AN IMPROVED GLOVE FASTENER
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alexander Melville Clark, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Patent Agent for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
GLOVE FASTENER" A communication from abroad by Julia Lewine, of New
York City, in the County and State of New York, United States of
America
Sealed the 2nd February 1877, and dated the 28th August 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alexander Melville Clark at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 28th August 1876.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middle-
sex, Patent Agent. AN IMPROVED GLOVE FASTENER."
This Invention relates to a device which when applied to the slit of a glove will
serve to hold the same open or closed, as may be desired.
The Invention consists in the use of a jointed pair of levers carrying a spring,
which, bearing against the end of one of the levels, serves to throw the same off
or against the other lever, as may be required, and to hold it in either position.
This device is applied to a glove, along the slit thereof, and serves to open and close
the glove, and to hold it open and closed.
When this apparatus is confined to a glove by stitching or otherwise applying it
along both sides of the slit it will be easy to close the glove on the wrist by
slightly touching the upper end of one of the levers, as the spring will then snap
the levers together, and it will afterwards be equally easy to open it by slightly
swinging one of the levers aside, when the spring will complete the motion, and
throw the slit open. After a completed motion the spring holds the parts together
or apart, as desired. The use of buttons or other fastenings on gloves is thus
entirely dispensed with.
In heavy winter gloves made of thick material the levers will be made to leave a
space between them when they are closed to accomodate the thickness of material,
whereas for finer gloves they may close nearer together.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Alexander Melville Clark in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th February 1877.
ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of 53, Chancery Lano, in the County of Middlesex,
Patent Agent.
"AN IMPROVED GLOVE FASTENER." A communication from abroad
by Julia Lewine, of New York City, in the County and State of New York,
United States of America.
This Invention relates to a new mechanism which when applied to the slit of
a glove will serve to hold the saine open or closed, as may be desired.
The Invention consists in the use of a jointed pair of levers carrying a spring,
which, bearing against the end of one of the levers, serves to throw the same off
or against the other lever, as may be required, and to hold it in either position.
This device is applied to a glove along the slit thereof, and serves to open and
close the glove, and to hold it open and closed.
Referring to the accompanying Drawing, Figure 1 is a face view of a glove
having the improved fastener inserted within it.
Figures 2 and 3 are face views of the fastener, showing two styles of the same;
Figure 4 is an edge view thereof.
Figure 5 is a face view of another modification of the fastener.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the Figures.
A in the Drawing is a suitable glove or mitten; B is a lever or metal plate
confined within or attached to the glove along one edge a of the slit. C is another
lever or plate applied along the other edge b of the slit The lever B has an enlarge-
ment at its lower end in the angle of the slit, and to this enlargement is pivoted the
lower end of the lever C by a pivot pin d; e is a spring secured to the lever B, and
bearing against the end of the lover C, or vice versa, after the manner of a knife
blade.
When this apparatus is confined to a glove by stitching or otherwise applying it
along both sides of the,slit of a glove, as indicated in Figure 1, it will be easy to
close the glove on the wrist by slightly touching the upper end of one of the levers,
as the spring e will then snap the levers together; and it will afterwards be equally
easy to open it by slightly swinging one of the levels aside, when the spring will
complete the motion and throw the slit open, as in Figure 1. After a completed
motion the spring holds the parts together or apart, as desired The use of buttons
or other fastenings on gloves is thus entirely dispensed with.
In heavy winter gloves made of thick material the levers B, C, will be made to
leave a space between them when they are closed, as indicated by the dotted
position in Figure 2, to accommodate the thickness of material, whereas for finer
gloves they may close nearer together as in Figure 3.
Having described the nature of the said Invention, and the manner of perform-
ing the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,―
First. A glove closer, composed of the two jointed levers B, C, and spring e,
substantially as specified.
Second. A glove provided with the levers B, C, along its slit, and with the
spring e to actuate said levers, substantially as specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Melville Clark, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.