AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Hannart, of Brussels, in the Kingdom of
Belgium, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES."
Sealed the 17th December 1861, and dated the 20th June, 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Hannart at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 20th
June, 1861.
I, LOUIS HANNART, of Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium, Manufacturer
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of applying between two textile fabrics of any kind
a more or less thick adhesive coat of caoutchouc purified and deprived of its
unpleasant odours, so as to form a material appropriate to the manufacture
of gloves. By this process, without effecting any change in the already
known system of manufacture, I can make gloves of great elegance and
durability; the sewing may be as close as in kid gloves, and all the fancies
of the fashion may be applied. As to winter gloves, the impermeability of the
material so obtained keeps the hands in their normal warmth. For the
gloves intended for warmer seasons, in order to aerate the hands, I can either
make openings in the material, or I can leave intervals on the internal coating
of caoutchouc, so that my system may be applied to any kind of glove. With
my process the gloves last a much greater length of time, besides being
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page_text: elastic, they are not put out of shape easily. Lastly, they have the advantage
of being at will permeable or impermeable.
I claim as my Invention the idea of making gloves of fabrics rendered at
elastic, they are not put out of shape easily. Lastly, they have the advantage
of being at will permeable or impermeable.
I claim as my Invention the idea of making gloves of fabrics rendered at
will permeable or impermeable by means of a caoutchouc,
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis Hannart in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 20th
December 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I LOUIS
HANNART, of Brussels, in the Kingdom of Belgium, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one in the twenty-fifth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Louis Hannart, Her special licence that I, the said Louis
Hannart, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Louis Hannart, my executors, administrators, 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 Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said Louis Hannart, my executors or admi-
nistrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their
hands and seals, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Louis Hannart, 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 the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists of applying between two textile fabrics of any kind
a more or less thick adhesive coat of caoutchouc, purified and deprived of its
unpleasant odours, so as to form a material appropriate to the manufacture

page_text: of gloves. By this process, without effecting any change in the already
known system of manufacture, I can make gloves of great elegance and
durability; the sewing may be as close as in the kid gloves, and all the fancies
of the fashion may be applied. As to winter grooves, the impermeability of the
material so obtained keeps the hands in their normal warmth. For the gloves
intended for warmer seasons, in order to aerate the hands, I can either make
openings in the material, or I can leave intervals in the internal coating of
caoutchouc, so that my system may be applied to any kind of glove. With
my process the gloves last a much greater length of time, besides being
elastic, they are not easily put out of shape. Lastly, they have the advantage
of being at will permeable or impermeable.
I claim as my Invention the idea of making gloves of fabrics rendered at
will permeable or impermeable by means of caoutchouc.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Hannart, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of December, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.
L. HANNART. (L.S.)