Improvements in Lace-fastenings for Gloves and other Articles.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 1st Feb, 1890-Accepted, 5th Apr, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lace-fastenings for Gloves and other Articles.
We, JULIUS FUHRMANN, and BRUNO TRENCKMANN, Glove Manufacturers, of
Magdeburg, in the Kingdom of Prussia, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows
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This invention relates to an improved method of lacing specially suitable for the
long lacings of ladies' gloves and other articles, such as stays, vests or boots, where it
is desirable for the fastening to be effected in the shortest possible time with one
hand.
In the improved fastening several laces are used and passed in a peculiar manner
through the eyelets, all the laces in the fastening being pulled for tightening at the
same time. A number of laces are employed because it is only possible to mani-
pulate the fastening easily when the number of eyelets through which a single lace is
passed does not exceed a certain limit. In practice, it has been found that the
fastening can be effected and undone without any difficulty when each lace is drawn
through four pairs of eyelets. Hence with 2 laces 8 pairs of eyelets, with 3 laces
12 pairs, and with 4 laces 16 pairs of eyelets, and so on, may be laced
The laces in the improved fastening may be passed through the eyelets in various
ways, but it is always advisable to arrange the laces in such a manner that there are
as few crossings as possible. The laces are covered by strips of thin leather or other
material sewn along the edges of the glove on the inner side near the eyelets, so that
they cannot rub against the arm of the wearer. If the covering be sewn on before-
hand, each lace may be separately threaded by means of a long needle.
The lace-fastenings with more than one lace which are already in use differ from
the present one on account of a separate lace being used for each pair of eyelets; that
is, for 8 pairs of eyelets 8 laces are required, for 12 pairs 12 laces, and for 16 pairs of
eyelets 16 laces, and so on Each lace is simply tied or knotted at one extremity to
the eyelet, passed through the opposite eyelet, and then threaded through an eyelet at
the end of the lacing. With 16 pairs of eyelets and 16 laces there are, therefore, on
each side of the fastening 8 laces, which, on account of their number, easily become
tangled, and, moreover, owing to their bulk and to their position on the inside of the
glove, exercise an unpleasant pressure upon the wearer's arm.
The objections above referred to are completely overcome by the improved
fastening.
As an additional security and to relieve the strain on the laces, a button or
equivalent fastening may be added to the glove.
Dated this 97th dev of Anril 1880
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Lace-fastenings for Gloves and other Articles.
We, JULIUS FUHRMANN, and BRUNO TRENCKMANN, Glove Manufacturers, of
Magdeburg, in the Kingdom of Prussia, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement
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This invention relates to an improved method of lacing specially suitable for the
long lacings of ladies' gloves and other articles, such as stays, vests or boots, where
it is desirable for the fastening to be effected in the shortest possible time with one
hand..

page_text: In the improved fastening several laces are used and passed in a peculiar manner
through the eyelets, all the laces in the fastening being pulled for tightening at the
same time A number of laces are employed, because it is only possible to manipu-
late the fastening easily when the number of eyelets through which a single lace is
passed does not exceed a certain limit. In practice, it has been found that the
fastening can be effected and undone without any difficulty when each lace is drawn
through four pairs of eyelets. Hence with 2 laces, 8 pairs of eyelets, with 3 laces,
12 pairs, and with 4 laces, 16 pairs of eyelets, and so on, may be laced.
The laces in the improved fastening may be passed through the eyelets in various
ways, but it is always advisable to arrange the laces in such a manner that there are
as few crossings as possible. The laces are covered by strips of thin leather or other
material sewn along the edges of the glove on the inner side near the eyelets, so that
they cannot rub against the arm of the wearer. If the covering be sewn on before-
hand, each lace may be separately threaded by means of a long needle.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig 1 is a view shewing the inner side of a
fastening for a glove with 7 pairs of eyelets; Fig 1* being a view of the outer
side of the same fastening when partly open. Figs. 2*, 2° and 2° represent a fastening
with three laces for a glove with 12 pairs of eyelets; each figure shewing the
arrangement of one of the laces on the inner side of the glove. Fig. 2d is an outer
view of the same fastening after the laces have been drawn tight. Figs. 3º, 3º, 3º
and 3d illustrate a fastening with four laces for a glove with 16 pairs of eyelets;
each figure representing the arrangement of one of the laces on the inner side of
the glove. By a pair of eyelets is meant an eyelet on one side of the fastening
together with the corresponding eyelet on the other side of the fastening.
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According to the present invention, the edges of the glove are first of all turned
over and hemmed in the usual way, the eyelets a are thereupon inserted and then,
in the fastening containing 7 pairs of eyelets (Figs. 1 and 1"), the two laces are
drawn through in the following manner :-The lace b, indicated by the dotted line,
is threaded through the eye of a blunt needle and drawn with it from the outside
through the right-hand eyelet of the first pair; it is then passed through the right-
hand and then through the left-hand eyelet of the third pair, then through the
left-hand and right-hand eyelets of the fifth pair, then through the right-hand and left-
hand eyelets of the seventh pair, and finally through the left-hand eyelet of the first
pair. The second lace c is carried through the last-mentioned eyelet, then through
the second pair of eyelets, then through the fourth pair, then through the sixth pair
and finally through-the-right-hand eyelet of the first pair The laces b and c thus pass
through the eyelets without any knotting; their ends, which may be threaded through
one or two slides, such as the spherical slides s shewn in the drawings, being after-
wards knotted together. By pulling both laces at the same time, the edges of the
glove may be caused to meet, whereupon the slide or slides 18 or are shipped up to
the first pair of eyelets; the fastening being thus secured.
In the fastening with three laces f, g, h (Figs. 2ª, 2, 2° and 2d), the first lace fis
passed through the right-hand eyelet of the first pair of eyelets, then through the
fourth, tenth, twelfth and seventh pairs of eyelets, and finally once again through the
right-hand eyelet of the first pair. The lace is passed through the left-hand eyelet
of the first pair, then through the second, eighth, eleventh and sixth pairs of eyelets,
and finally once more through the left-hand eyelet of the first pair. The third lace h
passes through the right-hand eyelet of the first pair of eyelets, then through the
third, ninth and fifth pairs of eyelets, and finally through the left-hand eyelet of the
first pair.
Figs. 3, 3, 3 and 3d illustrate the arrangement of the laces in a fastening with
16 pairs of eyelets. The lace i is passed through the right-hand eyelet of the first
pair of eyelets, then through the eighth, sixteenth and twelfth pairs of eyelets, and
finally through the left-hand eyelet of the first pair. The second lace k is threaded
through the left-hand, eyelet of the first pair, then through the seventh, fifteenth,
eleventh and fifth pairs of eyelets, and lastly again through the left-hand eyelet of the
first pair. The third lace is passed through the right-hand eyelet of the first pair,

page_text: then through the fourth, tenth, fourteenth, ninth and third pairs of eyelets, and
finally through the left-hand eyelet of the first pair. The fourth lace m is passed
through the right-hand eyelet of the first pair, then through the sixth, thirteenth and
second pairs of eyelets, and lastly through the left-hand eyelet of the first pair.
The lace-fastenings with more then one lace which are already in use differ from
the present one on account of a separate lace being used for each pair of eyelets ;
that is, for 8 pairs of eyelets 8 laces are required, for 12 pairs 12 laces, and for
16 pairs of eyelets 16 laces, and so on. Each lace is simply tied or knotted at one
extremity to the eyelet, passed through the opposite eyelet, and then threaded
through an eyelet at the end of the lacing. With 16 pairs of eyelets and 16 laces
there are, therefore, on each side of the fastening 8 laces, which, on account of
their number, easily become tangled, and, moreover, owing to their bulk and to their
position on the inside of the glove, exercise an unpleasant pressure upon the wearer's
arm.
The objections above referred to are completely overcome by the improved
fastening.
As an additional security and to relieve the strain on the laces, an eyelet d and
button e or equivalent fastening may be added to the glove.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we claim :-
1. The improved lace-fastening for gloves and other articles arranged and operated
substantially as set forth.
2. The improved lace-fastening for gloves and other articles, comprising two,
three or more doubled laces, the central part of each lace passing freely through a
pair of eyelets more or less removed from the first pair of eyelets, each of the ends
of the lace being threaded through a pair or pairs of the remaining eyelets and
through either of the eyelets in the first pair, without being fastened to any of the
eyelets.
Dated this 1st day of February 1890.
G. G. M. HARDINGHAM,
191, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicants.