Year: 1886

page_text: I, HENRY AMOS THEOPHILUS SKYRME, of The Chace, Gold Tops, Newport, in the
County of Monmouth, Commercial Traveller, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
It is notorious on English railways that the ticket collectors find large numbers
of passengers unable to find their tickets. The ladies have to search in their hand-
bags, the gentlemen in their numerous pockets. Now this invention is designed
to enable the passenger to keep his ticket literally always "on hand," and yet
never in the way, and consists in placing a pocket on the back of the left-hand
glove, the size of an ordinary English railway ticket. This pocket is formed
preferably between the two outside ribs usually sewn on the back of the glove, the
central rib is preferably provided with a piece of whalebone to stiffen it and if
desirable to act as a catch to catch into a loop or hole above the pocket; the
pocket is cut away a little on each side of the centre rib to expose the edge of the
ticket so that the latter may be more easily grasped, an edging of elastic band can
be put round the edge of the pocket, to hold it tight against the hand if desired.
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page_text: I, HENRY AMOS THEOPHILUS SKYRME, of The Chace, Gold Tops, Newport, in
the County of Monmouth, Commercial Traveller, 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 :-
It is notorious on English railways that the ticket collectors find large numbers 5
of passengers unable to find their tickets. The ladies have to search in their hand
bags, the gentlemen in their numerous pockets. Now this invention is designed
to enable the passenger to keep his ticket literally always "on hand" and yet
never in the way.
It is best described by aid of accompanying drawings in which
Figure 1 shows a back of a glove with the invention applied and a part removed
to show the whalebone, and,
Figure 2 a section of same.
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The invention consists in placing a pocket F on the back of the left hand glove,
the size of an ordinary English railway ticket. This pocket is formed preferably 1
between the two outside ribs C and E usually sewn on the back of the glove,
though it may be otherwise attached and may either be placed outside or inside
the glove, the central rib D is preferably provided with a piece of whalebone B to
stiffen it and if desirable to act as a catch to catch into a loop or hole above the
pocket, not shown in the drawing, the pocket is cut away a little on each side of 2
the centre rib to expose the edge of the ticket A so that the latter may be more
easily grasped, an edging of elastic band G can be put round the edge of the
pocket, to hold it tight against the hand if desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what ?
I claim is:
1st. The combination with a glove, preferably the left hand one of a ticket
pocket, substantially as described.
2nd. In combination with a pocket in a glove, a whalebone or other stiffener B,
and adjacent parts at the mouth of the pocket, substantially as and for the purposes 3
described.