AN IMPROVED METHOD OF WORKING BUTTON HOLES IN LEATHER GLOVES
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I JOSEPH WHITBY of the firm Whitby Brothers, of Yeovil in the county of
Somerset, Glove Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention
for "AN IMPROVED METHOD OF WORKING BUTTON HOLES IN LEATHER GLOVES"
to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to an improved method of working button holes in leather
gloves.
For this purpose I employ woven or other silk, woollen, cotton or linen
fabric to bind the edges, such material being sewn to or near thereto in single
stitches or in multiple stitches "felling "or otherwise either along, upon or through
the leather of the glove and either on the outside or on the inside or partly on the
outside and partly on the inside.
In some cases leather may be used in conjunction with a woven fabric binding
for the purpose and secured in a similar or other manner.
When leather alone is employed as the binding, the button hole is composed of
the raw edges by slitting, or stabbing between the rows of stitches.
H. GARDNER,
166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the Applicant.

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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I JOSEPH WHITBY of the firm Whitby Brothers of Yeovil in the county of
Somerset Glove manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of my invention for
AN IMPROVED METHOD OF WORKING BUTTON HOLES IN LEATHER GLOVES and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to an improved method of working button holes in leather
gloves, and the object of it is to make the buttonholes stronger thinner and more
ornamental than usual, and to use sewing machines instead of hand work, wholly
or partly.
For this purpose I employ woven or other fabric, of silk wool cotton linen or
other material, to bind the edges of the button hole, instead of leather, as generally
used hitherto.
In some cases I employ leather, in combination with fabrics described above or
alone, but I attach it to the glove by a new method.
I employ stitches which penetrate the material both of the glove itself and also
of the binding, and I surround the button-hole with a ring or two or more rings of
such stitches. These stitches are most conveniently made by a sewing machine,
but may be made by hand.
I annex drawings of a buttonhole (Fig. 1) made with a binding (a) of linen
cloth sewn to the edges and surrounded with two rings of stitches (b) and of a
button hole (Fig 2) made with a simple backing of leather (c) attached to the
glove by one ring of stitches (d).
These two drawings show the nature of the invention and the method of
carrying it into effect, but other forms and combinations are possible.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
(1) the application of woven or other fabric to the purpose described.
(2) the use of stitches which penetrate the substance of the glove itself, as well
as the binding or backing, whether this be of fabric as described, or of leather, or
of a combination of fabric and leather, or of any other material.

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