IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES BOOTS AND SHOES STAYS LEGGINGS AND OTHER ARTICLES."
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Pitt of Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Tool Maker and John Wormington of Birmingham aforesaid Hosier for an
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES BOOTS AND SHOES
STAYS LEGGINGS AND OTHER ARTICLES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Pitt and John
Wormington at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
9th February 1883.
JOSEPH PITT of Birmingham in the County of Warwick Tool Maker and JOHN
WORMINGTON of Birmingham aforesaid Hosier "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS
FOR GLOVES BOOTS AND SHOES STAYS LEGGINGS AND OTHER ARTICLES
"
Our invention consists in constructing and combining the parts of fastenings for
gloves boots and shoes stays leggings and other articles in the manner hereinafter
described whereby the act of fastening the glove or other article at the same time
draws or pulls together the two edges of the article to be connected. We will
describe our invention as applied to the fastening of a glove to which it is
particularly suited.
Our improved fastening consists essentially of a loop or link which is jointed to
and is capable of swivelling upon two short uprights carried by a foundation plate
which plate is secured near one edge of the glove. These uprights project a short
distance above the surface of the glove so that the loop or link may be turned on
one or other side of the said uprights. To a cross bar at the unjointed end of the
loop or link an arm or lever is jointed the jointed end of the arm or lever
consisting of an eye or knuckle which can swivel or turn upon the cross bar of the
loop or link as a centre By thus jointing the arm or lever to the loop or link the
arm or lever may be folded upon or turned from off the loop or link. When the
arm or lever is in its folded position it passes between the short uprights on which
the loop turns and lies a little below the plane of the loop. The free or unjointed
end of the arm or lever is slightly expanded and has a hole made in it. This hole
can be hooked upon a hook or engaged with a headed stud at the opposite edge of
the glove to that at which the fastening described is jointed.

page_text: In fastening the glove the arm or lever is turned from off the loop or link so as
to lengthen the fastening to its full extent the loop or link being turned towards
and partly crossing the opening between the two edges of the glove. The hole in
the end of the arm or lever is then hooked upon the hook or engaged with the
stud described at the opposite edge of the glove to that at which the loop or link
is jointed The loop is next lifted and turned back upon the glove so as to pass to
the opposite side of the uprights and beyond the neutral point. In taking this
position the arm or lever is folded upon and passes between the loop or link and
the two edges of the glove are thereby drawn forcibly together and fastened the
tension of the glove tending to maintain the loop or link in its turned back
position or on that side of its centre in passing to which the fastening and drawing
together of the two edges of the glove is effected.
In order to unfasten the glove it is only necessary to lift the loop or link and
turn it towards the opening in the glove. The fastening is thereby lengthened to
its full extent and the tension on the two edges of the glove being relaxed the arm
or lever may be unhooked from the hook or withdrawn from the headed stud and
the glove unfastened.
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We apply our invention to the fastening of boots-and-shoes-stays leggings and
other articles substantially as herein before described with respect to a glove..
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joseph Pitt and John Wormington in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 31st July 1883.
JOSEPH PITT of Birmingham in the County of Warwick Tool Maker and JOHN
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS
WORMINGTON of Birmingham aforesaid Hosier.
FOR GLOVES, BOOTS AND SHOES, STAYS LEGGINGS AND OTHER ARTICLES
"
Our invention consists in constructing and combining the parts of fastenings for
gloves, boots and shoes, stays, leggings and other articles in the manner herein
after described, whereby the act of fastening the glove or other article at the same
time draws or pulls together the two edges of the article to be connected.
We will describe our invention as applied to the fastening of a glove to which
it is particularly suited.
Our improved fastening consists essentially of a loop or link which is jointed to
and is capable of swivelling upon two short uprights carried by a foundation plate
which plate is secured near one edge of the glove. These uprights project a short
distance above the surface of the glove so that the loop or link may be turned on
one or other side of the said uprights. To a cross bar at the unjointed end of the
loop or link, an arm or lever is jointed the jointed end of the arm
consisting of an eye or knuckle which can swivel or turn upon the cross bar of the
loop or link as a centre. By thus jointing the arm or lever to the loop or link, the
or lever

page_text: arm or lever may be folded upon or turned from off the loop or link. When the
arm or lever is in its folded position it passes between the short uprights on which
the loop turns and lies a little below the plane of the loop. The free or unjointed
end of the arm or lever is slightly expanded and has a hole made in it. This hole
can be hooked upon a hook or engaged with a headed stud at the opposite edge of
the glove to that at which the fastening described is jointed.
In fastening the glove, the arm or lever is turned from off the loop or link so as
to lengthen the fastening to its full extent, the loop or link being turned towards
and partly crossing the opening between the two edges of the glove. The hole in
the end of the arm or lever is then hooked upon the hook or engaged with the
stud described at the opposite edge of the glove to that at which the loop or link
is jointed. The loop is next lifted and turned back upon the glove so as to pass to
the opposite side of the uprights and beyond the neutral point. In taking this
position the arm or lever is folded upon and passes between the loop or link and
the two edges of the glove are thereby drawn forcibly together and fastened, the
tension of the glove tending to maintain the loop or link in its turned back
position, or on that side of its centre in passing to which the fastening and drawing
together of the two edges of the glove is effected.
In order to unfasten the glove it is only necessary to lift the loop or link and
turn it towards the opening in the glove. The fastening is thereby lengthened to
its full extent and the tension on the two edges of the glove being relaxed the arm
or lever may be unhooked from the hook or withdrawn from the headed stud and
the glove unfastened.
We will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing
the manner in which our invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents a glove to which a fastening constructed according to our
invention is applied, the glove being represented fastened; Figure 2 represents in
plan and Figure 3 in edge view, drawn to a larger scale, the two parts of the glove
fastening and the edges of the glove dis-connected; Figure 4 represents an edge
view of the same parts in the act of being fastened and Figure 5 the same, partly
in section, after the glove has been fastened; Figure 6 represents an edge view;
Figure 7 a vertical section and Figure 8 a plan of the two parts of the fastening
without the glove, drawn to the same scale as Figures 2. 3. 4 and 5.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of
the drawing.
The principal part of the fastening attached to the edge a of the glove consists
of the loop or link c jointed to and capable of swivelling upon the two short
uprights d, d on the foundation plate e which is secured to the edge a of the glove.
The loop or link c may be turned on one or other side of the said uprights d, d. To
the cross bar of the loop or link c the arm or lever f is jointed. The jointed end of
the said arm or lever ƒ consists of the eye or knuckle g which can swivel or turn
upon the said cross bar of the link c as a centre so that the arm or lever f may be
folded upon or turned from off the loop or link.
When the arm or lever f is in its folded position as represented in Figures 1
and 5 it passes between the short uprights d, d and lies a little below the plane
of the link c (see Figure 5). In the free expanded end of the arm or lever fis a
hole h and at the joint end of the said arm or lever is a second hole i. The hole
is for engaging the arm or lever f with the headed stud k on the plate fixed to
the edge b of the glove and the hole i is for engaging the other end of the said
lever (when the glove is fastened) with the headed stud m on the foundation
plate-e of the principal part of the fastening. The headed stud k has an undercut
or notch on one side only. When the glove is unfastened, the two parts of the
fastening occupy the respective positions represented in Figures 2 and 3, that is, the
arm or lever is turned from off the loop or link c and the fastening lengthened
to its full extent, the loop or link e being turned towards the opening between the
two edges of the glove. The hole h in the end of the arm or lever f is now
hooked upon or engaged with the headed stud k at the edge 6 of the glove and the

page_text: loop or link o is lifted from the glove into the position represented in Figure 4 and
by pressing the said loop in the direction indicated by the arrow Figure 4 it is
turned back upon the glove so as to pass to the opposite side of the uprights d, d
and beyond the neutral point so that it has no tendency to rise.. The link c in.
taking this position brings the arm or lever f into the position represented in
Figures 1 and 5, the said arm or lever passing between the sides of the link (see
Figure 1) and the joint end of the arm or leverf when fully folded engages by
means of the hole i with the headed stud m on the foundation plate e. The two
edges a,
b of the glove are thereby drawn forcibly together and fastened as illus
trated in Figures 1 and 5, the tension of the glove tending to maintain the loop or 1
link c in the turned back position Figures 1 and 5.
"
To unfasten the glove, the loop or link o is lifted into the position represented
in Figure 4 and then turned towards the opening in the glove as represented in
Figures 2 and 3 so as to lengthen the fastening to its full extent. The tension on.
the glove being thus relaxed the arm or lever may be withdrawn from the stud k 1
and the glove unfastened as represented in Figures 2 and 3.
We apply our invention to the fastening of boots and shoes, stays, leggings and
-other-articles-substantially as herein before described and illustrated with respect
to a glove.
Having now described the nature of our invention and the manner in which the 2
same is to be performed we wish it to be understood that we claim as our
"invention-The improvements in fastenings for gloves, boots and shoes, stays,
leggings and other articles hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawing; that is to say, a fastening composed essentially of the swivelling
link or loop o and arm or lever f, the said swivelling link or loop and arm or lever 2
being jointed together and combined with the other parts of the fastening and
acting substantially as described and illustrated, whereby the act of fastening the
glove or article draws or pulls together the edges of the said glove or article.
In witness whereof We the said Joseph Pitt and John Wormington have
hereunto set our hands and seals this Twenty fourth day of July in the year of 3
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty three: