US447533A - Cuff holder and distender - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

, B. R. BACON. CUFF HOLDER AND DISTENDER.

Patented Mar. 3, 1891.

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UNTTEE STATES PATENT EEicE.

BYRON R. BACON, OF EAST ORANGE, NEWV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, AND THOMAS R. SULLY, OF BUFFALO, NEYV YORK.

CUFF HOLDER AND DISTENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 447,533, dated March 3, 1891.

Application filed September 8, 1890. fierial No. 364,250. (No model.)

T 00% whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, BYRON R. BACON, a citizen of the United States, residing in East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improved Cuff Holder and Distendcr, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to preserve the cuff in a cylindrical form while in use, so to as to prevent such cuff becoming flattened or elliptical, and this distender also serves for holding the cud-buttons in position upon the cuff Without the use of any connecting-links extending from one button to the other, and I also provide for using the distender for connecting the cuff to the wristband or sleeve.-

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the cuff with the distender applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a vertical section at right angles to '20 the elevation, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 represents a modification in the connection for the cuff studs or buttons. Fig. 4is a section, and Fig. 5 an elevation, of part of the distender, especially adapted to ladies use.

The cuff A is of any desired size or shape, and it is usually provided with button-holes at 2, by which the same is connected to the wristband of the shirt, and the button-holes 3 are provided for the studs or buttons usually 0 applied to the cuff. The cuff-distender B is made of thin metal or other suitable material, which is preferably cut out with arched portions 4 and with projecting ends that are turned up to form hooks 5, that confine the 3 5 lower edge or band of the cuff A, and this distender is usually placed within the cuff, so that the edge of the cuff passes into the hooks, and the said hooks are pressed sufficiently closely to confine the fabric of the cuff and connect the distender firmly to the cuff, and the general configuration of the distender is cylindrical, so that the cuff itself is given a cylindrical form by the distender, and the metal or thin material out of which the dis- 5 tender is made is sufficiently elastic or springy to yield to pressure and to resume its normal shape when the pressure is removed.

It is usually preferable to allow sufficient space between two of the hooks 5 for the but- 0 ton-hole 6 at the central portion of the band of the cuff, so that such button-hole may receive the button upon the wristband of the shirt, and near the open edges of the cuff the metal of the distender is continued upwardly and outwardly, as at 7, to form clips or con- 5 5 nections for the shanks of the cuff-buttons C.

It is generally preferable to make these clips '7 in the form of spring-bows, that are forced through the shanks of the cud-buttons and spring outwardly, so as to prevent the shankclips becoming separated or drawn back out of the cuff-button shanks. By this construction it is not necessary or advisable to have any link or connection. between one cuff-but ton and the other. Hence the opening between the ends of the'cufi is unobstructed and the cuff is free to be opened more or less at this point by the movement of the hand and wrist, and the cuff-distender and the shankclip project so little upon the surface of the cuff as not to come into contact with the hand or wrist in the disagreeable manner usual with the connecting-link between the shanks of the cuff-buttons. The end hooks 5 of the distender should be sufficiently near the buttonholes 2 to hold the cuff in its proper shape without interfering with the buttoning of the button-holes 2 over the buttons upon the wrist band of the shirt; but, if desired, the end portions of the distender may extend to such button-holes f2,as indicated by dotted lines at 8,Fig. 3, and there may be a button upon the distender, or an opening, as indicated by dotted linesat 16, Fig. 3, for the button upon the wristband to be passed through such button-holes 2.

Cuffs that are worn by ladies usually pass within the garment sleeve. To connect the distender with the sleeve I extendthe distender below the cuff, as at 10, and provide a 0 pin 11 or other fastening device for holding the distender within the garment sleeve, and a button 12 may be provided for the buttonhole 6 of the cuff.

I claim as my invention 1. The spring cuff-distenderadapted to pass around the inner surface and having hooks to receive the lower edge of the cuff and outwardly projecting ends terminating with shank-clips for connecting with the cuff-buttons, substantially as specified.

2. The cuff-distender of spring material,

having hooks for receiving the lower edge of the cuff and passing around the inner surface of the cuff and arched upwardly between one hook and the next near the ouit-button hole, and having, outwardly-proj ecting clips for the cufi-button shanks, substantially as specified.

3. The springoufE-distenderB,having hooks 5 for grasping the lower edge of the cuff, outwardly-projecting ends terminating with shank-clips for the cufi-Y-buttons, a stud 12 for 10 buttoning on the cuff, and a pin 11 for connecting the distender to the sleeve, substantially as specified.

Signed by 1116 this 2d day of September,1890.

BYRON R. BACON. \Vitnesses:

GEO. T. PINCKNEY, WILLIAM G. Mo'r'r.

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