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Description

(No Model.)

C. P. JENKS.

LINK GUFI PASTENER.

` No. 476,540. PatentedJune '7, 1892.

UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CIIARLES F. JENKS, OF IVILLIAMSPORT, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OE TWO- THIRDS TO PHILIP B. SHAW AND, FRANK R. SAOKETT, OF SAME PLACE.

LINK CUFF-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 476,540, dated June 7, 1892.

Application iiled March 23, 1891.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHARLES F. JENKS, a citizen of the United States, residing at iVilliamsport, in the county of Lycoming and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Devices for Fastening Cuffs Used with Link-Buttons to Sleeves, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to devices for securing cuffs used with link cuff-buttons to shirt-sleeves and for maintaining the edges of such cults approximately parallel with each other without the necessity of providing the r 5 cuffs with extensions in which to forni buttonholes, vas has heretofore been done; and the invention consists in the fastener hereinafter described.

lVhen cuffs are used with asingle-shank cuffbutton,the two edges of the cuit overlap and both edges are secured to a single button or stud in the sleeve, to which the cuff is secured by means of butlonholes directly in the body of the cuit; but when cuffs are used with buttons having two parts connected bya lilik orlinks they cannot be secured to the sleeve in this manner, since it is necessary to maintain the two edges of the cuff at a short distance from and substantially parallel to each other. As above indicated, this has generally though not exclusively been done heretofore by the use of acuft' ot' special construction-viz.,one having short extensions from the two edges with buttonholes in the extensions. It will be evident that when such extensions are placed near one end ot' the cuff it is thereby made non-reversible, and is therefore objectionable.

By my improvement it is possible to use ornary cuffs with link-buttons and to maintain their reversibility.

In the accom pauying drawings, which illustrate the invention,Figure l is a side viewof a cud attached to a sleeve. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the fastener, and Fig. 3 is a view of the saine at right angles to Fig. 2.

l is an ordinary cui,having buttonholes at 2 2 and connected to a shirt-sleeve 3 by means of a stud or button 4, placed in said sleeve in the ordinary manner. In the upper buttonholes are two buttons 5 5, connected byalink 6 of such length as to allowthe edges 7 7 of the cui? to remain a short distance apart.

Serial No. 386,043. (No model.)

The fastener or device for securing the cuff to the sleeve and for maintaining the edges at a distance apart and parallel consists of a body S, of spring brass, steel, or other Wire, having at one end a loop 9 of suicient size to embrace the shank of the stud 4, which stud constitutes the device for securing one 6o edge of the cuit and forms a part of the fastening device. The opening 10, leading into said loop, is narrower than the diameter of the shank; but the shank can readily pass therethrough, owing to the yielding of the wire. The wire is so bent as to make the body quite wide, as shown. This forni adds to the elasticity of the sides, tends to prevent the fastener from turning when in use, and makes it easy to get the holder over the sleeve-but- 7o ton. At the opposite end of the body S is a second device for the attachment of one edge of the cuff. This consists of a button 1l, supported on a shank l2 at right angles to the body S. This fastener consists of only two pieces-a button and the body S, loop 9, and shank l2, which are formed of a single wire bent into shape and having the ends twisted together, as shown.

This fastener is used in the following man- 8o ner: The fastener is first secured to the sleeve by placing the holder or loop 9 on the shank of the stud 4. with the button 1l turned away from the sleeve. The cuff is then placed in position, the stud et being placed in buttonhole 2 and the button 1l in 2. Since the body S is of practically the same length as the link 6, the edges of the cuff will be maintained Vin the proper position.

Having thus described the invention, what 9o I claim is- A fastener for securing a cuit with separate parallel edges to a sleeve, comprising a loop 9, a body 8, connected to said loop by a contracted neck, a rightangle section 12, said 95 parts being made of a single wire bent in the form indicated, and a stud or button on the section l2, substantially as described.

This specification signed and witnessed this 19th day of March, 1891.

CHARLES F. JENKS.

Witnesses:

P. H. MOORE, H. F. DETWILER.

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