IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING WOVEN SEAMLESS GLOVES
Year: 1861

page_text: LEITERS PATENT to Edward Thomas Hughes, of the Firm of Hughes
& Son, Patent Agents, 123, Chancery Lane, London, for the Iuvention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING
WOVEN SEAMLESS GLOVES."-A communication from abroad by Messieurs
Jean Berjon aud Alphonse Berthod, both of Lyons, in the Empire of
France.
Sealed the 14th January 1862, and dated the 20th July 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Thomas Hughes
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 20th July 1861.
I, EDWARD THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes & Son, Patent Agents,
123, Chaucery Lane, London, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING WOVEN
SEAMLESS GLOVES," a communication to me from abroad by Messieurs Jean
Berjon and Alphonse Berthod, both of Lyons, in the Empire of France, to
be as follows:-
Instead of the ordinary method of knitting gloves by circular or other
machines, on the system of meshes, I weave in an ordinary loom with the
assistance of the jacquard machine, the shape of the glove being made by pattern
cards, and the material woven double, forming a kind of pocket. A number
of gloves are woven at the same time according to the width of the loom, and
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page_text: when the piece is finished, each glove is cut out or separated. For gloves
made of wool or a mixture of wool and silk, I employ the fulling and twisting
processes, and for those made of cotton thread, or similar materials, I use the
torsion or twisting process only. I also employ a comb to form curved or
zig-zag lines, the said comb contributing also to procure elasticity and colour,
or varnish them to imitate the skin glove; the said colour or varnish may be
applied to the surface of the gloves previous to being cut or separated from
the woven piece, or it may be applied to each glove singly by placing it on a
mould the shape of a hand.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edward Thomas Hughes in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 20th January 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
THOMAS HUGHES, of the Firm of Hughes and Son, Patent Agents, 123, Chancery
Lane, London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Edward Thomas Hughes, Her special licence that I, the said Edward
Thomas Hughes, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, 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 In-
vention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY OR APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING
WOVEN SEAMLESS GLOVES," being a communication to me from abroad by
Messieurs Jean Berjon and Alphonse Berthod, both of Lyons, in the Empire
of France, upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Edward
Thomas Hughes, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manuer 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,

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, 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):-
Instead of the ordinary method of knitting gloves by circular or other
machines, on the system of meshes, I weave them in an ordinary loom, with
the assistance of the jacquard machine; the shape of the glove being made by
pattern cards, and the material woven double, forming a kind of pocket. A
number of gloves are woven at the same time according to their size and
the width of the loom. When the piece is completed each glove is cut out or
separated and after being turned inside out, the glove is obtained in a finished
state. In this manufacture all kinds of materials are employed either singly or
combined, and the gloves are oramented and wadded as may be required.
For gloves made of wool or a mixture of wool and silk, I subject the materials
to the process of fulling, and also subject the fibres of wool, silk, cotton, hair,
or thread to a torsion or twisting of one, two, three, or four thousand twists
to the yard, in order to give more elasticity to the materials employed, and
thus obtain an indispensable condition in the manufacture of tissues for gloves.
The said materials have also a combination of torsion, so as to arrange one
twist to the right and another to the left alternately; thus the gloves will be
woven by one pick of twist having a right handed turn, and then another
having a left handed turn. This torsion from right to left produces the tissues
of the gloves according to the system employed for the different kinds of crape.
There is also a combined employment of mounted silk, the system of crapes
and figured woollen stuffs alternately. In this manufacture, I also employ
figured or embossed woofs, obtained by means of indented orengraved cylinders,
so as to produce a more elastic tissue. I also when desired employ in the
loom a comb or reed having crooked, curved, or zig-zag dents or teeth, for
the purpose of procuring elasticity in the fabric or tissue of which the gloves
are formed. The gloves when required, are covered with a gloss or varnish
applied to their surfaces previous to being cut or separated from the woven
fabric, or it may be applied to each glove singly, by placing it on a mould the
shape of a haud, or the gloves may be colored and varnished to imitate the
skin glove. I also weave the gloves of a peculiar fabric or tissue, very
suitable for the purpose. It is composed of a woollen warp with a china crape
thread weft, that is to say, a silk thread prepared in the same manner as
that used in the manufacture of china crape shawls, and woven by a pick of
weft twisted to the right, and then one twisted to the left, or by two picks
of one and two of the other. Some of the china
also be
thread
crape
may

page_text: introduced into the warp, to increase the elasticity of the fabric, or the same
result-may be obtained by using a china crape warp, and a woollen thread.
The fabric thus produced must be subjected to the cleansing operation, which so
acts on the china crape thread, that in shrinking it draws the woollen thread
over it, thus giving the fabric an increased elasticity as well as an ornamental
surface. After the said cleansing operation succeeds the well known fulling
or pressing process, which is followed by rubbing, dyeing, and finishing as may
be desired.
Having now described the nature and particulars of the said Invention, as
communicated to me by my foreign correspondents, I claim, the manufacture
of gloves by means of an ordinary loom with the assistance of a jacquard
apparatus, and the application of the peculiar fabrics for the same as herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Thomas Hughes, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of January, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-two.
EDWARD T. HUGHES. (L.S.)