IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR LADIES' CUFFS, PARTLY APPLICABLE TO STUDS GENERALLY
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Harrison, of No 14, Dawson Place, Bayswater,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FASTENINGS FOR LADIES' CUFFS, PARTLY APPLICABLE TO STUDS GENERALLY."
Sealed the 7th November 1876 and dated the 1841 SU
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Harrison at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th September 1876.
RICHARD HARRISON, of No. 14, Dawson Place, Bayswater, in the County of
Middlesex "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR LADIES' CUFFS, PARTLY APPLI-
CABLE TO STUDS GENERALLY
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My Invention has for its object to secure the loose linen cuffs to the sleeves of
ladies' dresses, in order to prevent them from shifting out of place For this
purpose I make the stud which secures the inner end or middle of the cuff with
either a hook or a loop projecting from its outer face, and to the sleeve of the dress I
attach either an eye or hook to which the hook or loop of the stud is secured, or by
preference I employ for this purpose the description of fastening known as a
safety pin," on which I form an eye or a hook, the safety pin being attached to
the sleeve and the hook or loop of the stud connected to its eye or hook. The hook
ór loop of the stud may either be formed by cutting out and raising a portion of
its face, or it may be formed as a separate piece soldered or rivetted on. In the
former case the stud is either formed with a back plate to which the shank is
fastened, or I fork or bend over the shank so as to secure it to the stud on either
side of the hole formed by cutting out the hook or loop.
For facilitating the insertion of the above-described studs or of ordinary studs
into the button hole I form the end of the shank with a loop or eye, upon which is
a loose metal disc having a central hole through which the loop passes, and being
notched out on one side to allow of the disc being turned from a position at right
angles to the shank into a position in line therewith.
For inserting the stud into the button hole the disc is turned into the last-named
position, and after being inserted it is turned down so as to lie flat on the inside of
the button hole.

page_text: fixed to the shank of the stud, and the plate A is held as shewn in the enlarged detail
at Fig 10, being secured to As by a helical spring and having projections on its
inner face fitting into inclined slots on a cylindrical guide on the plate As, so that
by turning the plate A slightly in one direction the projections in moving up the
slots will cause A° to be raised away from A³ sufficiently to admit of the small knob
formed at the end of a shank B which is secured to the dress to be inserted between
the two plates. On turning back the plate A° the knob is nipped between the two
plates, as shewn.
In place of the above arrangement the plate A° may have projections or teeth at
two or more points of its periphery fitting into recesses in the periphery of the
plate A³, as shewn at Fig. 11, so that on turning the plate A" its teeth in riding up
the sides of the recesses in As will cause it to be iaised up, as described in the
previous arrangement. Or the two plates may be hinged together, as shewn at
Fig. 12, and have a slight space between their rims, so that on depressing the
plate A on the one side they will be separated sufficiently on the other side to
admit the knob of the fastening. On releasing the plate A° it is caused by a spring
arranged between the plates, as shewn, to resume its original position and to hold
the fastening.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, I claim the improved manufacture of studs wherein the stud is
provided, in addition to its inner and outer plates, with a hook, loop, or eye, or
equivalent device by means whereof it can be connected to a loop, hook, or
equivalent contrivance on the sleeve of the dress, substantially as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Harrison, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twelfth day of March, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-seven.
R. HARRISON. (L.S.)