A NEW METHOD OF MAKING EVERY SORT OF GLOVES ON A NEW PRINCIPLE, AND FOR APPLY- ING TO THEM A NEW WAY TO FASTEN THEM, SO AS TO SIT CLOSE AT THE WRIST, AND FOR ALTERING AND APPLYING THE INVENTION TO READY MADE GLOVES OF EVERY DENOMINATION, AND WHICH WOULD BE OF PUBLIC UTILITY
Year: 1784

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, WILLIAM
STABLE, of the Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Glover and Undertaker,
sends greeting.
WHEREAS the said William Stable did, by his Petition, humbly represent
unto His present most Excellent Majesty King George the Third, that he,
the said Petitioner, had, by great application and study, invented "A NEW
METHOD OF MAKING EVERY SORT OF GLOVES ON A NEW PRINCIPLE, AND FOR APPLY-
ING TO THEM A NEW WAY TO FASTEN THEM, SO AS TO SIT CLOSE AT THE WRIST, AND
FOR ALTERING AND APPLYING THE INVENTION TO READY MADE GLOVES OF EVERY
DENOMINATION, AND WHICH WOULD BE OF PUBLIC UTILITY ;" and therefore the said
Petitioner prayed that His said Majesty would be pleased to grant unto him,
the said Petitioner, his exors, adñiors, and assigns, His Royal Letters Patent
under the Great Seal of Great Britain for the sole making and vending
the said Invention within that part of Great Britain called England, His
Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed, for the term of
fourteen years; and His said Majesty being willing to give encouragement to
all arts and inventions that might be for the public good, was graciously
pleased to condescend to the Petitioner's request, and did, therefore, by His
Royal Letters Patent, bearing date at Westminster, the Twenty-seventh day
of September, in the twenty-fourth year of His reign, of His especial grace,
certain knowledge, and mere motion, for Himself, His heirs and successors,
give and grant unto the said William Stable, his exors, admors, and assigns,

page_text: Hisespecial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that the said William
Stable, his exors, adiñiors, and assigns, and every of them, by himself and them-
selves, or by his and their deputy or deputies, servants or agents, or such others
as he, the said William Stable, his exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend his said Invention within that part of His Kingdom of
Great Britain called England, His Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick-
upon-Tweed, in such manner as to him, the said William Stable, his exors,
adiñors, and assigns, or any of them, should in his or their discretion think
meet, and that he, the said William Stable, his exors, admors, and assigns,
should and lawfully might have and enjoy the whole profit, benefit, commodity,
and advantage from time to time coming, growing, accruing, and arising by
reason of the said Invention, for and during the term of years therein men-
tioned, to have, hold, exercise, and enjoy the said licence, powers, privileges,
and advantages therein-before granted or mentioned to be granted unto the
said William Stable, his exors, adñors, and assigns, for and during and unto
the full end and term of fourteen years from the date of the said Letters
Patent next and immediately ensuing, and fully to be compleat and ended,
according to the Statute in such case made and provided; in which said Letters
Patent is contained a provisoe that if the said William Stable should not
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of his said Invention, and in
what manner the same was to be performed, by an instrument in writing
under his hand and seal, and cause the same to be inrolled in His said
Majesty's High Court of Chancery within four calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent, that then the said
Letters Patent, and all liberties and advantages whatsoever thereby granted,
should utterly cease, determine, and become void, anything therein-before con-
tained to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding, as in and by the
said Letters Patent, reference being thereunto had, may more fully and at
large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said provisoe, he, the said
William Stable, doth hereby describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as follows, that is
to say:-
Fig. 1, a glove with the new-invented fast top to fit the wrist when closed, with
a strap, hook, and lock. 2d, a ditto, with a short strap, hook, and eye. 3d, a
ditto, with a strap, hoop, loop, and lock or eye. 4th, a ditto, with the elastick
springs, Fig. 13, introduced in the top at A, so as to sit close when on... 5, a

page_text: common made glove, with the elastic springs, Fig. 13, introduced in the top
at B, B. 6, the new-invented top. 7, the linen or other materials pasted on
and sewed to the new-invented top, to keep it from stretching. 8, the gusset-
to be sewed to the new-invented top. 9, the strap. 10, the lock. 11, the
loop. 12, the hook. 13, the elastick springs. 14, an elastick spring, with a
short strap at each end. 15, a short ditto with ditto. 16, an eye. I have
delineated five Figures, with different Inventions applied, which I find to be
the most useful, and so much superior to gloves made in the common way, or
from the exploded method of using a button and loop to close them at the
wrist, that it is needless to enter very minutely into the utility of the Inven-
tion; but in order to comply with the terms of my Patent, and to prevent as
far as possible others from pirating my Invention, I shall describe it as clear
and as explicit as possible.
Fig. 6, the top is sew'd to the glove as usual, and Fig. 8, the gusset,
is sewed to the top at C and D. Fig. 9, the strap is sew'd to one side
of the top, and Fig. 12, the hook is sew'd to the strap as delineated. Fig. 10
or Fig. 16, the lock or eye is sew'd to the top, and has one, two, three,
or more holes in it to admit the hook to fasten the strap when drawn tight.
Fig. 11, the loop is sewed to the opposite side to which the strap is sew'd; the
strap when drawn tight slides through the loop, and the hook fastens it by
being placed in the hole in the lock or eye. Fig. 13, the elastick spring must
be sewed in the inside of the top at A in Figure 4, or in any other part of
the top at pleasure; the short straps of Figure 14 and Figure 15 must be
sewed to the tops at C and D, which will close the tops tight round the wrist,
for which purpose one or both of them may be used, and they may be made
any length at pleasure, or as experience may direct. I also fasten the top by
means of elastick gum, or any other elastick materials, and also by a hook
sew'd at C, and a short strap with an eylet hole worked in it, to receive the
hoop sewed at D. In short, there are various ways I have put in practice to
make gloves sit tight at the top, all of which I claim, as they have never
before been put in practice to my knowledge and belief. Any of the annexed
Figures may be applied to women's long gloves, mits, and mufs, at the wrist or
top, or at both, and I make the different figures of metal, leather, silk, linen,
cotton, woollen, or any other materials, and I apply any number of each figures.
as fancy directs; and I make them of different sizes and dimensions. Sometimes
I sew an hook in the top at C, and make an eyelet hole in the other side of
the top at D; but upon the whole I find no method so convenient as that
described in Figure 3, since by drawing the end of the strap it slides through
the loop, fastens the top tight, and keep it so by means of the hook being put

page_text: in a hole in the lock. I also sew a button to the strap, and make a button-
hole in the top, and so fasten them; or I sew a button on the top and make a
button-hole in the strap, and fasten the top that way. I make the straps of rib-
bon, ferret, galloon, leather, linen, cotton, silk, hair, or any other manufacture,
and sometimes I place my lock or eye on one side of the outside of the top, and
sometimes on the other, and in various parts of the top, and so I vary the
different methods as fancy directs; and sometimes I apply my Invention to
straight top gloves, or gloves to which no tops are sew'd and turn'd down, and
I apply my Invention to every kind of ready made gloves, which alter and fit
accordingly.
In witness whereof, the said William Stable, hath hereunto set his
hand and seal, this Twenty-sixth day of January, in the Twenty-fifth
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King George the Third, by
the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King, Defender
of the Faith, &c., and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven
hundred and eighty-five.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twenty-sixth day of January,
in the year of our Lord 1785, the aforesaid William Stable came before our
said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according
to the tenor of the Statutes made for that purpose.
Inrolled the Twenty-sixth day of January in the year of our Lord One