Tennis Gloves.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 29th Oct., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Tennis Gloves.
I, CLARENCE CONDÉ OBEAR, of No. 304 North Eighth Street, Saint Louis,
in the State of Missouri and United States of America, Real Estate Broker, do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for A TENNIS GLOVE and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to a glove to be used by lawn tennis players upon the hand
holding the racket; and my invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter
fully described and pointed out in the claims.
Figure I is a perspective view illustrative of my invention, and looking at the
back of the glove.
Figure II is a similar view, looking at the face or palm side of the glove.
Figure III is a diagram, showing a blank for forming the glove.
Figure IV is a detail section of the palm of the glove and its lining.
Tennis players have heretofore experienced great difficulty in holding the racket
firmly, especially when the hand becomes moistened, and the object of my invention
is to provide a means for obviating this difficulty, while the free movement of the
fingers and thumb is not interfered with.
I represents the palm-part of a glove or mitten, which is preferably made
fingerless and its edges joined by straps 2 which pass around the back of the hand
and around the wrist, as shown clearly in Figure I, these straps being preferably
formed integral with one side of the glove and cemented to the other side, as
shown at 3.
4 represents the thumb formed by a portion 5, see Figure III, the edges of
which are cemented together. In Figure III the straps 2 are shown opened out so
as to illustrate the blank as it is first cut out or moulded, and before the ends of
the straps are cemented to the palm portion of the glove or mitten and the edges of
the thumb portion cemented together.
The material of which the glove or mitten is composed is rubber, so as to
provide a surface which will cleave to the racket handle, and to further facilitate
this object the palm of the glove is corrugated, as shown in Figures II and IV
upon its outer surface, and to prevent the use of the glove being affected by the
moisture of the hand, the palm of the glove is lined on its inner surface, as shown
at 6; the lining being composed of some suitable material which will readily absorb
the moisture. For this purpose I prefer to employ some suitable felt as this has
proven to be very satisfactory. This lining also serves to prevent the glove from
slipping on the hand.
A tennis glove or mitten thus formed leaves the player with the free use of his
hand, while obviating the difficulties referred to.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim therein is :-
1. As a new article of manufacture, a rubber tennis glove having its palm lined
with an absorptive material, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
2. As a new article of manufacture, a rubber tennis glove formed with a
corrugated palm and a lining of some suitable absorptive material, substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.

page_text: 3. As a new article of manufacture, a rubber tennis glove having the palm lined
with a suitable felt, whereby the moisture from the hand will be absorbed and the
glove prevented from slipping on the hand, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 19th day of September 1892.
CLARENCE CONDÉ OBEAR,
By Harris & Mills,
23, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents.