Improve- MENTS IN GLOVES CUT OUT WITH A KNIPE AND ROTARY PRESS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Lewis, of High Cross Street, Leicester, in
the County of Leicestershire, Locksmith, for the Invention of "Improve-
MENTS IN GLOVES CUT OUT WITH A KNIPE AND ROTARY PRESS."
Sealed the 1st February 1856; and dated the 21st August 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Lewis at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st August
1855.
I, GEORGE LEWIS, of High Cross Street; Leicester, in the County of
Leicester, Locksmith, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVES CUT OUT WITH A KNIFE AND ROTARY PRESS " to be
as follows:-
1st, I make a knife of steel to the form required for cutting out the various
materials intended to be made into gloves without forchetts or gussetts between
the fingers.
2nd, I make a frame of wood or iron with two horizontal shafts connected.
with wheel and pinion, the shaft having two driving cams keyed thereon,
driven by the pinion shaft, the rising bed having two antifriction rollers
attached on the top of the bed for the cams to act upon, the beds being lifted
up to the cams by counterbalance weights.
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3rd, the materials intended to be cut are placed on the top of each other,:
then put on a board, & the steel knife placed on the top of the said material>
and placed under the bed of the press, then by turning the handle that is.on:
the pinion shaft, causes the cams to drive'the knife through the material, which!
is afterwards sewn by females into gloves.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Lewis in the Great Seal Patent Office ou the
21st February 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
LEWIS, of High Cross Street, Leicester, in the County of Leicestershire,
Locksmith, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of August, 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 George Lewis, Her special licence that I, the said George Lewis, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Lewis, my executors, administrators, and assignus, 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 GLOVES CUT OUT
WITH A KNIFE AND ROTARY PRESS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said George Lewis, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should parti-
cularly 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 George Lewis, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof:-
First, I make a knife of steel to the form required for cutting out the
various materials intended to be made into gloves without forchetts or gussets
between the fingers.
Second, I make a frame of wood or iron with two horizontal shafts con-
nected with wheel and pinion, the shaft having two driving cams keyed thereon,
driven by the pinion shaft, the rising bed having two antifriction rollers
attached on the top of the bed for the cams to act upon, the beds being
lifted up to the cams by counterbalance weights.
Third, the materials intended to be cut are placed on the top of each
other, then put on a board, and the steel knife placed on the top of the said

page_text: materials and placed under the bed of the press, then by turning the handle
that is on the pinion shaft, causes the cams to drive the knife through the
material, which is afterwards sewn by females into gloves.
Having thus stated the nature of my said Invention, I will proceed more
fully to describe the manner of performing the same.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shows a plan of a knife fixed on a steel plate; Figures 2 and 3
are two end views of a press arranged according to my Invention; and Figure
4 is a front view thereof. The knife, Figure 1, is arranged for cutting out
the materials into such a form as to render forchetts and gussets unnecessary.
The materials to be cut are laid several pieces one on another on a board, the
knife is placed thereon with the cutting edges downwards, and in this condition
the board, materials, and the knife are placed on the lower bed a of the press;
the upper bed or plate b is then caused to descend, by turning the crank
handle c, which is fixed on the shaft or axle d, on which is fixed the pinion e,
which takes into and drives the cog wheel f, which actuates the pinion f', and
gives motion to the spur wheel f" on the shaft or axle g, on which are formed
or fixed cams or tappets h, h, which in their rotation depress the antifriction
wheels i, i, together with the upper bed 6 of the press. The upper bed or
plate 6 of the press is constantly borne upwards by weighted levers j,j, as
shown. k is the fly wheel.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner
of performing the same, I would remark that I am aware that materials
for making gloves have before been cut out by knives somewhat similar to
that shown, but heretofore such materials have, in making up the gloves,
required the use of forchetts and gussets; what I claim is, the arrangement of
a fixed cutter, such as above described, and also the combined arrangement
of press for cutting out materials for glove-making, as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Lewis, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
GEO. LEWIS. (LS.)