US330282A

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Publication number: US330282A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-11-10
Anticipated expiration: 1902-11-10

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(No ModeL) S. T. AT-KIN & W. L. STEELE.

GUFF HOLDER.

Patented Nov. 10, 1885.

E E E E E WIT NITED STATES PATEN SAMUEL T. ATKIN AND WALTER L. STEELE, OF GEORGETOWN, TEXAS, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO OLIVER STEELE, OF SAME PLAGE.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.330,282, dated November 10, 1885.

Application filed March 27, 1885. Serial No. 160,251. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SAMUEL T. ATKIN and WALTER L. STEELE, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Georgetown, in the county of WVilliamson and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cuff-Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Our improvement in cuff-holders is designed for securing cuffs to coat-sleeves; and it consists in its peculiar construction, and in the novel combination and arrangement of its parts, substantially as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a View in perspective of our cuff-ho1der. Figs. 2 and 3 are modifications thereof enlarged beyond actual size in practice to more clearly show construction. Fig. 4 is a plan view of Fig. 1, the clasp being partially removed; and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the cuff-holder as shown in Fig. 1.

The object of our invention is chiefly to render cuffs hitherto buttoned to shirt-sleeves as readily buttoned or attached to coat-sleeves, in order that they may be removed from the wearers person together with the coat to prevent the cuffs being soiled; and its object is also to avoid unbuttoning and buttoning cuffs to the shirt by means of the usual cuff-attaching buttons, which is at present as requisite as customary with all those who remove or change their coats preliminary to engaging in their daily duties or avocations. Cuffs thus attached may also be adjusted more readily than others otherwise attached as to the extent to which they project beyond the end of the wearers coat-sleeve.

In accomplishing these objects we form the cuff-button A, (see Fig. 1,) to which the cuff is attached, of horizontal and corresponding wire loops, a and b, terminating in the twisted strands B and B. The twisted strands B and 13 project vertically and at right-angles to the cuff-button A to form its shank B, and after forming said shank in continuation project horizontally and in opposite directions, but in about the same horizontal plane, the strand B being coiled at one end to form a spring,

B for actuating the pin 0, which isa continuation thereof, as shown.

The pin 0 is secured, as against accidental release, by the clasp D, having a horizontal recess, D, for its reception, the clasp being a continuation of strand B, which projects in a direction opposite to strand B. The clasp D is formed by zigzagging the end of strand B, and bending the same into small curved loops, as shown. Thus constructed, the pin is attached to the inside or lining of the coatsleeve and the cuff is buttoned to the cuff button A.

A modification of our invention is shown in Fig. 3, wherein E represents a folded piece of sheet metal having in its outer face, 6, an aperture, E, through which is projected the smaller disk of the cuff-button F, the metal being held in its folded position by the prongs d d, projecting from its lower fold, e, and bent and clasped over the upper apertured fold, e, the aperture E being smaller in diameter than the inclosed largerdisk of the button. In clasping together the folds of sheet metal the rib f of the safety-pin g is inserted between them, as shown, which permanently secures the pin thus positioned, which in practice is pinned to the inside or lining of the coatsleeve, as aforesaid.

. Another modification is shown in Fig. 2, enlarged, where a piece of sheet metal, G, is looped to form the shank h in such manner as to provide at the upper end of the loop a suitable eye, h, for reception of the rib t of the safety-ping, the ribi being bent into a curved or concaved form where the sheet metal G is attached thereto, which securely holds the pin and button in position and provides the corresponding arms H as an equivalent for the disk of a button.

We are aware that it is not broadly new to form a cuff-holder of one continuous piece of wire forming a clamping device arranged transversely of the main portion, adapted to grasp the outer overlapping edge of the cuff; but, asgthus constructed, such devices have been found to be inadequate for the designated purpose, inasmuch as they frequently become detached from the cuff by the IllSllfElciency of the strength of the said clamping device. This objection our invention is designed to remedy, as we provide, in connection with a safety-pin, a shank or button to enter the button-hole of the cuff and permit of the adjustment of the pin at any desired point of connection with the coat-sleeve.

Our invention comprises few parts and has suitable means for the protection of the point of the pin, thereby preventing tearing of the coat-sleeve and the possible scratching or pricking of the flesh of the wearer.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A cuff-holder having the button A, twisted shank B, and the spring 13, for actuating the pin 0, all made of one continuous piece of wire, substantially as shown and described.

2. A cuff-holder consisting of button A, having twisted shank B, and safety-pin 0, 20 substantially as shown, and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses:

A. B. MORRIS, R. G. GoNNEY.