IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES, CUFFS, WRIST- BANDS, COLLARS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS."
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Philippe Lempriere, of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Commercial Traveller, for the In-
vention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES, CUFFS, WRIST-
BANDS, COLLARS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Philippe
Lempriere at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 4th December 1875.
I, GEORGE PHILIPPE LEMPRIERE, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES, Cuffs,
WRISTBANDS, COLLARS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in
constructing and arranging or combining the parts of fastenings for
gloves, cuffs, wristbands, collars, and other articles of dress.
I will describe my Invention as applied to a glove fastening. I
make the said fastening of two plates hinged together at one end, the

page_text: being closed or shut down upon the bottom plate the depression or seat
in the said top plate engages with the top of the peg or stud on the
bottom plate and the glove is fastened, the top plate being held very
firmly in its closed position by the pressure of the spring at the hinge
or joint end.
To release the glove it is only necessary to lift the top plate and
remove the edge of the glove from off the peg or stud on the bottom
plate when the glove is unfastened.
I apply my Invention to the fastening of cuffs, wristbands, collars,
and other articles of dress, substantially in the manner described with
respect to a glove fastening.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said George Philippe Lempriere in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 25th May 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
PHILIPPE LEMPRIERE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Com-
mercial Traveller, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of December, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Philippe Lempriere, Her
special license that I, the said George Philippe Lempriere, my
exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
George Philippe Lempriere, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and
Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES,
CUFFS, WRISTBANDS, COLLARS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS,"
upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Philippe Lempriere,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly

page_text: describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Philippe Lempriere, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in
constructing and arranging or combining the parts of fastenings for
gloves, cuffs, wristbands, collars, and other articles of dress.
I make the said fastening of two plates, or a plate and a bar or
tongue, hinged together at one end, the said plates or plate and tongue.
when closed upon one another fastening the article of dress, and when
opened from one another releasing the two parts of the article of dress.
The two parts of the fastening are held firmly in their open and closed
positions respectively by a strong spring bearing upon the extreme end
of the tongue part.
I construct the top and bottom plates or plate and tongue of the
fastening in the following manner :-I make the top plate either plain
or of any desired ornamental pattern. The said plate may carry a stone,
jewel, or ornament, and from the said plate the outer ears of the joint
and the spring by which the top and bottom parts are held in the
closed and open positions are made. The outer ears are formed by
bending ears at right angles to the plate, and the spring is made by
bending a strip or piece out of the plane of the other part of the plate.
The middle joint is made in one piece with the tongue or bar. The
parts of the joint being engaged together a joint pin is passed through
them and rivetted. The two plates or bar and plate are thereby
hinged together, the spring bearing against the end or heel of the
tongue.
The end of the tongue opposite that which is hinged to the top plate
is bent nearly at a right angle, and in the under side of the top plate is
a depression or seat into which the end of the said tongue takes when
the fastening is closed. ⚫
In using the fastening the two parts are opened and the tongue is
passed into the holes in the opposite edges of the glove, cuff, or article

page_text: of dress. The top plate being closed or shut down upon the tongue
the depression or seat in the said top plate engages with the end of the
tongue and the glove or article of dress is fastened, the top plate being
held very firmly in its closed position by the pressure of the spring at
the hinge or joint end.
To release the glove or article of dress it is only necessary to
lift the top plate and remove the edges of the glove or article of dress
from off the tongue when the glove or article is unfastened.
I will now describe, with reference to the accompanying Drawing,
the manner in which my Invention may be performed.
Figure 1 represents in side elevation; Figure 2, in section; and
Figure 3, in plan of under side, a fastening constructed according
to my Invention; Figure 4 represents a section of the same open
or in its unfastened position.
Figures 5, 6, 7, and 8 represent parts of the fastening as herein-after
explained.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several
Figures of the Drawing.
A is the front part of the fastening, and B is the back part, the said
parts A and B being jointed together at c. The front or upper part A
is composed of an ornamental disc and two inner discs d, e; but, the
said part A may carry a jewel, stone, or other ornament. The middle
disc d is represented separately in Figure 5, and the bottom or inner
disc e is represented separately in Figure 6. From the middle disc a
the two outer ears f. f, of the joint are made by piercing the metal
of the said disc, and raising the ears thus made at right angles to the
other part of the disc, and from the disc e the spring 9 is made by
which the two parts A and B are held forcibly in their open and closed
positions respectively, the free end of the said spring being bent out
of the plane of the other part of the disc. The middle of the disc e
from which the spring g is made is cut away at h, h, on either side the
free end of the spring, and through these parts h, h, the outer ears ƒ, f,
of the disc d pass, as represented in Figures 1 and 4. In the inner
disc e of the top or front part A is a hole or depression i into which
the end of the tongue 6 of the jointed part B of the fastening enters
when the two parts A and B are closed upon one another. The back

page_text: part or arm or plate B is made in one piece from the blank represented
in Figure 7. The heel 63 of the part or arm B is made by bending the
part b³, Figure 7, at right angles, as represented in the plan and side
elevation, Figure 8, and the middle ears k which work between the
outer ears f. f, on the part A. is made by bending the side pieces b*, b*, 1
Figure 7, each at right angles to the other portion of the part B, as
represented in Figure 8. The tongue 6º of the arm or part B is made
by bending at right angles the extreme end of the arm B, as represented.
The side pieces b* from which the middle ears are made are pierced
with holes for the joint pin. The outer ears f, f, are also pierced for 1
the joint pin. The two discs d, e, carrying the outer ears f, f, and
spring respectively are connected together by the closing of the edge
of the outer ornamental disc upon and around the edges of the said
discs d, e, as seen in the sections, Figures 2 and 4.
In connecting the two parts A and B together the middle ears % of
the part B are engaged between the outer ears f, f, of the part A, and
a joint pin c is passed through the engaged ears and rivetted. The
two parts A and B are thereby hinged together, the spring 7 on the
part A bearing against the heel ³ of the bottom part or arm B, as
represented in the Drawing. When the two parts A and B are closed 2
upon one another the end of the tongue 62 of the jointed arm B takes
into the seat or depression in the plate or disc e of the part A. By
this engaging of the tongue b³ with the hole or seat i in the part A
combined with the pressure of the spring the fastening is made
very secure.
2
In using the fastening the two parts A and B are opened, as
represented in Figure 4, and the tongue 6 is passed through the
holes in the glove, cuff, wristband, or other article of dress. The two
parts A, B, are now closed upon one another, and the end of the tongue
6 made to engage with the hole or seat i in the part A. By the 3
pressure of the spring upon the heel of the part B the two parts
A, B, are held very firmly in their closed position, and the two parts of
the article of dress are securely fastened together.
To unfasten the glove, cuff, wristband, or other article of dress, the
part B is turned on its hinge, as illustrated in Figure 4, so as to 3
withdraw the end of the tongue from the hole or seat in the part A,
when the fastening may be withdrawn, and the parts of the article of
dress disconnected.

page_text: Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that
I claim as my Invention of improvements in fastenings for gloves, cuffs,
wristbands, collars, and other articles of dress, composed of two plates
or a plate and bar or arm jointed together,-
First. Making the spring which bears upon the heel of one of the
jointed parts, and by which the two parts of the fastening are held
firmly in their open and closed positions respectively, in one piece
with one of the discs of the front plate or part of the fastening, as
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly. Making the outer ears of the joint from one of the discs
of the front plate or part of the fastening, as described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawing.
Thirdly. Making the middle cars of the joint and the heel upon which
the spring bears in one piece with the plate or bar from which the back
part of the fastening is made, as described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawing.
Lastly. Making the end of the tongue of the fastening take into a
hole, depression, or seat in the front plate or part, as described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Philippe Lempriere, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of May,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
GEORGE PHILIPPE LEMPRIERE. (L.S.)