provements in Groves.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 27th Mar., 1897
provements in Groves.
I, HENRY HARRIS 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 saine is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following 'statement :-
This invention relates to gloves and has for its object to easily and cheaply produce
a glove having the parts most exposed to wear made more durable than the less
exposed parts.
Fig. 1 is a plan view of the front or palm side of my improved glove.
Fig. 2 is a similar view of the back of the glove.
Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank for the lower part or body of the glove.
Fig. 4 is a plan view of the blank for the upper part or fingers of the glove.
Fig. 5 is a plan view of the thumb blank.
Fig. 6 is a plan view of one of the six fourchettes.
Referring to the drawings, A represents the glove-body or hand-portion, without
fingers and thumb, and made of comparatively thin material.
Crepresents the thumb, B the finger-portion of the glove, and D one of the four-
chettes, each made in a separate piece from the body portion A, and of comparatively
thick and durable material.
The thumb is secured in a thumb-aperture in the body portion of the glove in the
usual manner.
The finger-portion comprises a single piece provided with individual sheaths for the
several fingers, and is joined to the body portion of the glove by a seam extending
transversely of the glove in the manner shown, or in any known manner.
My invention is especially adapted for gloves made of silk, cotton or other textile
fabric, and in such gloves it is desirable to have the body or hand portion of the
glove sufficiently elastic to permit the glove to be easily applied to and removed
from the hand, and also to fit the hand in use.
For this reason, I prefer to have the seam by which the body and fingers of the
glove are joined, extend in a devious line transversely of the glove.
A glove is most exposed to wear at its extremities, and by making the attached
thumb, fourchettes and finger portions of comparatively thick and durable material,
I am able to greatly increase the wearing qualities of the glove.
The finger-pieces are all integral with a common attaching-piece by means of
which they are secured to the hand-portion. By having them thus attached together,
no mistaken arrangement of the fingers can happen, such as would be liable to
occur if each finger-piece was separate from the others and required to be separately
secured to the body-portion.
I also avoid forming an objectionable seam at the base of the fingers.
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 glove consisting of a hand-portion, finger-pieces differing in material from the

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hand-portion, and an attaching portion integral with, and common to, each finger-
piece, secured to the hand-portion above the thumb by a transverse seam, substantially
as described.
Dated this oth do of Fab 1907
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.