Improvements in the Manufacture of Woven Gloves.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1888
Complete Left, 7th Apr., 1888
Complete Accepted, 15th June, 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Woven Gloves.
We, WILLIAM ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, Warehouseman, and ĠEORGE GALLOWAY
POMPHREY, Glove and Hosiery Buyer, both of 137 Ingram Street, Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This Invention, which relates to improvements in the manufacture of woven gloves,
has for its object to so construct the gloves that the fingers and thumbs thereof are of
thicker fabric than the palms, wrists and backs in order that the fingers and thumbs
may be the better able to resist ordinary wear and tear; it being here explained that
the fingers and thumbs usually wear out very much sooner than the palms, wrists
and backs.
The foregoing object is achieved by what is commonly known in Hosiery manu-
facture as splicing," that is to say, by making the fabric very much thicker at the
fingers and thumbs than at the other parts of the glove. This may be effected by
using either thicker weft or warp at those parts or by using both thicker weft and
thicker warp or by throwing into the fabric a greater number of warp threads or
a greater number of weft threads, or by throwing in a greater number of both
warp and weft threads; or it may be effected by weaving double or two-ply cloth
at such parts.
Dated thie 24th day of January 1888
ST. JOHN V. DAY,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Petitioners' Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Woven Gloves.
We, WILLIAM ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, Warehouseman, and GEORGE GALLOWAY
POMPHREY Glove and Hosiery Buyer, both of 137 Ingram Street, Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain 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, which relates to improvements in the manufacture of woven gloves
meaning thereby gloves made in a hosiery frame or in a loom has for its object to
construct such gloves so that the outer portions or tips of the thumbs and fingers
thereof to the extent that may be necessary are made of thicker or heavier fabric than
the other parts. The object of so constructing these parts of gloves in the manner
above mentioned is that they may be better able to resist wear and tear than is the
case with gloves made in the ordinary way.
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The foregoing object is achieved by weaving or knitting the gloves in hosiery
frames of the class known as "straight-bar" hosiery frames and by the introduction
of what is technically known as splicing" at the requisite parts as hereinafter
described. This is or may be effected by using in the "straight-bar" hosiery frame a
second yarn carrier or traveller with a second set of bobbins arranged above the frame
and below the set of bobbins which carry the ordinary yarn which is worked through
the front yarn carrier or traveller. The weaving or knitting of the thumb and fingers
of the glove up to the part where the thicker fabric is to be introduced is effected in
the ordinary way by and with the yarn operated by the front traveller or carrier, but
when the thicker part of the thumb and fingers is to be woven or knitted; the operation
of the front carrier or traveller and the weaving or knitting of the ordinary yarn is
stopped, and the second carrier for weaving or knitting the thicker part of the fabric
for the remaining or upper portion of the thumb and fingers of the glove is then put
into operation. The "splicing" yarn which is passed through the eye of the second
carrier or traveller consists of two or more yarns which may be wound together upon
the second set of bobbins and the thicker yarn thus produced is used for the weaving
or knitting of the remaining upper or outer portions of the thumbs and fingers of the
glove.
We also employ an alternative method of working in which both the front yarn
carrier or traveller as well as the second yarn carrier or traveller may be simultaneously
operated when weaving or knitting the upper or outer parts of the thumbs and fingers
of the gloves which are required to be thickened as above mentioned. In this case
the two yarns, that is to say the yarn carried by the front carrier or traveller as well
as that carried by the second carrier or traveller, namely, the "splicing" yarn, and
laid into the fabric simultaneously and therefore produce the necessary thickening
thereof.
We also employ another method of operating by using one or more additional yarns
which are
splicing" yarns when weaving or knitting the upper or outer parts of the
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page_text: thumbs and fingers of gloves, in this case the use of a second yarn carrier or
traveller is dispensed with. When the "splicing" yarn or yarns is or are brought
into operation, it, or they, is, or are, led from the second row of bobbins on which the
said "splicing" yarn or yarns is or are wound and their ends are twisted on to the
front yarns and led by the front yarns through the front carrier or traveller which
lays the front and "splicing" yarns into the fabric simultaneously and therefore
produces the necessary thickening.
When weaving fabric gloves in looms, two principal yarns are used one being the
warp and the other the weft. The thickening of the parts constituting the outer
portions of the thumbs and fingers thereof is or may be effected by using a thicker
weft at those parts or by throwing in one or more additional shots of weft or weft
yarns for every shed of the warp. The thickening may also be effected when weaving
such gloves in looms by throwing in additional warp threads either in combination with
the weft threads used in weaving or knitting the backs, palms and wrists of the gloves
or by using both additional warp as well as additional weft or thicker weft as such
parts.
The variations in the shedding of the warp are effected either by bringing into
operation alternative sets of "heddles" or "healds" or by a jacquard machine with
the cards punched to correspond with the variations or by a "Dobbie" machine as is
well understood by a practical weaver.
Gloves so woven come out of the loom in a flat web, from which the gloved shaped
portions are then cut. Two of these glove shaped portions are then sewn together at
the edges of their adjacent parts and when so sewn together constitute a glove.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. The manufacture of gloves made substantially as described on a hosiery frame
wherein those portions of the fabric constituting the outer portions or tips of the
thumbs and fingers thereof to such extent as may be necessary are made thicker by
the introduction of "splicing" at such parts of gloves.
2. In the manufacture of gloves woven on looms, the thickening of those portions
of the fabric constituting the outer portions or tips of the thumbs and fingers thereof
to such extent as may be necessary this being effected by weaving those parts
according to the modes above set forth or any of them substantially as hereinbefore
described.
ST. JOHN V. DAY,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow,
Applicants' Agent.