Improvements in Gloves.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd May, 1891-Accepted, 27th June, 1891
COME LEIDIMUITI
Improvements in Gloves.
1 ALOIS BERNHARD FISCHL of 13 Grosser Ring Prague, in the Empire of
Austria, Glove Manufacturer, 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 :—
This invention is designed to simplify the manufacture of gloves and to increase
their durability.
In order that my invention may be the better understood, I now proceed to
describe the same in relation to the accompanying drawings, reference being had to
the letters and figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1 shows the material cut according to the old method.
Fig. 2 shows the material cut according to this invention.
Fig. 3 is a view of the finished glove made according to the old method.
Fig. 4 is a view of the glove made according to this invention, and
Figs. 5 to 8 are detail views.
The seams are shown by dotted lines.
Gloves, as made hitherto, are marked a in Figs. 1 and 3 on the accompanying
drawings and their fingers are marked a to a³.
According to the old method the leather receives a side cut a from the 4th
finger a downward and further a cut a' for the opening for the hand, and a cut a²
for the thumb.
The gloves made according to this invention are marked b in Figs. 2 and 4 and
their fingers to b³.
The leather receives a cut 6" extending from the cut for the thumb to the cut 60
for the opening for the hand, and another cut from the cut to the joint between
the first and second finger that is to say between 62 and 63.
By this new method of cutting the leather, the seam from the fourth finger
downwards, see Fig. 3 is avoided. The finished glove has therefore no scams either
on the left or on the right.
A further improvement consists in the manner of making the fingers each of
which is made separately so as to have only one seam a see Fig. 6.
The fingers thus produced are joined to the corresponding parts B2 to B³ Fig. 2
so that the scams are situated as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 4. The seam on
the first finger is turned towards the second finger, and that of the second finger
turned towards the first finger; the seam on the third finger is turned towards
the fourth finger, and the seam of the latter is turned against that of the
former.
To conceal the scams connecting the fingers with the hand part g see Fig. 7 & 8
and to give a better appearance to the glove, ornamental stitching may be used as
shown at g such ornamental stitching forming the connecting seam.
The advantages of this improved glove as compared with the old glove are as
follows: The forsets, that is to say the insert strips k, Fig. 5 of which one is
generally used for the 1st and 4th fingers, and 2 for the 2nd and 3rd fingers are
entirely done away with, so that only four seams are required instead of the former
thirteen. In consequence the durability of the gloves is considerably increased, and
the cost of manufacture reduced to one-half. The additional disadvantages of the
use of forsets are that they get changed by the workers and that the colour of the
leather sometimes does not match that used for the other parts.
In the manufacture of gloves with forsets more leather is required than according
to this invention while forsets prevent the glove from fitting the fingers perfectly,
& the annoying folds and wrinkles unavoidable in gloves as at present manufactured
will therefore be avoided.

page_text: It will be seen that the seam on the side of the hand is avoided and that on the
fingers the number of seams is reduced from 13 to 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :--
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1. A glove having a seam from the inner side of the thumb to the opening for
the hand and a seam from the thumb to the joint between the first and second
fingers for the purpose of avoiding side seams.
2. In a glove as claimed in Claim 1 fingers having only one seam each a,
opposite one another so as to avoid the seams on the corners of the fingers and to
improve the fit.
Dated this 22nd day of Nov 1891
FELL & WILDING,
1, Queen Victoria Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.