An Improved Sleeve-link.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Apr., 1896-Accepted, 30th May, 1898
OUMPLETE OFFUIFICATION.
An Improved Sleeve-link.
MARY ANNE YOUNG, 22, Richborough Road, Cricklewood, London, N.W., 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 consists of an improved sleeve-link, and is intended to obviate the
difficulties which exist in placing the ordinary sleeve-links in position in the cuffs
of shirts or other garments, especially when the same are starched or stiffened. To
accomplish this I make the link in the following manner. The fronts or buttons
may be of any desired shape or size, ornamented or plain, as may be desired; to
the back of one of these fronts or buttons I attach a loop or eye of metal wire, or a
loop or eye cut from a blank of sheet metal, the loop or eye being of such a size as
to go through the button-hole of the cuff of the shirt or other garment with ease,
and of such a length as to protrude slightly below the under surface thereof; to
the second front or button attach what is commonly known as a "spring-hook,"
that is, a hook in the form of a loop, a portion of one side being moveable and held
in such a position as to close the hook or loop by a spring, so that after such
moveable portion is depressed an entrance is effected into the hook or loop, and on
the pressure being removed, the spring causes the moveable portion to resume its
normal position and so close the book or loop; this spring-hook is attached to the
second front or button, either by hinging it thereto, or by attaching it to a loop or
eye such as is attached to the back of the first front or button. The method of use
is as follows.-The hook depending from the second front or button is inserted
through the button-hole of the cuff of the shirt or other garment, and the loop or
eye at the back of the other front or button is passed through the second button-
hole, the loop or eye at the back of the latter being then pressed through the
opening in the spring-hook and into the loop or bow of the same, the pressure being
then withdrawn the link is retained in position without fear of the fronts or buttons
becoming detached, as the same cannot be removed without first opening the spring-
book. If desired I can make the hook double, so that either or both of the buttons
or fronts may be detached at will; in this case each front or button is provided
with a similar loop or eye at the back, the hook having two openings, one at either
end, each being retained in position by a spring, as before described. It will be
seen that the use of my improved links will enable one to place the same in the
proper position in the cuff of the shirt or other garment without destroying, the
appearance or the set of the same, by having to pass the whole of the front or
button through either side, as is necessary with links ordinarily in use. *
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is.-
.
1. A sleeve-link constructed so that one or both of the fronts or buttons may be
detached at will, a spring-hook being attached to the back thereof substantially as
described in the foregoing Specification.
2. The spring-hook used may be permanently attached or hinged to the back of
one of the fronts or buttons, so that the loop or eye of the other front or button

page_text: may be attached thereto by passing it through the opening in the spring-book and
thus into the loop or bow of the same, or,-
3. The sprink-hook used may be made double ended, that is, with an opening at
both ends each opening being closed by a moveable portion, as set forth, and in this
case each of the fronts or buttons must be provided with a similar loop or eye at the
back, capable of being passed through the opening and into the loop or bow of the
spring hook.
A. G. PRITCHARD,
Agent for Applicant.