A Pneumatic Boxing Glove.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Nov., 1894-Accepted, 29th Dec., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Pneumatic Boxing Glove.
I, CHARLES EDGAR GYNGELL, of 54 Shirlock Road, Mansfield Road
London, N.W., Manager of an Athletic Goods Depôt do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A boxing glove made of leather, skin or any other suitable material.
The glove consisting of an outer case or bag coutaining an inner case, or glove
for the reception of the wearer's hand.
Between the outer and the inner cases, in place of the usual stuffing or padding
of hair, wool or other fibre, an india-rubber or other elastic bladder is inserted.
The bladder is inflated with air, by means of a tube communicating with it's
interior.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1894.
A Pneumatic Boxing Glove:
I, CHARLES EDGAR GYNGELL of No. 54 Shirlock Road, Mansfield Road,
in the County of Middlesex, Manager of an Athletic Goods Depôt, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and the manner in which the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
My invention relates in improvements in boxing gloves and consists in the
combination with the ordinary shell of the glove of a pneumatic stuffing. By "shell"
is to be understood the thumb stall and the case for the palm and fingers of the'
wearer's hand.
The pneumatic stuffing consists of a body of air enclosed at a suitable pressure
within an elastic bladder.
This bladder may be of any desired conformation, either a flat bag or a tube
arranged gridiron-wise across the above mentioned case so that its parallel members
will be transverse thereof. The said tube may be arranged spirally but the gridirou
arrangement is preferable for the reason explained further on.
In order that my invention and the means by which it is to be carried into
practical effect may be thoroughly understood, I will now describe it and them in
detail, referring in so doing to the accompanying drawing which is to be taken as
part of this Specification and read therewith.
Figure 1 is a section along the line 1-1 of Figure 2.
Figure 2 is a plan of a glove from the outside after the removal of part of the
back of the bladder case.
Figure 3 is a longitudinal section of a glove, after the bladder has been inflated
on a clenched hand. The thumb and thumb stalls are omitted.
Figure 4 is a section along the line 4-4 of Figure 5.

page_text: Figure 5 is a plan of a glove from the outside after the removal of the back of
the bladder case and of the thumb stall.
Figure 6 is a longitudinal section of a glove, after the bladder has been inflated,
on a clenched hand. The thumb and thumb stalls are omitted.
The palm bladder of the glove illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3 is a flat bag;
that of Figures 4, 5 and 6, a gridiron tube.
a is the case for the palm and fingers of the wearer's hand; b, the thumb
stall; c the case for the palm bladder; d, the case for the thumb bladder; e, the
thumb bladder, f, the palm bladder; and g, g, antifriction pads between the inside
face of each bladder and the respective side of the palm case and thumb stall.
Their function is to prevent the seams of the palm case and thumb stall fraying
the bladders.
The cases a, c and d and the thumb stall are made of any suitable material.
The bladders are made preferably of indiarubber because it is elastic and are
inflated through inflating tubes h. The latter, together with their inflating and
tube closing device, may be of any suitable construction..
The thumb tube e¹ and palm tube fl of the boxing glove illustrated in Figures 4, 5
and 6, are also made, preferably, of indiarubber, for the reason already given.
The advantage of a gridiron tube for the pneumatic stuffing of the palm case over
the bag shape illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3 is its flexibility from the wrist
to the tips of the fingers. This will be understood at once from a comparison
of Figures 3 and 6. It is evident that the hand in a boxing glove made according
to the former figure is always pulling against the resilience of the outside
face of the bladder and that the latter is always pulling against the clench
of the wearer's hand. It is equally evident that the gridiron tube of the latter
figure cannot subject the wearer's hand to any such strain, for the reason that the
transverse members of the said tube cannot offer any resistance to the clench of the
hand inasmuch as the outside face of one transverse member is not integral with that
of the members adjoining it, but each member is free to move away from its
neighbour in virtue of the flexible bend connecting it therewith.
Subject to the preference for a gridiron tube explained in the preceding
paragraph, my invention does not limit me to any particular conformation of
bladder. When a tube is used, I insert a piece of cord i the presence of which
preserves a passage for the air past the bends of the tube. The rubber of the
tube is sufficiently thin to allow of the sides of the latter filling up and occupying
the whole of the interior of the case c.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
1. The hereinbefore described pneumatically stuffed boxing glove.
2. The combination with the palm case of a boxing glove, of an internal inflatable
gridiron tube made of elastic material.
PHILLIPS & LEIGH,
No. 22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.