Improvements in the Manufacture of Gloves.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Mar., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 19th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 25th Jan., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Gloves.
I, HENRY URWICK, of St. Dunstan's, Malvern, Superintending Glove Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :—
In the specification of a former Patent granted to me dated the 26th day of
November 1880 No. 4928, I described making kid and other gloves with the button-
slit in the wristband, and the opening where the thumb piece is to be sewn in, all
as one continuous slit, and with the strip which forms the thumb piece prolonged
to the welt at the extremity of the wristband, and sewn at its side edges to the edges
of the slit.
According to this invention I also employ a combined opening and button-slit but
in place of continuing the strip of material forming the thumb piece to the welt of
the glove I terminate it at a point between the palin end of the button-slit and the
welt, so that in the finished glove the upper part of one side of the button-slit is
the edge of the piece of material forming the thumb piece, whilst the lower part of
this side and the whole of the other side is the edge of the slit in the material
forming the body.
This method of manufacture is very suitable for buttoned gloves and I prefer to
make the junction between the thumb piece and the body at the point where the
first button comes.
By my invention tightness at the ball of the thumb is avoided and the glove is
therefore more easily drawn on and off and keeps in place better when on owing to
the strain from the button being divided between the thumb and glove instead of
coming entirely on the glove and the junction between the ball of thumb and
glove which is the weakest point of an ordinary cut glove is not so in mine owing
to the strain not coming directly on the sewing, and the objectionable feature of the
sewing passing directly across the glove at this point is avoided.
Dated this 29th day of March 1889.
CARPMAEL & Co.,
Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Gloves.
I, HENRY URWICK, of St. Dunstan's, Malvern, Superintending Glove Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what inanner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
In the Specification of a former Patent granted to me dated the 26th day of
November 1880 No. 4928 I described making kid and other gloves with the button-
slit in the wrist band and the opening where the thumb piece is to be sewn in, all
as one continuous slit and with the strip which forms the thumb piece prolonged to
the welt at the extremity of the wrist band, and sewn at its side edges to the edges
of the slit.
According to this invention I also employ a combined opening and button-slit
but in place of continuing the strip of material forming the thumb piece to the welt
of the glove terminate it at a point between the palm end of the button-slit and
the welt, so that in the finished glove the upper part of one side of the button-slit
is the edge of the piece of material forming the thumb piece, whilst the lower part
of this side and the whole of the other side is the edge of the slit in the material
forming the body.

page_text: This method of manufacture is very suitable for buttoned gloves and I prefer to
make the junction between the thumb piece and the body at the point where the
first button comes.
By my invention tightness at the ball of the thumb is avoided and the glove is
therefore more easily drawn on and off and keeps in place better when on owing to
the strain from the button being divided between the thumb and glove instead of
coming entirely on the glove and the junction between the ball of thumb and glove
which is the weakest point of an ordinary cut glove is not so in mine owing to the
strain not coming directly on the sewing, and the objectionable feature of the sewing
passing directly across the glove at this point is avoided.
igure 1 shows the piece of material forming the body of the glove..
Figure 2 shows thumb piece, and
Figure 3 the completed glove.
Figures 4, 5 and 6 show the invention applied to a different cut of thumb,
Figure 4 being the body; Figure 5 the thumb piece and Figure 6 the completed
glove.
In Figure an irregular shaped piece a bed is cut out of the material forming the
body of the glove, and cuts a e and fare also made in it. The thumb piece is cut
in the shape shown at Figure 2 and a slit 21 is made in it. About half of the
side a of the thumb piece is sewn to the edge a bof the body and the edge b' f¹
of the thumb piece is sewn to one side of the slit bf of the body, the other side of the
slit bis sewn to the right hand end of the slit & f1 whilst the left hand edge of the
slit is sewn to the edge bc of the body. The edge a d¹ of the thumb piece is
sewn to the edge ad of the body and the edge c' d' of the thumb piece to the edge cd
of the body. The edges eg and fg of the thumb pieco are. sewn together and the
two sides of the body and the edges of the fingers are also sewn together in the
usual way.
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The finished glove is shewn at Figure 3 the letters upon it being those of
Figure 1.
The above description will also apply to Figures 3, 4 and 5 except that the opening
cut in the body is much smaller consisting only of the triangular piece abc the
portioned of the body forming one half of the thumb.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I would remark that I make no
general claim to making the bodies of gloves with the button-slit in the wristband
and the opening where the thumb piece is to be sewn in as one continuous slit nor do
I make any general claim to making one side of the thumb out of the body of the
glove as shown in Figures 3, 4 and 5 but what I claim is
1. A glove whose body has the button slit in the wrist-band and the opening
where the thumb piece is to be sewn in, all as one continuous slit cut in the
material between the edges of the body of the glove which are sewn together at the
side, and in which the seam between the thumb piece and the body terminates at
one side of the button slit at a point between the palm and the edge of the
wrist-band.
2. A glove whose body has the button slit in the wrist-band and the opening
where the thumb piece is sewn in, all in one continuous slit cut in the material, the
said slit extending from the edge of the wrist-band longitudinally along the glove
body and terminating before reaching the fingers, the seam between the thumb piece
and the body terminating at one side of the button slit at a point between the palm
and the edge of the wrist-band.
3. A glove whose body has the button slit in the wrist-band and the opening
where the thumb piece is sewn in, all in one continuous slit cut in the material,
the upper end of said slit being inclined transversely and terminating before reaching

page_text: the fingers, the opening for the thumb-piece joining the slit in the glove and having
a triangular gore projecting into it, the seam between the thumb piece and the body
terminating at one side of the button slit at a point between the palm and the edge
of the wrist band.
4. Gloves manufactured substantially as described and shown in the drawings.
Datal thin 1 D
1000
HENRY URWICK.