IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES."
Year: 1880

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LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Whitby, of Yeovil, in the County of Somerset,
Glove Manufacturer, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR
GLOVES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Whitby at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th April 1880.
JOSEPH WHITBY, of Yeovil, in the County of Somerset, Glove Manufacturer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES."
This Invention consists in fixing upon the one side of the glove a metallic or
other collar, ring, or eyelet, forined with parallel interior sides with a set-off or
wider opening at its front. The other portion fixed upon the other side of the
glove consists of a stud or button containing within it a spring, which projects out
through the sides of the stud, so that when the collar or eyelet is passed over the
stud the spring contracts, and when it comes into the set off or wider portion it
expands and holds the two parts of the article together. The interior sides of the
collar or oyelet being formed parallel, and the stud being made exactly to fit the
eyelet, the parts cannot come asunder unless even pressuro be brought to bear
upon them.
The same result may be obtained by forming the spring upon the outside of the
stud, or by forming a portion of the side of the stud itself as a spring.
Or the stud may be made without a spring, and a spring inserted in the sides
of the eyelet, and made to catch in a groove or necking on the stud.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joseph Whitby in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 26th
October 1880.
JOSEPH WHITBY, of Yeovil, in the County of Somerset, Glove Manufacturer.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES AND SIMILAR ARTICLES."
This Invention consists in fixing upon the one side of the glove a metallic or
other collar, ring, or eyelet formed with parallel interior sides, with a set off or
wider opening at its front. The other portion fixed upon the other side of the
glove consists of a stud or button containing within it a spring, which projects out
through the sides of the stud, so that when the collar or eyelet is passed ovor the
stud the spring contracts, and when it comes into the set off or wider portion it
expands, and holds the two parts of the article together. The interior sides of the
collar or eyelet being formed parallel, and the stud being made exactly to fit the
eyelet, the parts cannot come asunder unless even pressure be brought to bear upon
them.
Referring to the Drawings, Figuro 1 is a section of a collar or eyelet with the
parallel interior sides (a), and the set off or wider portion of the opening (b);
Figure 2 is the cap forming the stud with openings (c) at its side, through which
the bowed portions of the spring (d), Figure 3, project, as shewn at (d), Figuro 7;
Figure 4 is a plate through the holes in which the tongues (e), Figure 2, are
passed to form a back to the cap, Figure 2, and keep the spring, Figure 3, in
position; Figure 5 is a back piece to cover the plate, Figure 4, the neck (f) passing
through the glove materal, and being closed down, as shewn in Figure 7; Figure 6
is a section of a completo collar or eyclet; Figure 7, an clovation of a complete
stud. When the eyelet, Figure 6, is passed over the stud, Figure 7, the springs (d)
catch into the wide portion (b), and the two are held together.
The spring contained in the stud may be a spiral spring with two heads or knobs
projecting out of the side of the stud, instead of the bowedportions (d). The same
result may be obtained by forming the spring upon the outside of the stud, or by
forming a portion of the side of the stud itself as a spring..
Or the stud may be made without a spring, and a spring inserted in the sides of
the eyelet, and made to catch in a groove or necking on the stud.
Having thus described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be carried into effect, I claim, without limiting myself to these
precise details, the several improvements in fastenings for gloves and similar
articles, substantially as herein more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Whitby, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty third day of October, in the year of our Lord One
thousand cight hundred and eighty.