Improvements in Sleeve, Cuff, and like Links or Dress Fasteners.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sleeve, Cuff, and like Links or Dress Fasteners.
I, WILLIAM ERNEST PATTERSON of Warstone Lane, in the City of
Birmingham Manufacturing Jeweller do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in sleeve, cuff and like links, or dress
fasteners, comprehending head or stud parts, united together by a fetter, whose
ends are connected and jointed to shanks, disposed at the backs of the said head or
stud parts.
My invention has for its object, the easy introduction of the said links or articles
through the button holes of a garment, and relates primarily to links having
dome or flat backs, and with the shanks of the heads standing away from the
surface.
In ordinary domed and flat backs, the standing out shanks form an impediment
to the easy passage of the links through the button holes.
By my improvements both the end parts of the fetters, and the shanks to which
they are connected, lie flush with or below the said backs.
In carrying out my invention in connection with a domed back sleeve link, I
make the middle fetter in the form of a flat double link, throttled about its middle,
and with the outer end jointedly connected to shanks or joint bearings, located
within the middle parts of sinkings, crossing the backs in the direction of a
diameter, and of a breadth and depth of the fetter or primary link.
The direction of the bearing of the shank or joint is preferably at right angles
to the direction of the sinking, which is alike unto a shallow groove, crossing the
backs of the heads or studs, and within which groove, the said shanks and the
fetters lie, and become flush with the surfaces of the said backs.
I propose that the terminations of the cross and band like sinking should dis-
appear at the boundary of the head or stud, so that no disfiguration of the said
head at its edges, made.
I further propose that the sides of the sinking or groove, may be slightly under-
cut, and that the fetter should slightly yield transversely, so that on bringing the
heads or studs into a common plane, with the boundary edge of the one nearly
touching the boundary edge of the other, the said heads should be temporily held
rigid to the fetter, by the snapping of the said fetter into the undercut sides of the
grooves.
To introduce a link through the button hole of a cuff, dispose the heads into the
same plane, and with the fetter lying within the cross sinking, when the parts
become as it were, alike unto a flat plate, which passes or glides freely through
the said button holes, when the heads are then turned into their proper relative
positions, with the backs of the heads or studs falling close to the cuff.
In a flat back, the recessing is alike unto that of the domed one, as described.
The fetter may be of any desired construction or configuration.
Dated this 6th day of October 1892.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Sleeve, Cuff, and like Links or Dress Fasteners.
1. WILLIAM ERNEST PATTERSON, of Warstone Lane, in the City of
Birmingham Manufacturing Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion 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 improvements in sleeve, cuff and like links or dress
fasteners, comprehending head or stud parts, united together by a fetter, whose
ends are connected and jointed to shanks, disposed at the backs of the said head or
stud parts.
My invention has for its object, the easy introduction of the said links or articles
through the button holes of a garment, and relates primarily to links having
dome or flat backs, and with the shanks of the heads standing away from the
surface.
In ordinary domed and flat backs, the standing-out shanks form an impediment
to the easy passage of the links through the button holes.
By my improvements, both the end parts of the fetters, and the shanks to which
they are connected, lie flush with or below the said backs.
In carrying out my invention, in connection with a semi domed back sleeved link,
I make the middle fetter in the form of a flat double link, throttled about its
middle, and with the outer ends jointedly connected to shanks or joint bearings,
located within the middle parts of sinkings, crossing the backs in the direction of
a diameter, and preferably of a breadth and depth of the fetter or primary link.
The direction of the bearing of the shank or joint, is at right angles to the
direction of the sinking, which is alike unto a shallow groove or channel, crossing
the backs of the heads or studs, and within which groove, the said shanks and the
fetters lie, and become flush with the surfaces of the said backs.
I propose that the terminations of the cross and band-like sinking, should be open,
or disappear at the boundary of the head or stud, so that no disfiguration of the
said head at its edges, is made.
As a modification the sides of the sinking or groove may be slightly undercut, or
that the fetter should be made to slightly spring transversely, so that on bringing
the heads or studs into a common plane, with the boundary edge of the one nearly
touching the boundary edge of the other, the said heads should be temporily held
rigid to the fetter, by the snapping of the said fetter into the undercut sides of the
grooves.
To introduce a link through the button hole of a cuff dispose the heads into the
same plane, and with the fetter lying within the cross sinking, when the parts
become as it were alike unto a flat plate, which passes or glides freely through the
Baid button holes, when the heads are then turned into their proper relative
positions, with the backs of the heads or studs falling close to the cuff.
In a flat back, the recessing is alike unto that of the domed one, as described.
The fetter may be of any desired construction or configuration, but preferably
flat.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in back elevation, a sleeve or
cuff link, fitted, made or provided as according to my invention.
The heads of the said link are in the positions which they assume when the same
are temporily held rigid by their coupling fetter, consisting of a flat bar, jointedly
connected at its ends to sink back shanks, lying within the middles of diameter
channel sinkings, of the depth and breadth of the thickness and breadth of the
fetter, which lies within the opposed sinkings of the contiguous parts of the
heads.
Figure 2 represents a longitudinal vertical section of the same, showing the

page_text: dispositions of the parts, and how the shanks lie within the sinkings, or are flush
or semi-flush with the slightly domed backs.
Figure 3 represents a like sectional view as Figure 2, with the heads or studs
turned from off the fetter or connecting link.
Figure 4 is a back elevation of the said link, with the fetter in the position which
it takes relative to the said heads, when the same is within the button hole of a cuff
or garment.
Figure 5 is an end view of the back of one of the heads, showing the channel
sinking.
Figure 6 is a transverse section of Figure 5;
Figure 7 is an inside plan of the said back ;
Figure 8 is a transverse section of Figure 7 upon the dotted lines A B ;
Figure 9 is an underside plan of the said back, and
Figure 10 is a section and elevation of the fetter or connecting link, while
Figure 11 is an elevation and section of the shank before the same is inserted.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.
of the drawing.
a, a, are heads or buttons with backs a², having broad channels a³, sunken in the
longer direction of their diameters within them, and of the depth and breadth of
the fetter or connecting link b, jointed at its outer ends 62, to set-back, or semi-set--
back shanks c, directed or located within the middles of the said sinkings, and with
the eyes, holes or bearings of them directed at right angles to the general direction
of the fetter and sinkings respectively.
The inner ends c, of the said shanks are passed inwardly through holes or
piercings a, in the middle parts of the sinkings, and turned back into inside-
sinkings a, which form outside studs or blocks a, lying within the fetter
siukings as.
These studs or blocks a*, take within holes or clearances 63, at the outer ends b³,
of the fetter b, and assist to steady and lead the said fetters into their diameter-
sinkings.
Thus, assuming the fetter to be out of its sinkings, or the heads slightly turned
away from its fetter, then the blocks or studs form means of making the said fetter
rigid with the heads, whilst the studs also assist or guide incidentally, the said
fetters into their respective positions within the diameter sinkings.
The diameter sinkings a³, are open at their ends a', leaving sufficient margin of
metal a', between the plane of the said sinking and the boundary edging of the
metal of the back, for the attachment of the boundary edge of the shell of the
front part.
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
olaim is :-
:-
First In sleeve or cuff links and dress fasteners, sinking within the backs of
the heads of the same, broad diameter or crossing channels, wherein the connecting
fetter or link of the heads, lies.
Secondly-In sleeve or cuff links and dress fasteners, providing the backs of
the heads of the said articles with open ended or shamfer-ended cross or diameter
sinkings, wherein the connecting fetter lies, and forms a means of both reducing
the breadth of the link, and making the said bar temporily rigid with the heads,
whereby the said link is capable of being easily introduced through the button
holes of a cuff or garment, as set forth.
Thirdly-In sleeve or cuff links and dress fasteners, fitting within the middles
of diameter sinkings, of set-back, or semi-set-back shanks, for the connection of the
heads by a fetter or fetters, as set forth.
Fourthly In sleeve or cuff links and dress fasteners, securing the shanks to the
backs, or within the middles of the sinkings in the backs, by the ends of the same
taking into boxed recesses a³, forming outer studs aº, as set forth.

page_text: Fifthly-In sleeve or cuff links and dress fasteners, forming within the cross or
channel sinkings a³, studs or lifts a as set forth.
Sixthly -In sleeve or cuff links and dress fasteners, the general construction,
arrangement and combination of the parts as described and set forth.
Dated this 20th day of December 1892.
WILLIAM ERNEST PATTERSON,
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.