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SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 



RECENTLY PATENTED IMPROVEMENTS. 



J. C. HIGDON, M. E., KANSAS CITY, MO. 



CuFF-HoLDER. — Tliis invention consists of a modified form of the common 

 safety-pin, having a special button attached to a flat sided hook playing through 

 the guard-arm and adapted to hold the cuff in proper position upon the wrist, the 

 pin being attached to the inside of a coat-sleeve and the bottom used in support- 

 ing the cuff. 



A fiat-sided guard-hook is constructed to operate loosely in an opening 

 through the guard-arm, and having suitably secured to the end opposite the hook, 

 a button of any approved construction. 



In operation the cuff is placed on the wrist, and is held in the desired posi- 

 tion by inserting the pin-point through the sleeve or lining of the coat or other 

 garment; the pin-point is next placed within the hook, the spring of the pin act- 

 ing through the hook and button-standard, presses the button to the cuff and in 

 this manner the cuff is securely held in place. 



The button may be permanently secured at a proper distance to the guard- 

 plate or arm, but in that arrangement, however, the cuff would not be held suffi- 

 ciently secure and would wabble, hence the button standard-hook is but loosely 

 attached, so that the spring will draw the button down on the cuff and hold the 

 latter more securely than in the arrangement with the permanently fixed button. 



The pin is not only a pin, but it acts to hold the button securely pressed to 



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