A NEW OR IMPROVED GLOVE FASTENING
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Hinks and Thomas Hooper, both of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, and Francis Robert Baker, of
Birmingham aforesaid, Mechanical Engineer, for an Invention of "A NEW
OR IMPROVED GLOVE FASTENING."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Hinks, Thomas
Hooper, and Francis Robert Baker at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents on the 13th December 1881.
JOHN HINKS and THOMAS HOOPER, both of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturers, and FRANCIS ROBERT BAKER, of Birmingham aforesaid,
Mechanical Engineer. "A NEW OR IMPROVED GLOVE FASTENING."
Our Invention consists of a fastening for gloves in which there is no slit or
division at the wrist part, the glove at the wrist part being sufficiently wide to
permit of the introduction of the hand, the glove being secured to the hand by
the wrist part being folded or doubled upon itself so as to contract it at that
part.
By the use of a fastening for the said gloves constructed according to our
Invention, the folded or doubled wrist part of the glove is secured in its folded
state, and the glove thus fastened. The said fastening consists of two plates of
sheet steel or other hard elastic metal or alloy. The said plates are hinged together
at one end, the middle knuckle of one plate engaging between the side knuckles of
the other plate. The said middle knuckle is eccentric to the hinge pin or axis, and
the plate carrying the side knuckles has a middle spring tongue which presses upon
the eccentric knuckle of the other plate. The eccentric middle knuckle and spring
tongue are so arranged with respect to one another that when the two plates are
closed or folded upon one another, and also when they are opened out to their full
extent, the said plates are held in these positions with considerable force.
The fastening is secured to the glove by sewing or otherwise at the wrist part.

page_text: When the fastening is opened to its full extent the hand can be readily intro-
duced into the glove, and afterwards, by pressing one of the plates of the fastening
upon the other, the wrist part of the glove is folded upon itself, its diameter being
thereby contracted and the glove fastened at the wrist, the wrist part of the glove
being maintained in its folded position by the spring action described.
In order to unfasten the glove it is only necessary to raise the upper part of the
fastening, when the wrist part of the glove assumes its full diameter, and the glove
can be readily withdrawn from the hand.
Although we prefer to make our new or improved glove fastening of sheet metal,
as described, yet it may be made of wire instead of sheet metal.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said John Hinks, Thomas Hooper, and Francis Robert Baker in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd June 1882.
JOHN HINKS and THOMAS HOOPER, both of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturers, and FRANCIS ROBERT BAKER, of Birmingham aforesaid,
Mechanical Engineer. "A NEW OR IMPROVED GLOVE FASTENING."
Our Invention consists of a fastening for gloves in which there is no slit or
division at the wrist part, the glove at the wrist part being sufficiently wide to
permit of the introduction of the hand, the glove being secured to the hand by
the wrist part being folded or doubled upon itself so as to contract it at that
part.
By the use of a fastening for the said gloves constructed according to our
Invention, the folded or doubled wrist part of the glove is secured in its folded
state, and the glove thus fastened. The said fastening consists of two plates of
sheet steel or other hard elastic metal or alloy. The said plates are hinged
together at one end, the middle knuckle of one plate engaging between the sido
knuckles of the other plate. The said middle knuckle is eccentric to the hinge
pin or axis, and the plate carrying the side knuckles has a middle spring tongue
which presses upon the eccentric knuckle of the other plate. The eccentric middle
knuckle and spring tongue are so arranged with respect to one another that
when the two plates are closed or folded upon one another, and also when they
are opened out to their full extent, the said plates are held in these positions
with considerable force.
The fastening is secured to the glove by sewing or otherwise at the wrist part.
When the fastening is opened to its full extent the band can be readily intro-
duced into the glove, and afterwards, by pressing one of the plates of the fastening
upon the other, the wrist part of the glove is folded upon itself, its diameter being
thereby contracted and the glove fastened at the wrist, the wrist part of the glove
being maintained in its folded position by the spring action described.

page_text: In order to unfasten the glove it is only necessary to raise the upper part of tho
fastening, when the wrist part of the glove assumes its full diameter, and the glove
can be readily withdrawn from the hand.
We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing
the manner in which our Invention is to be performed.
Figures 1 and 2 represent a divisionless glove to which our new or improved
fastening is applied, Figure 1 exhibiting the glove folded or doubled at the wrist
part, and secured in that position, and Figure 2 exhibiting the glove unfastened
and opened to its full extent at the wrist part; Figure 3 represents a cross section
of the open glove, Figure 2, taken through the wrist part and fastening; Figure 4
represents a side elevation of the fastening in its unfolded condition detached from
the glove; Figure 5 represents a plan of the upper side, and Figure 6 a plan of the
underside of the same; Figure 7 is a section of the same, and Figure 8 is a side
elevation of the fastening in its doubled or folded condition; Figure 9 represents a
thumb plate which may be fixed to one of the plates to facilitate the folding and
unfolding of the fastening.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of
the Drawing.
The glove fastening consists of two metal plates, preferably of thin sheet steel,
marked respectively a and b, the said plates a and b being hinged together at one
end by the joint pin c, the said joint pin being passed through the knuckles at d, d,
on the said plates a, b. The two hinged plates a and b, by turning them upon
their hinge, can be opened out from one another, as illustrated in Figures 4, 5, 6,
and 7, or closed or folded upon one another, as illustrated in Figure 8, the opened
out or folded plates of the fastening being firmly held in either position by the
following parts-On the middle of the plate a is a spring tongue e, which presses
upon the eccentric knuckle or short arm on the other plate b, the said eccentric
knuckle or arm f being made from the middle knuckle of the joint. It will be seen
by an examination of Figures 4, 5, 6, and 7 that the eccentric knuckle or arm fon
the plate b extends beyond the joint at c, d, and when the fastening is opened the
spring tongue e passes over and lies nearly flat upon the upper face of the eccentric
knuckle or arm f, thereby holding the two plates a, b firmly in their opened out
position. When the two plates a, b, are folded upon one another the eccentric
knuckle or arm f presses upon and lifts the spring tongue e, and brings it into a
state of tension, the elasticity of the said spring tongue holding the two plates in
their closed or folded position, as illustrated in Figure 8, where it will be seen that
the extreme end of the spring tongue e, when the plates are folded, bears upon the
extreme end of the eccentric knuckle or arin f.
The wrist of the glove is without a slit or division, and the fastening a, b, is
affixed to the divisionless wrist part h of the glove in the manner seen in Figures
1, 2, and 3. The parts a, b, of the fastening are sewn at their pierced unjointed
ends to a piece of fabric or other flexible foundation i (see Figure 3), and the said
fabric or foundation i, carrying the fastening, is sewn to the inside of the glove at
the wrist part . For the purpose of facilitating the opening and closing of the
fastening a thumb plate g (shown separately in Figure 9) situated outside the glove
is rivetted to the end of the plate 6 of the fastening, but the thumb plate g need not
be used.
When no external thumb plate is employed the end of the plate b is bent in the
manner shown at k, Figures 4 and 7, for the edge of the thumb to pass under in
opening and closing the fastening.
When the fastening is opened to its full extent, as illustrated in Figures 2 and 3,
the wrist part h of the glove assumes its full diameter, and the hand can be readily
passed into the glove. By grasping the external thumb plate g between the thumb
and finger, and lifting it in the direction indicated by the arrow in Figure 3, the
parts a, b, of the fastening may be folded or closed upon one another, thereby
folding the wrist part h of the glove upon itself, as illustrated in Figure 1. The
wrist part of the glove is thereby contracted and the glove fastened at the wrist,

page_text: the wrist part of the glove being held in that position by the spring mechanism
represented. When it is wished to unfasten the glove the thumb plate g is lifted
towards the thumb part of the glove, so as to separate or open out the two
parts a, b, of the fastening, and at the same time unfold the wrist part of the
glove, as seen in Figures 2 and 3. The wrist part of the glove has now its full
diameter, and the glove can be withdrawn from the hand.
Although we prefer to use the eccentric knuckle or arm and spring tongue e
for firmly holding the fastening in its folded and unfolded positions, yet we do not
limit ourselves to the use of these parts, as other equivalent spring arrangements
may be employed.
Having now described the nature of our Invention and the manner in which the
same is to be performed, we wish it to be understood that we claim as our
Invention, the new or improved glove fastening, herein before described and illus-
trated in the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, a glove fastening to be used
with gloves having no slit or division at the wrist part, consisting essentially of
two plates of sheet steel or other hard elastic metal or alloy, the said plates being
hinged together at one end and connected at their other and free ends to the
divisionless wrist part of the glove, the said plates by being turned upon their joint
folding-upon-or-opening out from one another, and being held in those positions, so
that the closing of the fastening effects the folding upon-itself of the wrist part of
the glove and the fastening of the glove at the wrist, and the opening out of the
fastening effects the unfolding of the wrist part of the glove and the unfastening of
the glove at the wrist, substantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, we, the said John Hinks and Thomas Hooper, have
hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twenty seventh day of May, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
Witness,
WILLIAM THEODORE WALKER,
Clerk,
11, Anglesea Street,
Aston,
Birmingham.
JOHN HINKS.
(L.S.)
THOMAS HOOPER. (L.S.)