US465496A

US465496A - Cuff-attacher

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Publication number: US465496A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-12-22
Anticipated expiration: 1908-12-22

Description

(No Model.)

- J. V.|PILGHER.

GUFF ATTAGHER.

No. 465,496. Patented Dec. 22, 1891.

Snom/Lion 33317, 114,0/ @Hoyt/1mi* UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN V. PILCHER, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

CUFF-ATTACHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,496, dated December22, 1891.

Application filed August I 1891. Serial No. 402,283. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN V. PILcHEE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cui-Attachers; and I do hereby declare the following to be afnll, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to that class of devices by means of which such portions of clothing as cuffs, socks, &c., may be removably securedto adjacent portions of a persons clothing at any desired height thereon, whereby the cuffs may be adjusted upon either the shirt-sleeve or coat-sleeve to project as required; and its object is to provide means whereby the point of the clasp may be both strengthened andprotected from` catching portions of clothing into it in service.

To this end my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts forming a all-attacher, hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the ac'- companying drawings, in which Figure I is a top View of a cuff-attacheraccording to my invention. Fig. II is a side view of the same. Fig. III is a longitudinal vertical sectional view of the clasp portion, and Fig. IV is a transverse vertical section at line oc of Fig. III.

5 represents a clasp which is the subject of a former patent and cuts no figure in the present application, excepting that it. is the means by which the clasp Gis connected with and attached to the clothing of the wearer. The clasp G, which is the subject of this invention, is adapted to be attached to a cuff and to connect it by means'of the clasp 5 to the clothing. This clasp G consists of a single piece of sheet spring metal bent midway at 7 to form the upper leaf S and lower leaf 9. The lower leaf is bent upward at its outer end and formed into a hook 10 and a guide 11. The upper leaf is punched through from .its upper side topress down a fillet l2, which serves in place -of the tongue formerly used to engage the hook l0. Above and at each side of the fillet 12 the upper plate is formed I give the shape of a star. The characteristic difference between this fillet l2 and the old style of tongue is that the tongue, being necessarily light and small, was liable to become broken oil, and I have therefore left the end of what was the tongue connected with the upper plate 8, whereby it is given the loop shape shown in connection with the upward bend at 14 of the shield portion of the plate 8, as seen in Figs. II and III. The shield prevents any portion of the clothing entering between the guide 11 and the end of lthe hook l0 and being caught by the hook.

15 represents a portion of the lower plate projecting beyond the base of the hook 10 to prevent the hook being pushed too far through a button-hole, and to prevent the lower plate 9 from following the hook and working bodily through the button-hole; but there is no claim made to the projection 15 in the present case.

In service the fillet 12 being normally free sprung upward and will admit a cuff between it and the hook 10. Then the hook 10 and guide ll are passed as a single piece upward through the button-hole of a cuff, and the shield 13, being pressed downward, forces the fillet 12 between the guide l1 and the end of the hook 10, and the springof the

body portions

8 and 9 causes the Iilletf12 and the hook 10 to engage each other securely.

In the old style it was possible for the guide portion 11, when projecting above the plate 8 in service, to be caught upon the clothing, and the clasp would thereby become unhooked; but in the present case the shield 13 completely covers the point of this guide 11, as well as the whole top of the hook 10, and prevents anything catching to either or being worked in between them. The tongue or Iiilet portion 12 is made duly strong for all 1egitimate purposes by being engaged at both ends with or made integra-l` with the plate S.

Having thus fully described my invention, whatI believe to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is the following:

A cuff-fastener clasp comprising an upper from the hook 10, the upper plate 8 stands.

into a shield 13,to which,asamatter offancy,

and lower plate joined at one end, one of said around the said llet, substantially las deplates being provided at the other end with scribed. v :o a hook and the other plate being provided In testimony whereof I affix my signaturein with a fillet adapted to register with and enpresence oftwo witnesses.

5 gage the said hook, the said illepbeing at both JOHN V. PILC HER.

ends secured to or integral with the said up- Vitnesses: per plate, and a. portion of the said upper C. L. HAMILTON,

vplate formed as a. shield above the said hook E. M. WARDER.