AN IMPROVED GLOVE, TOGETHER WITH THE MEANS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francis Lycett, of the firm of Dent, Allcroft, and
Company, of Wood Street, in the City of London, Manufacturers, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVED GLOVE, TOGETHER WITH THE MEANS OF
MANUFACTURING THE SAME."-A communication.
Sealed the 18th December 1855, and dated the 2nd July 1855.

page_text: represents a plan of the glove previous to being made up; Figures 2 and 3
shew filling-in pieces for two middle fingers and the centre of the back; and
Figure 4 is the thumb-piece. The manner of making up this glove is by
folding over the piece shewn in Figure 1 at the dotted lines a, b, and c, d;
the sides of the little and fore fingers are next sewn together. The filling-
in pieces are sewn in front to the remaining two fingers, and to the sides of
the back pieces g, h, and the edges i, k, are finally sewn together, and complete
the back and fingers of the glove. The thumb-piece is afterwards inserted,
and the glove presents the back shape, represented in Figure 5.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Francis Lycett in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st
January 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANCIS
LYCETT, of the firm of Dent, Allcroft, and Company, of Wood Street, in the
City of London, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Francis Lycett, Her special licence that I, the said Francis Lycett, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Francis
Lycett, 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 GLOVE,
TOGETHER WITH THE MEANS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME," (communicated to me
by a foreigner residing abroad,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Francis Lycett, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Inven-
tion, 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 Francis Lycett, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,

page_text: to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state-
ment thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed (that is
to say):
My Invention consists of an improved glove, formed in such manner that
there are no side-seams to the hand part, and the method of manufacturing
the same consists in cutting pieces of the material of which the glove is to be
composed in one or other of the sets of forms shewn in the annexed Drawings,
and their uniting the parts of each set of forms together, as presently explained.
Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 shew one set of forms.
Figure 1 represents a plan of the glove previous to being made up; Figures
2 and 3 shew filling-in pieces for two middle fingers and the centre of the
back; and Figure 4 is the thumb-piece. The manner of making up this
glove is by folding over the piece shewn in Figure 1 at the dotted lines a, b,
and c, d; the sides of the little and fore fingers are next sewn together. The
filling-in pieces are sewn in front to the remaining two fingers, and to the
sides of the back pieces g, h, and the edges i, k, are finally sewn together, and
thus the back and fingers of the glove are completed. The thumb-piece is
afterwards inserted, and the glove presents the back shape, represented in
Figure 5. Figures 6, 7, 8, and 9 shew another set of forms for producing my
improved glove, in which there are no side seams to the hand part and only
one seam to each finger and thumb. Figure 6 is a plan of the shape of the
parts for forming the hand piece and the index and little fingers; the back a
may be cut in one piece with the other parts, or may be sewn to them, as
represented in the Figure. Figures 7 and 8 are plans of the two central
finger pieces; Figure 9 is a plan of the thumb-piece. The manner of making
up the glove is to fold over the parts shewn in Figure 6 at the dotted lines
b, c, and d, e, and to stitch or sew the edges f. f, of the back piece to the edges
9,9, of the hand piece, then to fold over the parts, Figures 7, 8, and 9, at the
dotted lines h, h, sew the edges i, i, together, and then sew them to the parts
first described (Figure 6), when the back of the glove will appear, as repre-
sented in the plan, Figure 10, and the front, as shewn at Figure 11. Figure
12 is a plan of another form of hand, index, and little finger piece, which may
be substituted for the parts shewn at Figure 6. The central fingers and
thumb are the same as those shewn at Figures 7, 8, and 9, and when these
pieces are all sewn together they form the glove without any side seams, and
with only one back seam to the hand part, represented at Figure 13.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what

page_text: of an improved glove without side scams to the hand, according to one or
other of the sets of forms herein-before described,. and represented in the
Drawings annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said Francis Lycett, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this First day of January, One thousand eight hundred
and fifty-six.
FRANCIS LYCETT. (L.S.)
FRANCIS LYCETT. (L.S.)