Improvements in Cuff Links or Fasteners.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Nov., 1895-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cuff Links or Fasteners.
I HENRY LESLIE DE VINE of 9 Ullin Street, Poplar E., Clerk, 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 a device to be employed for securing cuffs, and has for
its object to provide a simple and inexpensive arrangement by means of which the
cuffs can be fastened and unfastened with greater case than is at present the case.
In carrying out my invention I make each link in the form of a metal strip or
plate bent round or doubled at one end. To this extremity a second plate is hinged,
this hinged plate being of ornamental form. From the under face of this hinged
plate a pin projects, and when the plate or cover is turned down this pin enters a
hole in the base plate. A smali spring is furnished at the hinge which secures the
cover in open or closed position, the hinge being made square in the usual manner
for this purpose.
The two portions are secured together by small links in the
ordinary manner.
In securing this device to the cuff, the edge of each side of the cuff is placed
between the two plates, and the cover plate is turned down causing the pin to pass
through the link hole.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood reference is had to
the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1 is a perspective view shewing the links open, Fig. 2 shews the same
closed, and
Fig. 3 shews the device applied.
A is the base plate which is bent round at the end a so that a channel or groove
is formed sufficiently large to receive the edge of the cuff. To this end the
cover B is hinged, this plate being engraved or otherwise ornamented. The
plate B is furnished with the pin b on its under face, which can register with
the small hole or recess a¹ in the base plate.
The two articles forming the fastener are connected together by the links C, and
when applied to the cuff D as shewn in Fig. 3 the edges of the latter are placed
in the recess of the plate A, and the cover turned down causing the pin b to pass
through the hole of the cuff, the fastener thus holding the cuff by the edge. The
fastener can at once be removed on turning up the plate B the well known spring
arrangement & holding it in closed or open position as above described.
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 :-
(1.) An improved cuff fastener formed in two parts connected together by links,
each part being formed from two hinged plates between which the edge of the cuff is
held having a pin passing through the cuff when the device is attached substantially
as and for the purposes specified.
(2.) The improved cuff fastener formed in two main parts connected together,
each part consisting of a plate bent at one end and a second plate hinged to the
former provided with a pin adapted to pass through the cuff and enter a recess in

page_text: the opposite side substantially as described and shewn in the accompanying
drawings, and for the purposes specified.
Dated this 21st day of November 1895.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.