IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Pritchett, of Charlbury, in the County of
Oxford, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
GLOVES."
Sealed the 30th August 1864, and dated the 3rd March 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Pritchett at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
3rd March 1864.
I, SAMUEL PRITCHETT, of Charlbury, in the County of Oxford, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF GLOVES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
gloves, and refers more especially to the shaping of the "fourchets" or pieces
which form the sides of the fingers. These pieces have heretofore been made
in a variety of forms.
According to my Invention I cut the lower end of each fourchet where it
meets and is sewn to the fourchet of the next finger to a double or V formi
curve, so that the fourchet is shorter in the middle than on the two edges or

page_text: side seams; thus the strain is brought to the centre of the fourchet, and the
glove is thus made to fit better, and is rendered much less liable to split
between the fingers than when the strain comes on.one of the edge seams.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Pritchett in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
1st September 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
PRITCHETT, of Charlbury, in the County of Oxford, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Iler Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Samuel Pritchett, Her special licence that I, the said
Samuel Pritchett, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Samuel Pritchett, 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 THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Samuel Pritchett, my executors or adminis-
trators, 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 Samuel Pritchett, 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 thereof, that is to say:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the manufacture of
gloves, and refers more especially to the shaping of the "fourchets" or
pieces which form the sides of the fingers. These pieces have heretofore been
made in a variety of forms.
According to my Invention I cut the lower end of each fourchet, where it
meets and is sewn to the fourchet of the next finger, to a double or V form

page_text: curve, as is shewn in the annexed Drawing, so that the fourchet is shorter in
the middle than on the two edges or side seams; thus the strain is brought to
the centre of the fourchet, and the glove is thus made to fit better, and is
rendered much less liable to split between the fingers than when the strain
comes on one of the edge seams.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Pritchett, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
SAMUEL PRITCHETT. (L.B.)