A GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN THE CON- STRUCTION OF GLOVES OF ALL KINDS, WHEREBY THEY ARE MADE MORE ELASTIC AND DURABLE, AND WILL FIT CLOSER AND NEATER IN ALL RESPECTS THAN ANY NOW IN Use
Year: 1785

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
PAYTON, of Sweeting's Alley, in the Parish of Saint Michael's, Cornhill, and
City of London, Glover, send greeting.
WHEREAS His most Excellent Majesty King George the Third did, by
His Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date
the Thirtieth day of April, in the twenty-fifth year of His reign, give and
grant unto me, the said James Payton, His especial licence that I, the said
James Payton, during the term of years therein expressed, should and law-
ully might use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, my Invention of "A GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN THE CON-
STRUCTION OF GLOVES OF ALL KINDS, WHEREBY THEY ARE MADE MORE ELASTIC AND
DURABLE, AND WILL FIT CLOSER AND NEATER IN ALL RESPECTS THAN ANY NOW IN
Use;" in which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso obliging me,
the said James Payton, under my hand and seal, to cause a particular de-
scription of the nature of my said Invention, and how the same is to be
performed, to be inrolled in His Majesty's High Court of Chancery within
one calendar month after the date of the said recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the same (relation being thereunto had) may more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
James Payton, do hereby declare that my said Invention of a Great Improve-
ment in the Construction of Gloves of all Kinds is described in the manner
following, that is to say:-
My new invented are made on a principle quite different from other gloves,

page_text: being without any kind, of side seam, as is usual in all others, by which means
the gloves are made far more strong and durable. Their further utility ap-
pears, as, when drawn on the hands, they fit with greater ease and neatness
than any other kind. Instead of the seam being on the side, as usual, I make
it, by an art of trying out and cutting the leather, to be in the centre of the
back of the glove in the place where the middle point comes, or I make the
scam to come in either of the other points on the back of the gloves, by which
means it is abundantly stronger than it possible can be in the side, as it is
sewed twice or thrice over. I also make the seam to come in any part of the
back or front of the glove, as is most convenient, which above method I make
in men or women's habit or long gloves or mittons.
I claim all right to any glove made without a side seam, believing, to my
knowledge, there never was any made before.
I also have contrived a new method in which I make, in the centre of the
wrist, even with the palm of the hand, a slit or opening, by which means it
lets the hand in with the greatest ease, which opening is lined with a gusset
or puff in the centre of the top of the glove, which is turned down. At the
under part of the wrist I place a button or buttons, and button hole or holes,
opposite each other, by which means the top, when buttoned, is drawn quite
close, which makes the glove fit with great ease and exactness.
I also have invented a clasp or hasp, or hook or hooks and eyes, which I
sew on each side the opening of the top at the wrist, which opening I make in
the centre, either under or over the wrist, as is most convenient, by which
means the glove closes at the top, and, when fastened, fits the hand with the
greatest neatness.
The above Invention of an opening at the centre of the wrist, either lined
or unlined, with a gusset or puff, I apply to all kinds of ready-made gloves,
either with turned-down tops or straight tops, as also the buttons and button
holes, with the opening at the centre of the wrist, or clasp or hasp, or hook or
hooks and eyes, which I sew on each side the opening of the glove or top of
the glove, at the centre of the wrist.
I claim a right to any kind of fastening to a top which has an opening in
the centre of the wrist, even with the palm of the hand, which is found much
more beneficial than any mode yet invented.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Payton, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of May, One thousand seven
hundred and eighty-five.
JAMES PAYTON. (L.S.)

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBRED, that on the Twenty-eighth day of May, in
the
year above mentioned, the said James Payton 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
mentioned. And also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the
tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of their Majesties
King William and Queen Mary of England, and so forth.
Inrolled the Twenty-eighth day of May, in the year above written.