IMPROVED FASTENER FOR GLOVES, APPLICABLE ALSO TO OTHER ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Horsepool, of 97, Wood Street, Cheapside, in
the City of London, Warehouseman, for an Invention of "IMPROVED FASTENER
FOR GLOVES, APPLICABLE ALSO TO OTHER ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Horsepool at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th February 1881.
EDWARD HORSEPOOL, of 97, Wood Street, Cheapside, in the City of London,
Warehouseman. "IMPROVED FASTENER FOR GLOVES, APPLICABLE ALSO TO OTHER
ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL."
The object of this Invention is an improved appliance for fastening gloves and
other articles of wearing apparel, and consists, when applied to a glove, in sewing
or otherwise attaching a small plate (preferably oval) to one side of the opening of
a glove.
The said plate is cut or stamped out in the middle for the reception of a flat
tongue shaped spring secured at one of its ends by being rivetted to the plate.
A small curved lever is hinge jointed or pivotted onto the said plate in such
manner that when the said lever is pushed over in one direction its short .end
presses against the spring under it until the long end lies flat on the plate, in which
position it is maintained by the pressure of the spring on its short end.
The mode of fastening is to pass the button hole, or it may be an eyelet hole,
on one side of the glove opening over the long end of the said lever on the other
side of the opening.
The lever is then simply pushed over until it lies flat on the plate, as above
described, when the glove is fastened.
For unfastening the glove the long end of the lever is pushed back again on its
pivot until the short end is clear of the spring.
The button hole or eyelet hole is then slipped off the lever, when the glove is
unfastened.
A small thin plate, similar in shape to the one before described, is sewn onto the
inner side of the glove exactly beneath the plate on the outside, and serves to
strengthen the under part of the first plate for sewing.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Edward Horsepool in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th August
1881.
EDWARD HORSEPOOL, of 97, Wood Street, Cheapside, in the City of London,
Warehouseman. "IMPROVED FASTENER FOR GLOVES, APPLICABLE ALSO TO OTHER
ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL."
The object of this Invention is an improved appliance for fastening gloves and
other articles of wearing apparel, and consists, when applied to a glove, in sewing
or otherwise attaching a small plate, of oval or other shape, to one side of the
opening at the wrist portion of it.
The Invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, in which
it is shown in detail as well as in the position it occupies when applied to a
glove.
The said plate a, Figure 1, is cut or stamped out in the middle for the reception
of a flat tongue shaped spring b, secured at one of its ends c by being formed in
one with or rivetted to the plate. The plate is also provided with two ears d, d,
which, when bent to the position seen in Figure 2, serve to receive and hold a
small double ended curved lever e, as in Figure 3, with ends of unequal length,
which is hinge jointed or pivotted onto the said plate in such manner that, when
the said lever is pushed over in one direction, its short end presses against the
spring c under it until the long end lies flat on the plate a, in which position it is
maintained by the pressure of the spring on its short end.
The mode of fastening is to pass the button hole, or it may be an eyelet-hole f,
Figures 4 and 5 (which show the wrist portion of a glove, the former Figure as
fastened, and the latter unfastened), on one side of the glove opening g over the
long end of the said lever e on the other side of the opening. The lever e is then
simply pushed over until it lies flat on or level with the plate a, as in Figure 4, in
which position it is held by the spring c, as above described, when the glove is
fastened. The eyelet f is attached to the glove by being passed through the
glove's material %, and then rivetted over on a ring or washer f¹ on the underside,
as in Figure 10.
For unfastening the glove the long end of the lever e is pushed back again on
its pivot until it is in the position of about a right angle to the position it occupies
when it is fastened, as in Figures 3 and 5. In this position it is again held by the
spring c, and the button hole or eyelet hole f is then slipped off the lever c, when
the glove is unfastened.
A small thin plate, similar in shape to the one before described, is sewn onto the
inner side of the glove exactly beneath the plate on the outside, and serves to
strengthen the under part of the plate a for sewing.
As a modification in the mode of carrying out the Invention, an indentation h
is made on each side of the spring c in the body plate a, as shown in Figure 6,
which represents the underside of one of the fastenings, whilst Figure 7 is a view
of the same fastening as seen from the top side. The spring is preferably stamped
out of the plate a, which is of steel or other hard metal.
The separate view of the body plate a, Figure 8, more clearly shows the
indentation h, h, one of each side of the spring portion c. These indents are
for the purpose of receiving the short terminus or studs i on the lever e, Figure 9,
when the said lever is in position. The action of this modification in fastening the
article to which it is applied is the same as that described with reference to the
previous Figures.

page_text: And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which it may be carried into practical effect, I declare that I claim,―
The improved fastener for gloves, applicable also to other articles of wearing
apparel as described, and substantially as shown in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Horsepool, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of August, One thousand eight hundred
and eighty one.
EDWARD HORSEPOOL. (L.S.)