Improvements relating to Removable Cuffs for Shirts.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Feb., 1890-Accepted, 15th Mar., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Removable Cuffs for Shirts.
I EDWARD GIFFORD, of 48 Thorne Road, South Lambeth, in the county of Surrey,
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 relates to certain improvements relating to the construction and
method of use of removable cuffs for shirts and has for its object to provide means
of readily attaching to or detaching cuffs from shirt sleeves.
According to my invention I adopt sliding connections which I will fully describe
in reference to the accompanying figures which illustrate my principle and in which
like letters indicate like parts.
Figure 1 is an elevation and Figure 2 a section of wrist band. Figure 3 is an
elevation and Figure 4 a section of cuff. Figure 5 is a section of the two attached.
B is a band sewn on to the shirt sleeve A, and C is a cuff. According to the methods
shown in figures 1 to 5 I may form along either side of the lower edge of the
band B by turning up, sewing, or otherwise as most convenient two tabs & b lapped
over inwardly as illustrated in figure 2 and similarly on the upper side of the cuff C
two plain tabs c c figure 4, or 1 may reverse this and place the plain tabs c c on the
wrist band and the lapped over tabs bb on the cuff as illustrated in the respective
cross sections figures 2 and 4. The tabs may extend the whole length of the band
and cuff or may terminate a short distance say half an inch from the edges of the
material.
Connection or disconnection is made by sliding the plain tabs c c into or out of the
lapped tabs b b as illustrated in figures 5 and 5*.
An alternative method is illustrated in figures 6 to 10 which are the same views
as the former figures except that figure 8 is a back elevation of the cuff.
In this case upon the outer side of the lower part of the wrist band B are fixed
two tabs bb having their free ends towards each other and small space s intervening.
The tabs should be about half an inch each in depth and extending the full length of
the band B as illustrated figure 6. On the upper part of the back of the cuff C a
strip is sewn along its centre so as to form two plain tabs c c of a depth slightly less
than that of the wrist band tabs bb. The tabs c c may extend the full length of the
cuff or may terminate say half an inch from its ends and they may be sloped away
at their ends as illustrated by the dotted lines at c¹ figure 8. The connection or dis-
connection is made by sliding the cuff tabs c c into or out of the wrist band tabs b b
as illustrated in figure 10.
It is advantageous to make the connecting parts as stiff as possible and this may
be done by the free use of starch or an additional stiffening of any suitable substance
may be introduced.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The hereinbefore described improvements relating to removable cuffs for shirts
consisting in the construction of the parts and their use substantially according to
the methods set forth in reference to the accompanying drawings.
Datad this 13th dow of Faben 1800
J. C. CHAPMAN, Fel. Inst. Patent Agents,
70, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for Applicant.