Year: 1887

page_text: I, JOHN UPSDALE of 4 Falcon Avenue Falcon Street in the City of London
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
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This invention relates to the manufacture of gloves of warp fabric which are found
to wear out most quickly at the tips of the fingers.
According to this invention the part of the fabric to form the tips of the fingers is
thickened during the process of manufacture by laying the threads over or
under, or.
over and under, more needles than is done when forming the remainder of the
fingers and the body of the glove.
For example if the body of the glove as far as the tips of the fingers is made with
one, two or more guide bars lapping over, or over and under, one or more needles,
they shall, for the purpose of thickening the fabric forming the tips of the fingers, be
made to lap over, or over and under; more than one or two needles as may be desired
to produce the necessary thickness.

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Gloves.
1, JOHN UPSDALE of 4 Falcon Avenue, Falcon Street, in the City of London,
Merchant, 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
This invention relates to the manufacture of gloves of warp fabric which are found
to wear out most quickly at the tips of the fingers.
According to this invention the part of the fabric to form the tips of the fingers is
thickened during the process of manufacture by laying the threads over-or under, or
over and under, more needles than is done when forming the remainder of the fingers.
and the body of the glove.
For example, if the body of the glove as far as the tips of the fingers is made with
one, two or more guide bars lapping over, or over and under, one or more needles,
they shall, for the purpose of thickening the fabric forming the tips of the fingers, be
made to lap over, or over and under, more than one or two needles as may be desired
to produce the necessary thickness.
Figure 1 is a diagram of part of a length of warp fabric with alternate bands of
thickened and unthickened work with lines marked upon it to indicate the shape of
the parts which are to be cut from it.
Figure 2 is a diagram of the way in which each of the threads are lapped
under and over the needles to produce ordinary unthickened work and Figures 3
and 4 are diagrams of the way in which they are laid under and over the needles to
produce the thickened bands.
The construction of warp knitting machinery is well understood.
In working the machinery to produce a length of fabric with alternate thickened
and unthickened bands the machinery is set to work in the ordinary manner for
producing plain unthickened work. When a band of the required width has been
made the machine is stopped and the two bars which carry the two sets of thread
eyes are disconnected from the cams by which they were previously traversed to and
fro and by which the thread eyes as they were swung to and fro between the needles
were made to lap their threads over and under the needles in the ordinary manner
and as is shewn by the diagram Figure 2.
Other cams are then set to act upon the two bars and these cams are of such a
shape as to give to the bars an increased traverse and to cause the thread eyes
which they carry each to work with three needles in place of with two as they
did previously.
The thread eyes of the bottom bar are by the cains now brought into action made
to lay their threads under and over the needles in the way shewn in the diagram
Figure 3 and the thread eyes of the top bar are made to lay their threads under and
over the needles in the way shewn at Figure 4.

page_text: Pieces of the shape marked a in the diagram Figure 1 are subsequently cut from
the fabric produced in the above manner each to form the main portion of a glove.
Other pieces marked 6 are also cut from the fabric as indicated by the diagram to
form the thumb pieces. These thumb pieces are sewn to the slits c cut through the
pieces a as is usual.
The fabric may be made from any material used in the manufacture of warp fabrics
such as silk, spun silk wool, cotton, Lisle or admixtures of these.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The herein before described process for the manufacture of gloves consisting in
first forming a warp fabric with alternate broad bands of ordinary warp fabric and
narrow bands of thicker work than cutting from such fabric gloves with the tip
ends of the fingers cut from the thickened band and the remainder from the
broad band.
2. The manufacture of warp fabrics suitable for being cut into gloves with alternate
bands of plain work from which the greater part of the glove is to be cut and
bands thickened as herein before described from which the tip ends of the fingers
are to be cut.