IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRINGS FOR FASTENING GLOVES
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Horsepool, of 97, Wood Street, Cheapside, in
the City of London, Warehouseman, for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SPRINGS FOR FASTENING GLOVES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Horsepool at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd March 1880.
EDWARD HORSEPOOL, of 97, Wood Street, Cheapside, in the City of London,
Warehouseman. "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRINGS FOR FASTENING GLOVES."
These improvements relate to those glove spring fastenings which are formed of
two narrow and thin metal plates hinged together at one end, and held in their
open and shut position by a spring fastened to one of said metal plates, the said
fastening being inserted in the wrist portion of a glove in the manner well
known.
In the fastenings as hitherto made there has been great friction owing to the
bite of the two plates on each other at the hinge portion, and the object of this
Invention is to do away with the greater portion of the said friction, and so render
the said fastening much more lively in its action.
The Invention consists in forming (by stamping or otherwise) two short legs on
one of the metal plates of the fastening at the hinge portion, and arranged so as to
lie one on each side of the pin forming the hinge pivot.
These legs are of such a length as will suffice to prevent the two plates of the
fastening from biting each other when the hinge joint is rivetted or fastened up, and
ready to be attached to a glove.
The tips or ends of the legs are formed with small shoulders, on which the washer
placed on the outside of the hinge joint rests, and these shoulders are very important,
as they preserve the parallelism of the said washer, and so ensure a free motion in
the joint of the hinge when it is rivetted up. The inner face of the said washer is
also formed with a projecting face to reduce the friction of the plate of the fastener
which works in contact with it, and it has also two recesses on its periphery to
receive the before mentioned legs, which are rivetted over upon it, or brazed or
soldered to secure it.
I do not confine myself to the above method of carrying out my Invention, as the
two legs can equally well be formed upon the outside washer, and recesses to receive
them formed in one of the plates of the fastening.

page_text: Another way would be to make the legs separate from the plate, and form
recesses in both the plate of the hinge and in the outside washer to receive the
tips of the legs, which in this arrangement would be shouldered at both ends.
The spring which holds the fastening open or shut is made much longer than
usual, and is consequently more elastic; it is secured at one end to one of the
plates of the fastening, and its free end bears upon a flat formed on the hinge
end of the other plate when the fastening is open or shut, in the manner well
known.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Edward Horsepool in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 3rd
September 1880.
EDWARD HORSEPOOL, of 97, Wood Street, Cheapside, in the City of London,
Warehouseman. "IMPROVEMENTS IN SPRINGS FOR FASTENING GLOVES."
These improvements relate to those glove spring fastenings which are formed of
two narrow and thin metal plates hinged together at one end, and held in their
open and shut positions by a spring fastened to one of said metal plates, the said
fastening being inserted in the wrist portion of a glove in the manner well
known.
In the said fastenings as hitherto made there has been great friction owing to
the bite of the two plates on each other at the hinge portion, and the object of this
Invention is to do away with the greater portion of the said friction, and so render
the fastening much more lively in its action.
The Invention, which will be clearly understood by reference to the accompanying
Sheet of Drawings, consists in forming (by stamping or otherwise) two short legs
a, a, on one of the metal plates b of the fastening at the hinge portion, as shown in
Figure 1, and arranged so as to lie one on each side of the pin c forming the hinge
pivot
These legs are of such a length as will suffice to prevent the two plates of the
fastening from biting each other when the hinge joint is rivetted or fastened up,
and ready to be attached to a glove. The tips or ends of the legs a, a, are formed
with small shoulders c¹, c¹, on which the washer d, Figure 2, placed on the outside
of the hinge joint rests, and these shoulders are very important, as they preserve the
parallelism of the said washer, and so ensure a free motion in the joint of the hinge
after it is rivetted up.
The inner face of the said washer is also formed with a projecting face e to reduce
the friction of the plate of the fastener which works in contact with it, and it has
also two recesses ff, on its periphery to receive the before mentioned legs, which
are rivetted over upon it, or brazed or soldered to secure it. I do not confine myself
to the above method of carrying out my Invention, as the two legs a, a, can equally

page_text: well be formed upon the outside washer d, as shown in Figure 3, and recesses f. f.
to receive them formed in one of the plates b of the fastening, as seen in Figure 4;
the projecting face e on the washer d is also dispensed with in Figure 3.
Another way would be to make the legs a, a, separate, and form recesses in the
plate b of the hinge and also in the outside washer, as in Figure 2, to receive the
tips of the legs, which in this arrangement would be shouldered at both ends.
The spring g, which holds the fastening open or shut, and which is seen in
Figures 1 and 6, is made much longer than usual, and is consequently more elastic;
it is secured at one end to one plate b of the fastening, and its free end h bears upon
one of the flats i, i, formed on the hinge end of the other plate j, Figure 5, when the
fastening is open or shut, in the manner well known.
Figure 6 represents a top view of the fastening when open, one of the legs a of
the washer d, Figure 3, being visible; and Figure 7 is an underside view of the
fastening when closed, the letters a, a, indicating the terminations of the legs of
the washer d and the points where they are rivetted or otherwise secured to the
plate b.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,―
The improvements in springs for fastening gloves as hereinbefore described, and
substantially as shown in the annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Horsepool, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this First day of September, One thousand eight hundred and
eighty.
EDWARD HORSEPOOL. (L.S.)