AN IMPROVED GLOVE FASTENER
Year: 1880

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Nathaniel Thring at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 10th February 1880.
WILLIAM NATHANIEL THRING, of the Firm of Thring, Luffman, and Company, of
Yeovil, in the County of Somerset. "AN IMPROVED GLOVE FASTENER."
My Invention relates to that class of glove fasteners in which two arms pivotted
together at one end are used, the said arms being secured to the material forming
the glove, one arm being on one side and the other arm on the other side of the
ordinary opening provided for facilitating the putting on and taking off of the
glove, and the said Invention is designed to provide means for connecting the free
or upper end of the spring ordinarily used with this class of glove fasteners, and
rivetted to one arm thereof to the disc at the lower or jointed end of the other arm,
or to some convenient part of this arm, the object being to prevent friction and
wear at the point where the spring operates to keep the arms closed.
upon the
In the ordinary fasteners of this class a flat spring is rivetted
face
upper
of one of the arms, its free end extending into the space between the discs, and a
projection is provided upon the lower or jointed end of the other arm, of such a
form that the free end of the spring presses upon it to keep the arms from opening
improperly when they have been closed. It is however found in practice that the
friction between the surface of the spring and that of the projecting portion of the
arm upon which it operates wears away both surfaces, and the consequent alteration
of form causes the spring to have less effect than before, so that the arms are very
liable to open when not required, thus rendering the glove uncomfortable to the
wearer.
In carrying my Invention into practice, instead of arranging the end of the
spring to press upon the said arm, I connect this end of the spring with the disc at
the lower end of this arm by a piece of wire or thin metal formed of a straight piece
with a projection at each end, these projections being at right angles to the straight
piece, but projecting in an opposite direction to each other, that is to say, one
upward and the other downward. These projections form pins or rivets, one of
which fits loosely into an aperture in the end of the spring, and the other into an
aperture in the disc. These pins or rivets are so arranged in the spring and disc
that the power of the former is exerted upon the disc, and consequently upon the
arm through the medium of the said connecting piece, and the only friction that

page_text: occurs is between the small portions of this piece, namely, the pins or rivets, and
the parts of the spring and disc into which they fit. The amount of friction
however between the parts will be so slight that no wearing away of the metal
during the time the glove would remain in use could possibly interfere with the
proper action of the spring.
In some cases, instead of making the connecting piece with projecting studs or
rivets, it may be simply a straight piece of metal, the two ends of which are arranged
to drop into cavities made for them, one in the end of the spring, and the other in
the end of the opposite arm.