US373401A - Spring cuff-button - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

B. K. HAYNES.

SPRING CUFF BUTTON.

No. 373,401. Patented Nov. 15, 1887.

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EDGAR K. HAYNES, OF BOSTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE FROST, GEORGE H. PHELPS, AND GEORGE A. FROST, ALL OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SPRING CUFF-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,401, dated November 15, 1887.

Application filed February 25, 1887. Serial No. 228,829. (No model.)

To all 2071,0122 it may concern.- at one end by a loop, (d, the said loop acting 50 Be it known that I, EDGAR K. HAYNES, of as aspring to normally keep the legs aaapart. Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Mas- Each leg a a at its free end may be provided sachusetts, have invented an Improvement in with a button, I), as shown in Fig. 2; or it may 5 Spring Cuff-Holders, of which the following be simply bent to present a rounded end, as

description, in connection with the accompanyshown in Fig. 3. 5 ing drawings, is a specification, like letters on The leg a, as shown in Fig. 2, is bent to form the drawings representing like parts. a loop, 12, near its middle, the said loop being This invention has for its object to provide engaged, as herein shown, by one end of a a simple and efficient cuff-holder more espe chain or link, b adapted to engage the leg at,

cially adapted to be used with cuffs such as the said link in this presentinstance engaging 6o worn by ladies and children. one of a series of corrugations or bends, b, Prior to my invention it has been customary made in the leg a, to lock or maintain thesaid for ladies to secure their ends by means of pins legs at the desired distance apart, for a pur- 1 or other devices inserted through the sleeve pose to be hereinafter described.

and cuff. This mode of securing cuffs is ob- In practice the legs a a will be inserted 6 jectionable, and it is the object of this inventhrough button holes c 0, respectively, of the tion to provide a spring cuff-holder which may cuff c", and the loop a will be passed about be compressed to permit of the easy insertion the stud of the usual cuff-button, B, or it may t of the cuff in the sleeve, the holder acting to be an ordinary collar-button, to maintain the expand the cuff when in its proper place in cuff-holder in position. 70 the sleeve, the expansion of the said cuff by The wearer, when putting on the cuff, brings the said cuff-holder exerting a pressure on or the lower part of the cuff together, so as to against the interior of the surrounding sleeve permit it to be easily inserted in the sleeve, to retain the cuff securely in place. The exthe spring-holder at such time being C0111- pansive force of the cuff-holder may be adpressed. The cuff is then inserted in the 75 justed, according to the material of the dress sleeve, and when in the desired position the with which it is to be used, to hold the cuff in pressure upon the cuff is released and the place without forming an objectionable outspring-holder expands, thus forcing outward 3o ward bulge on the sleeve or in other manner or expanding that part of the cuff within the marring or destroying the symmetry of the sleeve, the outward pressure of the cuff on 80 arm. the inside of the sleeve being sufficient to se- My invention therefore consists, essentially, curely maintain the cuff in the desired posiof a spring cuff-holder provided at its ends tion within the sleeve. \Vhen the cuff has y with buttons to engage button-holes of the been pressed with sufficient force against the cuff, substantially as will be set forth. sleeve to firmly maintain it in position, the 8 Other features of my invention will be link or chain 1), as shown, may be made to enpointed out in the claims at the end of this gage a corrugation or bend, If, in the leg a, to specification. look, as it were, the position of the legs a a, Figure 1 shows a cuff provided with one thereby preventingsuch expansion of the cuff form of myimproved cuff-holder. Fig.2shows as to form an objectionable bulge in the sleeve. 0 the cud-holder detached; Fig. 3, a modified Referring to Fig. 5, I have shown the springform of cuff-holder. Fig.4 shows a cuff proholder as a single wire, (I, bent to form subvided with yet another modified form of cuffstantially a semicircle, it having at each end holder, and Fig. 5 is a view of the cuff-holder a button, I), to enter the button-holes c c of the shown in Fig. 4. cuff. As shown in Fig. 1, oneleg, a, is shown 5 Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, my improved as extended through the button-hole c from cuff-holder is therein shown as a piece of wire the outside and the leg at through the buttonloent or shaped to leave two legs, a a, united hole 0 from the inside of the cuff, and so, also,

in Fig. 4 one button b is inside the cuff, while the other is outside; but instead of the arrangement shown the said spring-holder may be either entirely Within or on the outside of the said cuff, and so, also, the bent wire d may be made sufficiently large to nearly encircle the wrist or forearm of the wearer.

Myimproved spring cuffholder may be used with garments made of very fine texture without in the least disfiguring the arm.

I claim- 1. As a new article of manufacture, a cuffholder consisting of a spring bent into an approximately U shape, combined with a button attached to each end thereof, substantially as described.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a spring cuff-holder comprising the legs a a, adapted to be inserted through holes in the cuff, and having a loop, a adapted to engage the stem or stud of a cuff-button, to operate substantially as described. 1

3. As an improved article of manufacture,

a spring cuff-holder comprising the legs a a,

ton-hole of the cuff, substantially as described. 5

In'testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subcribing witnesses.

EDGAR K. HAYNES.

\Witnesses: I

G. W. GREGORY, J. H. CHURCHILL.

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