Improvements in Fasteners for Gloves and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Apr., 1899-Accepted, 10th June, 1899
Communicated from abroad by WILLIAM STREETER RICHARDSON, of Boston, in
the County of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, United States of America,
Gentleman.
Improvements in Fasteners for Gloves and the like.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement;-
This invention relates to fasteners for gloves and other articles and is illus-
trated in the accompanying drawing; in which,
Figure 1 is a view in elevation of my improved socket piece.
Figure 2 is a view of the same in plan, inverted.
Figure 3 is a view illustrating a socket piece in which the preformed flange
is not continuous as in Figures 1 and 2.
Figure 4 is a view of the socket piece of Figure 3 inverted in plan.
Figure 5 represents in vertical section the association of said last named
socket piece with a metal binding applied to the flange, and showing the manner
of applying it.
Figure is a view in vertical section of the socket piece and its completely
bound flange.
Figure 7 is a view representing the socket piece formed into a socket member
and attached to a glove or other article.
Figure 8 represents said socket member when provided with a cap.
Figures 9, 10 and 11 represent a slight modification to which reference is
hereinafter made.
The socket piece A has a preformed flange a surrounding the socket entrance a¹.
The flange may be continuous and integral with the separable sides a² as repre-
sented in Figures 1 and 2 or it may be formed by a continuous non-resilient
metallic binding a³, (see Figures 3 to 6 inclusive) which is applied to the under
and upper surfaces and about the outer edge of the separable flange of the socket
piece and serves to hold its parts bound or tied together and the socket entrance
from yielding. This binding piece may by its outer portion at extend to the
edge of the socket entrance or to the bead about it, and by its portion may
extend to the sides of the socket piece or to the channel forming the said bead.
The part a surrounding the outer edge of the flange bears against it and prevents
the separation of its sections. The sides a are separated from each other
from the flange to the integral connecting top a, and are adapted to be folded out-
wardly between the flange and the top to form, in the act of setting the socket
piece, the fastening means by which the socket member is secured to the glove
or other article.
In Figure 7 I have represented the socket piece as thus transformed into the
socket member. This brings the preformed inextensible flange and the socket
entrance upon one surface of the article or material to which the member is

page_text: applied, and the attaching flange A¹ upon the other surface of the material or
article, and also forms an enlarged cavity as for the ball within the socket
entrance. It may be used with or without a cap, and in Figure 8 it is repre-
sented as combined with a cap A2, the cap being united to the socket member
and the glove in the act of setting the socket piece.
In Figures 9, 10 and 11 I have represented the preformed flange as formed by
a washer having a sunken cavity about a central hole, which cavity receives a
narrow flange or lip on the socket piece surrounding the socket entrance. This
narrow flange or lip may be continuous as in Figure 1 or may be formed by
outward extensions of the sides as in Figure 5, and it fits into the cavity in the
washer, and the washer serves to hem, bind or continue it.
The socket piece has an unyielding socket entrance, a preformed finishing
flange which is not separable, and sides which are connected by the preformed
flange as well as by the top a².
The socket member may or may not have a bead about the socket entrance.
It may be used with any type or form of resilient ball member.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is: -
1. The socket piece herein described, the same having separable sides fold-
able outwardly at a predetermined place to form in the act of setting the said
piece a sectional flat fastening flange, an inextensible preformed flange con-
necting the sides of the piece at one end and providing upon the folding of the
sides an unyielding socket entrance and an integral top connecting the sides
of the socket piece at the end opposite the preformed flange.
2. The socket piece herein described, the same having separable sides foldable
outwardly at a predetermined place to form in the act of setting the said piece
a sectional flat fastening flange, an inextensible preformed flange connecting
the sides of the piece at one end and providing upon the folding of the sides an
unyielding socket entrance, and consisting of outwardly folded ends of said sides,
and an outer binding ring and an integral top connecting the sides of the socket
piece at the end opposite the preformed flange.
3. The combination in a fastener of the character specified of the socket
member having an inextensible preformed flange providing an unyielding socket
entrance, a sectional flat fastening flange formed by outward folds of the
separable sides upon the surface of the material opposite that upon which the pre-
formed flange bears, and which are developed in the act of setting the member,
and a ball member to engage the socket member.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.