Year: 1888

page_text: I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.L.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign Patent
Solicitors, & Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6 Bank Street, Manchester, both in the County
of Lancaster, and 323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to bu
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The present invention has for its object a device for fastening gloves and method of
manufacturing the same. The parts forming this fastening device are not (as was
hitherto generally the case) punched out of a sheet of metal, but with the exception
of the holding piece are made of wire.
The invention will be best described by means of the accompanying drawings which
represent the various phases of the manufacture of the fastening device. In these,
Figure 1 shows a sheet of metal 6 out of which two blanks or pieces A, Figure 2,
have been punched.
Figure 2 shows one of these blanks or pieces A as it leaves the punching apparatus.
Figure 3 shows the blank or piece A bent to the proper shape by means of suitably
shaped dies and which form the clasp of the fastener.
Figure 4 shows a piece of wire B of suitable length and thickness, which is
fastened to the glove (when bent into shape) and forms the holding piece for the
clasp.
Figure 5 shows the samne piece of wire B bent double on a mandrel in such a
manner that a loop or eye c is formed at the place where the wire is bent.
Figure 6 shows the same bent wire B after it has been provided in a similar manner
with two loops d d' at its other extremity.
Figures 7 and 8 show respectively the forms given to the wire by further bending
each of its parts in the manner illustrated.

page_text: Figure 9 shows the finished holder, the wire B being flattened except the loops d d'.
Figure 10 represents the glove fastener complete consisting of the clasp as shown
in Figure 3, and of the holding piece B, Figure 9, to which the former is attached by
means of the eyes e e, which engage the projections d d of the clasp.
It will be understood from the foregoing that a springing action is produced by the
holding piece as when the clasp is raised, the loops da tend to draw the clasp back
again to the position shown in Figure 10.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicatedl to
me by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is
1. The method of manufacturing holding pieces for the clasps of glove fasteners
from wire (which were hitherto made by punching them from a sheet of metal), which
consists in bending a piece of wire of suitable length on a mandrel to the shape
substantially as shown and described in reference successively to Figures 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
and 9, so as to obtain the required form.
2. As a new article of manufacture, holding pieces for the clasps of glove fasteners
made of wire (flattened down if desired) in accordance with the method substantially
as herein described and shown on the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of Day 1000.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.