IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Bowen and James Benjamin Bowen,
both of Chipping Norton, in the County of Oxford, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES."
Sealed the 19th June 1868, and dated the 26th December 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Bowen and
James Benjamin Bowen at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 26th December 1867.
We, BENJAMIN BOWEN and JAMES BENJAMIN BOWEN, both of Chipping
Norton, in the County of Oxford, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES," to be as
follows:-
The object of our Invention is to prevent the tightness and strain at the
bottom of the fingers which has hitherto been found a great objection to all
gloves made without seams in the front of the sides of the fingers.
Our Invention consists in cutting the main piece which forms the palm and
other parts of the glove with a projecting part which in the made-up glove
comes between the two middle fingers and prevents the tightness or strain
above referred to. The pieces for forming the front and sides of the two
middle fingers are cut to correspond.

page_text: Figure 1 shows the back of the main piece of leather or material for
forming the hand part of a left-hand glove, together with the index and little
fingers a and d and the backs b and c of the two middle fingers. e is the
projecting part which in the made-up glove comes between the two middle
fingers. 61, Figure 2, shows a piece cut for the front and sides of the third or
middle finger, and c', Figure 3, shows a piece cut for the front and sides of
the fourth finger. The pieces for the thumb may be of any desired cut.
Instead of the piece e being cut in one with the main piece Figure 1 it may
be a separate piece let in between the fingers as a quirk or gusset; or the
piece e may be cut in one with the piece 6, Figure 2, or with the piece c¹,
Figure 3; or the piece e may be left on the other side of the main piece, viz.,
at the place marked e' in Figure 1. The rounds or curves f₁ f; at the end of
the two slits are also a novelty.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Benjamin Bowen and James Benjamin Bowen in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 25th June 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, BENJAMIN
BOWEN and JAMES BENJAMIN BOWEN, both of Chipping Norton, in the County
of Oxford, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us,
the said Benjamin Bowen and James Benjamin Bowen, Her special licence
that we, the said Benjamin Bowen and James Benjamin Bowen, our executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said Benjamin Bowen
and James Benjamin Bowen, our 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 we, the said Benjamin Bowen and James Benjamin Bowen, or
One of us, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, or one of our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particu-
larly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what

page_text: 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 we, the said Benjamin Bowen and James Benjamin
Bowen, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the accompanying Drawings and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
The object of our Invention is to prevent the tightness and strain at the
bottom of the fingers which has hitherto been found a great objection to all
gloves made without seams in the front of the sides of the fingers.
Our Invention consists in cutting the main piece which forms the palm and
other parts of the glove with a projecting part which in the made-up glove
comes between the two middle fingers and prevents the tightness or strain
above referred to. The pieces for forming the front and sides of the two
middle fingers are cut to correspond.
Figure 1 shows the back of the main piece of leather or material for
forming the band part of a left-hand glove together with the index finger a and
little finger d and the backs b and c of the two middle fingers; e is the projecting
part which in the made-up glove comes between the two middle fingers. b¹,
Figure 2, shows in full lines a piece cut for the front and sides of the third or
middle finger, and c', Figure 3, shows in full lines a piece cut for the front and
sides of the fourth finger; f, Figure 4, shows the thumb piece, and 9, Figure 1,
5 shows the quirk or gusset for the thumb, but the pieces for the thumb may be of
any desired cut. Instead of the piece e being cut in one with the main piece,
Figure 1, it may be a separate piece let in between the fingers b and c as a
quirk or gusset, and in this case the quirk or gusset may be varied in shape
if found desirable, or the piece e may be cut in one with the piece 6', Figure 2,
or with the piece c¹, Figure 3, as shown in dotted lines in each of these
Figures; or the piece e may be left on the other side of the main piece, viz., at
the place marked e¹ in Figure 1. The main piece will then be cut of the
form shewn in Figure 5.
And having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim as our
improvements in the manufacture of gloves which are made without seams in
the front of the sides of the fingers, the letting in of a piece (e) of leather
or other material between the middle fingers as and for the purpose herein-
before explained; such piece being either on the main or principal piece, or

page_text: on the third or middle finger piece, or on the fourth finger piece, or being a
separate piece let in as a quirk or gusset, all as herein-before described with
reference to the accompanying Drawings...
In witness whereof, we, the said Benjamin Bowen and James Benjamin
Bowen, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty-fourth
day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-eight.
BENJAMIN BOWEN.
(L.S.)
JAMES BENJAMIN BOWEN. (L.S.)