Improvements in Glove-fasteners.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 31st Oct., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by THE WATERBURY BUTTON COMPANY, of
Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.]
Improvements in Glove-fasteners.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 :-
Figure 1, represents a vertical central section through the socket member as
applied to the glove.
Figure 2, vertical section of the cap a detached.
Figure 3, vertical section of the collet detached.
Figure 4, vertical section' showing the collet and cap united.
Figure 5, vertical central section of the collar d.
Figure 6, vertical central section showing the collar d, as applied to a glove.
Figure 7, vertical central section showing the collar as applied to the glove and
with the cap set thereon preparatory to closing.
Figures 8, 9, and 10, modifications.
This invention relates to an improvement in that class of glove-fasteners which
consist of two members, a stud and a socket member, the stud member being
attached to one side of the slit of a glove, and the socket member. to the other side,
and so that the edge of the glove brought together, the socket is adapted to pass
on over the headed stud, and thus secure the glove at the wrist, the invention
relating specially to the socket member, and it consists in the construction as
hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claim.
The socket member is composed of a cap a, and of a conical shaped collet h.
The cap is made of cup shape, as seen in Fig. 2, and the collet is of an external
diameter corresponding to the internal diameter of the cap a the outer edges of the
collet, turned over and downward as at c, Fig. 3, and the center is thrown down-
ward into conical shape. The cap and collet are united, as seen in Fig. 4, by
placing the collet within the cap and then closing the edges of the cap over the
turned down edges of the collet c, and so that the conical portion of the collet will
project below the cap, as seen in Fig. 4, thus forming a conical projecting flange
around the opening through the collet. The base consists of a collar d, see Fig. 5,
having its inner edge turned up so as to form a tubular projection e, the projection
increasing in diameter from the surface of the collar, and so as to be of inverted
cone shape, as seen in Fig. 5, the expansion being slight. The external diameter
of the tubular projection at its larger end corresponds substantially to the internal
diameter of the collet b.
The collar d is applied upon one side of the glove, its tubular projection e,
extending through a corresponding opening in the glove, and so that the collar d,
will lie upon one side, while the tubular projection e, will project from the opposite
side. The depth of the projection e is somewhat less than the depth of the cap and
collet. The cap with its collet is set over the projection e, as seen in Fig. 7, and
then a force is applied which will bring the inner edge of the collet b, to bear upon
the surface of the glove on that side supported by the collar d, and this force
continued, will cause the conical collet to contract and close around the smaller
diameter of the tubular projection e, as seen in Fig. 1, and thus firmly unite the
parts of the socket upon the glove. The socket member thus applied to the glove
is used in connection with the stud in the usual manner, it not being deemed
necessary to illustrate the stud.
Instead of piercing the glove for the passage of the projection e, through it, the

page_text: collar may be applied to its side of the glove, and the material of the glove
pressed thereon will correspondingly raise the portion of the glove over the tubular
projection, as seen in Fig. 8, it is therefore not essential to the invention that the
glove should be pierced for the application of the socket.
While it is preferred to make the cap portion of the socket member in two parts,
that is, to consist of the cap a and the collet, the collet and cap may be made in a
single piece of metal, as represented in Fig. 9, this part being made first of cup
shape, and then the edge drawn inward to produce the conical shape, as at fin
Fig. 9, and this cap applied in like manner as in the first illustration, the conical
portion will be contracted around the projection e, of the collar d, as seen in Fig. 10,
it is therefore only necessary to the invention that the opening into the cap portion
of the member shall present a conical surface adapted to be contracted around the
smaller diameter of the tubular projection e, of the collar d.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is :-
First. In a glove-fastener consisting of a socket and stud-member, the socket-
member composed of a cap presenting upon its under side a conical surface around
the opening into the cap, combined with a collar having a tubular projection there-
from, the said projection expanding in diameter from the collar, its larger diameter
corresponding to the internal diameter of the conical portion of the сар, substantially
as described, and whereby the said conical portion of the cap under pressure is
adapted to contract around the smaller diameter of the said tubular projection of
the collar.
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Second. A socket-member of a glove-fastener, consisting of the cap a, the collet b,
of conical shape, the cap closed around the edge of the collet b, and so as to unite
the two, combined with a collar d, having a tubular projection
extending there-
from, the said projection expanding in diameter from the collar, its larger diameter
corresponding to the internal diameter of the collet, substantially as described, the
said conical portion of the collet being adapted under pressure to close around the
smaller diameter of the said projection.
Dated this 17th day of September 1891.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.