IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, E.C., Patent Agent, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES."-A communication from
Mess. A. and L. Fontaine, residing at Paris.
Sealed the 3rd June 1859, and dated the 6th December 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 6th December 1858.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, E.C., Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES," (communicated to
me by Mess". A. and L. Fontaine, residing at Paris,) to be as follows:-
The object of the Invention is to manufacture gloves with fewer seams, and
therefore with greater economy than heretofore, and the Invention consists in
cutting out the body or main piece of the glove by machinery or otherwise, of
such a form that by turning over two projecting side pieces they will form the.
forefinger and little finger respectively, and in then cutting out and sewing to

page_text: the main piece additional pieces to form the backs of the middle fingers and
part of the back of the glove; another piece to form the thumb, and another
to form the wrist piece.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 6th June 1859..
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, E.C.,
Patent Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-second year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Richard Archibald Brooman, Her special licence that I, the said Richard
Archibald Brooman, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, 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 Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF GLOVES," (a communication from
Messrs. A. & L. Fontaine, residing at Paris,) upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors or
administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
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 Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, 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:-
The object of the Invention is to manufacture gloves with fewer seams, and

page_text: therefore with greater economy than heretofore, and the Invention consists in
cutting out the body or main piece of the glove by machinery or otherwise, of
such a form that by turning over two projecting side pieces they will form the
forefinger and little finger respectively, and in then cutting out and sewing to
the main piece additional pieces to form the backs of the middle fingers and
part of the back of the glove; another piece to form the thumb, and another
to form the wrist piece.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a view of a piece of skin, cloth,
or other suitable material cut to form part of a glove according to this Inven-
tion; Figure 2 is a view of the piece of material employed to form the wrist;
Figure 3 is a view of the shape of the thumb piece, which is attached by
sewing to the glove at C'; Figure 4 is a view of a piece of material to form
the upper part of the middle finger, the under part of which is formed as shewn
at D', Figure 1; Figure 5 is a view of the piece of material to form the upper
part of the ring finger, the under part of which is formed as shewn at E¹,
Figure 1. When all these parts are sewn together the glove will be complete,
as shewn at Figure 6. The glove just described is composed of five parts, but it
can be made in four by dispensing with the wrist piece, as shown at Figure 7.
The glove is shewn when cut in this manner, and the parts have been sewn
together in inside view at Figure 8, and outside or back view at Figure 9. As
the first or index finger V and the little finger X are cut close to the edge of the
material, as shown at Figure 1, a single line of sewing will form these fingers,
but for the middle and ring fingers there will be two lines of sewing, in order
to connect the parts shewn at D and E, Figures 4 and 5, to the parts marked
E', D', Figure 1.
The glove may be formed with the ordinary opening at the wrist inside the
hand, as shewn at I, Figure 8, for the entrance of the hand. The slit is closed
in the ordinary manner by a button l, or by two buttons or otherwise. Or the
slit can be formed at the back of the glove, as shewn at Figure 6, and the
fastening effected by two hooks r, 7, fixed to the glove and connected together
by a piece of braid, india-rubber, or other suitable material attached at one end
to the under part of the slit, and having a knob formed at the other, which
takes into one of the hooks r, r¹, as shewn.
The stitching of the wrist piece at t, t', t, may be ornamented or embroidered
at will. It will be observed that fork pieces and gussets between the fingers
are entirely dispensed with.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be perforined, I declare that I claim the methods

page_text: of forming and combining the parts of gloves, as herein-before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of June, One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine.
R. A. BROOMAN. (L.S.)