IMPROVEMENTS IN MITTENS AND GLOVES
Year: 1885

page_text: COMPLEIE
SPECIFICATION.
I, ALEXANDER MELVILLE CLARK, of the firm of A. M. and Wm. Clark, of
53, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, Fellow of the Institute of Patent
Agents, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
MITTENS AND GLOVES (a communication to me from abroad by William Albert
Lorenz of Hartford in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, United
States of America, Gentleman) and in what manner the same is to be performed,
to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of this invention is to so construct mittens, gloves and the like,
which are used as a winter protection for the hands, that the fingers may at
any time be liberated from the covering without requiring the removal of the
mittens or gloves from the hands.
To this end the invention consists in forming a slot across the palm portion
of the mitten or glove, through which slot the fingers can be protruded, as herein-
after described.
The invention also consists in forming a similar slot, if desired, in the thumb
portion of the mitten or glove; likewise in forming a double lap in the slotted
part of the mitten or glove, as hereinafter described.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved mittens.-Figure 2 is a longi-
tudinal section of the same.
A, in the drawing, represents a mitten of knit or other material, and of the
ordinary form of construction of a mitten, except in the particular hereinafter
stated that is to say; across the palm portion of the mitten a slot a is formed as
shown in figure 1. through which slot the fingers may be passed, whenever it is
desirable to use the same without a covering. Thus, clerks who are occupied out
of doors can keep their hands warm by this mitten as long as they do not use them
for writing, and when they do want to write they can easily pass the fingers out
through the slot, as shown in the upper part of figure 1, for their inore convenient
use. In like manner if the thumb of the mitten has a similar slot the user's
thumb can also be projected out, as in the upper part of figure 1. But it is not
necessary in all cases that the thumb of the mitten shall be provided with a slot.

page_text: Where the mitten is slotted it is double, as shown in figure 2; that is to say, the
fabric & above the slot and the fabric e below the slot overlap, so that when- the
entire hand is covered these two thicknesses de coming in contact with one
another will prevent cold air from entering the mitten.
Whatever I have said about mittens in this Specification applies with equal force
to gloves, and for the purposes, therefore, of this specification I desire it to be
understood that the terms "gloves" and "mittens are synonymous.
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I have found that with this improvement, it is very easy for persons in winter to
button or unbutton coats, to handle money, to write, drive ect., and, in fact, freely
use their fingers without being obliged to remove the gloves or mittens from the
hands, and yet, whenever the special occasion which requires the uncovering of the
fingers has passed, they can be as easily put back under cover.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. The glove or mitten A, having transverse slot a. across the palm, as
specified.
2. The glove or mitten A., having transverse slot b across the thumb as
specified.
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3. The glove or mitten A, having transverse slot a across the 'palm and
transverse slot b across the thumb as specified.
4. The glove or mitten A, having transverse slot a and double thicknesses de
of fabric at the slotted part as set forth.
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