A Cuff-adjuster.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 19th June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 13th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 21st Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Cuff-adjuster.
FREDERICK MURRAY SYMONDS, Saxelbye Rectory, Melton Mowbray, Clerk in Holy
Orders, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention to be as follows:-
To keep shirt cuffs fastened securely to wristband in right position, and so that the
links set rightly a stud is inserted at either end of stout flexible material. To these
studs the cuff is fastened-a button hole in the centre of the adjuster attaching it
with the cuffs to the wristband of the shirt.
Dated this 10th day of June 1880
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Cuff Adjuster.
1, FREDERICK MURRAY SYMONDS, Saxelbye Rectory, Melton Mowbray, in the
County of Leicester, Clerk in Holy Orders, 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 adjusters for loose cuffs.
It is a matter of common experience that the usual method of attaching a cuff to
the wrist-band on the shirt-sleeve, viz., by buttoning both sides of the cuff to one
button, is attended by a serious inconvenience whenever the wearer elects, or is
induced by fashion, to use sleeve-links instead of solitaires.
It must be clear to any one that if a cuff be fastened to the wrist-band by button-
ing it centrally on to the one button of the band and links be used, the cuff will be
drawn out of shape, and caused to either catch in the coat lining or press incon-
veniently upon the shirt and be generally in an uncomfortable position.
In carrying my invention into effect, I provide a short strap of suitable material
adapted to be buttoned to the button on the wrist-band. Each end of the said strap
is provided with a stud, and the latter are separated from each other by a distance
equal to the length of the links, so that when the cuff is buttoned to the strap, and
the links are in their place, the cuff will be parallel with the wrist.
In order that my invention, and the best means of carrying the same into practical
effect, may be thoroughly understood I will now proceed to describe the same,
referring in so doing to the accompanying drawing which is to be taken as part of
this specification and read therewith.
Fig. 1 is a plan of the strap.
Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation thereof.
Fig. 3 is a plan of wrist-band and strap.
Fig. 4 is a plan of wrist-band, strap, cuff and links.
A is the shirt-sleeve; B, the wrist-band; 6 the wrist-band button; C, the strap;
c, c', the strap-studs, and c³, the button-hole by which the strap is buttoned to the
button b.
E is the cuff; and e, the links.
My invention does not confine me to any special material of which the strap C is

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
The combination of strap adapted to be attached to the wrist-band and studs affixed
thereto at a distance from each other to correspond with the length of the link, as
set forth.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.