Improvements in or connected with Gloves, Mittens, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Oc¹., 1895
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Complete Specification Left, 18th July, 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Gloves, Mittens, and the like.
I, LEWIS CHARLES WALLACH of 57 Gracechurch Street, in the City and
County of London, Merɑliant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide gloves, mittens, or finger, hand, or arm
coverings, to act as protectors against, or to resist (at any rate for a time), the
action of fire, steam, heat, cold, chemicals, electric currents or the like, and
thereby to protect the wearer from injury while allowing of the free movements of
the hands and fingers, the gloves or protectors made according to my invention
being flexible and convenient in use.
To this end I form what I may call the body of the material from which the
gloves or the like, hereafter termed gloves, are to be made, of nsbestos or from
asbestos yarn or asbestos cloth or other manufactured form of asbestos all as found
desirable or convenient, in combination with other substances or materials such as
silk, wool, cotton, leather, india-rubber, felt, or other animal. vegetable, mineral
substance, or chemical composition as may be found suitable for the purpose to
which the articles may be applied.
The material from which the gloves are formed may be composed for example of
asbestos fibre or yarn interwoven with metallic wire to strengthen same, or of
asbestos yarn, wire or wire gauze, and cotton, silk, or other fibre interwoven.
When employed for electrionlly insulating or proofing I may impregnate or cont
or cover the various component parts, of the article, with rubber or caoutchouc
solution or otherwise, and in such cases I may provide an exterior or interior lining
of india rubber, caoutchouc, or like insulating medium.
In some cases the glove may be formed of material composed of a thickness of
asbestos cloth with inner or outer layers or linings of other materials and with or
without wire insertion.
Such gloves may be coated or impregnated with chemical composition to prevent
the injury or combustion of the added or compounded materials or the whole
fabric.
Gloves or protectors made according to iny invention are applied with facility
and do not injure the skin of the wearer, owing to the fabric or other material with
which the asbestos is combined forming a singoth and even surface while the
asbestos serves the purpose of heat insulating.
Gloves manufactured according to my invention are for use in all trades and
manufactures where it is necessary or requisite to provide a protector, and the
gloves are also of use for domestic purposes such as for use in the kitchen.
Dated this 21st day of October 1895.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Gloves, Mittens, and the like.
I, LEWIS CHARLES WALLACH, of 57 Gracechurch 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:—
"The object of my invention is to provide gloves, mittens, or finger, hand, or arm
coverings to act as protectors against, or to resist (at any rate for a time), the
action of fire, steam, heat, cold, chemicals, oleotrio currents, or the like, and
thereby to protect the wearer from injury, while allowing of the free movements.
of the hands and fingers, the gloves or protectors made according to my invention
being flexible and convenient in use.
To this end I form what I may call the "protecting body" of the gloves or the
like, hereafter termed gloves, of, or from, asbestos-yarn or asbestos cloth, or other
manufactured form of asbestos, all as found desirable or convenient, in combination
with other substances, or materials, such as wire, and asbestos fibre, while the
gloves themselves may be composed of materials such as silk, wool, cotton, leather,
india-rubber, felt, or other animal, vegetable, or mineral substance, as may be
found suitable for the purpose to which the articles may be applied.
Thus for example I construct a glove, or mitten formation, of say leather, silk,
wool, cotton or the like, woven or shapel, and sewn together to fit the hand of the
wearer, and I then lay upon the exterior of same, a layer of asbestos fibre, upon
which is superposed an exterior covering of asbestos fabric. The asbestos fabric
is secured to the glove proper by sewing or in any other suitable manner, and the
asbestos fabric may be interwoven with metallic wire to strengthen same. In some
cases the glove or mitten proper is fitted with an outer protection, composed of au
inner thickness of asbestos fabric, a layer of asbestos fibre, and an outer thickness
of asbestos fabric, the whole being secured to the glove proper.
When employed for electrically insulating, I may impregnate or cont, or cover
the various component parts of the article, with rubber or caoutchouc solution, or
otherwise, and in such cases 1 may provide au exterior or interior lining of india-
rubber, caoutchouc, or like insulating medium.
In some cases the glove protection may be formed of material, composed of a
thickness, or layer, or layers, of asbestos cloth with inner or outer layers or linings
of other materials, aud with or without wire insertion.
Such gloves may be crated or impregnated with chemical composition, to prevent
the injury or combustion of the added or compounded materials, or the whole
fabric. Gloves or protectors made according to my invention are applied with
facility, and do not injure the skin of the wearer owing to the fabric or other
material, with which the asbestos is combined, forming a smooth and even surface
while the asbestos serves the purpose of heat insulating.
Glover manufactured according to my invention are for use in all trades and
manufactures where it is necessary or requisite to provide a protector, and the
gloves are also of use for domestic purposes such as for use in the kitchen.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
alain is :-
In the manufacture of gloves, mittens, and the like, the employment of asbestos
in the form of yarn, fibre, or cloth, interwoven or not with metallic wire, wire
gauze, or such like strengthening material; in combination with a glove or mitten
formation, composed of silk, wool, cotton, leather, india-rubber, felt, animal,
vegetable, mineral, or chemical composition, such material being used separately or

page_text: combined and having an interposed packing or lining, such as asbestos fibre, either
between the asbestos and glove proper portions, or between two pieces of asbestos
fabric the layers being secured together by stitching or by adhesive heat
resisting material together with india-rabber or insulating material insertion when
the article is for electrical uses, whereby an article of manufacture is produced
that is capable of resisting the action of heat, cold, or chemicals, produced by fire,
steam, chemicals, electric currents and such like causes, all substantially as
herein before described.