A NEW OR IMPROVED GLOVE FASTENING, APPLICABLE ALSO TO THE FASTENING OF OTHER PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William West, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Manufacturing Jeweller, for the Invention of "A NEW
OR IMPROVED GLOVE FASTENING, APPLICABLE ALSO TO THE FASTENING OF OTHER
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William West at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
9th April 1875.
I, WILLIAM WEST, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturing Joweller, do horeby declare the nature of the said In-
vention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED GLOVE FASTENING, APPLICABLE ALSO TO THE
FASTENING OF OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS," to be as follows :—
My Invention consists of a new or improved glove fastening, the parts
of which are constructed, arranged, and used substantially as herein.
after described.

page_text: Although my new or improved fastening is particularly applicable to the
fastening of gloves, yet it may also be applied to the fastening of other
articles of dress, such for as example as belts, bands, shoes, and corsets
I will describe my Invention as applied to the fastening of a glove.
The said fastening consists of two parts secured respectively to the two
edges of the glove One part consists of a plate, having at one end a
hook and near the opposite end a stud, the hooked end being situated
near the edge of the glove. I will call this the fixed part of the
fastening. The other part of the fastening consists of a plate, which is
so connected to the edge of the glove that it is capable of swivelling
thereon. The free end of this swivelling plate is formed into an eye
cross bar, so that-the-said free-end can be engaged with the hook on the
fixed part, and thereby temporarily jointed to the said fixed part, and
when so jointed together one part may be folded upon the other part.
The last described part, which I will call the folding part, is provided
near its junction with the glove with a hole of a size proper to engage
with the stud on the fixed part.
and
. In fastening the glove the cross bar of the folding part is engaged
with the hook on the fixed part. The two parts of the fastening being
thus jointed together, the folding part is turned on the joint and folded
over or brought parallel with the fixed part, and the hole in the said
folding part made to engage with the stud on the fixed part. When the
folding part is first jointed to the fixed part in the act of fastening the
glove the two parts of the fastening are nearly in the same plane, but as
the folding part is turned on its joint the jointed end bearing on the end.
of the fixed part forces or presses the said fixed part and the edge of the
glove to which it is attached from the folding part. The overlapping
edges of the glove are thus forced in opposite directions in the act of
fastening the glove, and the glove is thereby forcibly tightened on the
wrist, and fastened in its tightened position by the engaging of the holo
in the folding part with the stud on the fixed part.
To unfasten the glove the edge carrying the folding part is forced
from the fixed part, and the folding part is turned outwards on its joint
and unhooked from the fixed part.
Two studs on the fixed part, and two holes in the folding part may be
used for adjusting the fastening to wrists of different sizes, and instead

page_text: of studs and holes the folding part may be engaged with the fixed part
by a spring snap fastening.
Instead of temporarily jointing the two parts of the fastening together
just before the fastening of the glove the said two parts may be per-
manently jointed together. In fastening the glove by this arrangement
the jointed plate containing the stud is first hooked or otherwise con-
nected to the opposito odge of the glove to that on which the fastening
is secured, and the two jointed plates are then folded upon one another
and fastened together, and at the same time made to tighten the glove
upon the wrist in the manner before described
By the use of my Invention the glove is fastened with great facility,
and as the act of fastening the glove causes its two edges to approach or
overlap one another tho straining and tearing of the edges of the glovo
which frequently attend the fastening of gloves by the use of the
ordinary fastenings are avoided.
In applying my Invention to the fastening of belts, bands, shoes,
corsets, and other articles of dress, I construct and arrange the parts
substantially as described with respect to a glove fastening.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William West in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 28th September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
WEST, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturing
Jeweller, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of April, in the year
of our Lord Onc. thousand cight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
_cessors, give and grant unto me. the said William West, Her special
license that I, the said William West, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William West, my exc-
cutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and

page_text: near its junction with the glove with a hole of a size proper to engage
with the stud on the fixed part.
In fastening the glove the cross bar of the folding part is engaged
with the hook on the fixed part. The two parts of the fastening being
thus jointed together the folding part is turned on the joint and folded
over or brought parallel with the fixed part, and the hole in the said
folding part made to engage with the stud on the fixed part. When the
folding part is first jointed to the fixed part in the act of fastening the
glove the two parts of the fastening are nearly in the same plane, but as
the folding part is turned on its joint the jointed end, bearing on the end
of the fixed part, forces or presses the said fixed part and the edge of
the glove to which it is attached from the folding part. The overlapping
edges of the glove are thus forced in opposite directions in the act of
fastening the glove, and the glove is thereby forcibly tightened on the
wrist, and fastened in its tightened position by the engaging of the holo
in the folding part with the stud on the fixed part.
To unfasten the glove the edge carrying the folding part is forced
from the fixed part, and the folding part is turned outwards on its joint
and unhooked from the fixed part.
Two studs on the fixed part and two holes in the folding part may be
used for adjusting the fastening to wrists of different sizes, and instead
of studs and holes the folding part may be engaged with the fixed part
by a spring snap fastening.
Instead of temporarily jointing the two parts of the fastening together
just before the fastoning of the glove, the said two parts may be per-
manently jointed together. In fastening the glove by this arrangement
the jointed plate containing the stud is first hooked or otherwise con-
nected to the opposite edge of the glove to that on which the fastening
is secured, and the two jointed plates are then folded upon one another
and fastened together, and at the same time made to tighten the glove
the wrist in the manner before described.
upon
By the use of my Invention the glove is fastened with great facility,
and as the act of fastening the glove causes its two edges to approach or
overlap one another, the straining and tearing of the edges of the glove
which ficquently attend the fastening of gloves by the use of the
ordinary fastenings are avoided

page_text: Having explained the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to
describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the manner in
which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in plan, and Figure 2 in edge view the two parts
of a glove fastening constructed according to my Invention.
Figure 3 represents in clevation a portion of a glove to which the two
parts of the fastening are secured, the said parts of the fastening being
represented jointed together preparatory to fastening the glove.
Figure 4 represents in elevation, and Figure 5 in edge view the two
edges of the glove fastened together by my improved fastening
The fixed part of the fastening is marked A, and the folding part is
marked B. The fixed part A is secured by sewing at to the edge d of
the glove, and the folding part B is secured to the opposite edge c of the
glove and on the inner side thereof by the loop f, the said loop and the
stitches by which it is connected to the glove permitting the said folding
part to swivel at f upon the glove. On the fixed part A is a hook g,
having at its end the connecting loop h, and near the tail of the said
part A is a stud which projects through the front of the glove
free end of the folding or swivelling part B is formed into an cyck with
a cross bar 7, which eye & may be engaged with the hook g of the fixed
part A, so as to temporarily joint the two parts A and B together. The
folding part B is furnished with a hole m for engaging with the stud i
on the fixed part.
The
To fasten the glove the two parts A and B are jointed together in
the manner illustrated in Figure 3, that is, the cross bar 7 of the eyc k
of the folding pait B is engaged with the hook of the front part A.
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The folding part B is next folded over or brought parallel with the fixed
part A, and the hole m in the said part B made to engage with the
stud i on the fixed part A, as illustrated in Figures 4 and 5. As the
folding part B is turned on its joint, the edge of the glove to which it is
attached is folded over the opposite edge of the glove, and as the
engaged or jointed end of the folding part B takes its bearing against
the end of the fixed part A the latter is forced or pressed from the said
folding part. By this action the overlapping edges c, d, of the glove are
forced in opposite directions in the act of fastening the glove, and the
glove is thereby forcibly tightened on the wrist, and fastened in its

page_text: taghtened state by the engaging of the holo m in the folding part B
with the stud on the fixed part A, as will be understood by an
examination of Figures 4 and 5.
To unfasten the glove the edge c is lifted forcibly, so as to disengago
the folding part B from the fixed part A, and the folding part is then
turned outwards upon the joint at g, k, as illustrated in Figure 3, and
unhooked from the fixed part, as illustrated in Figures 1 and 2.
For the purpose of adjusting the fastening to wrists of different sizes
two studs on one part of the fastening and two holes in the other part
may be employed, one or other of the pairs of holes and studs being
used at pleasure in fastening the glove; and instead of studs and holes
the folding part B may be engaged with the fixed part A by a spring
snap fastening.
The folding part B may be jointed to a connecting piece, and the
latter fixed to the glove by cars, instead of forming the swivelling joint
by sewing as described. This arrangement is represented in plan and
edge view in Figure 6, where the metallic connecting pieco to which the
folding part B is jointed is marked n, and the joint is marked p. The
metallic connecting picce n is fixed to the edge of the glove by clinching
the ears q
Figures 7, 8, and 9 represent a modification of my Invention, in
which the folding part B consists of two jointed plates jointed together
at 1, and capable of folding one upon the other, the said plates having
holes m, m², in them for engaging with the stud 2 on the fixed part A.
Figure 7 represents the two parts of the fastening hooked together in
the act of fastening the glove; Figure 8 represents the jointed plates of
the folding part B partly folded upon one another; and Figure 9
represents the same completely folded and secured together for fastening
the glove. By this double folding of the folding part B of the fastening
the said fastening is made more secure.
Figures 10 and 11 represent a glove fastening (attached to a portion
of a glove) constructed according to my Invention, in which the two
parts A and B are permanently jointed together by a joint at 8. In this
arrangement the part marked A is secured to the edge d of the glove, and
the free end of the other part B is passed through the eyelet or other

page_text: and a folding part, the folding part being temporarily or permanently
jointed to the fixed part, and the fixed and folding parts being secured
together when folded, or brought parallel, substantially as described and
illustrated, the folding of the fastening causing the overlapping edges of
the glove or other article of dress to be forced in opposite directions, and
thereby tightened prior to being fastened.
Also the modification described and illustrated in Figures 13, 14,
and 15 of tho accompanying Drawing, in which in place of a fixed and
folding part a swivelling and sliding bar is employed.
In witness whereof, I, the said William West, have hereunto set
my hand and scal, this Twenty-second day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
fivc.
5 Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.
WILLIAM WEST. (L.s.)