IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OR PRODUCTION OF GLOVES
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Holmes and Joseph Winterton, both of
the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham, Glove Manu-
facturers, for the Invention of “IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OR PRODUCTION OF GLOVES."
Sealed the 29th July 1870, and dated the 5th February 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Holmes and
Joseph Winterton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 5th February 1870.
We, GEORGE ПоLMES and JOSEPH WINTERTON, both of the Town
and County of the Town of Nottingham, Glove Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OR PRODUCTION OF GLOVES," to be as follows :-
1
These improvements consist in manufacturing a purse in or on the
inside of the palm of the glove of a fabric in accordance with the gauge
of the fabric of the glove.
--Upon a frame employed in the manufacture of the fabric of which
gloves are made we make a length of fabric which corresponds with
the length of the fabric of the glovo (more or less) from the welt,

page_text: wristband, or rubber or elastic band which forms the top of the glove to
the lowest point of insertion of the thumb. Such length of fabric being
pressed off the frame we divide it into widths, each the same as the palm
of the glove. We then make a length of fabric to form a pair of gloves,
and while it is upon the needles we run one of the first-mentioned
widths on the needles upon that part of the breadth which is to form
the palm of the glove and clear it, and we continue to manufacture the
fabric until it corresponds with the length required to form a pair of
gloves from the welt, wristband, rubber, or other clastic band which
forms the top of the glove to the juncture of the fingers with the palm
of the glove, the fingers being then made on the same frame, or the
fabric may be transferred to another frame upon which the fingers of
the glove are to be made. Such fabric is then scamed in the usual
manner, the width forming the purse being sewn in with the thumb on
one side thereof, and on the other side of the glove the bottom of the
purse is formed by the part that was run on and cleared as before
mentioned.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Holmes and Joseph Winterton in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 5th August 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
HOLMES and JOSEPH WINTERTON, both of the Town and County of
the Town of Nottingham, Glove Manufacturers, send grecting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of February, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said George Holmes and Joseph Winterton, Her
special licence that we, the said George Holmes and Joseph Winterton,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the
said George Holmes and Joseph Winterton, our executors, adminis-
trators, 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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
THE

page_text: MANUFACTURE OR. PRODUCTION OF GLOVES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said George Holmes; and Joseph Winterton, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our
or their hands. and scals, or under the hand: and. seal of one of us or
them, 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 we, the said George Holmes and Joseph.
Winterton, 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 tho: following: statement, thereof,
reference being made to.the accompanying Drawings, that is. to say :—
These improvements consist in manufacturing a purse in or on the
inside of the palm of a glove, such purse consisting of a fabric in
accordance with the gauge of the fabric of the glove, and, the said purse
is manufactured or produced in manner following
:-
Upon the frame usually employed in, the manufacture of thio-fabric
of which gloves are made we make a length of fabric which corresponds
with the length of the fabric of the glove (more or less) from, the welt,
wristband, or rubber or elastic band which forms the top of the glove
to the lowest point of insertion. of the thumb. Such length-of, fabric
being pressed off the frame we divide it into such widths that each of
them is of the same width as the palm of the glove.. We then make a
corresponding length of fabric to form a pair of gloves, and while such
fabric is upon the needles we run one of the first-mentioned wiḍth, on
tlic needles upon that part of the breadth..which is to. form, the palm
of the glove and clear it, and we continue to manufacture the fabric
until it corresponds.with the length required to: form a pair of gloves.
from the welt, wristband;: rubber, or other.elastic band which forms the.
top_of_the_glove to the juncture of the fingers with the palm of the
glove, the fingers being then made on. the same frame, or the fabric may
be transferred to another frame upon which the fingers of the glove
are to-be made. The fabric is then scamed-in the usual-manner, the
-width-forming-the-purse-being-sewn-in-with-the-thumb.--Such-length--
is then pressed off the frame, and we divide it into such widths that cach
width is of the same width as the palm of the glove. We then make a
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page_text: corresponding length of fabric to form a pair of gloves on one sido
thereof, and on the other side of the glove the bottom of the purso is
formed by the part that was run on and cleared as before mentioned.
Having thus stated the nature of the said Invention, we proceed more
particularly to describe the manner of performing the same, with
reference to the accompanying Drawings.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
There are three several modifications or adaptations of our
improvements.
The first modification consists in manufacturing a purse in or on
the inside of the palm of a glove, the purse consisting of a fabric in
accordance with the gauge of the fabric of the glove, and being
manufactured in manner following :—
Upon the frame usually employed in the manufacture of the fabric
of which gloves are made when the gloves are to have an elastic band
at the wrist we run on the needles employed in such frame a length of
elastic band, and then make a length of fabric which shall correspond
with the length of the fabric of the glove (more or less) from the
welt, wristband, or rubber, or clastic band, which forms the top of the
glove to the lowest point of insertion of the thumb. Such length of
fabric being pressed off the frame we divide it into such widths that
each of them is of the same width as the palm of the glove. One such
width of fabric is shown at Figure 2. The part lettered A represents the
manufactured fabric, and the part lettered B the elastic band which is
run on the needles at the commencement. We then make a corresponding
length of fabric to form a pair of gloves with an clastic band at the
top, and while such fabric is upon the needles we run one of the first-
mentioned widths on the needles upon that part of the breadth which
is to form the palm of the right-hand glove or the left-hand glove, and
then we continue to manufacture the fabric until it shall correspond
with the length required to form a pair of gloves from tho welt, wrist-
band, rubber or other elastic band which forms the top of the glove,
the fingers being then made on the same frame, or the fabric may bc
transferred to another frame upon which the fingers of the glove are
to be manufactured. The fabric is then scamed or sewed or otherwise
united together, the width forming the purse being sewn or stitched
in with one side of the palm and one side of the back of the glove on

page_text: one of its sides, and the other side of the width is sewn or stitched
in with the other side of the palm of the glove and one side of the
thumb, as seen at Figure 1, which Figure represents a glove made as
above described, the dotted lines lettered A, A, at the sides of the Figure
representing the sides of the purse, and the dotted line A at the centre
of the Figure representing the bottom of the purse as formed by the
part that was run on the needles and cleared, as before described. The
other dotted lines are intended to represent the scams at the sides of
the fingers of the glove and the seam of the other side of the thumb.
In this modification one-half of the purse is formed by a piece, as seen
at Figure 2, and the other half of the purse is formed by the palm
of the glove. A purse glove made as above described we designate a
single purse glove.
Our second modification consists in manufacturing a double purse
in or on the inside of a cross thumb glove in manner following:
When the gloves are to have an clastic band at the wrist we run on the
needles of the frame a length of elastic band, as before mentioned, and
we then make a length of fabric twice the length of the purse required,
such length of fabric having a slack course made in it intermediate of its
length. Such fabric being pressed off the frame we divide it into the
widths required. One of such widths is seen at Figure 4. C represents
the fabric; the slack course is represented by the dotted lines D, while
the elastic band is lettered E. We then run on the needles of the
frame an elastic band of sufficient length to form the wristbands of a
pair of gloves, and we also run on the needles the pressed off end of one
of the widths having a slack course, and then we make a length of
fabric corresponding with the length of the purse, and while such fabric
is upon the needles we run the slack course of the width upon that part
of the breadth which is to form the palm of the right-hand glove or the
left-hand glove,
and then we continue to manufacture the fabric
until it corresponds with the length required to form a pair of gloves
from the welt, wristband, rubber or other elastic band which forms the
top of the glove to the juncture of the fingers with the palm of the glove,
the fingers being made on the same frame or transferred to another
frame upon which the fingers of the glove are to be made. Such double.
purse in a cross thumb glove is shown at Figure 3; the dotted lines C, C,
at the sides of the Figure which represent the sides of the purse are
seamed or sewed up independently of the scams of the glove and fingers.

page_text: The lower dotted line C represents the bottom of the purse, being that
part run on the needles at the slack course above described, the
clastic band E forming the top of that side of the purse which is next
to the hand of the wearer.
Our third modification consists in manufacturing a glove having a
single or double purse in or on the inside of the palms of gloves known
as cut-out gloves whether the gloves are cut from a fabric made of silk,.
cotton, thread, wool, or from a fabric made of mixed materials, whether
these materials be stamped or otherwise cut into the shapes required.
A single purse glove is formed by a width of fabric the same as the
fabric of the glove or of a width of another fabric seamed or sewn in or
on the inside of the palm of the glove and forming one side of
the purse and the palm of the glove forming the other side of
the purse. A double pursed glove may be made of a width of fabric
twice the length of the required purse, such width being folded inter-
mediately of its length or otherwise, and seamed or sewed at the sides.
to form the sides of the purse, the folded part forming the bottom of
the purse, and the purse being secured by scaming, sewing, or otherwise
next the palm of the glove or the inside thereof during, the making-up.
of the glove.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same may be performed, we declare that we claim, the
improvements in the manufacture or production of gloves, substantially
as herein-before described.
'
In witness whereof, wc, the said George Holmes and Josephi
Winterton, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Fourth
day of August, in the year of our Lord Oue thousand eight.
hundred and seventy.
GEORGE HOLMES.
(L.s.)
Witness,
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Office,
Nottingham.
JOSEPH WINTERTON. (L.S.)