IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVES
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Davies, of No. 1, Searle Street, Lincoln's
Inn, in the County of Middlesex, and No. 28, St. Enoch Square, in the
City of Glasgow, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVES." - A communication from abroad by Pierre
Victor Mariotte, of Paris, Glove Manufacturer.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Davies at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 26th
May 1864.
I, GEORGE DAVIES, of No. 1, Serle Street, Lincoln's Inn, in the County
of Middlesex, and No. 28, St. Enoch Square, in the City of Glasgow, Civil
Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVES," (a communication to me from abroad by
Pierre Victor Mariotte, of Paris, Glove Manufacturer,) to be as follows:-
This Invention consists principally in ornamenting gloves (more especially
the cuffs or "gauntlets" thereof) by printing, stamping, or embossing by
means of hot or cold irons (or otherwise) designs, figures, arms, emblems, or
other devices, either in the same color as the glove or of a different color, but
by preference in gold or silver. The printing or embossing of devices in gold
or silver on gloves made from the skins of animals (kid gloves for instance)
is an essential feature of this Invention, and the cuff or gauntlet may be of the

page_text: same shade and kind of skin as the glove or of a different color or kind of
skin, as may be preferred.
Another feature of the Invention consists in destroying the elasticity of the
cuff or gauntlet (or other part of the glove to which the ornament is applied)
by lining it with leather or skin of either the same or different color cut to fit
that part of the glove. Cuffs or gauntlets thus ornamented and stiffened may
be applied equally to gloves made from thread, silk, cloth, or other material,
as well as to gloves made from kid or other skin, and the said cuffs or
gauntlets may be further ornamented (if desired) by stitching or embroidering
with colored silks or by trimming with glass or other beads.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Davies in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th
November 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
DAVIES, of No. 1, Searle Street, Lincoln's Inn, in the County of Middlesex,
and No. 28, St. Enoch Square, in the City of Glasgow, Civil Engineer and
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Davies, Her special license that I, the said George Davies, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Davies, my executors, administrators, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVES," (a
communication to me from abroad by Pierre Victor Mariotte, of Paris, Glove
Manufacturer,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Davies, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my
hand and seal, or under the hand and seal of one of them, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Davies, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement in writing, and on reference to the accompanying Sheet of Drawings,
that is to say:
This Invention consists principally in ornamenting gloves (more especially
the cuffs or "gauntlets" thereof) by printing, stamping, or embossing by
means of hot or cold irons (or otherwise) designs, figures, arms, emblems, or
other devices, either in the same color as the glove or of a different color, but
by preference in gold or silver. The printing or embossing of devices in gold
or silver on gloves made from the skins of animals (kid gloves for instance)
is an essential feature of this Invention, and the cuff or gauntlet may be of the
same shade and kind of skin as the glove or of a different color or kind of
skin, as may be preferred.
Another feature of the Invention consists in destroying the elasticity of the
cuff or gauntlet (or other part of the glove to which the ornament is applied)
by lining it with leather or skin, of either the same or different color, cut to
fit that part of the glove. Cuffs or gauntlets thus ornamented and stiffened
may be applied equally to gloves made from thread, silk, cloth, or other
material, as well as to gloves made from kid or other skin, and the said cuffs
or gauntlets may be further ornamented (if desired) by stitching or em-
broidering with colored silks, or by trimming with glass or other beads.
Such being the nature and object of the said Invention for "Improvements
in Gloves," I will now proceed to describe more in detail the manner in
which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical
effect; and in order that the same may be distinctly understood, I have
annexed hereunto a Sheet of Drawings, illustrative thereof, and have marked
the same with figures and letters of reference corresponding with those
in the following explanation thereof, that is to say:-
Figure 1 in the annexed Drawing represents a glove A provided with a
cuff or gauntlet B, either forming one piece with the said glove or joined
thereto. The cuff or gauntlet B (represented for example as the same shade
as the glove) is lined with a piece of leather, which renders it perfectly rigid,
and is ornamented on its surface with small gilded designs c, c, arranged
symmetrically, and produced or applied as above described. These designs
are in turn surrounded (or not) with a border or edging b obtained by the
same process.
In Figure 2 the cuff or gauntlet B of a rather less depth than that of
Figure 1 may be either made of one single piece or of two parts connected by

page_text: a seam C sewn either by hand or by machine, and may either be ornamented
by stitching or by a trimming of beads, which will increase the effect of the
gold and silver stamping.
In Figure 3 the cuff or gauntlet B¹ is represented as a single piece, and
may be indented or scalloped at the edge to agree with the stamped pattern
which is executed above. In the manufacture of skin gloves the Inventor
wishes to reserve to himself the cutting of the cuff or gauntlet of the same
piece as the glove, at the same time giving it the required dimensions. It
should be well understood that the cuffs or gauntlets may be of a color similar
to that of the gloves to which they are applied, or they may differ therefrom
in a greater or lesser degree.
Figure 4 shows a glove A, the cuff. or gauntlet of which is decorated by
means of a flower E embroidered with silks of various colors in order to imitate
nature as closely as possible. This design, shown by way of example, will give
a suitable idea of this kind of ornamentation, which may also be combined
with the gold or silver stamped designs shown in Figures 1, 2, and 3.
Figure 5 shows how embroidery may be replaced by the adaptation of
beads of various colors grouped in such a manner as to form various designs.
These beads may be combined with one or the other of the preceding
arrangements, that is to say, with the stamped or painted designs or with
embroidered ornaments or flowers.
Having now particularly described the nature and object of the said Inven-
tion for "Improvements in Gloves," together with the manner in which the
same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical effect, I would
remark in conclusion that I claim (as the Invention communicated to me
from abroad by Pierre Victor Mariotte) the application to gloves made from
leather or skin (principally to the cuffs or gauntlets) of ornaments, such as
designs, figures, coats of arms, or emblems of, any kind, produced by hot or
cold stamping, and the application on these ornaments of any colors, or of
gilding, silvering, or embroidery, and lastly, the application to these parts of
the glove of a lining intended to destroy the elasticity thereof.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Davies, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-fifth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
GEORGE DAVIES. (L.S.)