Year: 1899

page_text: WILLIAM HAMILTON JOBSON, 137, Upton Park Road, Forest Gate, by trade an
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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It consists of two pieces of metal or any suitable substance (similar to the
ordinary links) having a ring or eye fastened to each piece & connected by a
bent piece of wire (of any kind of metal suitable) in the shape of a hook thereby
making the links adjustable by unhooking one piece from the other.
The connecting hook being the invention.
I, WILLIAM HAMILTON JOBSON, of 137, Upton Park Road, Forest Gate, London,
E., 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:-
My invention relates to improvements in sleeve links, and has for its object to
provide a quick and easy means of connecting and disconnecting them to and
from each other, and mounting them upon a cuff without disfiguring the button
holes of such cuff by having to pass the heads of the said links through the said
holes as hitherto.
My invention consists essentially of a specially constructed hooked-link
pivotally mounted upon the shank or eye of one head of the sleeve-link and
adapted to hook into the shank or eye of the other, or of a link pivotally con-
nected to a shank or eye upon one head of the sleeve link and adapted to engage
with a hook upon the opposite head, as hereinafter explained.
In order that my said improvements and the manner of their use may be fully
understood I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings, in which
Figs. 1, 2 and 3 illustrates different arrangements of sleeve link connections
according to my invention, while Fig. 4 illustrates the manner of passing such
connections through the button holes of a cuff for the purposes stated.
In carrying my invention into effect I construct of any kind of metal or com-
bination of metals, precious or otherwise, a connecting link A, one end of which
is arranged to form an eye B, which may be caused to pivotally engage with the
eye or shank C, of any form or kind of sleeve link head D, the opposite end of A
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page_text: being arranged in the form of a hook E, either with a plain or smooth point as
at Fig. 1 or ball pointed as at Fig. 2, the said hook E in either case being
adapted to pass through, without disfiguring, the button hole, at one side of a
cuff such as F, and engage with the eye or shank C¹ of the second link head D¹,
which has been previously passed through the opposite button hole of the cuff,
substantially as at Fig. 4, hence the attaining of the object of my invention.
I may find it convenient to form upon the free end of the connecting link A
an eye B in lieu of the hook E, and form an equivalent hook E¹ upon D¹ in
lieu of the eye C¹, substantially as at Fig. 3.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:—
The connecting of the heads of sleeve links by a link such as A, the said con-
necting link being in pivotal connection with one link head, and in detachable
connection with the other, substantially as and for the purposes herein described
and shewn.
VILIO
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of Deprem 3.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.