IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ephraim Chetwyn, of the Firm of Groves and Chetwyn,
of Worcester, in the County of Worcester, Glove Maker, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES"
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Ephraim Chetwyn at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and Declaration
on the 2nd July 1860, pursuant to the 9th Section of the Patent Law
Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EPHRAIM
CHETWYN, of the Firm of Groves and Chetwyn, of Worcester, in the County of
Worcester, Glove Maker, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES," and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
My said Invention has reference to the better securing or fastening together
the several pieces, or some of them, of which gloves are manufactured, with a
view to strengthening them and the preventing their bursting, or the sewing,
stitching, felling, or fastening becoming unfastened or broken by the strains
upon it when in use, a very common complaint against the hitherto manu-
factured gloves, being the liability to injury (when in use) from the strains to

page_text: which they are exposed causing either a rupture of the leather or material, or
otherwise an unfastening of the sewing, stitching, or felling.
Now my Invention has for its object the improved formation and construction
of gloves with a view to remedying the defects above mentioned, and consists
in a mode or modes of shaping or forming and of connecting together the
separate pieces of which gloves are composed, or some of them, namely, the
shaping or forming them so as to lap against the adjoining pieces to a sufficient
extent to obtain two or more independent fastenings or connections instead of
one, and the sewing, stitching, felling, securing, or fastening together the edges
of the pieces so lapping against, to or upon the adjoining pieces, and within
or away from the edges of the said adjoining pieces, so as the better to dis-
tribute the strain over the surfaces of the respective pieces.
Having thus set forth the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed to
describe the manner in which it is to be performed, referenco being had to the
accompanying illustrative Drawing, and to the figures and letters marked
.thereon for the purpose of facilitating such reference.
The said Drawing represents on a scale of the full size a front view (see
Figure 1), and a back view (see Figure 2), of my improved glove with the
fingers distended as they would appear after taking the glove off the hand and
carefully flattening them out, and also as having a portion of the glove torn
open and turned back or over, so as to exhibit portions of the inner surface,
and to exemplify the mode in which the pieces are secured or put together.
And the Drawing also represents the shape of some of the separate pieces as
spread out flat, namely, the thumb-piece A (see Figure 3); a gusset or quirk
B, used under the thumb. (see Figure 4); one of the gussets or quirks C used
between the fingers (see Figure 5); and one of the forgits D used between
the fingers (see Figure 6). In the Figures 1 and 2 similar letters are used
to mark the corresponding pieces, and shew the position and manner in which
they are employed. The long dotted lines in Figures 1 and 2, which are drawn
similarly to the dotted line represented at Figure 7, denote the edges of the
underlying pieces, but all the other dotted lines, whether white or black, or
white and black, denote the sewing, stitching, or fastening together. In some
parts of the Drawing the dotted lines are purposely omitted to avoid confusion
or indistinctness. It is to be noted that the shape of the thumbpiece A is
such as more than to merely fill up the opening (in the body Z of the glove)
in or against which it is placed, and that its edges lap and extend beyond
those of the opening more than sufficiently to obtain a row or rows of stitching,
and generally to the amount of a full eighth of an inch, and also particularly
that the body or root end of the thumbpiece at a* extends by a tongue-like

page_text: projection considerably beyond the edges of the opening, so as to afford by
double thickness and distribution of the strains much greater strength at
that which is frequently a very weak and faulty portion of a glove. And the
edges of the opening are secured by two rows of stitching e close together,
against, to, or upon the thumbpiece (and by four such rows at a*); and
further, the still remaining edges, that is to say, the edges of the thumbpiece,
independently of the foregoing fastening, are secured by felling them down
against, to, or upon, and at a short distance away from, but not at the edges
of the piece Z, as shewn at f (see Figure 2); and this last-mentioned pieco
(Z) is also formed with the opening so shaped as to leave a tongue-like
projection to lap over the thumbpiece at the same place a*, so as still further
to increase the strength.
A similar method is also employed in securing together other parts of the
glove, single rows only of stitching instead of double rows being adopted in
certain parts in combination with felling, as above described and as represented
in the Drawing, which I consider sufficiently explicit to render detailed
description unnecessary, further than to call attention to the prolongation of
the forgits at d*, and the lapping of the gussets B and C, as shewn in
Figures 1 and 2. (In Figure 6, d³ represents a slit dividing the forgit into
two portions, passing one to each of the two fingers between which it is
applied.)
In witness whereof, I, the said Ephraim Chetwyn, have hereunto set my
band and seal, this Second day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty.