IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVE SEWING MACHINES
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Gray, of Friday Street, Cheapside, in the
City of London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVE
SEWING MACHINES." -A communication from abroad by Edmund
Julius Albert Jelstrup, of Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of
Denmark.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Gray at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
12th July 1875.
I, JOHN GRAY, of Friday Street, Cheapside, in the City of London,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN GLOVE SEWING MACHINES," a communication from abroad by Edmund
Julius Albert Jelstrup, of Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark, to
be as follows:-
This Invention consists of an improved method of constructing
certain parts of glove sewing machines, whereby those parts of a glove
which are inside and between the fingers of the glove may be sewn with

page_text: facility, whereas with glove sewing machines as at present constructed
this facility of sewing does not exist.
This pillar is fixed
Inside of the said
The means by which I propose to attain the above object are as
follows:-Instead of employing a horizontal table or platform on which
the work is placed I employ a hollow pillar of such shape and size as to
allow the fingers of a glove to be passed over it.
underneath the needle and in a line therewith.
pillar is placed the shuttle, which is actuated by a spindle, to which is
imparted alternate circular motion by any suitable means, and which
consists of one revolution to the left and the other to the right for every
stitch.
The shuttle is a small hollow cylinder, inside of which is placed a
spool to contain the thread. An aperture and tension holes are provided
on the side of the said cylinder for passing and tightening the thread,
and an indentation is made at the side of the said cylinder so as to form
a catch or hook for taking up the needle thread; the needle enters the
pillar by a small aperture provided for that purpose at the top thereof,
and is situated close against the shuttle.
The manner by which a stitch is made by the abovo arrangement is as
follows: When the needle has reached the bottom of its course the
catch or hook aforesaid comes opposite to it, and takes hold of the needle
thread; the shuttle then makes a revolution to the left, carrying the
said thread round and underneath it, by which operation it will have
been taken over the shuttle thread, so that when the needle rises it will
bring it up with it, and thus form the stitch; the shuttle in the mean-
time makes one revolution to the right, and comes into position again
for taking up the needle thread to form the next stitch, and so on in
succession.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Gray in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
12th January 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
GRAY, of Friday Street, Cheapside, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of July, in the year

page_text: of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John Gray, Her special
licence that I, the said John Gray, my executors, administrators,
5 and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Gray, my exccutors,
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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
GLOVE SEWING MACHINES,' a communication from abroad by Edmund
Julius Albert Jelstrup, of Copenhagen, in the Kingdom of Denmark,
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Gray, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain 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 John Gray, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :—
This Invention consists of an improved method of constructing
certain parts of glove sewing machines, whereby those parts of a glove
which are inside and between the fingers of the glove may be sewn with
facility, whereas with glove sewing machines as at present constructed
this facility of sewing does not exist.
The means by which I propose to attain the above object are as
follows: Instead of employing a horizontal table or platform on which
the work is placed, I employ a hollow pillar of such shape and size as to
allow the fingers of a glove to be passed over it. This pillar is fixed
underneath the needle, and in a line therewith. Inside of the said
pillar is placed the shuttle, which is actuated by a spindle, to which is
imparted alternate circular motion by any suitable means, and which
consists of one revolution to the left, and the other to the right for every
stitch.

page_text: The shuttle is a small hollow cylinder, inside of which is placed a
spool to contain the thread. An aperture and tension holes are provided
on the side of the said cylinder for passing and tightening the thread,
and an indentation is made at the side of the said cylinder so as to form
a catch or hook for taking up the needle thread; the needle enters the
pillar by a small aperture provided for that purpose at the top thereof,
and is situated close against the shuttle.
The manner by which a stitch is made by the above arrangement is as
follows: When the needle has reached the bottom of its course the
catch or hook aforesaid comes opposite to it, and takes hold of the
needlo thread; the shuttle then makes a revolution to the left, carrying
the said thread round and underneath it, by which operation it will have
been taken over the shuttle thread, so that when the needle rises it will
bring it up with it, and thus form the stitch; the shuttle in the mean-
time makes one revolution to the right, and comes into position again
for taking up the needle thread to form the next stitch, and so on in
succession.
And in order to ascertain the means by which this Invention may be
effected reference must be had to the illustrative Sheet of Drawing
accompanying these Presents, and to the numeral figures and letters of
reference marked thercon respectively as follows:
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 is a front view, and Figure 2 a side view of a glove sewing
machine constructed according to this Invention; Figures 3, 4, 5, 6, and
7 are detailed views of the same.
Instead of employing a horizontal table or platform on which the
work is placed, as commonly practised, I employ a hollow pillar A of
such shape and size as to allow the fingers of a glove to be passed over
it. This pillar is fixed underneath the needle B, and in a line there-
with, and is furnished with a door A¹. I prefer placing the pillar in an
inclined position, as shown in Figure 2. Inside of pillar A is placed a
shuttle C, which is actuated by a spindle D, to which is imparted alter-
nate circular motion by any suitable means, such for example, as a
screw E, against which works a roller F, which receives an up-and-down
motion from an arm G actuated by the sewing machine, the object of
which is to give to the spindle D one revolution to the left and one to
the right for every stitch.

page_text: The shuttle, shown full size in plan, elevation, and section in Figures 3,
4, 5, and 6, is constructed as follows:-a is a small hollow cylinder,
inside of which is placed a spool 6 (held by a spring 6') to contain the
thread or other sewing material. An aperture c and tension holes & are
provided on the side of the cylinder a for passing and tightening the
thread, and an indentation 9 is made at the side of the said cylinder so
as to form a catch or hook for taking up the needle thread. A notch is
cut out at h, into which enters the pin or projection % on the spindle D;
the needle enters the pillar by a small aperture provided for that
purpose, and shown in Figure 7, which is a top view of the pillar.
g
The manner in which a stitch may be made by the above arrangement
is as follows:-When the needle B has reached the bottom of its course
the catch or hook g comes opposite to it, and takes hold of the needle
thread; the shuttle C then makes a revolution to the left, carrying the
said thread round and underneath it, by which operation it will have
been taken over the shuttle thread, so that when the needle rises it will
bring it up with it, and thus form the stitch; the shuttle in the mean-
time makes one revolution to the right, and comes into position again
for taking up the needle thread to form the next stitch, and so on in
succession.
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Having now described the nature and object of this Invention for
Improvements in Glove Sewing Machines," as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, and the means by which it may be effected,
I hereby declare this Invention to consist in and I claim, adapting to a
glove sewing machine the pillar A fitted with a revolving shuttle C, and
the manner in which these parts operate in combination with any suitable
prime mover for effecting the object of this Invention, as above described
with reference to the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Gray, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Eleventh day of January in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.