IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENING GLOVES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Loebl and Ignaz Pick, both of Scott's Yard,
Bush Lane, in the City of London, Merchants, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENING GLOVES."
Sealed the 1st March 1864, and dated the 3rd September 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Loebl and Ignaz
Pick at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition
on the 3rd September 1863.
We, JOSEPH LOBBL and IGNAZ PICK, both of Scott's Yard, Bush Lane, in
the City of London, Merchants, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENING GLOVES," to be as follows:-
Hitherto gloves have mostly been fastened by buttons, which is an objection-
able mode as the buttons are liable to become detached.
Now according to our Invention we apply to or combine with gloves a
fastening consisting of two engaging members or portions, whereof one is a
snap, catch, tongue, bolt, or spring, or a metal plate bent so that one part of
it acts as a spring, or having such spring or part attached to it. With this is
connected a knob or other equivalent contrivance for working it.
engaging member or portion of the fastening is a mouth-piece, recess, or socket.
These engaging members are respectively attached to opposite sides or edges
of the opening at the palm of the glove. When the former portion is in the
latter and the spring allowed to act, it bears against the interior surface of the
The other

page_text: mouth-piece, and so effects the engagement of the portions of the fastening and
fastens the glove. To unfasten it, pressure is exerted on the knob or equi-
valent so as to force the spring away from contact with the said surface,
disengage the two portions of the fastening and unfasten the glove, a portion
of the snap, bolt, or spring, may form the handling contrivance. The first
named member of the fastening instead of acting as described may be a tongue,
pin, latch, or loop, disengaged from the mouth-piece by turning it partly round
or moving it sidewise or up or down. Or one engaging member of the fastening
may be a knob or pin working in or through the other member of the fastening
which consists of a plate or piece having in it a slot in or along which the pin
is free to be slidden, the slot has one part broader than the other, such broader
part, but not the narrower part, allowing the head of the pin to pass through
the plate. When the pin is slidden into the narrow part of the slot the
members of the fastening are engaged and the glove fastened, but when it
is slidden into the broad part it can be withdrawn and the glove unfastened,
the under or inner part of the pin head is sometimes rounded by preference
into a semispherical form, or nearly so, so that it may be more easily slipped
out of the slot. The slotted portion may be concealed by a plain, jewelled, or
ornamental plate.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, fileḍ
by the said Joseph Loebl and Ignaz Pick in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 3rd March 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
LOEBL and IGNAZ PICK, both formerly of Scott's Yard, Bush Lane, but now of
Noble Street, in the City of London, Merchants, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Third day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said Joseph Loebl and Ignaz Pick, Her special licence that we, the
said Joseph Loebl and Ignaz Pick, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others. as we, the said Joseph Loebl and Ignaz Pick,
our 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

page_text: Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENING
GLOVES," upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said Joseph Loebl
and Ignaz Pick, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under our, or their, or one of our or 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 we, the said Joseph Loebl and Ignaz Pick,
do hereby declare the nature of our 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, reference being had to the accom-
panying Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is
to say :-
Hitherto gloves have mostly been fastened by ordinary 'buttons, but they.
are objectionable as they are liable to become easily detached.
Now the object of our Invention is to provide a more secure fastening, for
which purpose we employ a fastening constructed in the following manner as
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Figure 1 is a plan shewing our improved fastening applied to a glove. The
fastening consists of two members or portions, by the engagement and disen-
gagement of which the fastening and unfastening of the glove are effected; one
of these members or portions is a pin attached to or formed on a plate or disc,
and the other is a slotted plate; Figure 2 is a plan of the upper or outer side
of the former of these two members or portions of the fastening; Figure 3,
plan of the inner or under side; Figure 4, sectional elevation, and Figure 4*,
plan of the same before being fitted to the glove, but in Fig. 4 the inner
or under side is shewn uppermost; Figure 5 is a plan of the upper or outer
side of the second member or portion of the fastening; Figure 6 is a plan of
the under or inner side of the same; Figure 7 is a plan and Figure 8 a side
view of the same before it is applied to the glove; Figure 9 is an edge view
in section of the fastening shewn as engaged or fastened.
a is a concave or dished metal disc or plate at the centre of the under side
of which is fixed or formed a pin b; c is a metal plate in which is a slot d
broader at one part than at another, the head of the pin b is capable of being
passed through the broader part of the slot, but not through the narrower part.
The plate a is fixed at one side of the opening at the palm or wrist of the
glove G with its pin 6 on the inner or under side, the plate c is fixed at the
other side of the said opening, when the pin b is inserted into the slot d and
b
:

page_text: engaged in the narrow part thereof the glove G is fastened. It must be
understood that the plate a is concave or dished on its inner or under side
(shewn uppermost in Fig. 4) its upper or outer side or surface may be convex,
concave, or of any desirable form and ornamented as desired. The fastening
may be applied to the glove as follows:-e is a rim or projection fixed to or
formed on the under or inner side of the plate a, and e' is a similar rim or
projection on the under or inner side of the plate c; the plate a is inserted
through an orifice in the glove so that the outer surface of the material of the
glove may come against the inner side of the plate, a ring f, Figure 10, is
placed on the inner surface of the material of the glove, and the rim or
flange e is nipped and bent flat on the ring f as shewn in Figure 3. The
plate c is inserted in like manner,, a second similar ring f being used in like
manner, and the rim or flange e¹ nipped and bent or flattened down upon it as
shewn in Figure 6. Other modes of attaching the members of the fastening
to the glove might be adopted, but the above is the method which we
recommend.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention and in what manner
the same may be performed, we declare that we claim as of our said Invention
of improvements in fastening gloves the improved fastening herein-before
described having its parts constructed, arranged, and combined as set forth.
In witness whereof, we, the said Joseph Loebl and Ignaz Pick, have
bereunto set our hands and seals, this Second day of March in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Witness,
JAMES BLAND.
JOSEPH LOEBL. (L.B.)
IGNAZ PICK.
(L.S.)