CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENTS IN GLOVES and
Year: 1884

page_text: I, ALEXANDER HENRY REED, of 90 Cannon Street in the City of London,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of said Invention for. CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN GLOVES 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 an improvement in that class of gloves in which the
body, the thumb, and the fingers, are formed out of one and the same piece of
material, the pattern being formed in such a manner, that when it is folded, it
forms the thumb complete and also the inner sides and the outer sides of all the
fingers, and in the body of the glove, only a single seam is required which rung
from the tip of the first finger to the button opening or hand opening. The
peculiar and novel formation of the glove is pointed out in the following
Specification and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, in which
Fig. 1 represents an inside view of the pattern when spread out flat.
Fig. 2 is an inside view of the glove when finished.
Similar letters indicate corresponding parts.
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In this Drawing the letter A designates the pattern for the glove. The lines
a, b, c, d, and e, f, are the fold lines. The piece B when folded upon itself in the
line a, b forms the thumb, the piece C when folded upon itself, in the line d
forms the inside and the outside of the first finger. The piece D when folded upon
itself in the line e, f, forms the inside and the outside of the little finger, the
piece E forms the inside, and the piece F the outside of the middle finger, and the
piece G forms the inside and the piece H the outside of the fourth finger. The
thumb edge of the pattern is provided with a convex protuberance g, and the
finger edge is provided with a concavity h, and with a gore . When the pattern
is folded in the lines a, b, and e, f, the concavity h of the finger edge lays against
the convex protuberance g, of the thumb edge and the gore i, extends up between
the edge j, of the thumb piece B on one side, and the edges k, l, of the thumb
piece Band of the first finger piece C respectively on the opposite side as shown
in Fig. 2. When the glove is finished, there is but a single seam m in the body of
the glove and this seam extends from the hand opening to the tip of the first

page_text: finger. In order to complete the fingers a piece n is inserted between the first and
second fingers, a piece o between the second and third fingers, and a piece p,
between the third and the little finger, as usually practised in the manufacture of
gloves.
By means of the gore i, the junction between the inside of the thumb and the
body of the glove is strengthened and the danger that the glove will tear at that
place is materially reduced.
In cutting the pattern for the glove from skins, it may be desirable for economy's
sake to cut the gore i, from a separate piece, and to secure the same to the finger
edge of the pattern by stitching or otherwise.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :
1st A glove pattern composed of the thumbpiece B, the finger pieces, C, D, E, F G, H,
the convex protuberance g, on the thumb edge, and the concavity h, and gore i, on
its finger edge, substantially as shown and described.
2nd As a new manufacture, a glove provided with a single seam m which extends
from the tip of the first finger, to the hand opening and which includes the gore i,
the protuberance g, and the concavity h substantially as shown and described.
Dated this 15th day of July 1001