards.
Sometimes these bars or links consist of two parallel sides similar to a fetter
link, while others are of a solid form. To accommodate such the card is pierced so
that the loops at the under or rear side of the buttons may pass through, also a
cross slot piercing is made in the card so as also to allow of the bar or link passing
through to the rear side of the card. Hence upon the face of the card the button
fronts only are exposed to view.
My invention is for the purpose of firmly securing these parts to the cards so
that the fronts shall be held in a neat and pleasing appearance, but which may be
readily removed when required.
I now make a wedge like spring fastening, which is slid upon the rear side of
the card, and passes through or underneath the link until the latter rides over an
incline into a recess or hollow or behind a stop, and there retaining it until the
said incline is again pressed down so that it may be withdrawn. This admits of
some variation in detail, but broadly it may be made thus: A flat narrow strip
of springy metal is doubled at its middle, such doubled end being made as flat as
possible and forms the thin end of the wedge. The one part forms the base and
terminates at its outer end by being slightly turned over so that it may be
thereby pulled back: The upper part is inclined upward and terminates by being
bent into a recess or hollow. Hence when the saine is pushed through or under
the link or bar, the springy incline yields until the link or bar falls into the recess,
when the fastening is complete. To withdraw the fastening this inclined part is
pressed down until the link is clear of it, when it may be drawn from under and
from the said link.
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This fastening may be made of wire if desired, or it may be made from sheet
metal without being doubled, by being slit as required and such slitted parts bent
and raised so as to form the incline and the recess or stop.
Dated this 21st day of September 1894.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Device for Attaching Certain Cuff Links to their
__ Show Cards.
I THOMAS MORTON, of Lodge Road, in the City of Birmingham, Stamper and
Piercer, 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 a new or improved device whereby cuff links having

page_text: a connecting bar or link between them, may be readily and firmly secured to or
released from their show cards.
Sometimes these bars or links consist of two parallel sides similar to a fetter
link, while others are of a solid form. To accommodate such the card is pierced so
that the loops at the under or rear side of the buttons may pass through, also a
cross slot piercing is made in the card so as to allow of the bar or link passing
through to the rear side of the card. Hence upon the face of the card the button
fronts only are exposed to view.
may be
My invention is for the purpose of firmly securing these parts to the cards so
that the fronts shall be held in a neat and pleasing appearance, but which
readily removed when required.
I make a wedge-like spring fastening, which is slid upon the rear side of the
card, and passes through or underneath the link until the latter rides over an
incline into a recess or hollow, or behind a stop, and there retaining it until the
said incline is again pressed down so that it may be withdrawn.
In order to more clearly explain this my invention, I have appended hereunto
an illustrative sheet of drawings, upon which are figures and numbers of
reference, similar numbers referring throughout the several views to the same thing
or part.
Fig. 1, is a front view, and Fig. 2, a side view of the device employed in this
my invention.
Fig. 3, shows the application and use of my invention.
Fig. 4, is a front view, and Fig. 5, a sectional view on line A-B (Fig. 4) of a
modification in this my invention.
Fig. 6, is a front view, and Fig. 7, a side view of a further modification in this
my invention.
Fig. 8, shows the application of this my invention to a modified shape of link
head and bar, Fig. 9, being a side view of the bar, and Fig. 10, a side view of
the head.
8, is a portion of the card having the slot hole 9, pierced therein, through
which is passed the loops 10, 10, and bar 11. A. flat narrow strip of springy metal
is doubled at its middle, such doubled end 12, being made as flat as possible, and
forms the thin end of the wedge. The one part 13, forms the base and terminates
at its outer end by being slightly turned over at 14, so that it may be thereby
pulled back. The upper part 15, is inclined upward and terminates by being
bent into a recess or hollow at 16. Hence when the same is pushed through or
under the link or bar 11, or bar 11ª, see Figs. 3, 8 and 9, the springy incline 15,
yields until the link or bar falls into the recess 16, when the fastening is complete.
To withdraw the fastening this inclined part 15, is pressed down until the link is
clear of it, when it may be drawn from under and from the said link.
This fastening may be made of wire if desired, as shown in Figs. 6 & 7, or it
may be made from sheet metal without being doubled, as seen in Figs. 4 & 5, by
being slit as required along lines 17 and 18, and the central part, and such slitted
parts 15, bent and raised so as to form the incline and the recess or stop 16ª, while
the remainder portion forms the base 13ª.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
1. Securing cuff links, having bars such as 11, passed through their show cards
by means of a springy wedge, constructed and operating substantially as shown and
described.
Dated this 7th day of Iun 1905
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.