AN IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES." A communication from abroad by William
Fowler Foster, of New York City, United States of America
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville Clark at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 5th September 1876.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent. "AN IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES."
This Invention consists in constructing the wrist of a glove with a series of studs
and a cord and ung or ball whereby the wrist of the glove may be drawn and
confined together in the manner hereinafter more particularly described.
As is well known it is difficult to draw together and confine the wrist of
snug-fitting gloves, and that in most instances the buttons, catches, or other
fastenings at present used, are unequal to the strain brought upon them and they
soon give way. To remedy these difficulties I attach to the wrist of a glove and on
the edge of each side of the opening a series of small studs or hooks. These studs
or hooks may be of any suitable material, and are rivetted or otherwise firmly
secured to the wrist of the glove, and if studs are used they are formed with a head
on them. Attached to one of the lower studs or to the lower part of the wrist of
the glove is a cord; this cord has a ring or ball secured to its upper end. When
the glove is in place on the hand the cord is passed across the opening of the wrist
and around the studs or hooks alternately from one side of the opening to the other,
and upon drawing the upper end of the cord the edges of the wrist are brought
snugly together, in which position they are held by winding the cold around one of
the upper studs or hooks and passing the ring or ball over the stud or around
the hook, which will keep the cord tightly confined and the opening of the wrist
closed.
From the foregoing it will be seen that by providing the wrist of a glove with
studs or books, cord, and ring or ball, in the manner described, the gloves may be
fastened with facility, and since the strain is borne by a series of studs or hooks

page_text: instead of one or two buttons they are not likely to give way; besides, by this
construction there are no button holes to tear out, so that the fastening will always
be in order to secure the glove.
On account of the difference in the sizes of persons wrists and the elasticity of
material of which gloves are composed the buttons or fastenings in common use are
very imperfect for the purpose, while by using this Invention instead the elasticity
is gradually taken up and the cuffs adapted to the difference in size of the wrists.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by the
said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great. Seal Patent Office on the 3rd
March 1877.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent. "AN IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES." A communication
from abroad by William Fowler Foster, of New York City, United States of
America.
This Invention is in the nature of an improvement in gloves, and the Invention
consists in constructing the wrist of a glove with a series of studs and a cord, and
ring or ball, whereby the wrist of the glove may be drawn and confined together in
the manner herein-after more particularly described.
In the accompanying Drawing the Figure represents a plan or top view of the
Invention.
As is well known it is difficult to draw together and confine the wrist of smug-
fitting gloves, and that in most instances the buttons, catches, or other fastenings at
present used are unequal to the strain brought upon them and they soon give way.
To remedy these difficulties I attach to the wrist A of a glove and on the edge a of
each side of the opening b a series of small studs or hooks B. These studs or hooks
may be of any suitable material, and are riveted or otherwise firmly secured to the
wist of the glove, and if studs are used they are formed with a head c on them.
Attached to one of the lower studs or to the lower part of the wrist of the glove is
ncord C; this cord has a ring d or ball secured to its upper end. When the glove
is in place on the hand the cord C is passed across the opening 6 of the wrist and
around the studs or books alternately from one side of the opening to the other, as
shown in the Figure, and on drawing the upper end of the cord the edges of
the wrist are brought snugly together, in which position they are held by winding
the cord C around one of the upper studs or hooks and passing the ring d or ball
over the stud or around the hook, which will keep the cord tightly confined and the
opening of the wrist closed.
From the foregoing it will be seen that by providing the wrist of a glove with
studs or books, cord and ring on ball, in the manner described, the glove may be
fastened with facility, and since the strain is borne by a series of studs or hooks
instead of one or two buttons they are not likely to give way; besides, by this
construction there are no button holes to tear out, so that the fastening will always
be in order to secure the glove
On account of the difference in size of persons' wrists and the elasticity of the
material of which gloves are composed the buttons or fastenings in common use are
very imperfect for the purpose, while by using the present Invention instead the
elasticity is gradually taken up and the cuffs adapted to the difference in size of the
wrists.
Having described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, as an improved article of manufacture
the glove with the wrist opening, provided with studs on each side of the same, and

page_text: a lacing cord or cords secured by one end to one of the studs, and having a ring or
ball on the other end whereby said opening may be laced without the use of eyelets,
substantially as shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Third day of March, in the year of our Lord
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
A. M. CLARK. (L.S.)