CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVE FIXINGS (OR FASTENINGS).
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Pierre Alexandre Dulaurens and Marie Anatole
Laubry, of Paris, in the Empire of France, and of 16, Castle Street,
Holborn (City), London, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
GLOVE FIXINGS (OR FASTENINGS)."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Pierre Alexandre Dulau-
rens and Marie Anatole Laubry at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 20th November 1854.
We, PIERRE ALEXANDRE DULAURENS and MARIE ANATOLE LAUBRY, of Paris,
in the Empire of France, and of. 16, Castle Street, Holborn (City), London,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS
IN GLOVE FIXINGS (OR FASTENINGS)" to be as follows, viz. :—
These improvements relate to a new system of fastenings for the closing or
buttoning of gloves. This system consists of a metallic eyelet, which is
secured to the glove by means of three tongues, which branch from the eyelet.
The middle tongue passes above the leather of the glove, and the two outside
tongues pass under, or on the inside of the glove. The three tongues which
thus clasp the leather of the glove are fastened to it by means of holes-pierced-
in the tongues. The prolongation or projecting part of this fastening forms-
an eyelet or button-hole, into which enters a button, having the shape of an

page_text: inverted cone. This button is rivetted on a convex plate, which is secured to
the glove by means of five holes, which are arranged in a circle on the plate.
These button and eyelet fastenings may be shifted at will, or set at any
distance required, thus allowing to produce a loose or a tight fit, as may
be desired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Pierre Alexandre Dulaurens and Marie-Anatole Laubry in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th May 1855.
"
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE, PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, PIERRE
ALEXANDRE DULAURENS and MARIE ANATOLE LAUBRY, of Paris, in the Empire
of France, and of 16, Castle-Street, Holborn (City), London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four,. in the eighteenth year
of Her-reign, did,.for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
us, the said Pierre Alexandre Dulaurens & Marie Anatole Laubry, Her
special licence that we, the said Pierre Alexandre Dulaurens, & Marie
Anatole Laubry, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
we, the said Pierre Alexandre Dulaurens & Marie Anatole Laubry, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN GLOVE FIXINGS (OR
FASTENINGS)," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Pierre
Alexandre Dülaurens-&-Marie-Anatole-Laubry,-by_an_instrument in writing
under our hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, 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 we, the said Pierre Alexandre Dulaurens & Marie
Anatole Laubry, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
These improvements relate to a new system of fastenings for the closing or

page_text: buttoning of gloves. This system consists of a metallic eyelet, into which
enters a metallic button, having the shape of an inverted cone.
Reference being had to the annexed Sheet of Drawings, Fig. 1 represents
a glove on a hand, and fastened by means of the improved fastening; Fig. 2
represents a horizontal view of the metallic eyelet, and below a side view of
the same; Fig. 3. comprizes a horizontal and a side view of the metallic
button. The same letters of reference indicate similar parts in the several
Figures.
The eyelet is formed of three parts a, b, c, Fig. 2; the two parts a, b, form
a single plate,, from the center of which branches the part c. The eyelet is
secured to the glove by means of the two tongues b, c, whilst the part a
receives the button m into the button-hole e. The two tongues b, c, clasp the
leather of the glove, the middle tongue c being above, and the tongue 6 being.
inside the glove, as shown in Fig. 1; they are then fastened to the leather by
means of holes h, h, h, pierced into the tongues.
The metallic button m, Fig. 3, is composed of a convexe plate p, p, at the
center of which is rivetted an inverted cone m; the button is secured to
the glove by means of holes pierced in the convex plate p, p, and arranged
in form of a circle round the said plate. The button hole e is not perfectly
round, but as it is shewn in Fig. 2; it is rather narrower at the part nearest
the button, in order to prevent the latter from getting out of the hole.
These button and eyelet fastening may be shifted at will, or set at any
distance required, thus allowing to produce a loose or a tight fit, as may be
desired.
Having thus described the nature of our Invention, and the manner in
which the same is or may be carried into effect, what we claim as novel, and
being secured to us by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is,
the method of fastening gloves by means of a metallic eyelet, into which enters
a metallic button, substantially as herein set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Pierre Alexandre Dulaurens and Marie
Anatole Laubry, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fifteenth
day of May, in the year of our Lord 1855.
P. A. DULAURENS. (L.S.)
M. A. LAUBRY..
(L.S.)