A NEW METHOD. OF MANUFACTURING GLOVES WITHOUT SIDE SEAMS; AND IN SOWING OR SETTING ON THE TOPS, AND IN OTHER PARTICULARS, WHICH WILL BE OP PUBLIC UTILITY IN POINT OF FITTING, NEATNESS, AND DURABILITY
Year: 1786

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
LINGHAM the younger, of the Parish of Saint Swithen, in the City of Wor-
cester, Glover, send greeting..
WHEREAS His most' Excellent Majesty King George the Third, by His
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at
Westminster, the Twenty-first 'day of August, in the twenty-sixth year of His.
reign, did give and grant unto me; the said George Lingham, my, executors,
administrators, and assigns, His especial licence, full power, sole privilege and
authority, that I, the said. George Lingham, my executors, administrators,.
and assigns, and every of them, by myself and, then'selves, or by my or.
their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others as I, the said.
George Lingham, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at, any
time: agree with, and no others, from time to time andat all times here-
after during the.. term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within that part of Great Britain called.
England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "A NEW METHOD. OF MANUFACTURING GLOVES WITHOUT SIDE SEAMS;
AND IN SOWING OR SETTING ON THE TOPS, AND IN OTHER PARTICULARS, WHICH WILL
BE OP PUBLIC UTILITY IN POINT OF FITTING, NEATNESS, AND DURABILITY," in such
manner as to me, the said George Lingham, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or any of them, should, in my or their discretion, seem meet, and that
I, the said George Lingham, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should.
and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit; benefit, and advantage,

page_text: from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising from the benefit of
the said Invention, for and during the term therein mentioned, to have, hold,
exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges, and advantages therein-
before granted or mentioned to be granted unto me, the said George
Lingham, my executors, administrators, and assigns, for and during and unto
the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters
Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended,
according to the Statute in that case made and provided; in which said
Letters Patent there is contained a provisoe obliging me, the said George
Lingham, by an instrument under my hand and seal, to cause a particular
description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be inrolled in His Majestie's High Court of
Chancery within one calendar month next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent, as in and by the same, relation being thereunto
had, may more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance of the said provisoe, I, the said
George Lingham, do hereby declare that the said Invention consists, and is
made as is hereafter described, viz:-
First, I make my gloves without a side seam, and sow or set on the tops in
a manner entirely new, by lapping one leather over the other, so as to confine
that part from tearing or coming unsewn, by the assistance of two or more
rows of stiching through the two leathers so lapt over.
Secondly, I apply an elastic spring made in a manner perfectly compleat, to
be fixed to the tops of men or women's gloves, being made of such a com-
position as to give to the hand when drawing on a spring agreably tight to
the wrist or arm, without danger of its breaking or being disagreable to the
wearer, and effectually prevents the gloves being loose on the hands or arms..
I am not confined to any one kind of springs, for I sometime make them of
hair, elastick gum, or anything that tends to elasticity. The above gloves are.
made of any kind of materials, such as linen, jean, muslin, leather, or any
other kind of thing used for such purposes.
Thirdly, I make the tops as above described, whole, without cutting off, and
then applying the springs, which in some materials I find answer the con-
sumer's purpose better.
Fourthly, I make those gloves of various patterns in leather or any other
materials, such as stripes, chequers, squares, spotted, or of any other fancy
patterns or colours whatsoever, they being colored or dyed in such a manner
so as to prevent their soiling the most delicate dress.
Fifthly, I line the thumbs of my gloves in the inside, which not only renders