AN IMPROVED CLASP OR FASTENING FOR GLOVES OR OTHER WEARING APPAREL, FOR UMBRELLAS, TRAVELLING BAGS, OR OTHER SIMILAR OBJECTS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Joseph Hannart, of Brussels, Belgium, for
the Invention of "AN IMPROVED CLASP OR FASTENING FOR GLOVES OR
OTHER WEARING APPAREL, FOR UMBRELLAS, TRAVELLING BAGS, OR OTHER
SIMILAR OBJECTS."
Sealed the 19th April 1864, and dated the 24th October 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Joseph Hannart
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 24th October 1863.
I, LOUIS JOSEPH HANNART, of Brussels, Belgium, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED CLASP OR FASTENING FOR GLOVES
OR OTHER WEARING APPAREL, FOR UMBRELLAS, TRAVELLING BAGS, OR OTHER SIMILAR.
OBJECTS," to be as follows:-
The Invention relates to an improved clasp or fastening for gloves, stays, or
other wearing apparel, for umbrellas, travelling bags, or other similar objects..
This clasp or fastening consists of two separate parts, one of which is to act:
as a book and the other as an eye for the first to take in, each of which parts.
is to be sewn or otherwise suitably fixed to the respective parts to be attached:
together to the glove or other objects.
The part of the clasp forming what may be called the hoop is provided with
a projecting button with a round, convex, or mushroom-shaped top, whilst the
other part of the clasp, which may be called the eye, consists of a small hollow:
ball provided at the under side with a circular opening, the diameter of which.
is to exceed that of the button top for allowing this latter to pass through and.

page_text: be kept in position in the interior of the hollow ball by the rim of the opening
of this latter griping under the top of the button, in such manner that
the hollow ball forms a cowl or hood for the said top. The hollow ball
may be replaced by a hollow part of other suitable shape, also provided at the
under side with a suitable opening, the rim of which gripes under the top of 5
the button.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Louis Joseph Hannart in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 23rd April 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, LOUIS
JOSEPH HANNART, of Brussels, Belgium, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Louis Joseph Hannart, Her special licence that I, the said
Louis Joseph Hannart, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Louis Joseph Hannart, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to
time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should
and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,, and Isle
of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED CLASP OR FASTENING FOR GLOVES OR
OTHER WEARING APPAREL, FOR UMBRELLAS, TRAVELLING BAGS, OR OTHER SIMILAR
OBJECTS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Louis Joseph
Hannart, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands, and seals, should particu-
larly describe and ascertain the nature of the said, Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in
the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Louis Joseph Hannart, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be. particularly described and ascertained in, and; by the
following statement :-.
The Invention relates to an improved clasp or fastening for gloves, gowns,

page_text: gaiters, stays, or other wearing apparel, for umbrellas, travelling bags, or other
similar objects.
In the annexed Drawings the clasp or fastening is represented as applied
as a fastening for gloves, but it will be readily understood that the same
may in a similar manner be made use of for other objects, and be made of any
suitable size or shape, or of any suitable metal, either plain or ornamented in
any suitable matter.
ا.
Fig. 1 represents a glove provided with my improved clasp in the fastened
state; Fig. 2 shows the glove but with the clasp in the opened state; Fig. 3
shows on a scale twice that of Figs. 1 & 2 an outside view of the two
parts of which the clasp is formed, whereas Fig. 4 is a sectional view of
the said parts, showing in what manner they may be connected together; Fig. 5
shows a view from the under side of one of the parts of the clasp. I have not
represented the manner in which the two parts of the clasp are to be fixed to
the gloove or other article they are intended for, as this may take place by
sewing, rivetting, by hooks, or other suitable means.
In the various Figures of the Drawings the same letters refer to correspond-
ing parts.
The clasp consists of two separate parts, a and b, to be fixed opposite to each
other, one on each side of the opening of the glove; c is a mushroom-shaped
button fixed on the part b; d is a hollow ball or sphere, which from the outside
resembles a small bell. At the under side this ball is truncated for allowing the
button head c to enter into the ball and become cowled by this latter when
fastening the glove or other article to which the clasp is applied. The parts a
and b being thus attached together, the rim or edge of the truncated part of the
ball d being in contact with the under side of the top or head of the button c,
the parts will remain connected together. The hollow ball d might be replaced
by another hollow part of other suitable shape, provided the same exerts on the
button can effect similar to that of the said ball; or a flatter shape may be
given to the circumferential rim or edge c, Fig. 6; of the truncated part of the
ball d, Fig. 6, in order to exert still more griping effect on the head of the
button c.
Having thus described and particularly ascertained the nature of my
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be arranged, I
wish it to be understood that I do not intend to restrict or restrain myself to
the exact shape or size of the parts above described, but what I consider to
be novel and original, and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by
the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent, is, the general arrangement

page_text: and mode of acting of the above described clasp or fastening for gloves or other
wearing apparel, umbrellas, or other objects.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Joseph Hannart, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of April, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
Witness,
DREYFOUS,
Eng. Civil.
L. J. HANNART. (L.S.)