Year: 1898

page_text: I, GEORGE FREDERICK SPITTLE, of the Firm of Hammond, Turner and Com-
pany, of Snow Hill, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows
1
This invention has reference to sleeve and cuff links, attachments for cloaks,
mantles and the like, and other dress fastenings in which heads or buttons of the
fastener are engaged with button holes or their equivalent in the garment or
article to be fastened, and has for its object, to assemble and connect together
the component parts of sleeve links and the like without soldering, whereby the
said articles are greatly strengthened and their manufacture amplified.
In carrying out my invention in connection with a sleeve luk, I take a solid
middle link or fetter and join or attach the same to the shanks of the pair of
buttons or heads by means of special intermediate links or connections, as here-
inafter described. Each of these intermediate connecting links is made from a
hour-glass or dumb-bell shaped blank of metal with the ends pierced with cor-
responding shaped holes, so that when the blank 18 folded across the middle of
its waist and bent into an eye and the ends are brought together with their faces
lying closely upon one another, and with the respective piercings of them lying
coincident, there is formed a pear-shaped link, with the axis of the small eye
lying in a plane at right angles to the axis of the eye formed by the brought
together pierced or ring ends of the blank.
In making up a sleeve link, I first take a preferably solid-made loop or long
seamless middle link and I then take an intermediate link (after the opening
out of the sides thereof, and thread one of the said sides or cheek through the
long direction of the middle loop and then draw the link up to the end of the
said loop, with the small eve at the end of the link surrounding the end bar
of the said loop The second connecting or intermediate link 19 connected to the
opposite end of the loop in like manner and the sides of each link closed together
and one of the legs of the staple shank of each head is threaded respectively
through them. The ends of the legs of these staples are then affixed by rivetting
or otherwise to the carrier or back plates, which are dropped into the shells of
the heads or buttons and there secured by suitable means
These backs or carrier plates preferably have cruciform shaped piercings with
the legs of the staple lving in the one pair of opposite gaps whilst the other pair
form a clearance for the end of the intermediate connecting link.
Dated this Oth dor of June 1898

page_text: Improvements in Sleeve Links and analogous Dress Fastenings.
I, GEORGE FREDFRICK SPITTLE, of the Firm of Hammond, Turner and Com-
pany, of Snow Hill, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention and in what manner the same 18 to be performed.
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement.-
This invention has reference to sleeve and cuff links, attachments for cloaks,
mantles and the like, and other diess fastenings in which heads or buttons of
the fastener are engaged with button holes or their equivalent in the garment
or article to be fastened, and has for its object. to assemble and connect together
the component parts of sleeve links and the like without soldering, whereby the
said articles are greatly strengthened and their manufacture simplified, which is
effected in a sleeve link, by taking an ordinary solid middle link or fetter and
joining or attaching the same to the shanks of the pair of buttons or heads by
means of special intermediate links or connections, as hereinafter described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents an underside plan of a sleeve
link or dress fastener provided with intermediate or joining up links constructed
according to my invention.
Figure 2 is an edge view thereof
Figure 3 represents an edge view and Figure 4 a plan of the middle or fetter
link and the two intermediate links of the said dress fastener, separately
Figures 5 and 6 represent an edge view and a plan of one of the blanks from
which the said intermediate links are made, showing the same before folding
Figure 7 is a longitudinal vertical section of the said folded link and Figure 8
is a horizontal section thereof upon the dotted line 7, Figure 7.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing
The sleeve link or dress fastening comprises a pair of heads or buttons a, with
shanks a¹, and a middle or fetter link b, which is connected with the said heads
by means of a pair of intermediate or joining up links c, the latter being of
special construction in accordance with my invention, whereby the whole of the
parts of the fastener are assembled without soldering
Each of the said intermediate connecting or joining up links c, is made from
a hour-glass or dumb-bell shaped blank of metal c¹, (see Figures 5 and 6) with
the ends, pierced with corresponding shaped holes, so that when the blank
is folded across the middle of its waist, and bent into an eve (see Figures 7
and 8) and the ends are brought together with their faces lying closely unon one
another, and with the respective piercings of them lying coincident, there is
formed a near-shaped link with the axis of the small eve e³, lving in a plane at
right angles to the axis of the other and larger ove ce, formed by the brought-
together pierced or ung ends of the blank
In making up a sleeve link, I first take a preferably solid-made loop or long
seamless middle link b and I then take an intermediate link c. (after the open-
ing out of the sides thereof), and thread one of the said sides or
cheeks edgewise through the longer direction of the middle loon and
then draw the link up to the end of the said loon, with the small PTA
at the end of the link surrounding the end har 61 of the said loop The second
connecting or intermediate link is connected to the opposite end of the loon in
like manner and the sides of each link closed together and one of the lers of the
staple shank a¹, of each head a, is threaded respectively through them The ends
of the legs of these staples are then affixed by rivetting or otherwise to the

page_text: carrier or back plates a which are dropped into the shells of the heads or buttons
and there secured by suitable means
These backs or carrier plates preferably have cruciform shaped piercings a³,
with the legs of the staple lying in the one pair at, of opposite gaps whilst the
other pair a', form a clearance for the end of the intermediate connecting link.
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:
First: An intermediate joining up or connecting link for sleeve links and
analogous dress fastenings, made up from a blank having end eves and a middle
neck about which the said blank is folded so as to produce a link having a pair
of eyes disposed in planes at right angles to one another, and by the employment
of which the several parts admit of being assembled without soldering, substan-
tially as described and set forth
Secondly: A sleeve or cuff link or analogous diess fastening, comprising a
pair of heads with shanks and a solid middle or fetter link, with the latter con-
nected to the former by a pair of intermediate joining up links produced from
folded blanks of sheet metal and assembled or connected without soldering sub-
stantially as herein described and set forth
Dated th19 24th day of February 1899
GEORGE FREDERICK SPITTLE.
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant