An Improved Detached Cuff or Wristband.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 28th May, 1897
Complete Specification Left, 8th July, 1897-Accepted, 14th Aug., 1897
An Improved Detached Cuff or Wristband.
I, ARTHUR ERNEST HARVEY, of the Commercial Hotel, 20 Bridge Street, Bristol,
Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to detached cuffs or wristbands for wear when the fixed
cuffs or wristbands of a shirt or like garment are soiled, or otherwise rendered
unsightly.
The improved detached cuff or wristband. which constitutes this invention is made
in the form of a bag closed on three sides and open on the fourth. It has apertures
or holes for sleeve links or solitaire stud stems.
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In applying the cuff or wristband, it is slipped as a bag over the fixed cuff or
wristband of the shirt or other garment. The closed end of the detached cuff or
wristband is outermost and the outer edge of the fixed cuff is first introduced into
the mouth of the detached cuff which, when pushed home, is held in place by the
sleeve links or solitaire studs employed for the fixed cuff.
The improved cuff in which this invention consists conceals both the outside and
inside of the fixed cuff over which it is drawn, as aforesaid.
Dated this 27th day of May 1807
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Bristol, Chartered Patent Agent.
I, ARTHUR ERNEST HARVEY, of the Commercial Hotel, 20, Bridge Street, Bristol,
Commercial Traveller, 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 detached cuffs or wristbands for wear when the fixed
cuffs or wristbands of a shirt or like garment are soiled, frayed, or otherwise rendered
unsightly.
The improved detached cuff or wristband in which this invention consists is a bag
made of linen or other suitable fabric such as is employed in the manufacture of
shirts. The cuff which constitutes this invention is adapted to be slipped as a bag
upon the fixed cuff or wristband of a shirt or other garment when, through wear,
soiling, or other cause, such fixed cuff or wristband has become unsightly. The bag
when thus applied conceals both the outer and inner faces of the fixed cuff. Both
that part of the bag which is outermost when the bag has been placed over a fixed
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cuff, and that part which is next the arm of the wearer are intended to be glazed in
the manner usual in respect of fixed cuffs. The bag is kept in place by sleeve links
or studs which are passed through apertures provided therefor.
Referring to the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 represents an exterior view of my
improved detached cuff or wristband when bent to the shape shown at Fig. 2 which
is a section on the line x, x, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section on the line y, y, Fig. 1.
The cuff or wristband consists of two pieces a and b of linen or other suitable
fabric. The piece b is sewn to the piece a towards the top thereof and down the
divisions at or near the edges thereof. The piece b is not sewn to the piece a
along the bottom c of the cuff which is therefore a bag. Link holes d are provided
in the piece b to correspond with the usual link holes e in the piece a.
In applying the bag cuff or wristband for concealing a fixed cuff or wristband, the
bag cuff is slipped on the fixed cuff which is thus hidden both inside and outside.
The bag cuff is kept in place by the links or studs employed for the fixed cuff;
such links or studs being passed also through the link holes d and through the
corresponding link holes of the fixed concealed cuff.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
A cuff or wristband for shirts and other garments; said cuff or wristband being
made as a bag apart from such garments and adapted to be slipped over and receive
within it the fixed cuff or wristband of such garments and to conceal both faces of
the fixed cuff or wristband, substantially as hereinbefore set forth with reference to
the accompanying drawing..