A New or Improved Fastening for Gloves and Articles of Dress and other Articles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Late of Application, 6th Aug., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 10th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 17th May, 1890
ROVISIONAL SI MUNICATION.
A New or Improved Fastening for Gloves and Articles of Dress and
other Articles.
We TномAS HOOPER and SAMUEL GEORGE MOORE trading as Hinks Wells and
Company of Buckingham Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Steel Pen
and Penholder Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:-
:-
Our invention consists of a fastening for gloves and articles of dress and other
articles the parts of which are constructed and combined and act substantially in the
manner hereinafter described.
Our invention is specially adapted for fastening gloves and we will describe it as
used as a glove fastening but our invention may also be used for fastening gaiters
leggings boots shoes purses pouches and waistcoats and generally as a dress or other
fastening in place of buttons and button holes.
This
One part of the glove fastening consists of a nearly oblong frame of steel or other
elastic metal or alloy having at the edge most distant from the edge of the glove a
small hook and near the opposite edge a spring clip or catch consisting of two light
spring arms situated at a short distance apart the ends of the said arms having such a
figure that they form between them a contracted mouth to the clip or catch.
part of the fastening is secured to the inner side of one edge of the glove without
sewing by means of ear pieces on a metal disc situated at the outer edge of the glove
the said ear pieces being passed through the material of the glove and turned over the
edges of the steel frame carrying the spring clip and hook described.
The other part of the fastening which is attached to the opposite edge of the glove
consists of a metal ring having a bar crossing it as a diameter and having at that
edge nearest the edge of the glove an eye or piercing. This part of the fastening is
secured to the outer side of the edge of the glove without sewing by means of ear
pieces on the ring being passed through the material of the glove and through slots in
a metal disc on the inner edge of the glove and clinched upon the face of the metal disc.
In fastening the glove the small hook on the spring clip part of the fastening is
hooked or engaged with the eye of the cross bar part of the fastening. The spring
clip part of the fastening is now turned down upon the cross bar part the engaged
hook acting as a temporary fulcrum or joint upon which the spring clip part
turns and the said spring clip part is forcibly pressed upon the cross bar part. The
arms of the spring clip are thereby first slightly separated by the cross bar and after-
wards by their elasticity snap upon the said cross bar and thus securely fasten the two
edges of the glove together. To unfasten the glove it is only necessary to press or
pull the two edges of the glove asunder when the spring clip yielding it is disengaged
from the cross bar and the glove unfastened.
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W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Anplicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Fastening for Gloves and Articles of Dress and
other Articles.
Wе THOMAS HOOPER, and SAMUEL GEORGE MOORE, trading as Hinks, Wells and
Company, of Buckingham Street, Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Steel Pen
and Penholder Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of our invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
Our invention consists of a fastening for gloves and articles of dress and c'her
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page_text: articles the parts of which are constructed and combined and act substantially in the
manner hereinafter described.
Our invention is specially adapted for fastening gloves and we will describe it
as used as a glove fastening. but our invention may also be used for fastening
gaiters, leggings, boots, shoes, purses, pouches and waistcoats and generally as a
dress or other fastening in place of buttons and button holes.
One part of the glove fastening consists of a nearly oblong frame of steel or other
elastic metal or alloy having at the edge most distant from the edge of the glove a small
hook and near the opposite edge a spring clip or catch consisting of two light spring
arms situated at a short distance apart the ends of the said armis having such a figure
that they form between them a contracted mouth to the clip or catch.
This part of
the fastening is secured to the inner side of one edge of the glove without sewing by
means of ear pieces on a metal disc situated at the outer edge of the glove the said ear
pieces being passed through the material of the glove and turned over the edges of the
steel frame carrying the spring clip and hook described.
The other part of the fastening which is attached to the opposite edge of the glove
consists of a circular or other shaped metal ring having a bar crossing it as a diameter
and having at that edge nearest the edge of the glove an eye or piercing.
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This part of the fastening is secured to the outer side of the edge of the glove
without sewing by means of ear pieces on the ring being passed through the material
of the glove and through slots in a metal disc on the inner edge of the glove and
clinched upon the face of the metal disc.
The glove is fastened by engaging the hook on the spring clip part with the eye on
the cress bar part and pressing down the spring clip part so as to cause its spring clip
to snap upon the cross bar of the cross bar part.
We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the
manner in which our invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in plan the two edges of the wrist part of a glove secured
together by a fastening constructed according to our invention and Figures 2 and 3
represent the said two edges unconnected Figure 2 representing the turned back or
inner part of one edge of the glove and Figure 3 the outer part of the other edge of
the glove Figure 4 represents in section the two edges of the glove secured together
and Figuro 5 represents in section the two edges of the glove in the act of being
fastened together the said Figure 5 also exhibits a plan of the underside of the cross
bar part.
The Figures are drawn to a large scale for the better exhibiting of the construction
and action of the paris of the fastening.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
Drawing.
a is one edge and is the other edge of the wrist part of the glove. To the
edge a one part of the fastening is secured and to the opposite edge of the glove
the other part of the fastening is secured. The part of the fastening on the inner face
of the edge a consists of a steel plate or frame c (see Figure 2) having at the edge
most distant from the edge a of the glove the small hook d and near the opposito edge
the spring clip or catch e consisting of two spring arms having a contracted mouth
(see the sections Figures 4 and 5). The steel plate or frame c carrying the parts d
and e is connected to the material of the glove without sewing by means of the metal
disc at the front of the edge of the glove being provided on its opposite edges with
ear pieces y g which are partly flattened on the inner face of the disc f.
The free
ends of the partly flattened ear pieces are passed through the piercings represented
in the steel plate or frame c and clinched on the face of the said plate or frame cas
best seen in Figure 2.
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The part of the fastening attached to the outer face of the edge b of the glove
consists of the ring with a bar crossing it as a diameter the said ring having at
that edge nearest the edge of the glove an eye or piercing A.
This part of the fastening is secured to the material of the glove without sewing by
the ear pieces at the edges of the ring being passed through piercings in the

page_text: disc m on the inside of the edge b of the glove and the said ear pieces being clinched
on the face of the said disc m as represented in the plan of Figure 5.
In securing together the edges of the glove by the use of the fastening described
and represented the edge a of the glove carrying the spring clip part e of the fastening
is placed over the cross bar part h, i on the other edge of the glove and the small
hook d engaged with the eye k of the said cross bar part as represented in Figure 5.
The spring clip parte of the fastening is now pressed upon the cross bar part, the
engaged hook d acting as a temporary fulcrum or centre upon which the spring clip
part e turns. The elastic arms of the spring clip e are thereby first separated by the
cross bar and afterwards by their elasticity snap upon or around the said cross bar
and thus securely fasten the two edges of the glove together. To unfasten the glove
it is only necessary to press or pull asunder the two edges a and of the glove when
the spring clip e yielding it is disengaged from the cross bar and the glove
unfastened.
We apply our invention to the fastening of gaiters, loggings, boots, shoes purses,
pouches, and waistcoats and generally as a dress or other fastening in place of buttons
and button holes substantially in the manner herein before described and illustrated
with respect to a glove fastening.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we claim as our
invention;
A new or improved fastening for gloves and articles of dress and other articles
consisting of two parts connected respectively to the two edges of the article to be
fastened one of the said parts consisting of a spring clip near one edge and a hook
near the opposite edge and the other part of a metal ring with a middle cross bar
and an eye or piercing near one edge the two parts being fastened together by
engaging the hook on the clip part with the eye or piercing on the cross bar part
and pressing down the clip part so as to cause its elastic clip to snap upon or around
the cross bar of the cross bar part the several parts of the fastening being constructed
and combined and acting substantially as herein before described and illustrated in
the accompanying Drawing.
Dated this 9th day of April 1890
THOMAS HOOPER.
SAMUEL GEORGE MOORE,