US20060288541A1 - Pseudo-cufflink accessory for garment - Google Patents

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US20060288541A1
US20060288541A1 US11/426,169 US42616906A US2006288541A1 US 20060288541 A1 US20060288541 A1 US 20060288541A1 US 42616906 A US42616906 A US 42616906A US 2006288541 A1 US2006288541 A1 US 2006288541A1
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Diego Jolodenco
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44B—BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE
    • A44B5/00—Sleeve-links
    • A44B5/007—Sleeve-links concealing a sewed-on button
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T24/36—Button with fastener

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  • This invention has an application in garments for both women and men, especially for garments which use buttons to close dress shirts and in particular for persons or occasions which may require the use of cufflinks.
  • the invention herein is developed with reference to the accessory's use in cuffs of blouses and shirts as a cufflink to adorn buttonholes, its application in any other part of the garment which has a button and buttonhole closing arrangement is envisioned.
  • the button and buttonhole closing arrangement is the one most widely used in shirts and other garments. It is easy and economical and it is a part of the garment. However, it is a common element which generally attracts no attention and whose only function is to provide closing, but does not serve as an ornament for the garment.
  • cufflinks have existed in the market for a long time. They can be viewed as adornments which perform the closing function, especially in cuffs, but which require the latter to have a special design with holes on both sides of the cuff and no buttons. Garments designed specifically for cufflinks are usually more formal and more expensive, since the use of adornments and accessories is not always appropriate for all occasions. Their cuffs are made with a second hole instead of a button and their ends converge to meet each other in such a way as to align the holes, unlike the button and buttonhole arrangement in which the end with the hole overlaps the end which bears the button in order to close the cuff.
  • buttons with detachable elements designed to simulate cufflinks there is also the idea of disguising ordinary buttons with detachable elements designed to simulate cufflinks.
  • Different kinds of these button covers have been designed, as is described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,342,250, which shows a button cover with a clip on the back to be hooked under a button previously passed through a buttonhole, or U.S. Pat. No. 4,539,731 and No. 4,817,249, for button covers whose back is comprised of a box or chest into which to insert the button that previously passed through the hole.
  • U.S. Pat. No. 5,161,285 is related to a button cover which has a safety device to prevent its accidentally falling off and being lost.
  • U.S. Pat. No. 6,618,908 alludes to a cufflink for a sports shirt which is actually attached like a button cover.
  • a button cover is not the same as a cufflink, nor does it perform the closing function—which is performed by the button. It is a simple adornment that is hooked onto the button once the union between the hole and the button has been made, concealing the button underneath the box or chest on which the adornment is hooked.
  • there are substantial differences between cufflinks and button covers most importantly the fact that the former are more attractive because the adornment is almost at the height of the garment while button covers are inevitably raised by the height of the button.
  • This invention's purpose is to meet the functional needs of cuff closure and combine the economic advantages of buttons with the aesthetic and formal benefits of cufflinks in a practical and innovative way.
  • a garment accessory that has a button and buttonhole and also has a decorative element resembling a cufflink, joined to an attacher element that passes through the buttonhole and is then anchored in the button, with the special feature that the button is not closed.
  • FIG. 1A is a sketch in perspective of a pseudo-cufflink accessory according to a first realization of the invention, in open form.
  • FIG. 1B is a sketch in perspective analogous to FIG. 1A for the same accessory, but showing how it is anchored in a button.
  • FIGS. 2A, 2B , and 2 C are perspective, flat and elevated views of a pseudo-cufflink accessory according to a second realization of the invention, in open form.
  • FIG. 2D is a lateral perspective view of the same accessory as in FIG. 2A , anchored to a button, and
  • FIG. 2E is a perspective view of the accessory, in finished form complete with the decorative part.
  • FIG. 3A is a lateral perspective view of a pseudo-cufflink accessory according to a third realization of the invention, anchored to a button.
  • FIGS. 3B and 3C are flat and elevation views of the same accessory as in FIG. 3A , anchored to a button.
  • FIG. 3D is a flat sketch of a cut-off flat piece, indicating the sections to be folded to make up the accessory shown in FIGS. 3A, 3B and 3 C.
  • FIG. 4A is a lower perspective view of a pseudo-cufflink accessory according to a fourth realization of this invention.
  • FIGS. 4B and 4C are lower flat and perspective views of the accessory in FIG. 4A , anchored to a button.
  • FIGS. 1A and 1B provide an example of a piece similar to a cufflink ( 11 A) of the hook or clip type, made of a wire material which has a decorative portion ( 13 A) 12 mm in length that comes to an ornamental protuberance ( 15 A) at its free end.
  • the other end of the wire decorative portion ( 13 A) consists of a vertical part ( 17 A) 4 mm long, designed to pass through the hole, and continuing in a union ( 19 ) with an attacher ( 21 A) made of a wire clip with a hook ( 23 ) 14 mm long at one end which hooks into the other end of the same wire ( 21 A) of the clip, ending in a second protuberance ( 25 ).
  • This attacher portion ( 19 A) forms an anchor underneath the button ( 27 ) as is shown in FIG. 1B .
  • the wire material can be ⁇ 9 mm of any kind of metal with memory, such as gold, silver, bronze, copper, aluminum, etc., or of any alloy containing at least one of them, or of any plastic material which is strong and flexible.
  • FIGS. 2A to 2 E refers to a piece similar to a cufflink ( 11 B) in the form of a folded bar which can be made of the same type and size of bar as the one described above.
  • This is a single piece of bar, first bent over in its middle section almost 360° around a circular shape ( 13 B) to trap an adornment ( 15 B) which can be round, square, or have any other decorative shape, as is shown in these drawings.
  • the bar After a circular portion ( 13 B), the bar continues as two continuous and parallel sections which are bent together at 90° to form the vertical section ( 17 B) 4 mm in length, which passes through the hole before being again bent 90° to form a fork ( 21 B) 14 mm long that ends in a pair of protuberances ( 25 ) and is simply attached by sliding it beneath the button ( 27 ), with the protuberances ( 25 ) cooperating to prevent its getting caught in the threat with which the button is sewn ( 27 ).
  • piece ( 11 C) can be made of strong and flexible molded plastic.
  • the pseudo-cufflink accessory ( 11 C) has a tongue ( 13 C) on which a decorative piece similar to a cufflink is mounted, a perpendicular section ( 17 C) which will pass through the hole, and a fork ( 21 C) designed to easily pass beneath the button ( 27 ) without getting caught in the thread with which the button is sewn onto the shirt or blouse.
  • the accessory comprising the invention can be manufactured with a textile or analogous material, such as thread, shoelace, elastic or mix, as is illustrated in FIGS. 4A, 4B and 4 C.
  • This piece ( 11 D) has a looped shape 28 mm in circumference, which is passed through an eye ( 33 ) on the underside of an adornment similar to a cufflink ( 15 D).
  • a lengthwise slit ( 21 D) is made in a segment of the loop ( 11 D) 10 mm long to emulate a buttonhole through which the button ( 27 ) of the shirt or blouse passes.

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