IMPROVEMENTS IN AND ADDITIONS TO GLOVES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Timothy Bevington, of the Firm Dent, Allcroft, and
Company, of 97, Wood Street, in the City of London, Glove Manufacturers, for
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND ADDITIONS TO GLOVES."
Sealed the 30th September 1876, and dated the 7th April 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Timothy Bevington at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th April 1876.
TIMOTHY BEVINGTON, of the Firm Dent, Allcroft, and Company, of 97, Wood
Street, in the City of London, Glove Manufacturers. "IMPROVEMENTS IN AND
ADDITIONS TO GLOVES."
This Invention relates to improvements in and additions to gloves, and consists in
so arranging the sides and the top of the slit of a glove that a spring can be secured
within the turnover or overlap or within the sides and top, and a separate strip
of material sewn or otherwise secured upon the inner or the outer face of the palm
and wrist portion.
The spring I prefer to use is composed of steel wire bent into a coil at about the
centre of its length, and having its two ends bent into a loop form for the attach-
ment to the glove without causing abrasion. The two legs or ends of the wire by
the arrangement of the coil spring one over the other, and when fitted in a glove
take either side of the slit over or upon the other and thereby serve as a fastening
or means of keeping the slit portions in contact with the hand of the wearer.
By my Invention:-
1. The usual buttons are dispensed with at the wrist.
2. The fit is in proportion to the size of the person's wrist, and the gap at the
slit is always closed when the glove is in wear.
3. The wrist portion springs naturally into position on the glove being pulled
on to the hand and the glove can be easily removed, there being no fastenings
requiring the use of the fingers of the other hand.
The spring may in some cases be of round or of flat steel bent into horse shoe
form, and tempered with long ends holed for the attachment of the wrist portion
of the glove.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Timothy Bevington in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th October
1876.
TIMOTHY BEVINGTON, of the Firm Dent, Allcroft, and Company, of 97, Wood
Street, in the City of London, Glove Manufacturers.
ADDITIONS TO GLOVES.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN AND
This Invention relates to improvements in and additions to gloves, and consists
in so arranging the sides and the top of the slit of a glove that a spring can be
secured within the turnover or overlap or within the sides and top, and a separate
strip of material sewn or otherwise secured upon the inner or the outer face of the
palm and wrist portion.
The spring I prefer to use is composed of steel wire bent into a coil at about the
centre of its length, and having its two ends bent into a loop form for the attach-
ment to the glove without causing abrasion. The two legs or ends of the wire by
the arrangement of the coil spring one over the other, and when fitted in a glove
take either side of the slit over or upon the other, and thereby serve as a fastening
or means of keeping the slit portions in contact with the hand of the wearer.
The spring may in some cases be of round or of flat steel bent into horse-shoe
form, and tempered with long ends holed for the attachment of the wrist portion of
the glove.
My Invention is clearly represented in the accompanying Drawings, in which
Figure 1 shows a glove with a steel wire bent into a coil a at top, and with one
leg overlapping the other leg c by the tension or "rett" of the coil for the purpose
of maintaining one side of the glove wrist over or upon the other side, as before
explained, and as it would be when the glove is upon the hand of the wearer.
Figure 2 shows the same glove with the legs b and c sprung open, as they would
be by the wearer when in the act of putting on or taking off the glove. The two
legs of the wire terminate in eyes or loops d, d, for their easy fixation by sewing
or otherwise within the folds of the edges of the gap portions in the palm, or within
leather or other strips in which the wires can be arranged, and then the leather
could be sewn on to the inside of that portion of the glove, or as found convenient.
It will be understood that the coiled portion is also enclosed in the overlap or in
the leather, as the case may be.
Figure 3 represents a modified shape of steel wire bent and "sett" or tempered
into horse-shoe form at the top in lieu of being coiled, and with the bottom of the
legs b, c, flattened and holed for the attachment to the glove or a leather, as before
explained. The "sett" of this pattern may be that one leg should overlap the
other, as in the previously described pattern, or be as shown (Figure 3), by which
the two edges of the gap portions of the glove may meet only as might be desired,
or the top of this pattern may be formed into a ring shape, as is shown in Figure 4,
whose legs may be turned at the bottom like the legs shown in Figures 1 and 2.
Figure 5 represents another modification of my improved attachments to gloves
for the purpose of closing the gap of the palm and wrist portions thereof. In this
arrangement the two legs b, c, are cut or stamped from strip or sheet metal, the two
legs being united like a hinge at the top e where one of them is toothed to take into
a hollow formed in the edge of a steel strip, which is fastened to the leg b↳ that its
free end may act as a spring to keep the legs b, c, closed, as in Figure 5, or open, as
in Figure 6.
According to this plan the gap in the palm of the glove is opened out for the
hand to be inserted, and is closed after the glove is on by drawing the two legs
towards cach other.
In Figure 7 the head of the spring fis rounded to engage in hollows in the head
of the leg c.
By my Invention :—
1
The usual buttons are disnonced with of the wrich

page_text: 2. The fit is in proportion to the size of the person's wrist, and the gap at the slit
is always closed when the glove is in wear.
3. The wrist portion springs naturally into position on the glove being pulled on
the hand, and the glove can be easily removed.
Having now described the nature of the said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed, I declare that 1 claim―
Firstly. The insertion of a metallic spring within the folds, or for attachment to
a backing or envelope which can be secured to the gap portion of a glove, as herein-
before described.
Secondly. I claim the wire spring shown in Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying
Drawings, as and for the purposes set forth.
Thirdly. I claim the modified form or construction of springs shown in Figures 3,
4, 5, and 7 respectively, and their application to the gap portions of the palms and
wrists of gloves, as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Timothy Bevington, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Seventh day of October, One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-six.
TIMOTHY BEVINGTON. (L.S.)