Improvements in or relating to Glove Fasteners.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Dec., 1896-Accepted, 13th Feb., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Glove Fasteners.
I, JULIUS STEINBERGER located and doing business at Nos. 14 and 16 Sutter
Street, in the City and County of San Francisco, State of California, United States of
America, Manufacturer of Gloves, 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 :-
The object of the invention consists in providing a fastening button so constructed
as to permit of being readily secured to or removed from the glove, so that in
case the button is damaged or destroyed another may be quickly inserted in lieu of
the broken or damaged one; also, in so constructing the fastening button that the
same may be adjusted upon the glove so as to permit the wearer thereof to increase
or decrease the wrist measurement of the glove, as required.
In order to fully understand the invention, reference must be had to the accompanying
sheet of drawings, forming a part of this application, wherein
Figure 1 is a top plan view showing a portion of a glove with one of the fastening
buttons secured thereto;
Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view taken on line x-, Figure 1; with the cover
shown, in its raised position in full lines.
Figure 3 is a bottom plan view of the fastening button:
Figure 5 is a cross-sectional view showing the fastening stud (instead of the button)
of the glove, as adjustable ;
Figure 6 is a bottom plan view of the stud; and
Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 1, showing the button as rigidly applied to
the glove.
In the drawings, Figure 1, the letter A is used to indicate the upper or wrist
portion of the glove, A the palm, and B the flap section thereof, to which is attached
or secured an ordinary fastening eyelet, B. To the wrist section, C, of the glove,
is secured the metallic frame plate C', which plate is provided with the elongated
opening a. To this plate C is removably secured the fastening button of the
glove.
This fastening button consists of the circular, or other suitable shaped, base
plate C, which base plate, at its rear portion, is cut away as shown at a so as to
provide an elastic tongue C. To this base plate is connected, by hinge bor
otherwise, the cover or top plate D, which cover corresponds in shape to that of the
base plate C². This cover or top plate is made slightly concavo-convex, and, when
closed, is held firmly down by the pressure of the elastic tongue C3; which tongue
bears or impinges against the lower edge of the cover or top D. This style of spring
for holding the cover or top down is preferred, owing to its simplicity-being
integral with the base plate-although any suitable form of spring may be employed
for this purpose.
The base plate C is provided, near its forward edge, with the upwardly projecting
stud b', which stud is made round in order that the eyelet B' of the flap section, B,
of the glove may fit thereover; the face of the stud being slightly concave in
order that the eyelet may not slip therefrom. From the under face of the base plate
depends the central shank 6, which shank is formed with flattened faces and fits
within the slot a cut through the frame plate C'. This shank is provided with a
screw-threaded socket, d, within which screws the screw-threaded steun d¹ upwardly

page_text: projecting from the disk D', which disk answers as a cover for the unler face of the
frame plate C'.
In order to attach the fastening button to the glove the shank 6 is fitted within
the elongated opening cut in the frame plate and secured in by screwing the
stem d' of the disk D into the shank 6, which draws the base C of the butt on down
firmly upon the upper face of the frame plate C. After the button has been
attached to the glove, it is only necessary, in order to fasten the sections of the
glove, that the cover or top D be raised, position illustrate in Figure 2 of the
drawings, and the eyelet B' be placed over the upwardly projecting stud. The cover
or top D is then closed down upon the flap section of the glove. When thus secured,
it will be impossible to unclasp the glove without first raising the top or cover D
and removing the eyelet from the stud b. By simply unscrewing or loosening the
disk D' the shank may be moved forward or backward, within the elongated
opening a of the frame place C', in order to permit the fastening button to be
adjusted so as to increase or decrease the wrist measurement of the glove.
Inasmuch as the style of fastening button disclosed by Figures 1, 2, and 3 of the
drawings is not only made adjustable, hut also removable, the same, when the glove
has become worn out, may be removed and attached to a new pair of gloves. This
permits the wearer of gloves to make use of individual buttons, which buttons may
be made of gold or silver; or monogram buttons may be used. In other words, this
style of fastening buttons may be placed upon the market in the same manner as
sleeve buttons or other articles are.
Where it is desired to secure an adjustment of the fastening device so as to
increase or decrease the wrist measurement of the glove in order to adapt the glove
to varying sized wrists without making the fastening button removable, the style of
fastener illustrated by Figures 4, 5, and 6 of the drawings is employed. In this
case the embracing button eyelet E is rigidly fastened to the section B of the glove,
and the spring stud E' is removable within the elongated opening of the frame
plate F secured to the glove section A. The base plate F" of this spring stud, like
'the base plate C of the button illustrated in Figures 1, 2, and 3, is provided with
a depending square shank which fits within the elongated opening of the frame
plate. This spring stud is held in place by means of the disk G, the screw-
'threaded stem g, upwardly projecting therefrom, screwing into the screw-threaded
socket g¹ formed in the shank of the spring stud. In order to secure the spring
stud to the glove it is only necessary to screw the stem of the disk G into the
shank of the stud, until the base plate F is drawn firmly down upon the upper
face of the frame plate F.
When it is desired to adjust or change the position of the spring stud the disk G
is unscrewed or loosened, when the spring stud may be shifted forward or backward
as may be required.
The manner of adjusting the spring stud illustrated by Figures 4, 5, and 6, and
that of the fastening button, illustrated by Figures 1. 2, and 3, is the same; although
the form of the fastening devices differ.
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. The fastening device for gloves herein shown and described.
2. A fastening device for gloves, the fastening button of which is removable and
adjustably secured to one of the wrist sections of the glove.
3. The combination with a glove of a fastening stud removably and adjustably
'secured to one of the wrist sections of the glove.
4. In a glove, the combination with the flap section provided with an eyelet, of
a fastening button secured to the opposing section for uniting the wrist sections of
the glove, the top of which fastening buttons is made movable and covers the
eyelet of the flap section when the wrist soctions are united, and of means for
removably and adjustably securing the fastening button to the glove.

page_text: 5. In combination with a glove fastener, of a fastening button removably secured
to one of the sections of wrist opening, and of an engaging eyelet secured to the
opposite section.
6. In a glove fastener and in combination with a glove, of a fastening stud adjustably
secured to one of the wrist sections of the glove, and of an engaging button rigidly
fastened to the opposite section.
7. In combination with a glove, of an open frame plate secured to one of the
wrist sections of the glove, a base plate carrying a fastening button or stud
provided with a depending shank which fits within the opening of the frame plate,
and a disk provided with a screw-threaded stem which engages with the depending-
shank of the base plate.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1896
JULIUS STEINBERGER.
Boult & Wade,
Agents for the Applicant.