Improvements in Gloves.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 27th Jan., 1893-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gloves.
We, EDWARD SAMUEL EWENS, GEORGE HENRY GOULD, and GEORGE
RICHARD ALLEN of Yeovil in the County of Somerset, Glove Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in lined leather gloves such as are made
for winter wear.
Hitherto such gloves have been lined with various kinds of wadding stitched or
otherwise fastened into the glove so as to line the hand, the fingers, and the
thumb.
Our improvement consists in knitting a glove complete with thumb and fingers
the knitting being made double for the wrist band. Over such a glove we fit a
leather glove sewing it thereto at the part where the knitted wrist band becomes
double.
The knitted wrist band serves to keep on the leather glove without any buttons
or similar fastenings but as a means of further contracting the glove at the wrist
we make in the leather glove a slide enclosing an india rubber band in the manner
which has hitherto been commonly adopted for contracting gloves at the wrist-
band.
Dated this 30th day of April 1899
AYRTON & THOMAS,
Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gloves.
We, EDWARD SAMUEL EWENS, GEORGE HENRY GOULD, and GEORGE
RICHARD ALLEN, of Yeovil, in the County of Somerset, Glove Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in lined leather gloves, such as are made
for winter wear.
Hitherto such gloves have been lined with various kinds of wadding stitched,
or otherwise fastened into the glove, so as to line the hand, the fingers, and
the thumb.
Our improvement consists in knitting a glove complete with thumb and fingers,
the knitting being made double for the wrist band. Over such a glove, we fit a
leather glove, sewing it thereto at the part where the knitted wrist band becomes
double.
The knitted wrist band serves to keep on the leather glove without any buttons
or similar fastenings but as a means of further contracting the glove at the wrist,
we can make in the leather glove a slide enclosing an india rubber band in the
manner which has hitherto been commonly adopted for contracting gloves at the
wrist band.
Upon referring to the annexed sheet of drawings it will be readily seen that our
improvement consists in knitting a glove A, Figure 1, complete with thumb,
fingers, and doubled knitted wrist band B, and in fitting over said glove A the
leather glove C, Figure 2, attaching it thereto by sewing them together at the part
where the knitted wrist band B is double, as represented at Figure 3, the dotted
lines D being the stitches by which the two articles are securely combined,

page_text: In making a lined leather glove by the combination of a complete knitted glove
having a double knitted wrist band, with a leather glove in the manner described,
we are enabled to dispense with the buttons, clasps, steel springs, and like fastenings
that have heretofore been necessary to keep lined gloves upon the hand, as the
elasticity of the double knitted wrist portion of the combination glove is sufficient
for such purpose.
As a means of further contracting the glove at the wrist, we
make in the leather glove, a slide E, formed by doubling over the edge of the
glove, and enclose an india rubber hand in the manner which has hitherto been
adopted for contracting gloves at the wrist.
We are aware that leather gloves have been made with doubled knitted wrist
bands for the purpose of keeping the glove upon the hand, and the arm warm,
but said doubled knitted wrist bands have been made separately with a projecting
undoubled portion with a selvage edge, to which the unlined leather glove has been
attached by sewing; or said wrist bands have been attached to leather gloves lined
in the usual manner by wadded fabric stitched therein but in no case, so far as we
are aware, has a lined leather glove with a contractible or elastic wrist band been
produced by inserting and combining a complete knitted glove having a doubled
wrist band with an "uncut" leather glove in the manner described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The combination of a complete knitted glove having a doubled contractible
or clastic wrist portion with a leather glove in the manner shown, and for the
purpose described.
2. Making a lined leather glove by fitting an unlined leather glove over a
complete knitted glove which has a sufficiently elastic wrist band, and combining
same by sewing the wrist edge of the leather glove through the doubled portion of
the knitted wrist band, as described and shown.
3. The employment of a rubber band, inserted in a slide, formed in the wrist
edge of the leather portion of a glove made up, of a knitted glove, and a leather
glove, in the manner herein set forth.
Dated this 27th day of Tenu 1902
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Messrs. Ewens, Gould, and Allen.