Improvement in the Construction of Shirts.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Feb, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 8th May, 1894-Accepted, 9th June, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in the Construction of Shirts.
I ALFRED RENÉ UPWARD of 150 Holland Road Kensington London W.
Electrical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention consists in making the wristbands or 'cuffs' of shirts detachable
or reversible, so that when wished, they can either be readily separated or detached
from the shirt and replaced by others, or they can be simply reversed. Preferably
I carry this into effect as follows:-I provide link or stud holes of similar form at
each end of the detachable or reversible wristband or cuff and also a stud hole or
button hole in the centre of the said detachable or reversible wristband or cuff.
At the extremity of the sleeve of the shirt (which of course is finished off without
a wristband or cuff) are provided either stud holes or buttons, and a 'tongue' or
'tab' cut in the material of the shirt extends beyond the end of the sleeve, and is
of sufficient length to reach to the centre stud hole or button hole which was
described above as being placed in the centre of the detachable or reversible
wristband or cuff.
The button, stud, or link holes, above described as being provided at each end of
the detachable or reversible wristband or cuff, form alternately, the means of
attachment to the sleeve of the shirt at one end, and carry the ordinary link or stud
at the other, so that when the detachable or reversible wristband or cuff is reversed,
the link holes form the means of attachment to the sleeve of the shirt, and those
holes which previously formed the attachment to sleeve-of the shirt become in turn
the link holes. The button hole or other means of attachment described above as
being placed in the centre of the detachable or reversible wristband or cuff is
provided for attachment with the 'tongue' or 'tab' also above described as forming
part of the sleeve of the shirt.
It will be observed that the detachable or reversible wristband or cuff may be
reversed without undoing the centre attachment, on which attachment it can be
turned as on a centre.
This invention is of course applicable to shirts made in any material.
Links, studs or buttons or any other convenient form of attachment may be used
with shirts constructed in accordance with this invention.
Dated this 26th day of February 1894.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in the Construction of Shirts.
1 ALFRED RENÉ UPWARD of 150 Holland Road Kensington London W.
Electrical Engineer, 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 consists in making the wristbands or cuffs of shirts detachable,
so that they can either be readily separated or detached from the shirt and
replaced by others, or so that they can be simply reversed, by turning the cuff on
a centre attachment, (wbich attachment may be a permanent one but admitting of

page_text: circular motion such as provided by a rivet of non-corrodible metal or other
substance) also in shaping the extremity of the sleeves of shirts (used with these
detachable or reversible cuffs) by cutting the material of the sleeve of the shirt
itself into convenient and suitable form, for easy attachment with a central and
other stud- or buttonhole, or other means of attachment, provided between sleeve
and cuff.
Referring to the drawings herewith, (which for clearness represent the
cuffs and end of sleeves flattened out) Fig. 1 is a cuff, and Figs. 2 and 3 termina-
tions of sleeves made as above described; A, Fig. 1 is a stud- or rivet hole placed
centrally on the cuff, which hole forms the means of attachment with the hole on
It will be seen from the
the tab, tongue, or angular projection B, Figs. 2 & 3.
above that the cuff may be reversed or turned on B, as a centre without detaching
it from the sleeve; the link- or stud holes C. C, C. C, at each end of the cuff
coinciding with the stud holes D. D. Figs. 2 or 3 on the sleeve.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Shirt sleeves and cuffs so constructed as to render the said cuffs readily
detachable from, or reversible on the said sleeves.
2. In detachable or reversible wristbands or cuffs for shirts, a centrally placed
buttonhole or means of attachment A, which is attached by means of a stud or
similar device to a tab, tongue, or other angular projection of the sleeve of the
shirt, so that the wristband or cuff can be turned about this central attachment and
80 reversed, substantially as described.
3. In shirts provided with detachable or reversible wristbands or cuffs the tongue,
tab, or other angular projection B, or other convenient shaping of the termination
of the sleeve of such shirts, being cut out of, and formed by the material of the
shirt itself.
A. RÉNÉ UPWARD.