Improvements in Glove Fasteners.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Sept., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 24th June, 1893-Accepted, 29th July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Glove Fasteners.
I, ROBERT LETHBRIDGE TAPSCOTT of 62 Croxteth Road, Liverpool in the
County of Lancaster, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
Improvements in glove fasteners consisting of a rack, enclosed in a tube having
one end open, through which a bar is pushed in. The end of the bar is bent down
to form a catch and holds against the teeth of the rack. A curved spring is fixed
to the upper part of the tube to prevent the bar from rising, and a lever working on
a pin is fixed in the lower part of the tube at the open end, which the bar rests on.
The outer end of the lever after being pressed down in drawing the bar out is
raised by means of a spiral spring fixed beneath it. One end of the tube and one
end of the bar are flattened out to form plates and are provided with holes to
enable the apparatus to be attached to the glove by thread or strips of brass.
When strips of brass are used, each strip is first put through two holes in a plate
which is then covered by a brass cap. The strips then pass through a cup shaped
piece of rubber and after through the holes in the end plate of the tube or bar,
through the glove through another cup shaped piece of rubber and through holes
in a plate which is covered by another cap. The two caps are then pressed
together, so that the ends of the strips of brass are bent in between the plate and
the cap.
The apparatus is shown on the accompanying drawings several times larger than
it is intended to be made.
Figure 1 shews a section through the tube on the line OO Figure 3.
Figure 2 shews a section through the tube on the line QQ Figure 3.
Figure 3 shews a section of the tube on the line Z Z Figure 1.
Figure 4 shews a section of the cap with the strips K for attaching the ends X
and Y to the glove.
Figure 5 shews the holes in the plate for receiving the ends of the strips K.
Figure 6, shews a section of Figure 5.
Figure 7, shews the various parts forming the attachment to the glove, in position
ready for pressing together.
Figure 8 is the spiral spring S on Figure 1.
The following letters denote the different parts,--t, tube. r, rack in bottom of
tube. 1, lever. d, pin on which lever works. S, spiral spring between outer end
of lever and tube. C, face of rack holding the cach a. f, bent spring. P, pin
holding bent spring to the tube t. X, flat plate at end of tube with holes for
attaching to glove. a, catch projecting from bar a b. Y, flat plate of the bar a b
with holes for attaching to the glove. n, plate with holes. K, brass strips for
fixing X and Y to the glove. m, cap in which plate n is fitted when the strips K
are in position. i, plate with holes to go under glove, through which strips K pass
and are bent in under. h, cap to plate i. V, W, cup shaped pieces of rubber
pressed out flat when m and h are pressed together and are held in this position by
the strips K being bent in between h and i. g, piece of the glove.
Dated this Twenty-third day of September 1892.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Glove Fasteners.
1, ROBERT LETHBRIDGE TAPSCOTT of 62 Croxteth Road Liverpool in the
County of Lancaster, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion 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 means whereby gloves may be fastened.
For this purpose I provide a tube with a rack fixed to the lower part inside, and a
spring to the upper part also inside, and between these a bar with a catch at the
end is pushed in or drawn out. The tube has a flat plate at one end with holes
through it for attaching it to the glove where it goes round the wrist, and the bar
also has a plate at one end with holes through it for attaching it to the other side
of the glove where it goes round the wrist. The attachment of the tube or bar to
the glove may be made by thread through the holes of the flat plate at their ends
or by strips of brass projecting from a brass cap, which are pushed through the
glove and into another brass plate and then pressed against a brass cap so as to
turn their ends in and bold securely.
The drawings left with the Provisional Specification show the general arrange-
ment of the tube and bar, and their attachment to the glove.
:
Figure 1 shews a section through the tube on the line O O Figure 3.
Figure 2 shews a section through the tube on the line Q Q Figure 3.
Figure 3 shews a section of the tube on the line Z Z Figure 1.
Figure 4 shews a section of the cap with the strips K for attaching the ends X
and Y to the glove.
Figure 5 shews the holes in the plate for receiving the ends of the strips K.
Figure 6 shews a section of Figure 5.
Figure 7 shews the various parts forming the attachment to the glove in position
ready for pressing together.
Figure 8 is the spiral spring S on Figure 1.
The following letters denote the different parts,-t, tube, r, rack in bottom of
tube, l, lever, d, piu on which lever works, S. spiral spring between outer end of
lever and tube, C. face of rack holding the catch a, f. bent spring, p. pin holding
bent spring to the tube t, X. flat plate at end of tube with holes for attaching to
glove, a. catch projecting from bar b, Y. flat plate of the bar a b with holes for
attaching to the glove, n. plate with holes, K. brass strips for fixing X and Y to
the glove, m. cap in which plate n is fitted when the strips K are in position,
i. plate with holes to go under glove through which strips K pass and are bent in
under, h. cap to plate i, V. W. cup shaped pieces of rubber pressed out flat when m
and h are pressed together and are held in this position by the strips K being bent
in between h and i, g. piece of the glove.
The tube may be attached by the brass strips K which have been put through
the plate and covered by the cap m, the strips K are then put through the glove
and into the brass plate and are bent in between it and the cap h the two caps m
and are then pressed together so as to bring the flat end of the tube or bar close
against the glove g. The catch a at the end of the bar a b is then pushed into the
tube t over the lever and against the spring which keeps the catch a in place on
the rack under ordinary conditions but when drawing out the bar ab the end Y is
pressed down and owing to the lever and pin d the other end is raised freeing the
catch a from the rack and thus flatening the spring f, the bar is then drawn out,
the catch a being raised above the inner end of the lever 1, the spiral spring S
makes the lever return to a normal position after being pressed down.

page_text: 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
claim is,
The application of the mechanical devises substantially as and for the purpose
herein described and shown upon the drawings.
Dated this Twenty-third day of June 1893.
R. LETHBRIDGE TAPSCOTT.