A New or Improved Appliance to Facilitate Fastening or Buttoning Cuff Links.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Apr., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 16th Jan., 1899-Accepted, 18th Feb., 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION."
A New or Improved Appliance to Facilitate Fastening or Buttoning
Cuff Links.
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I, JOHN MADDOCKS, of 3, Park Drive, Heaton, Bradford, in the County of York,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a new or improved appliance to facilitate fastening or
buttoning cuff links.
For this purpose I employ a spring holder preferably having one limb a little
longer than the other. A hole or slot is made through the shorter limb to receive
the shank of one button of the link which button is placed in the holder and
whilst held in this position it is threaded through both button holes of the cuff.
The two limbs of the holder normally lie at an acute angle to each other and
they are sprung together to hold the link whilst it is buttoned.
The holder is preferably formed out of sheet metal and a rounded or taper pro-
jection is pressed outwards immediately on one side of the hole or slot to prevent
the shank of the button of the link held in the holder from catching the button
holes as the link is buttoned. The two links are preferably more or less curved
in cross section to stiffen them.
Dated this 15th day of Anril 1898.
DRACUP & NOWELL,
Patent Agents, Bradford.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Appliance to Facilitate Fastening or Buttoning
Cuff Links.
I, JOHN MADDOCKS, of 3, Park Drive, Heaton, Bradford, in the County of York,
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 follow-
ing statement;
This invention relates to a new or improved appliance for facilitating the
buttoning of that type of cuff link consisting of two buttons or their equivalent
connected together by a link.
To fully describe my invention reference is made to the accompanying sheet
of drawings in which Figure 1, represents a perspective view of the improved
appliance, Figure 2, is a plan view and Figure 3, is a cross section of the same
on the broken line ab Figure 1.

page_text: The appliance is made from springy sheet metal folded as shown in Figure 1
and slightly curved in cross section to stiffen it.. A slot or hole A is made through
the branch B and a rounded projection C is pressed out in front of it. In use the
face of one of the buttons of the link is placed upon the branch 1 of the appli-
ance and the branch B is pressed down on the top of it so that the slot A engages
the shank of the button. Whilst held in this position the appliance is passed
through the button holes of the cuff the button of the link being drawn after it.
The rounded projection C prevents the shank of the button projecting through
the slot from catching the button holes of the cuff as it is passed through.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
The new or improved appliance for facilitating the buttoning of cuff links, sub-
stantially as herein shown and described and illustrated in the accompanying sheet
of drawings.
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