US735381A - Cuff-holder. - Google Patents

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No. 735,381. PATENTED AUG. 4, 1903. J. B. HOUGH.

CUFF HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE'B. 1902.

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Patented August 4, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN B. HOUGH, OF ERVING, MASSACHUSETTS.

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters IPatent No. 735,381, dated August 4, 1903.

Application filed June 3,1902.

Serial No. 110,056. (No model.)

zen of the United States, residing at Erving,

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating. the application of a cud-holder constructed according to my invention to the ordinary cud, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing the clasp opened for attachment to a cuff.

The cuff-receiving clasp of a cuff-holder constructed according to this invention is preferably formed from a single piece of wire, which may be connected at its lower end to an ordinary spring-clamp. A loose connection is preferably employed between the wire clasp and the clamp, so as to permit freedom of motion between the parts. The inside arm of the wire body portion is provided at its end with a loop for engaging the inner face i of the cud-holder and with an outwardly-extending hook, which may be passed through the buttonholes of the cuff to receive the other arm of the wire body portion and hold the same in place substantially in the same manneras an ordinary safety-pin catch.

Referring to the drawings for a detail dethe plane of the loop 13. Engaging the loop :10 at the-lower end of the wire body portion is a loop 15, formed on the end of the pivot of an ordinary sheet-metal spring-clamp 16.

In the use of a cuff-holder as thus constructed the book 14 of the clasp is inserted through the buttonholes of the cuff from the inside, the loop 13 giving a wide bearing on the inner face of the cuff. The wire clasp is locked in place by fastening the spring-arm 12 in the hook 1a in the same manner as an ordinary safety-pin. The sheet-metal clamp 16 may then be adjustably fastened to the shirtsleeve, and the loose connection between the wire body portion and the pivot-pin of the clamp 16 permits a' freedom of motion, allowing the cuff-holder to adjust itself to substantially all positions, so that the same may be used without danger of tearing the clothing or injuring the cuffs.

I am aware that a number of different cuffholders are now in use in which a clasp for the cuff is combined with the ordinary springclamp, and I do not desire to claim such a construction broadly. My cud-holder, however, diifers from previous forms of cud-holders in the use of the clasp or body portion formed from a single piece of wire bent into special shape.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

As an article of manufacture, a cuff-holder comprising a wire clasp and sheet metal clamp, the pivot-pin of the clamp having a loop 15 engaging a loop 10 of the wire clasp, one of the spring-arms 11 of the wire clasp having a loop 13 at its upper end for engaging the inner side of a cuff, and a hook 14:

adapted to be inserted through the button- 0 JOHN B. HOUGH.

Witnesses:

HARRY N. BLAGKNEER, CARRIE L. HOUGH.

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