IRUVIDIONAL DI BUITIVATIO
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 28th May, 1889-Accepted, 29th June, 1889
IRUVIDIONAL DI BUITIVATIO
A Special Shirt-sleeve Wrist and Adjustable Cuff Fastened by a
Special Clasp.
CHARLES EBENEZER MOYSE, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, Professor of
the English Language and Literature and JOHN EDWIN MOYSE 12 Osborne Terrace
Clapham Road London S.W. a duly qualified Physician and Surgeon do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
The invention consists of three parts having reference to the wrist of the shirt-
sleeve, to the cuff and to clasps respectively.
The wrist of the shirt sleeve is punched and fitted with non-oxidisable metal
eyelets.
The cuff which is adjustable is fitted with corresponding non-oxidisable metal
eyelets of similar nature.
The clasps one of which will be hereafter described serve to fasten eyelets of the
wrist of the shirt-sleeve to corresponding eyelets of the cuff.
Each clasp consists of two parts to bo designated hereafter as (I) and (II).
(I) consists of a moveable piece of metal hereafter denominated the tongue having
the edges of its under surface bevelled at its free end and possessing two projections
or pivots denominated a a in the appended diagram which fit into corresponding
holes bb described in part (II).
(II) is constructed from a piece of thin sheet-metal cut into the shape indicated
in the appended diagram of which the two projections or arms bb are perforated and
bent up
at right angles to their base to receive the projections or pivots of the tongue
already described.
The projection denominated d in the appended diagram is also bent up at right
angles to its base.
The two projections or arms denominated c c in the appended diagram are bent so
as to form a slightly acute angle with their base and touch the inclined sides of d
thus making the interval between their free extremities less than the width of the
tongue which projects beyond and is received between them. The tongue being
bevilled as described, pushes them apart in clasping is retained by their resilience and
is held firmly resting on d.
The clasping is affected in the following manner: The tongue is passed through
an eyelet of the wrist of the shirt-sleeve from beneath upwards and the eyelet in
question slips on to the arms b. b; the arms c c and the projection d are passed
through the corresponding eyelet of the cuff and the tongue is pressed into its place
already indicated.
Dated this Twenty-eighth day of August 1888.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Special Shirtsleeve Wrist and Adjustable Cuff Fastened by a
Special Clasp.
We, CHARLES EBENEZER MOYSE McGill University, Montreal, Canada Professor
of the English Language & Literature, and JOHN EDWIN MOYSE. 12 Osborne Terrace
Clapham Road London S.W., a duly qualified Physician and Surgeon do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
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page_text: performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention has for its object a more convenient and comfortable manner of
attaching a changeable or removeable cuff to a shirt than is usually employed and
also the more ready detaching of the said cuff when required--In the usual manner
of attaching the cuff to the shirt wrist it is necessary to employ a second pair of
sleeve links or a pair of solitaires or some such apparatus, which link solitaire or
stud has to be passed firstly through the two button holes of the wristband of the shirt
and then through the two button holes or stud holes of the detached cuff, an operation
which is more or less inconvenient, and which moreover surrounds the wrist of the
wearer with an inconvenient amount or thickness of linen, paper or of whatever
materials the shirt wristband and cuff are manufactured.
In order to render the cuff more easily attachable, we place, at a short distance
from one end of the cuff, a convenient number of holes, which may be plain sewn
holes as usually made in shirts or cuffs or they may be round punched holes either
sewn or fitted with eyelets made of some convenient metal (preferably non oxidisible);
and in the shirt wrist we place a similar number of holes made in either of the above
mentioned ways; the holes in the shirt wrist are also placed as near the edge as is
convenient.
To connect the cuff to the wristband we employ a clasp of special construction in
two parts, made of a suitable material (preferably metal) that has a moveable piece or
tongue hinged at one end, and has its free end bevilled on its underside to cause it to
pass readily but stiffly between two projections on the other part of the clasp, to which
it is hinged, that serve to keep the tongue in its place when clasped.
A reference to the drawings in which like letters represent like parts will serve
to explain the construction of the clasp, and of the shirt wristband and cuff.
Figure 1 shews the tongue detached from the other part of the clasp, having two
projections or pivots a, a, Figure II shews the second part of the clasp also detached
having five projections, all of which, when the two parts of the clasp are attached,
are turned upwards; two of these projections are perforated with holes b, b, for the
rec ption of the pivots a, a, Fig. I'; and two c, c, form the guide and clasp for the
end of the tongue; whilst the projection d, regulates the width of the interval between
the projections c, c, when turned up, and also serves for a rest for the free end of the
tongue when the clasp is closed-Figure IV shews the cuff and shirt wristband in
position ready to receive the clasps, with the holes for their reception-Figure III is
a view of the clasp and Figure V shews the cuff and shirt wristband attached for wear
with the clasps in position.
It will be seen from the drawings that the clasps are made in two pieces, each piece
being punched or suitably formed from one piece of material-these two pieces are
attached to each other by means of the pivots and holes provided for that purpose-
the tongue having two pivots and the second part two projections with holes for their
reception the other end of the second part has three projections, two of which serve
to guide and fix the free end of the tongue in its place when the clasp is closed.
The sides of the end projection d, being made slightly taper, cause the two side
projections at the same end, when all are turned upwards, and pressed together, to
incline slightly inwards so that the interval between them at the top is very slightly
less than the width of the tongue-thus when the tongue is pressed into its place, the
bevil on its underside, before mentioned, causes the ends to spring apart and sub-
sequently when the tongue passes downwards and rests on the end projection, they
form a spring clip and retain the tongue in its place-It is also shewn that the cuff
and the shirt wristband, instead of overlapping as is usual, meet end to end or edge to
edge, an arrangement that gives a much greater comfort to the wearer than can be
obtained when the cuff surrounds the wristband-The cuff is more easily attached as
by passing the tongue of the clasp, from beneath upwards through a hole or eyelet
in the wristband of the shirt; the eyelet or hole in question slips on to the arms
or projections b, b, the arms or projections c, c,' and d are passed underneath and

page_text: through the corresponding eyelet or hole in the cuff, and the tongue is pressed into
its place as described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is;
I. The construction of a special clasp for attaching a shirt cuff to a shirt wrist-
band end to end, substantially as above described.
II. The combination of a shirt wristband and shirt cuff having holes or eyelets in
their ends and a special clasp for attaching them end to end substantially as above
described.
Dated this 60th da
M1000
CHAS. EBENEZER MOYSE.
JOHN EDWARD MOYSE.