IMPROVE- MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Garnett Taylor, of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in
the County of Leicester, Gentleman, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES."
Sealed the 15th March 1859, and dated the 15th September 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Garnett Taylor
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 15th September 1858.
I, WILLIAM GARNETT TAYLOR, of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the County of
Leicester, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object the making of gloves from leather manu-
factured from rabbit or hare skin, or such like similar skins of small
dimensions and fine surface, in lieu of the leather heretofore used for such
purposes.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Garnett Taylor in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 15th March 1859.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
GARNETT TAYLOR, of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the County of Leicester, Gentle-
man, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said William Garnett Taylor, Her special licence that I, the said William
Garnett Taylor, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said William Garnett Taylor, my 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
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said William Garnett Taylor, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
bands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
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.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Garnett Taylor, 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 thereof, that is to say :-
The object of this Invention is the manufacture of gloves from rabbit or
hare skins, or other skins of small dimensions prepared in the ordinary way of
preparing glove leather, in lieu of using the leather at present adopted for
that purpose, the skins of rabbits or hares possessing a much finer grain
or texture, elasticity, and strength, consequently greater durability, than the
ordinary kind of skin used for making gloves.
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Having now fully described the nature and object of my said Invention of
Improvements in the Manufacture of Gloves," I would remark in conclusion
that what I claim as my Invention is, the use of rabbit or bare skins, and

page_text: other small skins of fine grain or texture, in lieu of the leather now used, for
the purpose herein described and set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Garnett Taylor, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
WILLIAM GARNETT TAYLOR. (L.S.)
Witness,
WILLIAM AUSTIN,
Ironmonger, &c.,
Ashby-de-la-Zouch,
Leicestershire.