IMPROVEMENTS IN THE PERFUMING OF GLOVES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Wheeler, of 23, Poultry, in the City of
London, Glove Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE PERFUMING OF GLOVES."
Sealed the 2nd February 1864, and dated the 11th August 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Wheeler at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th August 1868.
I, JAMES WHEELER, of 23, Poultry, in the City of London, Glove Manu-
facturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE PERFUMING OF GLOVES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a new mode of perfuming gloves, and consists in
forming a welt or hollow passage across the wrist of the glove, also at the slit
or opening between the button and button-hole, and also round the button-
hole and at the back of the button, or at some of these places, and in drawing
or passing through the said welts or passages, or some of them, some sub-
stance, such as a piece of leather, braid, or ribbon charged with perfume, or in
passing perfumed powder through the same.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James Wheeler in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
11th February 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
WHEELER, of 23, Poultry, in the City of London, Glove Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year
of Ier reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said James Wheeler, Her special license that I, the said
James Wheeler, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
ns I, the said James Wheeler, my executors, administrators, or 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 PERFUMING OF GLOVES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said James Wheeler, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, or under the hand and
seal of one of them, 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 James Wheeler, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to the
letters and figures marked thereon, that is to say :-
My said Invention relates to a new mode of perfuming gloves, and consist
in forming a welt or hollow passage across the wrist of the glove, also at the
slit or opening between the button and button-hole, and also round the button-
hole and at the back of the button, or at some of these places, aud in drawing
or passing through the said welts or passages, or some of them, some sub-
stance, such as a piece of leather, braid, ribbon, or any fibrous or absorbent
material charged with perfume in any convenient manner, or in introducing
perfumed powder into the same. Or these perfumed substances may be

page_text: applied to the backs of the gloves at those parts which are pointed by being
stitched.
The mode I prefer to adopt in preparing these pieces of perfumed leather,
braid, or ribbon, or fibrous or absorbent material, consist in soaking the same
in essential oils or aromatic odoriforus gums dissolved in alcohol until the
material is thoroughly impregnated with perfume. I then coat the material
so perfumed with a paste produced by dissolving aromatic or odoriferous gums
in just so much alcohal as will produce a pasty mass, whereby a very powerful
perfuming medium is obtained.
Figures 1 and 2 of the annexed Sheet of Drawings represent respectively
a front and back view of a glove, shewing the parts to which I propose
to apply the perfumed substances, such parts being indicated by the letters
A, B, C, D, and E.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of the
Invention, and the manner in which the same is used or carried into effect, I
would observe, in conclusion, that what I consider to be novel and original,
and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein-before in
part recited Letters Patent is, the perfuming of gloves substantially in the
manner herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Wheeler, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Tenth day of February, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four.
JAMES WHEELER.
(L.S.)