IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS FOR GLOVES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL AND
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Horsepool of 97 Wood Street Cheapside in. the
City of London Warehouseman for an invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN
FASTENERS FOR GLOVES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL AND
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edward Horsepool at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st March 1882.
EDWARD HORSEPOOL of 97 Wood Street Cheapside in the city of London
Warehouseman IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS FOR GLOVES AND OTHER ARTICLES
OF WEARING APPAREL AND ANALOGOUS ARTICLES
The object of this invention is certain detail methods of securing the tongue or
lever of the fastener patented by me on the seventh day of February in the year
1881 No 511
In the fastener described in the specification of that patent the tongue or lever
is held in the desired position open or closed by a spring plate arranged within a
hollow of the base plate or by a portion of the base plate being cut and set to serve
as a spring.
Now according to my present invention Instead of the spring being formed from
or attached to the base of the fastener under the tongue as therein described I
according to one improved method curl up the front end of the base plate towards
the tongue or the back end towards the short lever so that it forms a kind of shoe
under the lip of which the tongue or the short lever when the tongue is pressed
into contact will lodge and be held secure the lip yielding to the pressure for that
purpose.
According to another detail improvement I form, one or it may be two ears on
one side or one on each side of the base plate with the upper end or ends turned
slightly inwards or the body kinked to form a catch to hold the tongue in a closed
position.
According to another improved method I curl or otherwise shape the short lever
of the tongue so that it will yield on coming into forcible contact with the base
plate when the tongue is lifted to either open or to close it the free end of the tongue
may however be curled or bent only to take over or against the edge of the base
plate when pushed down for fastening purposes, or a headed or a notched pin may
be fitted to the base plate so that the end of the tongue provided with a hole may
take over or against the pin to be held thereby.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Edward Horsepool in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th September 1882.
EDWARD HORSEPOOL of 97 Wood Street Cheapside in the City of London
Warehouseman IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS FOR GLOVES AND OTHER ARTICLES
OF WEARING APPAREL AND ANALOGOUS ARTICLES
The object of this Invention is certain detail improvements in fasteners or
attachments to gloves and other articles of wearing apparel, such as those described
in my previous Patent No 511 of the year 1881 in which a tongue or lever is
retained in a closed position by a spring attached to a base plate, or by a spring
formed in and from the base plate itself under the tongue or lever.
Now according to my present invention I dispense with the spring under the
tongue or lever and in one arrangement such as I show at Figures 1 and 2 of the
annexed drawings, I make the short end of the tongue or lever e of such a
length and curvature that it yields when put into contact with the base plate a on
the tongue being opened or closed, and then to exert a pressure on the base plate
forward or behind the vertical line of the pivot d as to hold the tongue in an open
or in a closed condition.
Figure 3 shows the short end d' of the tongue e with a knob to obtain a smooth
sliding action on the base plate a.
Figure 4 represents the tongue e of the fastener with a spring d" pinned or
fastened to it which spring may be of the same or of other metal as desired.
This spring takes its motion from the front of the pivot d and is in consequence of
greater flexibility and more kind in its action than the spring in the previously
described figures.
Figure 5 shows the tongue e with the short end d' curved to the front that its
loop portion stands away from hollows or recesses of the ears d d when the
tongue is closed, so that the eyelet on the opposite lap of the glove lodges itself in
the curved loop portion k and the strain on the wrist portion of the glove tends to
drag it backwards and the front end of the tongue e into close contact with the
base plate a. By this means I dispense with springs in fasteners for the articles
referred to and obtain a reliable and secure attachment.
Figures 6 and 7 represent a fastener with the inner portions of the two ears d
with angled faces for other angled faces on the sides of the tongue e at the pivot
part d to bear against and push outwards when the tongue e is raised to open the
fastener and when depressed to close it, the angled faces acting against each other
to retain the tongue in either position.
The short end d' of the tongue or lever e may in this construction be dispensed
with if desired.
Figures 8 and 9 are views of a fastener with the back ends of the base plate a
bent up to serve as a spring for the short end d of the tongue e to press against
and find a fastening by lodging upon it as in Figure 8 when closed.
Figures 10 and 11 show a modification of the bent up end of the base plate, the
upper portion being kinked at m for the end of the short lever d to lodge in when
the fastener is closed.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed I declare that I claim as detail improvements in fasteners.
for gloves and other articles of wearing apparel and analogous articles based on the
Invention previously patented by me as aforesaid :—
:
First Forming the short end d¹ of the tongue e to act as a spring or yielding
body to move on the base plate a out of the vertical line of the pivot d to
retain the tongue or lever e in a closed position as set forth and sub-
stantially as shown at Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the annexed drawings, also
the modified construction of short end d¹ as shown at Figure 4 of the
annexed drawings

page_text: Secondly, I claim :--The fastener shown at Figure 5 of the annexed drawings the
essential feature of which is the curved or looped short end d¹ projecting
in front of and away from the ears or pivot lugs d d to serve as an
automatic and secure means of fastening without the use of a spring on
the base plate or on the tongue as set forth.
Thirdly I claim The means and method of retaining the tongue e in a closed
condition by angled faces on the pivot part of the tongue and on the ears
or lugs as set forth and as shown at Figures 6 and 7 of the annexed
drawings.
In witness whereof I the said Edward Horsepool have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Twenty ninth day of September in the year of our Lord,
One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
EDWARD HORSEPOOL. (L.S.)