IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Urwick of Westwood House St. John's Hill
Wandsworth in the County of Surrey, for an invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
GLOVES"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Urwick at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st April 1882.
HENRY URWICK of Westwood House St. John's Hill, Wandsworth in the County
of Surrey "IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVES,"
This Invention has for its object improvements in gloves it is applicable especially
to stout leather gloves such as are used in driving but may also be adopted
advantageously in making other gloves.
I insert on the inner side of the hand a piece passing from the base of the first
and second fingers (or rather the interval between these fingers) to the base of the
thumb; and the same piece also forms the inner side of the thumb, and the fore
finger "quirk" or the gusset piece at the root of this finger.
By this means I provide ample room in the glove around the knuckles without
enlarging the glove in other parts and I avoid seams at the base of the thumb, up'
the inner side of the pipe of the thumb and at the bottom of the forefinger, I also
obtain more freedom at the base of the fore finger, which is important in a driving
glove.
I combine the method of construction described above, most advantageously with
that known as the "Josephine cut," in which there is necessarily a seam between
the fore finger and thumb and of this I avail myself to insert my additional
piece.
The glove then consists of the following parts.—
1. The main piece comprising the palm and back of the hand and front and back
of the fingers.
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2. A piece forming the outside of the thumb tube and which in the case of the
Josephine cut" is continued to the wrist of the glove.
3. The additional piece which I have already fully described.
4. The "fourchetts" and quirks between the fingers.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Henry Urwick in the Great Seal Patent Office
29th September 1882.
HENRY URWICK of Westwood House St. John's Hill, Wandsworth in the County
of Surrey
IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVES
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This Invention has for its object improvements in gloves it is applicable especially
to stout leather gloves such as are used in driving but may also be adopted
advantageously in making other gloves.
I insert on the inner side of the hand a piece passing from the base of the first
and second fingers (or rather the interval between these fingers) to the base of the
thumb; and the same piece also forms the inner side of the thumb, and the fore
finger quirk" or the gusset piece at the root of this finger.
By this means I provide ample room in the glove around the knuckles without
enlarging the glove in other parts and I avoid seams at the interior base of the
thumb, up the inner side of the pipe of the thumb and at the bottom of the fore-
finger. I also obtain more freedom at the base of the fore finger, which is important
in a driving glove.
I combine the method of construction described above, most advantageously
with that known as the "Josephine cut," in which there is necessarily a seam
between the fore finger and thumb and of this I avail myself to insert my
additional piece.
The glove then consists of the following parts.-
1. The main piece comprising the palu and back of the hand and front and back
of the fingers.
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2. A piece forming the outside of the thumb tube and which in the case of the
Josephine cut" is continued to the wrist of the glove.
3. The additional piece which I have already fully described.
4. The fourchettes" and quirks between the fingers.
In the drawings annexed Figure 1, 2 and 3 show the main pieces of which a
glove is composed when the invention is applied to the "Josephine" cut.
Figure 1 is the main piece.
Figure 2 is the part comprising the outside of the thumb tube.
Figure 3 is the novel part which is applied either to the "Josephine" or to other
gloves constituting the main feature of the invention.
Figure 4 shows the completed glove, the part Figure 3 is here marked "A."
What I claim is my improvement in gloves consisting in inserting on the inner
side of the hand a piece such as is shown at Figure 3 and marked A in Figure 4
substantially as described.
I also clain the combination of a piece such as is shown at Figure 3 and marked A
with a "Josephine cut" glove substantially as represented in the drawings.
In witness whereof, I the said Henry Urwick have hereunto set my hand and
seal this twenty-eighth day of September, in the Year of Our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
HENRY URWICK. (L.S.)