A NEW METHOD OF SEWING GLOVES
Year: 1852

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Ryall Corry and James Barrett Corry,
of Queen Camel, in the County of Somerset, Leather Dressers and
Glovers, for the Invention of "A NEW METHOD OF SEWING GLOVES."
aled the 6th May 1858, and dated the 6th November 1852.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Ryall Corry
and James Barrett Corry at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 6th November 1852.
We, JOHN RYALL CORRY and JAMES BARRETT CORBY, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "A NEW METHOD OF SEWING
GLOVES" to be as follows:-
These improvements consist in rendering gloves made of leather,
woollen, silk, cotton, or other material more durable by the introduc-
tion of elastic protective stitches for sewing the fingers, thumbs, side-
seams, quirks, or any and every other portion of the gloves that may
be required. Machinery may be used, or it may be done by hand. By
the aid of Winter's Glove Sewing Machine (Patent expired) it can be
done in the following manner: to effect a fast holding together of the

page_text: first stitch the two pieces to be united, of whatever material is used,
must be brought together with great precision on the upper or outer
edges; having thus obtained a good fastening in the first stitch, in the
left hand of the sewer is to be held the thread, forming a loop through
which the needle passes, making a half knot or hitch, which throws the
thread longitudinally on the surface of the fabric in use, holding such
stitch together elastically, thereby causing it to wear strong and well till
the materials used are worn out.
When worked by hand, it is effected by the sewer holding the thread
in a semicircle under tho thumb of the left hand, pressing it on the fore
finger, but by this method the stitches will not be produced so true
and regular as by the aid of glove sewing machine before described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Ryall Corry and James Barrett Corry
in the Great Seal Patent Office, on the 6th May 1853.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, wc,
JOHN RYALL CORRY and JAMES BARRETT CORRY, of Queen Camel, in
the County of Somerset, Leather Dressers and Glovers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of November, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-two, in the sixteenth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the said
John Ryall Corry and James Barrett Corry, our executors, administra-
tors, and assigns, or such others as we, the said John Ryall Corry and
James Barrett Corry, our exccutors, 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 the Isle of Man,
an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN SEWING GLOVES," upon the
condition, amongst others, that we, the said John Ryall Corry and James
Barrett Corry, or one of us, by an instrument in writing under our hands
and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us, should particularly

page_text: describe and ascertain the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, 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 John Ryall Corry and James
Barrett Corry, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and contained in and by the following statement thereof
(that is to say):
Our Invention consists in rendering gloves made of leather, woollen,
cotton, silk, or other material more durable by the use and applica-
tion of a new form of stitch for the purpose of sewing and connecting
together some or all of the parts or pieces employed in such manufac-
ture, but more particularly such parts as are subjected to the greatest
strain and wear, as the fingers, the thumbs, side-seams, and quirks ;.
and the description of stitching we propose to employ for effecting this
we call elastic protective stitching, and the difference between this
stitch and that hitherto employed in the manufacture of gloves will be
best understood by the illustrative Drawing hereunto annexed and
following description thereof, reference being had to the numeral
figures and letters of reference marked thereon, as follows:-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1, exhibits a side elevation of a machine for sewing gloves,
and known and distinguished as Winter's Patent Glove Sewing
Machine. Figure 2, is an end elevation of certain parts hereafter
referred to. Figure 3, is a diagram illustrative of the mode of forming
the stitch according to our said Invention. The mode hitherto adopted
by glove makers for sewing gloves has been either to sew the edges of
the material over in the ordinary manner of sewing anything, that is
to say, by passing the thread or cotton through the material, and passing
the thread or cotton over the outer edge, and again passing it through
the material, and so on in regular succession, or in some cases, and for.
the stronger description of gloves, such as are worn by gentlemen, the
sewing has been effected by passing the thread or cotton through the

page_text: material and not over the edges thereof, and known as stitching. Now,
as these modes of sewing gloves are objectionable, as in the event of
the glove being tight for the wearer, the stitches or sewing being rigid,
the material frequently tears away from it, and the object and intention
of our said Invention is to obviate this objection, by forming the stitch-
ing and effecting the sewing operation in the following manner and by
the following means: and supposing the gloves to be sewn in a machine,
we prefer for such purpose the machine exhibited at Figures 1, and 2,
of the Drawing, and known as Winter's Machine. The workwoman or
girl brings the two edges of the material of which the glove is to be
made close together and flush with each other, and pressing her foot
upon the treddle A, opens the jaws of the machine, and inserts the
materials to be sewn; she then removes the pressure from the treddle,
and the pressure of the spring B, closes the jaws, and thereby holds
the materials firmly between them; the upper edges of these jaws are
formed with saw cuts or notches across them, which may be different
distances asunder, but we prefer them when made about thirty-two to
the inch. The workwoman or girl now inserts the needle with its thread
or other sewing material from the back of the machine into one of said
notches, and having made a good fastening in the first stitch, she holds
the thread in her left hand so as to form a loop, and again inserts the
needle through the materials from the back of the machine and through
the loop, by which she forms a half knot or hitch, which extends the
thread longitudinally on the edges to be sewn, and she proceeds in this
manner to form each stitch in succession, said stitches being held
together elastically, the effect of which will be to prevent the materials
tearing away from the sewing, for supposing the strain thereon to be
crosswise thereof, as exhibited at Figure 3, it will appear evident that
the long stitches a, will become shortened, and the short stitches b,
lengthened, and thereby produce elastic stitching. To perform this
description of sewing by hand the workwoman or girl holds the thread in
a semicircle under the thumb of her left hand, and presses the thread
with her fore finger, as exhibited at Figure 4; but by this method the
stitching will not be so regular as when sewn by the machine above
mentioned.

page_text: Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be and may be performed, we declare our
"Invention of Improvements in Sewing Gloves" to consist in, and we
claim, the sewing of gloves by the use of elastic stitching in the manner
herein-before particularly described, set forth, and represented.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Ryall Corry, party hereto,
have hereunto set my hand and seal, the Fourth day of May,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
three.
Witness,
CHA' STOKES,
JOHN RYALL CORRY. (L.S.)
Wilts & Dorset Bank,
Sherborne.