Improvements in Gloves.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Nov., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 26th Aug., 1892-Accepted, 8th Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gloves.
JOHN MILNES Commercial Traveller 4, Manor Street, King's Mill Lane
Huddersfield in the County of Yorkshire, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:
For the ornamentation and ventilation of gloves, especially the backs, wrists,
cuffs or gauntlets by perforating the same, with ornamental designs, monograms,
emblems and other devices.
2. In carrying out this invention, I punch or cut out suitable and ornamental
holes of any size or shape and in the part or parts of the glove that is considered
most suitable and I insert in the inside of the glove and attach to the same, suitable
picces of coloured material as a lining, which coloured material can be seen through
the ornamental perforations.
Dated this 26th day of November 1891.
JOHN MILNES,
4, Manor Street, King's Mill Lane, Huddersfield.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gloves.
JOHN MILNES Commercial Traveller 14, Manor Street, King's Mill Lane
Huddersfield in the County of Yorkshire 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 the ornamentation and ventilation of gloves, that are
made from any one of the following skins, calf, kid, goat, lamb, sheep and other
suitable and similar skin or combination of skins, and the invention consists in
perforating the backs, wrists, cuffs or gauntlets with ornamental designs, such as,
monograms, names, emblems, figures, coats-of-arms and other devices, and in
applying beneath such perforations suitable woven or other porous material.
2. In carrying ont this invention, I punch or cut out in the most convenient
manner by either using a machine punching needle or a perforating press or other
suitable machine for perforating suitable and ornamental holes of any size or
shape of design and in the part or parts of the glove that is considered most
suitable and I insert in the inside of the glove and attach to the same, suitable
pieces of coloured material as a lining which coloured material can be seen through
the ornamental perforations.
3. By this combination, I am enabled to obtain a variety of effects in colour and
pattern by using a different colour of material for the lining than that of which the
glove is made from.
4. The inserted material or lining can be made from any coloured satin, silk,
perforated leather or kid, cloth, gold or silver lace or of any other suitable coloured
material or combination of materials.
5. The inserted material can either be sewn, pasted glued or gummed or
fastened by any other convenient and suitable means on to the inner side of the
gloves

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
Leather gloves ornamented and ventilated by suitable perforations lined with
suitable woven or other ventilating material applied beneath the said perforations
and shewing through the same substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 24th day of August 1892.
JOHN MILNES,
14, Manor Street, King's Mill Lane, Huddersfield.