IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER GLOVES
Year: 1843

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
ENSOR, of Milborn Port, Glove Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Eleventh day of February, in the sixth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Thomas
Ensor, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the
said Thomas Ensor, my exors, admors, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Thomas Ensor, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term of
years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
wend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, my
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER GLOVES;" in which
said Letters Patent is contained a proviso that I, the said Thomas Ensor, shall
cause a particular description of the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Thomas Ensor, do hereby declare that the nature of my said Invention, and
the manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and

page_text: ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to
the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked thereon,
that is to say:-
My Invention relates to means of strengthening certain parts of leather
gloves by the application of certain strengthening pieces to different parts of
leather gloves, as herein described; and, in order that the Invention may be
most fully understood and readily carried into effect, I will proceed to describe
the Drawing hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 represents a glove turned inside out, shewing the interior of the
back of the glove; Figure 2 also shews a glove turned inside out, showing the
front of the glove; the other Figures shew the various strengthening pieces
separately. In each of these Figures the same letters indicate similar parts;
a, a, shew strengthening pieces applied at the ends of the slits for the fingers,
and in the front of the glove these pieces are sewn in with the "fargets" b, b;
the other edge of each piece a, a, to the various fingers is then felled down;
by this means the glove will be strengthened at those parts. And, in applying
these pieces a, a, I use india-rubber cement (dissolved caoutchouc, which is
well known and commonly sold) or other flexible cement, whereby, at the parts
where the strengthening pieces a, a, are applied, the substance of the Icather
will be encreased, and consequently the strength; and I apply such cement in
affixing the other pieces hereafter described. c is a narrow strip of leather
affixed over the other pieces a, a, between the fingers, such piece c being felled
on either edge, as is shewn at Figure 2. The upper and lower parts of the
opening, where the thumb is served, are to be strengthened, as is shewn at d, d,
by applying the narrow strips of leather which are marked d, d; these
strengthening pieces are cemented over the seam, and felled down, as is shewn;
there having been two pieces e, e, of leather cemented, one at the upper and
the other at the lower part of the opening, to give strength; and, after the thumb
has been sewn in, then the parts d, d, are affixed over the parts e, e, and over the
seam; hence, in drawing on the glove, it will be found that these pieces d, d,
and e, e, will support and give strength to those parts of the glove which are very
liable to give way, the cementing of the pieces by a flexible cement causing the
parts of the glove at d to be similar to what they would be if each were of one
thicker piece of leather. The slit at the wrist, or, as it is called, the buttoning
slit of the glove, is to be strengthened in the following manner :-f,f, is a piece
of leather which is cemented on to the edges of the slit of the glove at the wrist,
there being a projection at f1 where the button is to be sewn on, as is shewn ;'"

page_text: this piece of leather being cemented with a flexible cement, the glove is to have
the usual welting piece 9 applied, the edges of the piece f, f, having been first
felled down. The back of the glove is strengthened by a piece of leather h,
which is cemented as is shewn at Figure 1, and then felled at the edges. It
should be stated that in some cases I only apply one strip of leather to strengthen
the upper, and only one piece for the lower part of the opening for the thumb,
as is shewn at Figure 3, at d¹; in such case, having sewed in the thumb, there
are a few stitches applied, which affix the strip of leather d³ to the thumb,
the piece of leather d' being cemented and felled to the glove.
"I would remark that although I have been particular in shewing the exact
shape of each strengthening piece of leather used, I do not confine myself
thereto, provided the mode of strengthening the various parts of gloves, or any
of them, be retained; and the cementing and felling or sewing the strength-
ening pieces may be used separately as well as conjoined.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Ensor, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and forty-three.
Enrolled the Eleventh day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-three.