Improvements in Sleeve Links and like Dress Fasteners.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 13th July, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sleeve Links and like Dress Fasteners.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK SPITTLE, of the Firm of Hammond, Turner and Company,
of Snow Hill, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention has relation to sleeve links and like dress fasteners, principally
of that type in which the heads or buttons are carried by a pair of rigid back to .
back U or stirrup shaped frames.
In this class of link, the back to back horse-shoe shaped frames, owing to being
rigid, are incapable of making any angular movement relative to each other for
adjusting the heads to the plane of the cuffs.
The object of my invention is to so construct such links that the heads admit
of being adjusted to the angle of the cuff, in whatever position they may have
been threaded through the button-holes, whereby the said heads sit" properly
against the cuff.
"
This object is attained by jointing or loosely connecting the horse-shoe shaped
frames or fetters together, back to back and in carrying out one form of my in-
vention, I take a pair of horse shoe shaped frames each with their ends turned
into right-angled pivots taking respectively into holes formed in the opposite
edges of the head, which turns about the said pivots as centres. The frames of
each pair of heads are brought together back to back, and may be rebated or made
to overhang each other and connected together by a cross pin or rivet, with suffi-
cient clearance being left between the overhanging parts to admit of the angular
movement of the said frames in their own general plane, whilst the heads or but-
tons, which are preferably in the form of thin, flat, elliptical plates, swing, alike
into a mirror, within a bifurcated frame comprehending one half of the head.
When the links are to be introduced through the button holes of a cuff, the two
heads with their frames are brought straight or all in the same general plane.
Then after the heads have been threaded through the button holes, the frames turn
about their joint connection and assume such an angular position relative to each
other as will admit of the two heads respectively lying or sitting flat against the
outer sides of the two converging edges of the cuff.
As another form, the U or horse-shoe shaped frames may be connected by a
loose shackle or fetter, which admits of the said frames making a slight angle
relative to one another in bringing the heads to their proper inclinations against
the cuff.
I wish it to be understood that I do not limit myself to any particular kind of
joint between the frames so long as it admits of them turning in the desired
plane or I may use a ball and socket or other universal joint, nor to the shape of
the frames or fetters, which lie in the button holes of a cuff and are thereby pre-
vented from rotating or twisting.
As a further form of my invention, the frames may be made in the form of a
pair of links cranked down near the fore part to the depths of the button to the
outer ends of these links, the buttons are jointed so as to swing at right angles

page_text: thereto whilst the inner ends of the links are so connected as to admit of them
turning in the same plane.
The application of my invention to other dress fasteners differs in no essential
respect from its application to sleeve links as herein described.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK SPITTLE, of the Firm of Hammond, Turner and Company,
of Snow Hill, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, 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 has relation to sleeve links and like dress fasteners principally
of that type in which the heads or buttons are carried by a pair of rigid back to
back or stirrup shaped frames. In this class of link, the back to back horse-
shoe shaped frames, owing to being rigid, are incapable of making any angular
movement relative to each other for adjusting the heads to the plane of the cuffs.
The object of my invention is to so construct such links that the heads admit
of being adjusted to the angle of the cuff, in whatever position they may have
been threaded through the button-holes, whereby the said heads sit" properly
against the cuff, and this object I propose to attain by jointing or loosely con-
necting the horse-shoe shaped frames or fetters together, back to back.
"
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a plan of a sleeve link
constructed according to my invention with the frame or branched links to which
the heads or studs are pivoted being made in two horse-shoe or stirrup-shaped
parts jointed together so as to admit of turning relative to one another, in the
same plane, thereby improving the " sit" of the said heads, as represented in
Figures 2 and 3, which shows the said link applied to a cuff.
Figure 4 is an edge view of the link.
Figure 5 represents another plan of the said article, but with the heads and
their frames placed in an angular position relative to one another, which is effected
by turning the said frames upon their joint or pivot.
Figure 6 is an end view of Figure 4.
Figure 7 represents a plan, partly in section, and Figure 8 an edge view, of one
of the heads separately, whilst Figures 9 and 10 show respectively in plan and
edge view, the two component parts of the frame detached from the heads and
separated from one another.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the said Figures 1
to 10.
In constructing a sleeve link according to this form of my invention, I take a
pair of horse shoe shaped frames or branched links a and b, each having at their
ends a, b, right angled studs or pivots adapted to take respectively into holes c¹, d',
in the opposite edges of the heads e, d, which are free to turn or swing about the
said pivots as centres. The two frames of each link are brought together back
to back, and their rebated or set down ears a², 62, are made to overlap or overhang
each other, so as to ensure the frames lying both in the same horizontal plane, and
are then connected together by a cross pin or loose rivet e, with sufficient clear-
ance being left between the overhanging parts to admit of the angular movement

page_text: of the said frames in their own general plane, whilst the heads or buttons, which
are preferably in the form of thin, flat, elliptical plates, swing, alike into a mirror,
within bifurcated frames comprehending one half of the head.
When the links are to be introduced through the button holes of a cuff, the two
heads, with their frames, are brought straight or all in the same general plane as
represented in Figure 1, then after the heads have been threaded through the
button holes, the frames turn about their joint connection and assume such an
angular position relative to each other (see Figures and 5) as will admit of the
two heads respectively lying or sitting flat-against the outer sides of the two
converging edges of the cuff as shown in Figures 2 and 3.
As another form, the U or horse-shoe shaped frame a and b, may be connected
as represented in Figure 11, by a loose shackle or fetter e, which admits of the said
frames making a slight angle relative to one another in bringing the heads to
their proper inclinations against the cuff.
Another arrangement of loose shackle e is shown in Figure 12, but I wish it to
be understood that I do not limit myself to any particular kind of joint or con-
nection between the frames so long as it admits of them turning in the desired
plane as I may use a ball and socket or other universal joint, nor do I limit myself
to the shape of the frames or fetters, which lie in the button holes of a cuff and
are thereby prevented from rotating or twisting.
The application of my invention to other dress fasteners differs in no essential
respect from its application to sleeve links as herein described.
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 In sleeve links and analogous dress fasteners in which the heads or
buttons swing within horse-shoe, stirrup or similarly shaped frames or branched
links; mounting each of the said heads in a separate frame or branched link, a
pair of which are jointed together so as to turn or make an angular movement in
a plane at right angles to that in which the heads swing, substantially as and for
the purpose herein described, and also as set forth in Figures 1 to 11.
Secondly-Sleeve links and analogous dress fastenings in which each of the.
heads or buttons is mounted and swings within a branched frame or link, a pair
of which are pivoted or jointed together to form the complete article, substantially
as, and for the purpose as, herein described and also as set forth in Figure 12 of
the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 8th day of February 1900.
GEORGE FREDERICK SPITTLE.
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham,
Agent for Applicant.