AN IMPROVED FASTENER FOR GLOVES, STAYS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL, ALSO APPLICABLE то OTHER ARTICLES AND PURPOSES
Year: 1871

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Julius Hall at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 7th
December 1871.
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I, JULIUS HALL, of 123, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
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'AN IMPROVED FASTENER FOR GLOVES, STAYS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF WEARING
APPAREL, ALSO APPLICABLE то
OTHER ARTICLES AND PURPOSES," to be as
follows:-
Gloves, stays, and other like articles of dress or wearing apparel have
hitherto been held or fastened by the aid of buttons, clasps, hooks, or
similar means which are not only liable to come off at any moment and
before the glove or other article is worn out, but also of their inability
to yield or "give" often cause when the glove or article is tight fitting
the fracture either of the latter or of itself.
The object of my Invention is to provide an improved fastening for
gloves, stays, and other articles of ladies' or gentlemen's dress or

page_text: apparel as well as for other articles which are not articles of dress, which
shall allow the wearer to fasten or connect the glove, stays, or other
articles with the greatest ease and at any desired degree of tightness
without overstraining the latter or endangering its own strength and
security.
I take a piece of sheet metal or other suitable material of any required
size and bend it round, or form it so that the two sides shall correspond.
I then pass a ratchet pin possessing any suitable number of teeth
between the two plates or sides so that the unnotched edge of the
ratchet pin shall rest upon the enclosed edge of the piece of metal or
material; indentations in one side of the plate take into a groove formed
in the ratchet pin, and serve to guide it in a straight line between the
two sides. The right-hand end of the ratchet pin has at its front edge
a knob or button; the other end has on its upper edge a projection or
stud which prevents when the construction of the fastener is completed
the withdrawal of the pin. I connect the upper edges of the bent plate
together by means of rivets, preferably three, one at each extreme corner
and one in the centre within a short distance of the edge. The rivet at
the right-hand corner passes through and serves to secure between the
two sides a pin the lower end of which takes into the teeth of the ratchet
pin, the upper end of said pin having a small knobbed or other shaped
projection. One end of a steel spring passes round the rivet at the left-
hand corner, the other takes into a notch in the pin taking into the
ratchet. The elasticity or resistance of the spring is obtained by reason
of its passing underneath the middle or lower rivet. By this means the
pin taking into the ratchet becomes a so-called "click pin."
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The "fastener " is now complete, and when suitably secured to the
glove or other article its operation is as follows:-The projection on the
click pin is depressed, the ratchet pin pulled out to its full extent, and
the knob or button at one end passed through the usual "button hole
or opening in the glove or article. The ratchet pin is then pushed back,
and the click pin taking into the teeth prevents the withdrawal of the
ratchet pin or the unfastening of the glove or article until the said click
pin is again depressed.
The tightness of the glove or other article is regulated by the teeth on

page_text: I have described my Invention more particularly as applied to gloves
or stays (as articles of dress or wearing apparel), but it is obviously
applicable to other articles and purposes, as for instance to portmanteaus,
travelling and other bags, purses, harness and traces for horses, indeed
to any articles where buttons, hooks and eyes, and buckles are now used
as fastenings.