Improvements in Gloves to be Used for Laundry Purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 9th Aug., 1895-Accented, 14th Sept., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Gloves to be Used for Laundry Purposes.
We JAMES ARMITAGE Fox, and GEORGE JOHN MOULTON, both of Sobo
Works, Macclesfield in the County of Chester Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to protect the hands of any person who washes
clothes and the like without using a machine or the special scrubbing apparatus at
present employed which are somewhat costly.
The invention consists of gloves or equivalent coverings for the hand made of
suitable cheap material or fabric and by preference open at the inside part, for
example like batting gloves or lacrosse gloves or guards. The backs of the fingers
or other corresponding part of these gloves or coverings are made or provided with
ridges, studs or other projecting surfaces of suitable form or with bristles or the
like to act as rubbers instead of working with the backs of the fingers and
knuckles against the clothes or material which are or is being washed.
By this means the fingers are protected and the article of clothing or other
material which is being washed can be more effectively rubbed than by the bare
hands and without the expense of washing machines scrubbing boards
brushes.
Dated this 8th day of November 1894.
or
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in Gloves to be Used for Laundry Purposes.
We JAMES ARMITAGE Fox, and GEORGE JOHN MOULTON, both of Soho
Works, Macclesfield in the County of Chester, Manufacturers, 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 protect the hands of any person who washes
clothes and the like without using a machine or the special scrubbing apparatus at
present employed which are somewhat costly.
The invention consists of gloves or equivalent coverings for the hand made of
suitable cheap material or fabric and by preference open at the inside part, for
example like batting gloves or lacrosse gloves or guards. The backs of the fingers
or other corresponding part of these gloves or coverings are made or provided with
ridges, studs or other projecting surfaces of suitable form, or with bristles or the
like, to act as rubbers instead of working with the backs of the fingers and
knuckles against the clothes or material which are, or is, being washed.
By this means the fingers are protected and the article of clothing or other
material which is being washed can be more effectively rubbed than by the bare
hands, and without the expense of washing machines scrubbing boards or
brushes.

page_text: The annexed drawings illustrate two ways of applying my invention.
Figs. 1 and 2 shew a left hand glove a with parts covered with bristles set
in a flexible foundation of leather or other similar material, as seen detached at
Fig. 5.
Figs. 3 and 4 shew a right hand glove a' with parts covered with ribbed india
rubber b¹, as seen detached in section Fig. 6, or a fabric with strong cords forming
ribs woven therein. It will be evident that if thought preferable the whole glove
may be provided with a ribbed or ridged surface, for example by making the glove
of very strongly ribbed material, such as before described."
The glove may cover the whole hand as shewn by Fig. 2; or the palm may be
left open or uncovered somewhat like a batting glove as shewn by Fig. 4.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is :-
Gloves or equivalent coverings for the hand provided with rubbing surfaces
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described.
Dated this 8th day of August 1895.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicants.