An Improved Glove Holder.
Year: 1892

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Glove Holder.
I RICHARD HENRY MOORE of Great Barrington, in the County of Berkshire
and State of Massachusetts, United States of America, Dry Goods Merchant, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention is designed to dispense with the clumsy and inconvenient expedients
for binding a number of pairs of gloves together by wrapping around them a band
of paper and pinning the same, or by the use of elastic bands, or by tying them
with cord to keep to wrappers and contents in proper order.
Special glove holders of a different character have also been used by merchants
and glove dealers as improvements upon these primitive means for holding small
parcels of gloves together.
The object of my invention is to provide a glove holder which will be exceedingly
simple, durable and economic in its character, and which will likewise be capable of
being expeditiously and conveniently manipulated to display the goods from either end
of the packet as may be desired, and without removing the gloves or unnecessarily
handling them. It is also an object of the invention to construct the glove holder
in such manner that in addition to its being readily manipulated and used to
effectually display the goods, the gloves will not become shop worn no matter how
long they are allowed to remain in the holder as all the gloves will be effectually
protected.
The glove holder consists practically of two independent, disconnected strips of
sufficient length and width to receive the gloves between them and of an independent
opening and self-closing spring clamp or clip capable of being sprung transversely
on and over the binding strips, which it serves to press toward each other and to
give a spring pressure or purchase on the gloves placed in a pile between the
binding strips. The binding strips or splints, as they may be termed may be made
of sheet metal or any other suitable material, and are of arched or curved form in
transverse section, so as to present smooth, transversely-concaved interior surfaces,
which give a firm hold on the gloves without creasing or injuring them, and by
making their exterior surface of corresponding convexed form, the glove holder is
readily handled without injury or inconvenience to the fingers.
The independent clamp or clip is preferably made of spring sheet metal, closed
at its one end to form a spring hinge integral with it, and terminating at its opposite
ends in outwardly turued lips to prevent injury to the exposed edges of the gloves
and to form a handle for manipulating the jaw-shaped clamp or clip, which by its
spring action is self-closing on and across the splints. The clip being independent
admits of either binding strip or splint being moved independently beneath or over
and inside of the clip so as to expose either end of the packet of gloves, which is
very desirable. The independent binding strips and spring jaw clip also serve to
keep the gloves in good condition, and admit of the glove holder being readily
opened for insertion or removal of the gloves, either in single pairs or in packet
form; and furthermore by sliding one of the splints endwise beneath the clip the

page_text: gloves are firmly held in packet form, and may be examinded separately and with
perfect convenience to the purchaser and salesman, without injury to the gloves in
the slightest degree.
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R. H. MOORE,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Glove Holder.
I RICHARD HENRY MOORE, of Great Barrington in the County of Berkshire
and State of Massachusetts, United States of America, Dry Goods Merchant 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 is designed to dispense with the clumsy and inconvenient
expedients for binding a number of pairs of gloves together by wrapping around
them a band of paper and pinning the same, or by the use of elastic bands, or by
tying them with cord to keep the wrappers and contents in proper order.
Special glove holders of a different character have also been used by merchants
and glove dealers as improvements upon these primitive means for holding small
parcels of gloves together. The object of my invention is to provide a glove
holder which will be exceedingly simple, durable and economic in its character,
and which will likewise be capable of being expeditiously and conveniently
manipulated to display the gloves from either end of the packet, as may be desired,
and without removing the gloves or unnecessarily handling them. It is also an
object of the invention to construct the glove holder in such manner that in addition
to its being readily manipulated and used to effectually display the goods, the gloves
will not become shop worn no matter how long they are allowed to remain in the
holder, as all the gloves will be effectually protected.
The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several
parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.
Reference is to be bad to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this
Specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in
both the views.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the glove holder and
Figure 2 is a transverse section of the same.
The glove holder consists practically of two independent, disconnected strips A
of sufficient length and width to receive the gloves between them, and of an
independent opening and self-closing spring clamp or clip B, capable of being
sprung transversely on and over the binding strips, which it serves to press toward
each other and to give a spring pressure or purchase on the gloves C, placed in a
pile between the binding strips. The binding strips or splints, as they may be
termed, may be made of sheet metal or any other suitable material, and are of
arched or curved form in transverse section, so as to present smooth, transversely-
concaved interior surfaces, which give a firm hold on the gloves without creasing or
injuring them, and by making their exterior surface of corresponding convexed
form the glove holder is readily handled without injury or inconvenience to the
fingers.
The independent clamp or clip B, is preferably made of spring sheet metal,
closed at its one end to form a spring hinge integral with it, and terminating at 5
its opposite ends in outwardly turned lips c, to prevent injury to the exposed edges
of the gloves and to form a handle for manipulating the jaw-shaped clamp or clip,
which by its spring action is self-closing on and across the splints A. The clip
being independent admits.of either binding strip or splint being moved independently

page_text: beneath or over and inside of the clip so as to expose either end of the packet of
gloves, which is very desirable. The independent binding strips and spring jaw
clip also serve to keep the gloves in good condition, and admit of the glove holder
being readily opened for insertion or removal of the gloves, either in single pairs
or in packet form; and furthermore, by sliding one of the splints end wise bencath
the clip the gloves are firmly held in packet form, and may be examined separately
and with perfect convenience to the purchaser and salesman, without injury to the
gloves in the slightest degree.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is,
1. A holder for packets of gloves, the same consisting of splints adapted to be
placed face to face, and a clip extending over the splints, the splints being capable
of independent movement beneath the clip, as and for the purpose specified.
2. A holder for gloves, the same consisting of splints having a concaved inner
and a convexed outer surface, the said splints being adapted to be placed one over
the other, and a clip capable of being sprung over the splints, which clip is
removable, and the splints being capable of independent movement beneath the
clip, as and for the purpose set forth.
3. A holder for gloves in packet form, consisting of two independent or detached
splints or clips adapted to receive and hold a packet of gloves between them, and
of an independent spring jaw-like clamp or clip constructed to receive said splints
within or through it and to act with a spring pressure upon the splints with their
contained packet of gloves, and to admit of either splint being moved inde-
pendently through the clip to expose either end of the packet, substantially as
specified.
. In a glove packet holder, substantially as described, the longitudinal detached
strips or splints A, of carved construction transversely, presenting concaved
interiors, in combination with the independent spring jaw-like clip or clamp B, for
operation together and in relation with a packet of gloves in between the splints, as
set forth..
5. A glove packet holder substantially as herein shown and described.
Datcu this Sth day of September 1895.
R. H. MOORE,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.