IMPROVEMENT IN GLOVE FASTENINGS
Year: 1884

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of 67 Strand, Westminster, Civil Engincer, do
hereby declare the nature of my Invention for IMPROVEMENT IN GLOVE
FASTENINGS, and in what manner the same is to be perforined, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :—
In the accompanying Drawings
Fig. 1 is a transverse section of a glove fastener of my improved kind, as applied
to the two separate portions of a glove wrist.
Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the hood and flanged ring to be described, Fig. 3
is a top view of the said flanged ring.
Figs. 4 and 5 are transverse sections of such Banged ring, one section being
taken in a plane at right angles to that of the other.
Fig. 6 is an underside view of the eared ring of the hood.
Figs. 7 and 8 are transverse sections of such eared ring, and its hood, to be
described.
Fig. 9 is an underside view of the upper lap of a glove wrist, with the two rings
applied to it.
Fig. 10 is a top view of the lower lap with the stud knob applied thereto, such
stud or knob being to enter the elastic jaws of the hood.
Fig. 11 is a view of the wrist portion of a glove, as having its laps connected by
my improved fastening.
Fig. 12 shows in transverse section the hood, as made with the cars projecting
directly from its base, instead of from a separate ring encompassed by and fixed to
the said basc.
The nature of this Invention is defined in the claim or claims horeinafter
presented, the fastening embodying it being composed not only of two discs and a
stud or knob having its shank extended through them, and upset at its end upon
one of them, but of a hood provided with cars extending from its base at opposite
sides of the inner periphery thereof, and of a ring having at each of its two
opposite sides of its inner periphery, a flange, the two flanges being separated by
two intervals or spaces, between them at their ends, as represented. The said hood
is shown as composed not only of a ring having two cars projecting downward
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page_text: from its lower surface at opposito parts of its inner periphery, but of a separate
cap, extending above the ring, and embracing it on the periphery of its base and
two opposite sides of such baso; all being as represented. The hood however may
be made without the ring, but with the ears extending directly from the base of
such hood. In the Drawings A denotes the knob, and B and C the two discs 5
with which it is connected. The shank a of the knob has a shoulder b, against
which the upper disc bears, when it is on the upper side of the lower of the two
laps D, E, or parts of a glove or other article to be secured together by the
fastening. The shank goes through the two discs B and C, and the lap directly
between them, and at its lower end such shank is upset or riveted upon the lower 1
disc. By such means the knob is secured to the lap.
The hood is shown at F, as provided with the two projections or ears c, c,
arranged and extending down from it or its ring d, as shown in Figs. 6, 7 and 8.
The flanged ring is exhibited in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 9 as consisting of a flat or
concavo-convex ring e, and two flangos ƒ, f, such flanges projecting upward from 1
the ring at opposite sides of its inner periphery, there being intervals or spaces g, g,
between the two flanges at their opposite ends. These Hanges are to operate as
clastic jaws, to slip over the head of the knob, and to give way to allow it to pass
between, and afterwards by contracting to embrace it, so as to hold it between
them in a manner to prevent it from accidentally separating from them.
The hood F, is to be placed with its base-on-the-upper surface of the lap D, and
with the two ears c, c, extending down through-a-circular-hole_in_the_lap, such
hole having a diameter sufficient to enable it to receive in manner as shown in
Fig. 1, the knob A, and the two elastic flanges f, f. Next, the ring e is to be
placed against the lower surface of the lap D, in a manner to have the said flanges
extended-upward into the hood, and with, the two cars c, c, of the latter going
down through the spaces g, g, between such flanges After-which-the-two cars, are
to be bent outwardly from each other and closely down upon the lower surface of
the ring, the ears so bent down being shown in Figs. 2 and 9.
To engage the lap D, with the-lap-E-the-hood with its elastic jaws or flanges, is
to be forced down over and upon the knob, so as to cause the head to pass between
and above the jaws and flanges, they by their inherent elasticity springing apart
and afterward in toward each other and the shank of the knob, so as to hold the
knob in engagement with the hood, to prevent their accidental separation. By
pulling upward the lap D, the hood can be separated from the knob.
The hood serves to protect and cover the knob, not only to prevent it from
being accidentally forced down through and out of the jaws, but prevent extraneous
matters from getting between the knob and the jaws.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
1 claim is:-
1. The combination of the hood provided with two ears, extending downward
from its base at opposite sides of the inner periphery thereof, with a ring having
at each of the two opposite sides of its inner periphery an elastic flange or jaw;
the said cars being depressed between the said elastic flanges or jaws, and bent
outwardly and against tho under surface of their ring, so as to couple the two
together and upon a glove lap or piece of cloth or material when between them;
all being substantially as set forth.
2. The combination of the ring provided with clastic flanges or jaws arranged
as described, with another ring having ears going between the jaws at their ends,
and bent down upon the first named ring, and with a separate hood encompassing
the other or eared ring, at its base, and embracing opposite sides of the latter, all
being substantially as represented.
3. Tho combination of the two discs B and C, and a knob A, having its shank
extended through them and upset at its end against the lower of them, with a
ring provided with two elastic flanges or jaws, another ring having two cars
extending from it between such jaws, and bent down upon the first named ring,
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page_text: and a separate hood provided with two ears extending from its base at opposite
sides of the inner periphery thereof, such ears going through the flanged ring,
between its two jaws or flanges, and being bent down against it, as represented.
4. The combination of the two discs B and C, and a knob A having its shank
extended through them and upset at its end against the lower of them, with a
ring provided with two elastic flanges or jaws and with a separate hood having
two ears extending from it between the said flanges or jaws and bent against the
ring—all boing substantially as set forth.