IMPROVE- MENTS IN GLOVE SPRINGS
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Hinks and Thomas Hooper, both of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, for an Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN GLOVE SPRINGS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Hinks and Thomas
Hooper at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th March
1880.
JOHN HINKS and THOMAS HOOPER, both of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVE SPRINGS."
This Invention has for its object to reduce the friction or grinding of the two
arms composing the spring at the head or joint where the arms are connected by a
rivet. With this view we form the washer which secures the rivet in front sunk
or dished at its back, so as to afford space for a grease pad in the form of a ring of
absorbent material well greased, surrounding the rivet and answering as a lubricator
for the joint and spring, and thus reducing the friction, the metal washer at the
back of which it is enclosed being countersunk on its face, so that the head of the
rivet is flush with the face of the washer.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Hinks and Thomas Hooper in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 11th September 1880.
JOHN HINKS and THOMAS HOOPER, both of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVE SPRINGS."
This Invention has for its object to reduce the friction or grinding of the two
arms composing the spring at the head or joint where the arms are connected by
a rivet.
With this view we form the washer which secures the rivet in front' sunk or
dished at its back, so as to afford space for a grease pad in the form of a ring of
absorbent material well greased, and answering as a lubricator for the joint and
spring, and thus reducing the friction, the metal washer at the back of which
it is enclosed being countersunk on its face, so that the head of the rivet is. flush
with the face of the washer.
We will now proceed to describe the Invention more fully by aid of the
accompanying Drawings, in which (Figure 1) represents the front view of the
spring complete; (Figure 2) one of the arms detached; (Figure 3) the corresponding
arm; (Figure 4) a section through all the parts combined; and (Figure 5) front
and inside views of the washer containing the grease pad.
The first three Figures are shewn merely for the purpose of clearly describing
the others, and constitute no part of our Invention, which applies only to the form
of washer and the grease pad, which parts are shewn in position in the section
(Figure 4) at (a) and in separate parts in (Figure 5), in which (a) is the washer
dished or sunk to receive a pad (b) of any suitable absorbent material which
will hold grease, and thus act as a lubricator between the parts forming the head
'of the spring, and to prevent the rivet with which these parts are joined from
projecting on the face of the washer. That face is countersunk at (c) so that the
head of the rivet is flush with the face of the washer.
Having thus described the nature of our said Invention and the manner in
which the same is to be performed,―
We claim the application to glove springs of a grease pad or lubricator in a
suitably formed washer, or in such manner as to reduce the friction and grinding
of the parts of such springs.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Hinks and Thomas Hooper, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Tenth day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
JOHN HINKS.
(L.S.)
THOMAS HOOPER. (L.S.)