IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County
of Middlesex, Engineer & Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVES."-A communication from abroad by Mr..
Alfred Alexander Abdon Cressent, of 29, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris,.
Merchant..
Sealed. the 6th June 1862, and dated the 9th December 1861...
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Clark at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 9th
December 1861.
I, WILLIAM, CLARK,, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Engineer & Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention.
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the application of elastic material to gloves of
leather or other material, whereby to dispense with the employment of buttons,
hooks, or other fastenings.
I am aware that gloves having elastic material applied. thereto have already
been made; but my Invention consists in, the peculiar form, position,. &
arrangement of the elastic gussets, either separately or combined, which I place
in the palm of the glove. I make the gusset somewhat of a triangular form,
but extended towards its base so as to present at that part. somewhat the form
of a band near the wrist, the point of the triangular piece being towards or
near the centre of the palm...

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Clark, in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
7th June 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME,-I, WILLIAM
CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Engineer and
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most-Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of December, 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 William Clark, Her special licence that I, the said William
Clark, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said William Clark, 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 " IM-
PROVEMENTS IN GLOVES," a communication from abroad by Mr. Alfred Alexander
Abdon Cressent, of 29, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris, Merchant, upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Clark, 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 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 William Clark, 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,
reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
This Invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of gloves made
of silk, cotton, wool, and especially those of leather, having 'elastic 'material
applied thereto as a means of fastening them without the 'aid of buttons, hooks,
straps, or other means.
I am aware that elastic has heretofore been applied to gloves, which have,
however, failed to answer the purpose, as the form and disposition of the elastic
gussets exercises a great influence on the practical application of the principle.

page_text: The present improvements consist in the arrangement and combination of
the elastic material in accordance with the above conditions. I place the
elastic in the palm of the glove, somewhat in the form of a triangle, the base
of which is widened and extends some short distance up on each side.
This Invention is represented in the annexed Drawing, where a shows a
glove of the ordinary form; b, an elastic gusset applied to the palm of the
glove; c, band, partly surrounding the gusset, and made of one and the same
piece with it.
Having described the nature of this Invention and the manner of performing
the same, I wish it to be understood that I do not claim the application of
elastic to gloves as a substitute for buttons, hooks, and other means of fastening;
but what I do claim as of the Invention to be protected by the herein-before
in part recited Letters Patent is, the peculiar form, arrangement, and appli-
cation of elastic gussets to all kinds of gloves, as herein-before described and
represented in the annexed Drawing, for the purpose of obtaining a perfect fit
of the glove to the hand.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Clark, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
W. CLARK. (L.S.)