IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVES
Year: 1856

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Truelove, of Liverpool, in the County of
Lancaster, Teacher, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVES."
Sealed the 17th June 1856, and dated the 1st January 1856.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Truelove at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
1st January 1856.
I, HENRY TRUELOVE, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Teacher,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
GLOVES" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in the use of an elastic material or materials in
forming the seams of gloves, so as to allow them to expand laterally. To
construct gloves according to this Invention, the parts of the gloves having
been cut out from any suitable material, such as skin or leather, or silk,
woollen, linen, or cotton fabric, narrow elastic bands or ribbons are used to
attach the edges together so as to form the seams of the gloves; the edges of the
seams being attached to the elastic material, in place of being directly sewed
to one another as now commonly practiced. The elastic material may be
inserted in all the seams of the gloves, or only in part thereof. Other seams
than those now in use may be formed in the glove to allow of the insertion of
the elastic material, such as at the top or wrist, so as to admit of a greater
amount of expantion during the introduction of the hand into the glove.

page_text: The narrow elastic ribbon or band it is proposed to make with only a
slightly elastic warp, and the weft with an elastic material, such a caoutchouc
or india-rubber or other suitable elastic substance, so that it may have consi-
derable power of elasticity sideways (or laterally), but be only slightly elastic
in the direction of its length.
A glove made according to this Invention will fit closely the fingers and
hand of different persons, although varying in circumfrence, and will prevent
its being torn in putting on.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Henry Truelove in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th June 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ‘HENRY
TRUELOVE, of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, Teacher, send-greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Royal
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Henry Truelove, Her special licence, that I, the said Henry Truelove, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry
Truelove, 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 GLOVES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry Truelove, by an instru-
ment in writing under my band and seal, should particularly 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 Royal Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Truelove, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in 'what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
(that is to say)
The parts of the glove having been cut out from skin, leather, silk, worsted,
woollen, cotton, or any suitable material, 1 take one part of 'the glove and

page_text: sew all round the edges of it an elastic band, the said elastic band to be all
round the edges, both of the fingers, hand, and wrists, and to this band the
remaining part of the glove is also sewn to form the complete glove. The
said elastic band may also be used in other parts when deemed expedient,
as in the upper part of the hand, or lower part, or in the wrists, to ensure
a tighter and better fit. This ribbon or band I make with a silk, worsted,
woollen, or cotton warp. The weft or shot to be caoutchouc or vulcanized
india-rubber, or vulcanized india-rubber covered with a thread of silk,
worsted, woollen, or cotton, which is designed to be elastic in its breadth,
and but slightly so in its length; the glove is then an elastic glove, fitting
closely, the fingers and hands of different persons, though varying slightly in
circumference if of the same length in the fingers, and more easily to try
or put on.
Having thus fully described the nature and particulars of my said Inven-
tion, I desire it to be distinctly understood, that I do not confine myself to
the exact details herein specified, as such may be varied or modified without
departing from the principle thereof. But I claim as my Invention, and
which to the best of my knowledge and belief has not been hitherto used
within this realm, the inserting in all the seams of gloves, as well as round
the wrists, an elastic material, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Truelove, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of June One, thousand eight
hundred and fifty-six
HENRY TRUELOVE. (L.s.)
Signed, sealed and delivered by the within-
named Henry Truelove, in the presence of
GEORGE SMITH,
Patent Agent,
Liverpool.