CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENTS IN SLEEVE HOLDERS
Year: 1884

page_text: I, ALEXANDER HENRY REED, of 90 Cannon Street in the City of London,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN SLEEVE HOLDERS, and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The accompanying Drawing represents the practice of said method and a
preferred form of the device.
Fig. 1 being a plan view of, the device detached from the sleeve of a garment.
Fig. 2 is a similar view of the said device shewing the method of operating the
game.
Fig. 3 is a side elevational detail of one member of the device, and
Fig. 4 is a perspective view, showing the device attached to the sleeve of an
inner garment and connected with the hand, and the method of using the same
during the operation of drawing the sleeve of an outer garment over said inner
garment upon the arm of the wearer.
The Invention embraces the application of a detachable device to the inside of
the sleeve of an inner garment, said device being provided with means whereby
said device or attachment thereof may be held by the hand of the wearer of said
garment during the operation of drawing the sleeve of an outer garment over the
same. The construction and operation of the device shown in the Drawing is as
follows:
A wire B is coiled as at B¹ to form a spring and the respective ends or legs thereof
are continued and crossed, their extremities being bent, as shown at C and D in
Figs. 1 and 2, in such manner that said bent ends or heels C and D are caused to
come and be held together by stress of the spring B'.
A is a plate or any suitable retaining device adapted to be sewed or otherwise
secured to the inner surface of the sleeve of an inner garment, said plate being
provided with an eye E or kindred socket or keeper for the heels of the wire B.
The heels C and D of the spring provided wire B, are intended to be introduced
into said eye E after said heels have been separated by pressure of the wire legs
between the fingers as shown in Fig. 2, the said heels, as will be readily understood,

page_text: after the removal of said pressure, being retained within the eye or socket E, by the
expansive force of the spring B¹.
G in Fig. 4, represents the sleeve of an inner garment, to the interior of which
is attached the plate A, a part of the sleeve being broken away or removed so as to
exhibit the plate.
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H is a cord or ribbon attached conveniently to the spring B¹ of the wire B, and
provided at its other extremity with a ring I adapted to be slipped and held upon
a finger of the hand.
It is obvious however, that the ring I may be dispensed with and that the cord
or ribbon H be coiled or wrapped about or grasped by the hand, for the purpose,
through the instrumentality of the plate A and connecting wire B, of holding the
sleeve of the inner garment in place during the operation of pulling on an outer
garment.
I do not confine myself to the specific devices shown in the Drawing, as it will
be obvious that other devices adapted to be detachably connected with the interior
of the sleeve of the garment at one extremity of said device, and held by or
connected to the hand at the other extremity, may be employed without departing
from the spirit of this Invention.
The eye of the plate or socket may be reamed out or made with a taper opening,
as shown in Fig. 3, in order to facilitate the introduction of the heels of the spring
wire.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is,
1 A device for holding the sleeve of an inner garment in position during the
operation of drawing the sleeve of an outer garment over the same, which consists
in a contrivance, one end of which is adapted to be detachably connected with a
plate or other suitable device secured to the inner portion of the sleeve of said
interior garment, and the other end of which is adapted to be held by, or attached
to the hand of the wearer as specified.
2nd The wire B B coiled at B¹ and having its extremities CD crossed and bent
in combination with the plate A, provided with the eye E as specified.
3rd The wire B B coiled at B¹ and having its extremities CD crossed and bent,
in combination with the plate A, provided with the eye E, and with the string H
as specified.