Improvements in the Manufacture of Gloves.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1896
[Communicated from abroad by LOUIS LICHTENHEIM, of Amsterdam, Mont-
gomery County, New York, United States of America, Manufacturer.]
Improvements in the Manufacture of Gloves.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 is to provide a blank or pattern adapted to be made
into a glove with re-enforced thumb and finger tips of desirable form and exact
dimensions, without the necessity of trimming the tips after they have been
stitched.
In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 is a plan view of the body-piece of the improved blank or pattern.
Figure 2 is a similar view of the thumb-piece.
Figure 3 is a view of the same with the re-enforcements folded back and stitched
upon the sheath-portion.
Figure 4 is a view of the same folded along its longitudinal middle and stitched
along the edge to form a thumb-sheath.
The blank or pattern comprises the body-piece A, having finger lengths A', and
a thumb-aperture A2, and the thumb-piece B adapted to be inserted and secured in
the aperture A².
The several thumb and finger lengths have oppositely located, curviform gore-
openings C cut in the sides of their tips, and the body-piece and thumb-piece have,
each, a quadrilateral, curvilinear aperture C¹ cut in the middle of its tip portion,
which openings and aperture mark the dividing lines between the sheath portions
and the re-enforcements.
In the manufacture of a glove from this improved blank, the re-enforcements D
are folded back upon the respective sheath-portions of the thumb and finger lengths
and secured thereto by a transverse line of stitching D'.
The body and thumb-pieces are then severally folded along their longitudinal
middle lines and the adjacent edges stitched together, fourchettes being inserted in
the usual manner, if desired.
The thumb is then stitched to the body piece at the thumb-aperture in the usual
manuer, and the glove inverted to conceal the seamed edges and re-enforcements.
The line D' in Figure 3 represents the longitudinal middle line on which the
thumb-piece is folded preparatory to completing the formation of the sheath by
inserting the edge-line of stitching D, as shown in Figure 4. The finger sheaths
are formed in the same manner by stitching their adjacent edges together or to
fourchettes inserted in the usual manner, the body piece having first been folded
along its longitudinal middle line.
The blanks are preferably cut out by dies, and the gore-openings and tip
apertures which mark the folding lines of the several re-enforcements are exactly
uniform and so shaped and exactly located that when the re-enforcements are
folded upon the respective sheath-portions on the lines marked by such openings
and aperture the curviform edges of the re-enforcements coincide with the similar
edges of the sheath-portions and are adapted to give the fingers and thumb

page_text: precisely the rounded shape as well as the exact length desired; and at the same
time serve as guides for inserting the sheath-forming stitches upon the required
curve to give the finished tips the uniform appearance and exact dimensions desired
and intended by the designer of the die.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me
by my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
A die-formed glove blank or pattern comprising a body-piece and a thumb-piece,
having oppositely located curviform gore-openings cut in the sides of the several
thumb and finger-lengths, and a curvilinear, quadrilateral aperture cut in the
middle tip portion of each piece, which blank is adapted to be made into a glove
with re-enforced tips by folding back the extremities of the several thumb and
finger lengths on the lines marked by the gore-openings and tip apertures, and
then finishing the glove by the usual lines of stitching and without trimming the
tips, substantially as described.
Dated this 10th day of September 1896
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.