AN IMPROVED METHOD OF ATTACHING REVERSIBLE CUFFS TO THE SLEEVES OF A SHIRT, BY SEWING THE CUFFS TO THE SLEEVES, SO THAT EITHER EDGE OR END OF THE REVERSIBLE CUFFS MAY BE TURNED OUTWARDS AND USED AT PLEASURE
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph James Macky, of 2, Milk Street, London, E.C., in
the County of Middlesex, England, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
METHOD OF ATTACHING REVERSIBLE CUFFS TO THE SLEEVES OF A SHIRT, BY
SEWING THE CUFFS TO THE SLEEVES, SO THAT EITHER EDGE OR END OF
THE REVERSIBLE CUFFS MAY BE TURNED OUTWARDS AND USED AT PLEASURE,"
Sealed the 18th October 1878, and dated the 16th May 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph James Macky at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th May 1878.
JOSEPH JAMES MACKY, of 2, Milk St., London, E.C., in the County of Mid-
dlesex, England. "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF ATTACHING REVERSIBLE Cuffs
TO THE SLEEVE OF A SHIRT, BY SEWING THE CUFFS TO THE SLEEVE, SO THAT
EITHER EDGE OR END OF THE REVERSIBLE CUFFS MAY BE TURNED OUTWARDS
AND USED AT PLEASURE."
The cuffs or cuff to have two ends, very similar to the cuffs that are not sewn to
the sleeves of shirts, but which are attached by the use of studs or buttons, and
detached at the option of the wearer, as the accompanying Drawings will illustrate.
My Invention consists in attaching the sleeve to the side of this "dual cuff," by
sewing it across the cuff between the ends, so that the cuff may be turned on the
sleeve as on a hinge, showing end a, Fig. 1, for wear, or end b, Fig. 2, with end a
turned inside the sleeve. The sleeve may be attached either in the centre or more
to the one end or side of the cuff than the other.
Fig. 1 shows the cuff attached to the sleeve, and the right side of end a turned
out for wear, the right side of end b being turned inward.
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Fig. 2 shows the right side of end b turned out for wear, and the whole of end a
turned inside the sleeve. The sewing which attaches or hinges the cuff to the
sleeve need not be seen, as worn either in Figs. 1 or 2. It is the sewing, as above
described, of the sleeve to the side of this dual reversible cuff, so that either end
may be turned out for wear, wherein consists principally my Invention.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Joseph James Macky in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 16th
November 1878.
JOSEPH JAMES MACKY, of 2, Milk Street, in the City of London, in the County
of Middlesex. "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF ATTACHING REVERSIBLE CUFFS TO THE
SLEEVES OF A SHIRT, BY SEWING THE CUFFS TO THE SLEEVES, SO THAT EITHER
EDGE OR END OF THE REVERSIBLE CUFFS MAY BE TURNED OUTWARDS AND USED
AT PLEASURE."
The cuffs of shirts have generally but one end, the other end being attached at its
edge to the sleeve.
My Invention is for an improved method of attaching double reversible cuffs, in
appearance very like the ordinary loose cuffs that are attached by studs, so that
either end may be turned out for wear (as seen in the accompanying Drawings),
but not both ends of the cuff at the same time. The band of the sleeve is sewn to
the cuff, not to either edge or end, but across the face of the cuff from side to side,
or nearly so, or the sleeve itself may be sewn across the face of the cuff from side
to side, or partly so, and this mode of attaching the sleeve, or the sleeve by its
band, to the cuff, as described, enables the wearer to turn the dual ended cuff as on
a hinge, and bring either end forward for wear, while the other end is turned back
out of sight..
In my Invention, there is a slight difference only between this cuff and the
ordinary loose double cuff, and this difference consists in the sewing of the button
or stud holes, so that each side of the cuff shows one end with the wrong and the
other end with the right side of the button holes, and the right side of one end of
the cuff and the wrong side of the other end, on each face of the cuff.
In the Drawing, Fig. 1, the full face or both ends of the cuff will be seen with
the band sewn across the inner face, and the sleeve attached to the band. End a
shows its right side, and end b its wrong side.
Fig. 2 shows the band sewn across the face of the cuff, and the right side of end
b turned out for wear, with the other end a turned up inside the sleeve.
Fig. 3 gives the form and one face of the cuff..
Fig. 4 shows the other face, and the band sewn partly across it. This Drawing
gives clearly what I claim, namely, the sewing of a band across the face of a shirt
cuff, which is a two-ended or double reversible cuff, substantially as indicated by
the accompanying Drawings herein-described, and under the above in part recited
Letters Patent.
The band is not constructed out of the cuff, but of separate material, and it may
be sewn to the cuff, the stitches showing on both faces, or only on one face, as
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph James Macky, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.