IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES AND OTHER GARMENTS
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Lloyd Wise at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th September 1881. A communi-
cation from abroad by François Adolphe Charles Jean Omlor, of Bonnevoie-
les-Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
WILLIAM LLOYD WISE, of 7, Whitehall Place, in the City of Westminster.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES AND OTHER GARMENTS." A com-
munication from abroad by François Adolphe Charles Jean Omlor, of Bonnevoie-
les-Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
According to this Invention to secure a glove or other garment a button, or
look, or analagous fastening is used in conjunction with an elastic fastening.
Thus to secure a glove there is used,-
1. A button, hook, or other analagous fastening at the wrist which has to be opened
before putting on the glove and to be closed after the glove is on the hand, and
2. An elastic fastening in positions corresponding to those which in an ordinary
glove are occupied by the second, third, fourth, fifth, and other buttons extending
up to the top of the glove. This improved fastening, owing to its elasticity, need
not be unfastened in any way when putting the glove on, because it permits of an
easy passage of the hand, at the same time closing and keeping closed the opening
of the glove from the moment it is upon the hand and No. 1 fastening closed,
and furthermore by reason of its elasticity the glove is caused to fit in a perfect
manner.
In one arrangement there are provided at intervals at the sides of the opening
of the glove eyelets, which permit the passing of a lace, but which prevent the
passing of any knot made in this lace.
In a position corresponding to the wrist is provided a button, hook, or other
suitable fastening.
The eyeletted part of the opening is closed by an elastic lace retained by a knot
made under one of the eyelets, from which the lace passes through an eyelet at the
opposite side of the opening, then back across the opening to another eyelet, and
so on, lacing all the eyelets together, the last one retaining the lace on the top of
the glove by a simple knot made in the lace under the last eyelet. The fastening
at the wrist is effected by a non-elastic lace which is by a simple knot attached to

page_text: the end of the elastic lace under one of the eyelets. The non-clastic laco coming
out of that eyelet enters another eyelet at the same side of the glove opening
and is attached under this eyelet by a knot, so that by pulling a part of the non-
clastic lace between its extremities over the button or like fastening the opening
is closed and the glove entirely fastened. On detaching the non-elastic lace from
the button or like fastening the glove may be readily removed from the hand.
The arrangement may be readily adjusted to suit wrists of different sizes. A
simple button with a button hole or any other fastening may be substituted for
the button and non-elastic lace, also that lace might be elastic instead of non
elastic, but this is not usually desirable. Still these and other modifications may
be adopted without departure from the essential peculiarity of the Invention,
which consists in providing a fastening at the wrist to be opened and closed there,
and from this fastening to the top of the glove a second fastening made elastic
and which needs neitlier opening nor closing. This fastening may be made in
various ways, and in some cases eyelets may be dispensed with.
The above described combined system of attachment may be applied with
advantage to other articles of dress, including laced shoes or boots.