IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVE AND OTHER FASTENINGS.
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Elijah Atkins, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVE AND OTHER
FASTENINGS.'
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Sealed the 25th July 1879, and dated the 4th February 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Elijah Atkins at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th February 1879.
ELIJAH ATKINS, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer.
IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVE AND OTHER FASTENINGS."
My Invention has reference principally to glove fastenings, but may also be
applied to the fastening of elastic bands for umbrellas, purses, pocket books, dress
belts, and the like, where the two parts of the fastening are required to be per-
manently secured to the two parts to be connected together.
I will describe my Invention as applied to a glove fastening.
My said Invention consists of the improvements in and additions to solitaires,
preferably of the kind herein after described for the purpose of connecting the said
solitaires to the edges of the glove, and for facilitating and ensuring the proper
fastening of the glove.
I use by preference solitaires of small size of the construction described, repre-
sented, and claimed in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to me on the
19th day of February 1878, No. 686. The solitaires referred to are made in two
parts, one part consisting of a disc like shell or hollow body containing two gripping
plates pressed together by a spring or springs, and also pushers for releasing the
fastening, and the other part of the solitaire consisting of a stem, upon the head of
which the gripping plates close to fasten the two parts together.
For the purpose of connecting the shell or body of the solitaire to the edge of
the glove, I construct the parts in the following way-I make a tubular shank,
having at its base a slightly convex collar or flange. I also make a second collar
pierced at its middle with a hole of the size of the tubular shank, and having
around the said hole a sunken seat. This second pierced collar constitutes the
bottom or covering plate of the shell or body containing the gripping plates and
pushers of the fastening. I make the edge of the said shell or body with ears or
projections for fastening it to the bottom or covering plate. The shell or body part
of the solitaire thus consists of three detached parts, namely of a tubular shank
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page_text: having a collar at its base, a disc like covering plate for the bottom of the shell or
body and the shell or body proper containing the gripping plates and pushers.
In connecting the parts described to the edge of the glove, the tubular shank is
first passed through the glove from the inside thereof, and the covering plate or
bottom of the shell is passed on to the projecting end of the shank, and the said
-end-of-the-shank.expanded into the sunken-seat in the said covering plate. The
sbank is thus.connected to the glove by collars or flanges on opposite sides of the
edge of the glove.
The shell containing the fastening mechanism is next secured to the covering
plate or bottom by closing the ears or projections on its edge, around the edge of
the said covering plate or bottom.
The connection of the shell or. body part of the glove fastening to the glove is
thereby completed.
I secure the stem part of the solitaire or glove fastening to the edge of the glove
in the following manner
I provide the base of the stem part with a tubular shank of about double the
diameter of the stem, and I take a strip of sheet metal having expanded ends
pierced with holes, and I double or fold the said strip at its.middle so as to form
two parallel parts separated from each other to a distance equal to the thickness of
the edge of the glove. The doubled strip being passed onto the edge of the glove
at the place where the stem is to be secured, the tubular shank of the stem is
passed through the holes in the expanded ends of the doubled strip and also
through the glove, and the projecting inner end of the tubular shank is expanded or
rivetted upon the under part of the folded strip. The stem part of the solitaire is
thus connected to the glove, and that edge of the glove to which the stem is
secured is provided with a metallic band, and the said edge thereby made so rigid,
that it cannot fold or double upon itself and interfere with the action of the
solitaire or fastening. When that edge of the glove carrying the shell' or body part
of the solitaire is brought against the opposite edge in the act of fastening the
glove, the convex collar of the shell part slides over or upon the metallic band at
the stem part, and the said shell part thereby passes without obstruction from the
edge of the glove onto the said stem, upon which by pressure it snaps in the
ordinary way and effects the fastening of the glove.
I apply my Invention' to the fastening of the elastic bands of umbrellas, purses;
pocket books, dress belts, and other articles, substantially in the manner described
with respect to the edges of a glove.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Elijah Atkins in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th July
1879.
ELIJAH ATKINS, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVE AND OTHER FASTENINGS."
My Invention has reference principally to glove fastenings, but may also be
applied to the fastening of elastic bands for umbrellas, purses, pocket books, dress
belts, braces, gaiters, leggings, and the like, where the two parts of the fastening are
required to be permanently secured to the two parts to be connected together.
I will describe and illustrate my Invention as applied to a glove fastening.
My said Invention consists of the improvements in and additions to solitaires,
preferably of the kind herein after described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing, for the purpose of connecting the said solitaires to the edges of the glove,
and for facilitating and ensuring the proper fastening of the glove. I use by
preference solitaires of small size of the construction described, represented and
claimed in the Specification of Letters Patent granted to me on the 19th day of
February 1878, No. 686. The solitaires referred to are made in two parts, one
part consisting of a dise like shell or hollow body containing two gripping plates
pressed together by a spring or springs, and also pushers for releasing the fastening,
and the other part of the solitaire consisting of a stem upon the head of which the
gripping plates close to fasten the two parts together.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in front elevation, and Figure 2
in end elevation, a portion of a glove to which a fastening made according to my
Invention is applied, and Figure 3 represents the same view as Figure 2 with the
two parts of the fastening discounected from each other. Figure 4 represents the
fastening in section drawn to a larger scale, the two parts being represented
connected together, and Figure 5 represents the same with the parts disconnected
from one another. Figure 6 represents the two gripping plates of the fastening
detached. Figure 7 represents a plan of underside of the shell part of the fastening
with a portion removed, and exhibits the manner in which the two gripping plates
grip or close upon the head of the stem part. Figure 8 represents a plan of the
underside of the shell part, and Figure 9 represents the shell or body separately.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
Drawing. a is the shell or hollow part of the solitaire containing the two gripping
plates b, c, the said plates crossing and working upon one another. The plate b has
a stud b³ which works in the guide slot c³ in the other plate c. Or both plates may
have guiding studs and slots. 62, c², are the pushers of the said gripping plates
projecting from the edge of the shell part a. The pushers 62, c², are made in one
piece with their respective gripping plates. Each gripping plate b, c, consists of a
nearly semi-elliptical disc, in the straight edge of which is a notch, the two notches
closing upon and gripping the head of the stem part d of the solitaire. The two
half discs or gripping plates b, c, are pressed together by the steel springs f. f. (see
Figure 7) engaging with ears f, f, on the said gripping plates. By separating
the straight edges of the two gripping plates b, c, by the action of the stem d
passing between them or by pressure upon the pushers 62, c², the two springs f, f,
are bowed or expanded, and their elasticity tends to force the straight edges of the
said plates b, c, together.
The back part of the solitaire consists of a central stem d having a head, with
which the notched middle parts of the gripping plates b, c, engage, as best seen in
Figure 7. For the purpose of connecting the shell or body part a of the solitaire
to the edge g of the glove, I construct the parts in the following way--I take the
tubular shank i having at its top the disc or flange k, which disc or flange consti-
tutes the bottom or covering plate of the shell or body d containing the gripping
plates b, c, and pushers 6², c². Having passed the shank & through a hole in the
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page_text: edge g of the glove, the said shank i and its disc or flange are secured to the said
glove by means of the convex pierced collar or flange 1, the said collar or flange
being connected-to-the-bottom-of-the-tubular shank i by the closing or expanding
of the edge of the latter upon the edge of the former, in the manner represented in
Figures 4 and 5. The hollow shank i and the bottom or covering plate % of the
shell part a are thus-connected to the glove. The edge of the shell or body a is
provided with ears or projections a², a² (best seen in Figure 9) for fastening it to
the bottom or covering plate k.The-shell-or-body part a of the solitaire thus
consists of three detached parts, namely, of a tubular shank i having at its top a
disc like covering plate le for forming the bottom of the shell or body a, and the
shell or body a containing the gripping plates and pushers.
In connecting the parts described to the edge g of the glove, the tubular shank i
is first passed through the glove from the outer side thereof, and the under disc or
ring is next passed onto the projecting end of the said shank i, and the said end
of the shank expanded or closed upon the said under disc or ring 1. The shank i
is thus connected to the glove by collars or flanges k, l, on opposite sides of the
edge of the glove. The shell a containing the fastening mechanism is next secured
to the covering plate or bottom k by closing the cars or projections a² on its edge
around the edge of the said covering plate or bottom k. The connection of the
shell or body part of the glove fastening to the glove is thereby completed.
I secure the stem part d of the fastening to the opposite edge h of the glove in a
similar manner.
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This part of my Invention will be understood by referring to Figure 5.
provide the base of the stem d with a disc d², and to the edge of the said disc d²
I connect by a closing operation the edge of the collar or flange m of the tubular
shank n.
The base d² of the stem d having been thus connected to the tubular
shank n, the latter is passed through the hole in the edge h of the glove from the
upper side, and the said tubular shank is fastened in its place by closing the end of
the said shank upon the ring or flange p situated on the underside of the glove, in
the manner described with respect to the tubular shank i of the shell part a of the
fastening. The sbank part d'of the fastening is thereby connected to the edge of
the glove.
By connecting the stem part to the edge of the glove in this way, the said edge
is made so rigid that it cannot fold or double up and interfere with the action of
the fastening.
To fasten the glove, the edge y carrying the shell or body part a is brought over
the opposite edge containing the stein part d, and by pressure upon the said part a
it passes on to the stem d, which stem forces back the gripping plates b, c, and
when the shell part has reached its proper position the said gripping plates b, c,
snap upon the head of the said stem, as illustrated in Figures 1, 2, and 4, and the
two edges of the glove are fastened very securely together. In the act of fastening
the glove the convex under collar or flange of the shell part a slides over or upon
the upper flange part of the stem d, and the shell part passes without obstruc-
tion from the edge of the glove onto the said stem, as before described. By pressure
upon the pushers b², c², the gripping plates b, c, are withdrawn from the head of the
stem d, and the glove is unfastened. The edge of the glove at which the stem part
of the fastening is connected may be provided with a metallic band so as to make
the said edge so rigid that it cannot fold or double upon itself and interfere with
the action of the solitaire.
This arrangement is represented in section and plan in Figure 10, and a part
separately in Figure 11. In this arrangement, 7 is the metallic band at the edge of
the glove. In making and fixing the said band, I take a strip of sheet metal
having expanded ends provided with holes, and I double or fold the said strip
at its middle so as to form two parallel parts separated from each other to a
distance equal to the thickness of the edge of the glove, as represented in
Figure 11. The doubled strip being passed onto the edge of the glove, the
tubular shank n of the stem d is passed through the holes in the expanded ends of

page_text: the doubled strip and also through the glove, and the projecting inner end of the
tubular shank is expanded or rivetted upon the under part of the folded strip, as
represented in the section of Figure 10).
When that edge of the glove carrying the shell or body part of the fastening is
brought against the opposite edge of the glove in the act of fastening the glove, the
convex collar of the shell part slides over or upon the metallic band q at the edge
of the stem part, and the said shell part passes without obstruction from the edge
of the glove onto the stem.
Instead of connecting the body or shell part and stem part of the solitaire to the
opposite edges of the glove in the manner described. and illustrated, the said body
or shell part and stem part may be attached to the free ends of jointed strips of
metal, and the latter sewn or otherwise secured to the opposite edges of the glove.
This arrangement of my Invention is represented in plan and edge view in Figure 12,
where r, s, are the metallic strips jointed together at t. To the free end of the
strip the sten part is connected, and to the free end of the strip s the body or
shell part a is connected. Each of the strips r, s, is jointed at u to facilitate the
fastening and unfastening of the glove.
Although I prefer to use a solitaire having a fastening consisting of two gripping
plates b, c, arranged in the shell part and working as described and illustrated, yet
I do not limit myself to that kind of fastening, as spring fastenings of other kinds,
contained in the shell part and operated by a pusher or pushers to release the
fastening, may be used.
I apply my Invention to the fastening of bands, purses, pocket books, dress belts,
braces, and other articles, substantially in the manner described with respect to a
glove fastening.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I claim as my Invention
of improvements in glove and other fastenings,
The construction and combinations of parts herein before described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawing for connecting the two parts of the fastening
described or other solitaire fastening to the edges of the glove or edges or ends of
other articles, and for facilitating and ensuring the proper fastening of the glove or
other article.
In witness whereof, I, the said Elijah Atkins, have hereunto set my hand
and scal, this Twenty first day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.
Witness,
HENRY SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.
ELIJAH ATKINS. (L.S.)