US2105471A - Cuff - Google Patents

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Jan. 18, 1938. 2,105,471

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Patented Jan. 18, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 1 Claim.

This invention aims to provide a cuff of novel form, adapted for end-for-end reversal in a coat sleeve. The invention aims, further, to provide novel combination of parts, including a coat sleeve and cuff, together with novel means for holding the cuff detachably and releasably within the sleeve, and, specifically, to the loose lining of the sleeve.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing:

7 Fig. 1 shows in plan, a cufi constructed in accordance with the invention;

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the sleeve having the cuff mounted therein;

Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3--3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

In carrying out the invention, there is provided a narrow cuff I, the length of which, for example, may be as to its width as eleven is to two, although that exact ratio is not insisted upon. The cufi may be made of cloth or other material generally used in the manufacture of cuffs and if the cuff is made in several layers, as is usual, those layers are stitched together, adjacent to the margin of the cuff, as shown at 2.

The cult is provided intermediate its ends with a middle or first button hole 3 and is provided near to its ends with terminal or second button holes 4, the button holes 3 and 4 preferably being located in a straight line, and being located intermediate and about midway between the upper and lower edges of the cufi, to provide for an endfor-end reversal of the cuff.

The numeral 5 marks the sleeve of a coat, the sleeve comprising a body 25 having the usual inturned end portion 6. First buttons 7 are sewed at 8 to the inturned, integral, circumferentiallycontinuous end portion 5, in oppositely-disposed relation, and a second button 9 is sewed at ID to the inturned end portion 6 at a point remote from the buttons 1. The stitched buttons 1 and 9 are spaced apart circumferentially of the sleeve and are spaced from the extremity of the sleeve at such distances that some of the cuff will proiect beyond the extremity 26 of the sleeve when the buttons are inserted through the button holes of the cuff. The stitchings 8 and ID are free from the body 25, and the body hides the stitchings from a view point without the sleeve 5.

The buttons 1 and 9 and the button holes 3 and 4 constitute detachably interengaged means for holding the cuff l within the inturned end member 6 of the sleeve 5, a portion of said means, to wit, the buttons 1 and 9, being secured to the part 6.

The general construction of the device is such that no cuff links are required. The operator can simply button his cuif inside the coat sleeve. If one longitudinal edge of the cufi I becomes soiled, the cuff can be turned end-for-end, and then a new clean edge of the cufi will project beyond the extremity of the sleeve 5, as shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing. The inturned end portion 6 forms a firm base to which the buttons 1 and 9 may be stitched. The mounting of the buttons 1 and 9 on the inturned end portion 6 of the sleeve 5 serves to dispose the buttons close to the extremity 26 of the sleeve, whereby, without mussing the sleeve or the cuff l, the cuff may be mounted in place and reversed end-for-end, whilst the sleeve is on the arm of a wearer, and whereby the cuff may be narrow, as aforesaid, and still project visibly beyond the extremity 26 of the sleeve.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

A coat sleeve comprising a body having an integral, inturned, circumferentially-continuous end portion, buttons, stitchings connecting the buttons to the inturned end portion, the stitchings being free from the body, and the body hiding the stitchings from a view-point without the sleeve, the inturned end portion forming a firm base to which the buttons may be stitched; and a narrow cuff mounted within the inturned end portion, for end-for-end reversal, the cuff being provided intermediate its upper and lower edges with button holes through which the buttons may be inserted, the mounting of the buttons on the inturned end portion serving to dispose the buttons close to the extremity of the sleeve, whereby, without mussing either the sleeve or the cuff, the cult may be mounted in place and reversed end for end, whilst the sleeve is on the arm of a wearer, and whereby the cuif may be narrow, as aforesaid, and still project visibly beyond the extremity of the sleeve.

FRED O. C. BROWN.

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