Improvements in Gloves.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 21st Aug., 1894-Accepted, 29th Sept., 1994
Improvements in Gloves.
I, FRANCIS HEAFIELD, of 34 Milson Street, Bath, in the County of Somerset,
Glove Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
:-
The improvements relate to driving or riding gloves, and consist in supplying
them with pipings, strips, pleats, cords, or stitching all or either of them or the
like on the inner side or surface of and between the fingers and thumb and on the
palm or part thereof of gloves in any convenient form but in such manner,
preferably without projecting inside the glove, so that the fingers and thumb and
the parts between them as also the palm of such gloves may be rough or have a
ribbed, pleated, corrugated, or roughened surface, affording additional means of
gripping reins, and rendering the glove more durable.
Dated this 22nd day of November 1893.
FRANCIS HEAFIELD.
Improvements in Gloves.
I, FRANCIS HEAFIELD, of 34 Milsom Street, Bath, in the County of Somerset,
Glove Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:―
This invention has for its object improvements in gloves more especially such as
are used for riding or driving to permit of a better grip or hold on the reins being
obtained but is also applicable to gloves used for other purposes wherever it is
desirable that parts of the outer surface of the gloves should be roughened.
The improvements consisting in forming projecting ribs, pleats or pipings on the
sides and inner face of the fingers and ou the palm and it may be also on the
thumb out of the leather or material itself of which these parts of the glove are
formed.
The drawings annexed show a glove having its parts roughened in this way.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of the glove.
Figure 2 shows separately one of the side pieces of one of the fingers.
Figure 3 is a cross section on the line 1-1 Figure 1.
There are preferably two pipings marked a (Figure 1) on the front of the thumb
and of the first three fingers and one marked b (Figure 2) on the side pieces of the
first three fingers.
If.desired the pipings on the thumb might be formed transversely as shown at
Figure 4 instead of lengthwise as shown in Figure 1.
The parts of the glove on which the projecting pipings are to be made are cut
wider than usual and the pipings are made by doubling over the material and then
forming a line of stitching close to and parallel with the fold so that when the
material is again straightened out or unfolded there is a piping projecting out from
its surface.
When the required pipings have been formed on the parts of the glove the parts
are sewn together in the usual way.

page_text: In the case of Tilburyed gloves, that is where one face of the thumb and part of
the palm and palm face of the fingers are made of two thicknesses of material, the
projecting ribs pleats or pipings would be formed on the outer material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Gloves with outwardly projecting pipings formed on the inner face or palm
sides of the fingers out of the material itself of which these parts of the glove are
formed substantially as described.
2. Gloves with pipings formed along the side pieces of the fingers out of the
material itself of which these parts of the glove are formed substantially as
described.
3. Gloves with pipings formed on their inner face or palm side out of the
material itself of which the parts of the glove are formed substantially as
described.
Dated this 20th dow of Lul 1901
FRANCIS HEAFIELD.