US1297538A - Cuff. - Google Patents

Description

R. BRUSSEL.

CUFF.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 19. 1918.

Patented Mar. 18,1919.

RICHARD BnUssnL, or NEWYORK, N. Y.

CUFF.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 18, 1919.

Application filed February 19, 1918. Serial No. 218,169.

citizen of the United States, and resident of New York city, borough of Manhattan,

in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cuffs, of which the following is a. specification.

Some shirts and shirtwa-ists are made with so-called soft or foldable cuffs, which are -usually worn with the free portion folded outwardly over the part that is attached to the sleeve or wristband.

The object of my invention is to provide means to overlie or oppose the free edge portions of the cuffs when the latter are folded inwardly to prevent such folded portions of the cuffs from being engaged by the fingers of the user while the hands slide through the sleeves and cufis when applying the shirt or shirtwaist to the person, and whereby the edge portions of the infolded cuffs will be kept out of contact withthe wrists of the user.

In carrying out my invention I provide a shirt or shirtwaist having soft or foldable cuffs with a flap or web located along the inner side of the cuff at the wristband, providing a space to receive and conceal the free edge portions of the cuffs when the latter are folded. inwardly. Bythe means described the cuffs may be used on one occasion with the free edge portion folded outwardly, in the ordinary manner, and on another occasion with the free edge portions of the cuffs folded inwardly andprotected by the aforesaid flaps or webs.

My invention comprises novel details of improvementand combinations of parts that will be more fully hereinafter set forth andthen pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, wherein,

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating a shirt or shirtwaist sleeve embodying my improvements, showing the cuff folded outwardly in an ordinary manner; Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the cuff folded inwardly in accordance with my invention; Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view of the inside of a cuff, illustrating my improvements with the cuff unfolded; Fig. 4 is a similar View illustrating the cuff folded in accordance with my invention; Fig. 5 is a longitudinal section, on an exaggerated scale, substantially on the line 5, 5, in Fig. 3, and Fig. 6

is a view similar to Fig. 0 illustrating a modification.

' Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

At. 1 is indicated a portion of the sleeve of a shirt or shirtwaist or other garment, and the cuff thereon is indicated generally at 2. Said cuff is of the softor foldable variety attachedator near one edge portion to the sleeve, as at 3, by suitable stitching, which cuff is adapted to be folded, as along the fold line indicated at 4 in Fig. 3. The free portion 2 of the cuff is adapted to be folded. either outwardly in an ordinary manner of use as indicated in Fig. 1, or inwardly as indicated in Figs. 2 and 4. At 5 is indicated a flap or web located along the inner portion of the cuff adjacent to its attachment to the sleeve, to receive the inwardly folded portion 2 of the cuif, which is adapted to be laid or folded between said flap and the main portion 2 of the cuff. The flap 5 is suitably attached to the cuff or sleeve, or both, adj acent to the wristband portion of the sleeve, and said flap extends freely forwardly toward the outer end of the cuff to permit the foldable portion of the cuff to be concealed behind said flap. The cuff and fiap may be madeinany suitable manner, with or without a lining. In Fig. 5 the material of the cuff and of the flap are shown in a single piece having the inner webs 6 and 7 (which may provide the lining), and the outer webs 8 and 9, which provide the exposed or wearing portions of the cuff, the web portions 7 and 9 being continued freely beyond the stitching 3 and folded to form the flap 5. Instead of the Webs 6, 7 being continuous with the webs 8, 9, the webs 6, 7, may be substituted by one or more ply of other material for a lining. In Fig. 6 the webs 6, 7, 8 and 9 are separate from the flap 5, the latter being shown made of folded material secured at its portion 5 by the stitching 3 to the adjacent portion of the cuff and sleeve. Other details in the manufacture of the cuff and flap may be adopted as may be desired, the essential feature of my invention being the provision of the flap along the inner shown of less width than the width of the cufi when folded, and the outer curved corner edge portions 5 of the flap recede from the outer edges of the cuif, spaced from the button holes 10, so as not to be observed when in use. H

In accordance with my improvements the cuffs may be used with the portion 2 folded outwardly in an ordinary manner, (Fig. 1), and, when desired, the end may be reversed by folding the portion 2 inwardly and loeating its free portion between the part 2* of the cuff and the flap 5, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 5, whereby a clean portion of the cufi will be exposed. The flap 5, by extending from its attachment to the sleeve or cufi', freely toward the outer end of the cufi, covers the free edge ofthe portion 2* so that when the hand is pushed through the sleeve and cuff the flap 5 guides the fingers to prevent them from engaging with the inwardly folded portion 2 of the end, and the position of such folded portion is not disturbed; Furthermore? the flap 5, when overlying the folded portion 2 of the cufi,

retains the latter smoothly in position, and protects it from contact with the flesh of the user.

While I have referred to my improvemen-teas used in connection with foldable cuif's, upon sleeves of shirts or shirtwaists, it will be understoodthat my invention is equally applicable to other portions of garments, such as upon so-called cufis at the bottoms of legs of trousers.

Another advantage of my invention is that since the cuff may be used at one time as shown in Fig. 1, and-at another time as shown in Fig. 2, the we aron one side of the cuff may'be reduced, since when the cufi' is soiled it may be reversed, whereby one face of the cufl may be' subjected to approxi- 1. The combination of a sleeve, a foldable I:

cuff attached to the sleeve, and a flapsecured within the sleeve and cufi and having a free portion extending toward'the 'outer end of the cufi to receive therebetween-the free portion of the cuff when the latter isfolded inwardly, said cuff having button holes located outwardly beyond the flap, the adjacent edges of the flaps I being spaced;

from said button holes to not interfere with the latter, the mid portion of the flap being suffic-iently wide to retain the folded portion of the cuff when the latter is between the flap and the inner portion of the cuff.

2. The combination of a sleeve, with a cuff secured along one edge of the sleeve and adapted to be folded inwardly" and outwardly beyond the sleeve, with flap extending along the inner surface of thecufi' and secured at its inner portion and free from the'cufii at its'outer portion to receive therebetween the outer edge portion of. the cuff when the latter is folded inwardly, said cufl having button holes, the outer corner edge portions of'the flap receding from the outer edges of the cuff, said outer corners of the flap being spaced from said but ton holes to not interfere with the latter.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York this 18th dayof February A. D. 1918. RICHARD BRUSSEL,

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the' Commissioner of Patents;

' Washington, D. G.

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