IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES, BOOTS AND SHOES, BRACELETS, NECKLETS, GARTERS, PURSES, BAGS AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by George Ball and Charles Ball at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th November 1883.
GEORGE BALL and CHARLES BALL trading as Ball Brothers of Birmingham in
the County of Warwick Manufacturing Jewellers "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS
FOR GLOVES, BOOTS AND SHOES, BRACELETS, NECKLETS, GARTERS, PURSES, BAGS
AND OTHER ARTICLES
"
Our invention consists of a spring snap fastening for gloves, boots and shoes,
bracelets, necklets, garters, purses, bags and other articles the parts of the said
spring snap fastening being constructed and combined substantially as hereinbefore
described
Fastenings constituting our invention are simple in construction very secure
when connected and easily unfastened.
We will describe our invention as applied to a glove fastening to which it is
particularly applicable.
One part of the fastening which is secured to one edge of the glove consists of
a flat tapering bolt the narrow end of which is turned at right angles so as to give
to the bolt a slightly booked end. The said bolt is cut from sheet metal and is
fastened to the edge of the glove by closing the material of the glove upon a neck
or contraction at the wide end of the bolt by means of a narrow metal band or
the bolt may be connected by sewing or otherwise. In attaching the bolt its
hooked end is turned downwards.
The other part of the fastening which is secured to the opposite edge of the
glove consists of an open ended case in which an inclined spring tongue is situated
the said tongue inclining from the bottom of the front end of the case to the top
of the rear end of the case. The free end of the said spring tongue is provided
with a lip or push piece which passes through a cut away part at the rear end of
the case and projects slightly above the said case. Near the free end of the spring
tongue is a slot of a size and shapo suitable for the hooked end of the bolt to
engage with. We make the bottom of the case and the spring tongue from a
single blank or piece of sheet metal the spring tongue being made by doubling or
folding about one half of the blank upon the other half. The open ended case is
connected to the bottom carrying the spring tongue by means of ears at the lower
edges of the case being closed on the underside of the said bottom. The bottom of

page_text: the case is furnished with eyes by which this part of the fastening is secured by
sewing to the glove. Or this part of the fastening may be connected in any
other convenient way.
In fastening the glove the bolt on one edge of the glove is introduced between
the top of the case and the spring tongue on the other edge of the glove. The
spring tongue is thereby depressed and when the hooked end of the bolt comes
opposite the slot in the spring tongue the said slot snaps upon the hooked end of
the bolt and fastens the two edges of the glove together.
To unfasten the glove the projecting lip or push piece is pressed down. The
free end of the spring tongue is thereby depressed and the slot in it disengaged
from the hooked end of the bolt. The two parts of the fastening are thus
disconnected and the two edges of the glove may be separated.
We apply our invention to fastenings for boots and shoes, bracelets, necklets,
garters, purses, bags and other articles substantially in the manner herein before
described with respect to a glove fastening.