An Improved System of Cutting and Making Gloves.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 30th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left 31st Mar.. 1890-Accepted. 24th May, 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved System of Cutting and Making Gloves.
SIDNEY LINCOLN SOUTHCOMBE, Stoke-under-Ham Somerset, Glove Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to obviate the use of fourchettes in gloves. Gloves
are usually cut so that the front and back portions of the finger pieces are joined
together by means of a strip of material (technically called a fourchette) which is
This four-
inserted between the edges of the finger pieces to form the finger case.
chette aids in giving sufficient room to admit the fingers of the hand.
(1) This invention consists in cutting the back and front portions of the finger
pieces so wide, that when they are sewn together the finger case is sufficiently large
to admit the finger without the use of any fourchette or quirk; thus the whole
glove is cut in two separate portions-one portion consisting of the thumb piece, and
the other portion consisting of the hand and fingers.
(2) This invention may be varied by using the usual fourchettes for one or more
of the fingers of the glove, and allowing the remaining fingers to be made without
fourchettes as described in this specification.
(3) It may also be varied by using a quirk or small fourchette at the base of the
fingers only-in one, or more, or all the fingers; or by using the ordinary fourchette
in one or more fingers, and the quirk or small fourchette in the others.
For this glove the following advantages are claimed (1) Economy of material
Better fit (3) Better appearance owing to the reduction of seams in the fingers
Greater comfort to the wearer of the gloves (5) Greater simplicity in the cut
and make.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved System of Cutting and Making Gloves.
I SIDNEY LINCOLN SOUTHCOMBE Glove Manufacturer Stoke-under-Ham
Somerset 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 :-
The object of this invention is to obviate the use of fourchettes in gloves.
Gloves are usually cut so that the back and front portions of the finger pieces are
joined together by means of a strip of material (technically called a fourchette) which
is inserted between the edges of these finger pieces to form the finger case. This
fourchette aids in giving sufficient room to admit the fingers.
This invention consists in cutting the back and front portions of the finger pieces
so wide, (as shown in figure 1) that when they are sewn together the finger case is
sufficiently large to admit the finger without the use of a fourchette or quirk (as
shown in figure 2); thus the whole glove is cut in two separate portions-one portion
consisting of the thumb piece, and the other portion, of the hand and fingers.
This invention may be varied by making use of the ordinary fourchette for one or
more of the fingers of the glove and allowing the remaining finger or fingers to be
made without fourchettes as described above.
This invention may also be varied by using a quirk (or small fourchette) (see
figure 3) at the base of the fingers only; in one or more or all the fingers (see figure 4)
or by using a full sized fourchette in one or more fingers, and the quirk in the
other fingers.

page_text: For this glove the following advantages are claimed-economy of material; better
fit; better appearance owing to the reduction of seams in the fingers; greater
comfort to the wearer of the glove; and greater simplicity in the cutting and making
of the glove.i
."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is
1. To cut and make a glove without the use of the ordinary fourchettes, or
2. To use the ordinary fourchette in one or more fingers but not in the remaining
fingers, or
3. To use a small quirk at the base of the fingers instead of the ordinary
fourchette or
4. To use the ordinary fourchette in one or more of the fingers, and the quirk in
the remaining fingers.
Dated this 29th day of March 1890.
SIDNEY LINCOLN SOUTHCOMBE.