IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES PROVISIONALATION
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Hinks and Thomas Hooper and Samuel George
Moore all of Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturers and Co-
partners for an invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Hinks and Thomas
Hooper and Samuel George Moore at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents on the 16th May 1882.
JOHN HINKS and THOMAS HOOPER and SAMUEL GEORGE MOORE all of
Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturers and Copartners
IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES BOOTS AND SHOES CORSETS AND OTHER
ARTICLES OF DRESS
Our invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in fastenings
for gloves boots and shoes corsets and other articles of dress.
Our improvements are especially applicable to glove fastenings and we will
describe them as applied to glove fastenings
In making a fastening according to our invention we form from sheet metal a
foundation plate having near one end two short uprights, the other end being
turned nearly in the form of a semi-circular curve An arm is jointed to the two
uprights. The said arm is slightly bow shaped and its free end is turned under
and down nearly at right angles, the length of the arm being such that when it is
shut down its turned down end rests upon the upper part of the turned up curved
end of the base plate. By pressure upon the arm its turned down end may be
forced to engage under the lower part of the turned up curved end of the base
plate, the bow figure of the arm giving it the required elasticity. The base plate
is sewn by means of holes in it to one edge of the wrist part of the glove the joint
being turned towards the edge of the glove and an eyelet is fixed to the other edge.
In using this fastening, the jointed arm is thrown fully back and passed through
the eyelet. The said arm is then turned until its end rests upon the curved end
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page_text: of the base plate. The two edges of the glove are thereby drawn together and by
now pressing down the said arm its end snaps under the curved end of the base
plate and the glove is fastened. To unfasten the glove, sufficient pressure is applied
underneath the extreme end of the arın to disengage it from the end of the base
plate when it can be withdrawn from the eyelet and the glove thereby unfastened.
The curved end of the base plate may be made with either its convex or its
concave side outwards when it is made with its concave side outwards the arm
only requires to be folded or doubled at its end the turned down extreme end being
in this case unnecessary.
The application of our improvements to fastenings for boots and shoes, corsets,
and other articles of dress differs in no essential respects from their application to
fastenings for gloves as herein before described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Hinks and Thomas Hooper and Samuel George Moore in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 9th November 1882.
JOHN HINKS and THOMAS HOOPER, and SAMUEL GEORGE MOORE all of
Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers and Co-partners.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES BOOTS AND SHOES, CORSETS AND
OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS."
Our Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in fastenings
for gloves, boots and shoes, corsets and other articles of dress.
Our improvements are especially applicable to glove fastenings, and we will
describe them as applied to glove fastenings.
In making a fastening according to our invention, we form from sheet metal a
foundation plate having near one end two short uprights, the other end being
turned nearly in the form of a semi-circular curve. An arm is jointed to the two
uprights. The said arm is slightly bow shaped and its free end is turned under
and down nearly at right angles, the length of the arm being such that when it is
shut down its turned down end rests upon the upper part of the turned up curved
end of the base plate. By pressure upon the arm its turned down end may be
forced to engage under the lower part of the turned up curved end of the base
plate, the bow figure of the arm giving it the required elasticity. The base plate
is sewn by means of holes in it to one edge of the wrist part of the glove, the
joint being turned towards the edge of the glove, and an eyelet is fixed to the
outer edge. In using this fastening, the jointed arm is thrown fully back and
passed through the eyelet. The said arm is then turned until its end rests upon
the curved end of the base plate. The two edges of the glove are thereby drawn
together and by now pressing down the said arm its end snaps under the curved
end of the base plate and the glove is fastened. To unfasten the glove, sufficient

page_text: pressure is applied underneath the extreme end of the arm to disengage it from
the end of the base plate when it can be withdrawn from the eyelet and the glove
thereby unfastened.
The curved end of the base plate may be made with either its convex or its
concave side outwards. When it is made with its concave side outwards, the arm
only requires to be folded or doubled at its end, the turned down extreme end being
in this case unnecessary.
We will now describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the manner
in which our Invention is to be performed.
Figures 1 and 2 represent our improved fastening applied to a glove, Figure 1
representing the glove unfastened and Figure 2 the same fastened; Figure 3
represents a section of the fastened glove and fastening and Figure 4 represents a
section of the unfastened glove and fastening, drawn to a larger scale; Figure 5
represents a side elevation and plan of the fastening closed and Figure 6 represents
a side elevation and plan of the fastening opened, the said Figures 5 and 6 being
drawn to the same scale as Figures 3 and 4.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in Figures 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
and 6.
The fastening is made from sheet metal and consists of two parts, namely of a
foundation or base plate a. and an elastic arm b. The said foundation or base
plate a. is sewn to the edge of the wrist part of the glove on one side of the
division in the said wrist part, and on the other side of the said division an eyelet c.
is fixed. The foundation plate a. is provided near one end with two short uprights
d. d. to which the arm b is jointed at e. and the other end of the said foundation
plate a is turned up nearly into the form of a semi-circular curve f with its convex
side outwards. The jointed arm b is slightly bow shaped so as to make it elastic
and its free end is turned under and down at g. as represented in the Drawing.
When the arm b is shut down, its turned down end g is brought over and made to
rest on the upper part of the turned up curved end f. of the base or foundation
plate a. By then pressing upon the arm b. it is slightly flattened, and its turned
down end g is forced to engage with the lower part of the turned up curved end f
of the foundation plate a as seen in Figure 5, the bow figure of the arm b giving
it the required elasticity for permitting it to engage with the end f
The fastening is used in the following manner. When the glove is unfastened,
the jointed arm bis in the fully thrown back position represented in Figures 1
and 6, and in order to fasten the glove, the turned bark arm bis passed through
the eyelet c.
The said arm b is then raised and turned through a semi-circle into
the position represented in Figure 4 and its end g made to rest upon the upper
The two edges of the glove are
part of the curved end f of the base plate a.
thereby drawn together and by now pressing down the arm b, its end g snaps under
the curved end of the base plate and the glove is fastened as illustrated in
Figures 2 and 3.
In order to unfasten the glove sufficient pressure is applied underneath the
extreme end of the arm b to disengage its turned down end g from the end of the
base plate, when the said arm can be withdrawn from the eyelet c, and the glove
thereby unfastened.
Instead of making the turned down part g of the arm bengage outside the curved
end of the base plate a. the said part g may engage with the inside of the said
curved end f. In this case the lever b is made a little shorter than that represented
in the Drawing.
The turned down part g of the arm b which engages with the turned up curved
end of the base plate may be made separately from the arm and attached thereto.
This modification is represented in side elevation and plan in Figure 7, where the
separate projecting part rivetted to the arm b is marked g². The said part g³ is
concave for engaging with the slightly yielding turned up curved end f of the base
plate a.
Or the fastening may be modified in the manner represented in Figures 8. 9

page_text: and 10, Figure 8 showing the fastening closed, Figure 9 the same opened or turned
back and Figure 10 the same in the act of being closed.
In this modification the concave side of the curved end of the base plate a is
turned outwards and the end of the bow shaped arm bis without the turned down
extreme end. When the arm b is closed upon the foundation plate, the end of its
folded or doubled part i. snaps into or engages with the concave end of the said
foundation plate and fastens the arm as represented in Figure 8.
The application of our improvements to fastenings for boots and shoes, corsets
and other articles of dress differs in no essential respect from their application to
fastenings for gloves as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing.
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.
First. The improvements in fastenings for gloves, boots and shoes, corsets and
other articles herein before described and illustrated in Figures 1. 2. 3. 4. 5 and 6
of the accompanying Drawing; that is to say, the combination of the bow shaped
or elastic jointed arm b having the turned down free end g, with the turned up
curved end of the base or foundation plate a, the said parts being constructed and
acting substantially as described and illustrated.
Secondly. The modification of the fastening herein before described and illustrated
in Figure 7 of the accompanying Drawing.
Thirdly. The modification of the fastening herein before described and illustrated
in Figures S. 9 and 10 of the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof We the said John Hinks, Thomas Hooper and Samuel
George Moore have hereunto set our hands and seals this Seventh day of
November in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty
tura
JOHN HINKS
THOMAS HOOPER.
(L.S.)
(L.S.)
Witness,
WILLIAM THEODORE WALKER
Buckingham Street Works
Birmingham
SAMUEL GEORGE MOORE (L.S.)