IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Porter, junior, of Wood Street, in the City
of London, Warehouseman, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES."-A communication from abroad by Edouard
Vidil, of Grenoble, France.
Sealed the 30th April 1867, and dated the 2nd November 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Porter at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 2nd
November 1866.
I, RICHARD PORTER, junior, of Wood Street, in the City of London,
Warehouseman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES," to be as follows:-
This Invention is intended, firstly, to make the connection of the thumb-
piece with the body or main pieces of the glove stronger or less liable to give.
way; and the first improvement consists in a particular cut of the thumb-
piece, as shown in Figure 1 of the annexed Drawing, which represents a piece
for the left thumb; also in cutting the body or main pieces to correspond with
this particular cut of the thumb-piece.
The second improvement is intended to give an ornamental appearance to
the glove, and consists in giving to the back end of the body or main pieces.

page_text: an ornamental figure, as shown at a, Figure 2, and in sewing thereto a piece
or pieces 6 of corresponding figure to constitute the back end of the glove to
which the welt is sewn.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Porter in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 2nd
May 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
PORTER, junior, of Wood Street, in the City of London, Warehouseman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Second day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Richard Porter, Her special licence that I, the said Richard Porter, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard
Porter, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-.
FACTURE OF GLOVES," (communicated to me from abroad by Edouard Vidil, of
Grenoble, France, who has obtained a Patent for the same Invention
in France, on the 13th of September 1866, under the name of "Gant,
E.V.," No. 72,819,) upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said Richard Porter, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one their hands and seals, 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 'Richard Porter, do hereby declare the
nature of the 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, reference being had. to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
that is to say:
This Invention is intended, firstly, to make the connection of the thumb-

page_text: piece with the body or main piece of the glove stronger or less liable to give
way; and this first improvement consists in a particular cut of the thumb-
piece, as shown at E, Fig. 1, of the annexed Drawings, which represents a
piece for the left thumb. It will be observed that the line or connecting
edge a is much less rounded than ordinary, and the connection will be found
much stronger than the ordinary rounded or curved connection of the thumb
and main piece.
The second improvement is intended to give an ornamental appearance to the
glove, and at the same time to improve the fit at and near the wrist. This
improvement consists in cutting the body or main piece with the back end
having the figure shown at Fig. 2; this piece is cut by the punch represented
at A, Fig. 3, and this same punch has a portion B for cutting a cuff piece,
which is afterwards sewn to the body A of the glove.
Figure 4 shows the back or outside of the finished glove, and Figure 5 the
palm or inside. The part C in Figure 2 forms the button slit, while the
thumb-piece represented in Figure 1 is inserted into the part F, Figure 2,
and the part D forms the back of the glove; the welt is sewn in the ordinary
manner to the back of the piece B. The punch shown in Figure 3 cuts the
body or main piece of a left-hand glove while it cuts the cuff of a right-hand
glove.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as the improve-
ments in the manufacture of gloves,―
First, the particular cut of the thumb-piece as and for the purpose
herein before described and represented in Figure 1 of the accompanying
Drawings.
Second, cutting the body or main piece with the back end, having sub-
stantially the form shewn in the Drawings, and sewing or uniting thereto
a cuff piece of corresponding form, as and for the purpose described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Porter, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Second day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
RICH PORTER TUNE Gol

page_text: LONDON: Printed by GEORGE EDWARD EYRE and WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE,
Printers to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1867