An Improved Glove.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Mar., 1896-Accepted, 18th Apr., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Glove.
I, JACOB HENRY LOEWENSTINE, Glove Manufacturer, of No. 75 Greene
Street, in the City of New York, County and State of New York, United States
of America, 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 has reference to an improved glove of that class which is made of
silk lace or other knit fabric and in which the finger-tips are protected by an
interior continuous and yielding web or layer of fabric so as to prevent the ripping
of the seams at the tips and furnish a snug and comfortably fitting glove; and the
invention cousists of a glove the tips of which are reinforced by interior pieces
that are attached at the ends and sides to the finger tips but disconnected from the
seams of the tips at their transverse median line so as to form disconnected webs or
layers at the inner ends of the tips against which the finger nails abut so as to
protect thereby the outer tips against wear and prevent the ripping of the seams
at the tips.
In the accompanying drawings:-
Figs. 1, 2 and 3 represent the successive steps by which my improved finger tipped
glove is made-Fig. 1 representing a plan view showing the blank to the fingers of
one-half of which the reinforcing pieces are applied, and Figs. 2 and 3 perspective
views of the blank which show respectively the fourchettes and fingers sewed
together and the reinforcing pieces brought over the tip portions and attached
thereto.
Figs. 4 and 5 are vertical longitudinal sections drawn on a larger scale of the tip
end of an individual finger showing the same respectively before reversing and
after being reversed, and
Fig. 6 is a plan view of one of the reinforcing pieces used for the tips of the fingers.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
In my improved glove the fingers are provided with interior reinforcing pieces a a
which are formed of a blank a' shown in Fig. 6. The blanks a¹ are made of
oblong pieces which are slightly contracted at their median line and which are
located at the interior of the finger tips and connected with the same at their
ends and along the sides by being sewed into the seams between the finger pieces and
fourchettes up to their contracted median portions which remain disconnected from
the tips so as to form independent webs.
The reinforcing pieces a are attached at one end to four adjacent fingers of one
half of the glove blank A as shown in Fig. 1 by sewing one end of the reinforcing
piece a by hand to the inner side of the fingers as shown in Fig. 1. After this
is accomplished the other half of the blank is brought over so as to overlap the
first half to which the reinforcing pieces are sewed after which the fingers are
finished by sewing in the fourchettes without however interfering with the
outwardly-extending portions of the reinforcing pieces a. After the seams between
the fingers and the fourchettes are completed up to the tips on the sewing machine
during which operation care must be taken that the reinforcing pieces are sewed in
along their sides only up to the contracted median portions of the blanks so that
no cross-stitches are made at that point the outer ends of the reinforcing pieces a
are then brought over the upper halves of the fingers as shown in Figure 3 and
sewed by the machine along the opposite sides of the reinforcing pieces while the
transverse connection of the opposite ends of the reinforcing pieces is then finally

page_text: accomplished by hand sewing as shown in Fig. 3 in which the stitch lines are
indicated by dotted lines. By the successive steps described the reinforcing pieces
are connected with the fingers of the glove along their ends and sides but are
entirely disconnected from the tip ends of the fingers at their narrower median
portions. The glove is then turned inside out from the position shown in Fig. 4 to
that shown in Fig. 5 so that the reinforcing pieces form yielding webs in the tips
of the fingers against which webs the finger nails abut so that the webs yield to the
pressure exerted thereon by the nails. The webs formed at the inside of the tips
impart a snug and pleasant fit of the glove and protect successfully the tips of the
fingers as the nails have first to wear out the webs of the reinforcing pieces before
they have a chance to wear out the tips themselves and produce the ripping of
the seams.
In my improved finger tipped glove the tips cannot be worn through owing
to the arrangement of the yielding webs formed by the reinforcing pieces at the
inside of the tips.
As these webs are not stitched into the tip ends but are disconnected froin the
same at their narrower median portions an independent interior web-portion is
formed in each tip which not only protects the exterior seam of the tip against
ripping but which imparts a snug and pleasant fit of the glove. The thumb is
finished with a reinforcing piece in the same manner and the thumb then sewed on
so as to complete the glove.
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 :-
A glove the fingers of which are reinforced at their tips with interior pieces that
are stitched along the ends and sides to the tips of the fingers but disconnected at
their median portions from the tips so as to provide an independently-yielding web
portion in each tip substantially as set forth.
Dated this 17th day of March 1896
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.