AN IMPROVEMENT IN GLOVES
Year: 1854

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Barlow Cooley, of High Street, in the Town
of Nottingham, and of Mercer's Row, in the Borough of Northampton,
Hatter and Glover, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN GLOVES."
Hatter and Glover, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN GLOVES."
Sealed the 13th February 1855, and dated the 21st August 1854.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Barlow Cooley at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
21st August 1854.
I, ROBERT BARLOW COOLEY, of High Street, in the Town of Nottingham,
and of Mercer's Row, in the Borough of Northampton, Hatter and Glover,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
GLOVES to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in the employment of elastic web, which I insert in
the form of a gusset or gussets in the upper part of gloves, whereby greater
ease will be afforded in pulling them on, the use of buttons and other like
fastenings may be dispensed with, and the gloves will fit comfortably at the
wrist.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Barlow Cooley in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 20th February 1855.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ROBERT
BARLOW COOLEY, of High Street, in the Town of Nottingham, and of
Mercer's Row, in the Borough of Northampton, Hatter and Glover, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, in the eighteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Robert Barlow Cooley, Her special licence that I, the said Robert Barlow
Cooley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said Robert Barlow Cooley, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN GLOVES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Robert Barlow Cooley, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Barlow Cooley, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in the employment of elastic web, either corrugated
or otherwise, inserted in the form of a gusset or gussets in the upper or other
suitable part of gloves, whereby greater ease will be afforded in pulling them
on, the use of buttons and other like fastenings may be dispensed with, and
the gloves will fit comfortably at the wrist.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is, the
employment of elastic web inserted in the form of a gusset or gussets in

page_text: the upper or other suitable part of gloves, for the purpose herein-before
explained.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Barlow Cooley, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of February, One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-five.
Witness,
ROBERT BARLOW COOLEY. (L.S.)
GEO. JON. ROBINSON,
Patent Agent,
Nottingham.