Improvements in Gloves or Gauntlets as used for Cricket, Football, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gloves or Gauntlets as used for Cricket, Football,
and the like.
I, THOMAS ARTHUR WARD, of 188, Kennington Park Road, London, S.E.
Manager, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of such gloves or
gauntlets as are used by players at cricket, fives, football and similar games or
pastimes in the manufacture of which it has hitherto been customary to first
construct the glove entirely of chamois leather or other similar material the inner
surface of the fingers and thumb of each of which were afterwards faced with
rubber solution or coated with a layer of thin corrugated, fluted or otherwise
figured rubber, the object of the said rubber being to lessen the force of impact
between the ball and the hands of the players, and hitherto it has been a source of
great trouble to the manufacturers of such gloves or gauntlets to find a cement to
effect a permanent junction between the said gloves and the layer of rubber, for
the reason that, the absorbant nature of the leather encouraged humidity, which
in a very little time caused the rubber facings to peel off from the glove, and to
overcome this difficulty is the object and purpose of my invention.
I attain the object of my invention by constructing the whole of the glove of
chamois leather or other similar material in general use, with the exception of the
inner face of the hand, that is to say, the inner faces of the fingers, thumb and the
palm, down to the wrist or thereabouts, and this portion I form of a material
known as rubber faced cloth, or any similar material or substance which consists
of a woven or other fabric with which rubber has been incorporated during or
after its manufacture, and afterwards inseparable from each other, and I employ
this or such material with the rubber face outward, and the inner face of this
portion of the glove I line with one or more thicknesses of chamois leather or such
other material as the body of the glove may be made of, in order to provide the
necessary thickness at this part to prevent vibration.
The glove may be padded in the centre of the palm and other places in the
usual way.
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 :-
First. In an improved glove as used for cricket, football, fives and similar games
or pastimes, the employment of rubber faced cloth or other fabric, for forming the
inner portion of the glove, that is to say, the fingers, thumb, and palm, substantially
as herein described.
Second. In the manufacture of gloves as used for cricket, football, fives, and
similar games and pastimes, the combination of chamois leather or similar material
for forming the back portion of the gloves, and rubber faced cloth or other fabric,
for the inner portion of the glove, lined or padded as desired to prevent vibration,
substantially as herein described.
Dated this 24th day of March 1894.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1, Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.