AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR GLOVES
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Theodore Deschamps, Rue de Choiseul, No. 16,
at Paris, Merchant, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED FASTENING
FOR GLOVES."
Sealed the 19th January 1869, and dated the 21st July 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Theodore Deschamps
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 21st July 1868.
I, THEODORE DESCHAMPS, Rue de Choiseul, No. 16, at Paris, Merchant,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
FASTENING FOR GLOVES," to be as follows:-
My improved fastening provides an easy and gradual means of closing
gloves, and consists in the combination of a hook and lace, as hereafter
described.

page_text: I proceed to describe it as applied to an ordinary glove. Upon the
thumb side of the glove at the place where the button hole is usually
formed I attach by sewing or otherwise a plate; this plate has two
apertures, one of which is used for sewing it to the glove, the other
forms an eye or loop to serve instead of a button. hole. On the side of
the glove opposite to the thumb I attach by sewing or otherwise one end
of a lace or tape, the other end of which is carried under the rear end
of a hooked plate which forms the clasp, then up through a slit in this
plate, and down through another slit, coming out again at the rear end of
the plate or clasp, and terminated by a knot or tassel. The knot or
tassel coming out thus underneath the edge of the clasp holds both
in place. The other end of this clasp or plate terminates in a hook to
take into the eye, which serves as a button hole. Gloves furnished with
this arrangement can be unfastened in two manners, either by raising
the plate or clasp and drawing the lace, or by simply releasing the hook
from the eye. The forms and dimensions of the eye and clasp may of
course be greatly varied, and they can be constructed of any common
or precious metal and in any ornamental form. The tape or lace may
be of silk, caoutchouc, or other material. Two or more of these
fastenings may be applied to one glove, as in gloves with two or more
button holes and buttons. These fastenings may be removed from one
glove to another by making the glove with two button holes and putting
on the fastening two buttons, so that the eye and tape instead of being
sewed or rivetted may be fastened to the glove-by buttoning.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said Theodore Deschamps in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 21st January 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THEODORE
DESCHAMPS, Rue de Choiseul, No. 16, at Paris, Merchant, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
3

page_text: give and grant unto me, the said Theodore Deschamps, Her special
licence that I, the said Theodore Deschamps, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Theodore Deschamps,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR GLOVES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Theodore Deschamps, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or
one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascer-
tain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Theodore Deschamps, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings
hereunto annexed, that is to say :-
My improved fastening provides an easy and gradual means of closing
gloves, and consists in the combination of a hook and lace, as hereafter
described and represented in the accompanying Drawings.
I proceed to describe it as applied to an ordinary glove, as shown in
elevation in Figure 1, and in plan in Figure 2. Upon the thumb side
of the glove at the place where the button hole is usually formed I
attach by sewing, rivetting, or by an eyelet or otherwise a plate a; this
plate has two apertures, one of which is used for securing it to the glove,
the other forms an eye or loop a¹ to serve instead of a button hole. On
the side of the glove opposite to the thumb I attach by sewing or
otherwise one end of a lace or tape b, the other end of which is carried
under the rear end of a hooked plate d which forms the clasp, then up
through a slit c in this plate, and down through another slit g, coming
out again at the rear end of the plate or clasp d, and terminated by a
knot or tassel f. The knot or tassel f coming out thus underneath the
edge of the clasp or plate d holds both in place. The other end of this

page_text: clasp or plate d terminate in a hook to take into the eye a, which serves
as a button hole. Gloves furnished with this arrangement can be
unfastened in two manners, either by raising the plate or clasp d and
drawing the lace b, or by simply releasing the hook from the eye. The
forms and dimensions of the eye and clasp may of course be greatly
varied, and they can be constructed of any common or precious metal,
and in any ornamental form. The tape or lace may be of silk, caoutchouc,
or other material. Two or more of these fastenings may be applied to
one glove, as in gloves with two or more button holes and buttons.
These fastenings may be removed from one glove to another by making
gloves with two similar holes and putting in the fastening two buttons,
so that the eye and tape instead of being sewed or rivetted may be
fastened to the other by buttoning.
Figures 3 and 4 represent an edge view and a plan of the eye a, and
Figures 6 and 7, similar views of the plate d and hook detached from
the glove.
Figure 5 represents another form of eye, which may be secured by
passing the cramps or pins x through the glove, and then bending them
upon the inside thereof.
Figures 8 and 9 show a modification of the hook and eye. In this
arrangement the eye is replaced by a button a¹, the head of which
is of such a size as to pass into an aperture and engage itself in the
plate d.
Figures 10 and 11 are detached views of this modification. The
mode of releasing this fastening is analogous to that before described.
The plate d, instead of being formed with a hook, as in Figures 1 and 2,
or with an eye, as in Figures 8 and 9, may be constructed in the manner
indicated in Figure 12. In this case it will be seen that the eye " is
more free to accommodate itself to the movement of the glove, in con-
sequence of the eye or loop " being moveable on the lace or tape b.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,-
First. The combination of the plate with the hook, the lace or tape,
and the eye, arranged as herein-before described in reference to Figures
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 of the annexed Drawings.

page_text: Second. The combination of the button, the lace or tape, and the
plate, arranged as described in reference to Figures 8 and 9 of the
annexed Drawings.
And, third. The combination and arrangement of the fastening
represented in Figure 12, as and for the purpose herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Theodore Deschamps, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fifteenth day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
o Witness,
CH. ARMENGAUD,
Civil Engineer,
23, Boulevart de Strasbourg,
à Paris.
T. DESCHAMPS. (L.S.)