US1531961A - Cuff link - Google Patents

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March 31. 1925.

1,531,961 G. A. LINES CUFF LINK Filed April 19 1924 INVENTOR. 5 a mmm Patented Mar. El, 1325.

ui'ren GRANT A. LINES. 91 ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

cure LINK.

Application filed April 19, 1924. Serial No, 707,684.

To all 107mm it may concern:

Be it known that I, GRANT A. LINES, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Joseph, in the county of Buchanan and State of lt Iissouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cuff Links, of which the following is a spec fication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to an improvement in cuff links and more particularly to an extensible link permitting removal from a shirt to which they are applied without releasing the links.

An important object of the invention is to provide in a device of this character a swiveled mounting for one of the buttons of the link, so that this button may be aligned with the buttonholes of-the cuff to facilitate passage therethrough.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a structure having a swiveled button mounting of this type in which in the normal position of the button the a swivel head is held fixed.

These and other objects I attain by the construction shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein for the purpose of illustration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention and wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of a link constructed in accordance with my invention, the parts being in their normal position;

Figure 2 is a similar view, the parts being shown in extended position, the tubes being sectioned;

Figure 3 is a rear elevation of the outer head and its tube;

Figure 1 is a combined side elevation of the inner head and its tube;

Figure 5 is a view showing the inner head positioned for insertion in the buttonholes of a cuff;

Figure 6 is a side elevation of the inner head at right angles to the elevation shown in Figure 4;

Figure 7 is a side elevation of the tube of the inner head taken at right angles to the view shown in Figure 4.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, the numeral 10 indicates the outer button or head of the link and 11 the inner button or head which is usually made smaller than the outer button. In accordance with my invention, I provide the outer head upon its inner surface with a tube 12 having a constriction 13 at its inner end. Slidablv mounted within this tube is' a flange 14 of a second tube 15 the body of which has a sliding fit with the inner surface of the constriction 13 of the tube 12. The inner end of the tube 15 is bevel cut in its sides, as indicated at 16, thus providing outwardly extending ears 17 and these ears have openings 18 formed therein. Directed through these openings is a pin 19 upon which are swiveled lugs 20 formed upon the outer face of the inner head" 11. Mounted within the tubes 12 and 15 is a spring 22 engaged at one end with an eye 23 formed upon the rear face of the outer head 10 and at its opposite end with the pin 19 forming the swivel mounting for the head 11.

This spring is of such length that it normally maintains the tube 15 completely telescoped within the tube 12, as shown in Figure 1, in which position the end of the tube 12 abuts the outer face of the inner head 11 and maintains such inner head 11 in a position transverse of the axis of the tubes and accordingly transversely of the buttonholes through which the tubes may be directed. When, however, the tube 15 is withdrawn from the tube 12 slightly, as indicated in Figure 5, the inner head 11 may be tilted, as indicated in this figure, to permit its ready passage through the buttonholes. Due to the spring connection, the link may be expanded to permit passage of the hand through the cuff in applying or removing the shirt or automatically returned to the position shown in Figure 1 when released. It will be obvious that the construction hereinbefore set forth is capable of a considerable range of change and modification without materially departing from the spirit of my invention and I accordingly do not limit myself to such specific structure except as hereinafter claimed.

I claim:-

1. In a cuff link, a pair of telescopically engaged tubes, at head rigidly engaged with the outer end of one of the tubes, a head swiveled to the outer end of the other of said tubes and shiftable to a position where it is substantially aligned with said tube, and a spring normally maintaining said tubes in telescopic position and the last named head in engagement with the first named tube the last named head being mounted upon a pivot extending transversely of the last named tube, said spring Connecting the first named head and said pivot. or V 2. In a cuff link, an outer head, a tube rigidly engaged with the inner surface of the outer head, an inner head, a tube carried by the inner head and slidably engag ing in the tube of the outer head, means limiting the separating movement of said tubes and carriedby the tubes, and means housed Within the tubes normally maintaining the inner head for engagement with the inner end of the tube of the outer head, said inner head having a pivot having its ends engaged With the tube thereof and extend alignment With the tube thereof, said means normally maintaining a telescoped engagement of the tubes comprising a tension spring arranged Within the tube and secured at one end to the outer head and at its opposite end to said pivot.

In testimony whereof I hereunto my signature.

GRANT A. LINES.

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