US103696A - Improvement in gloves - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT @EEroE JOHN Il. WHITTEN, OF ESSEX, VERMONT.

IMPROVEMENT IN GLOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 103,696, dated May 31, 1870.

To all whom 'it may concern.:

Be it known that I, J oHN L. WRITTEN, of Essex, in the county of Chittenden and State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gloves; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the manufacture of gloves the backs of' which are made of woven stuif and the fronts of leather, the leather also covering the sides, an d partially covering the backs ofthe fingers; and it consists in arranging the leather, which partially covers the backs and covers the sides of the fingers, so as to tip the iingers at the ends with leather, extending` over the back of the finger in a manner to better protect the Woven stuff of the back, and to avoid the converging of the seams by which the leather backs or sides and the woven-stuff' backs are joined at the tip of the fingers, which are greatly exposed to wear and soon rip and fray out, spoiling the glove, while the'other parts are good.

It also consists in cutting the leather side and back for the first 1in ger, together with the leather front for the same, in one piece.

It also consists in cutting the band for the wrist, together with the woven-stud' part for the back, in a peculiar shape, whereby an economy of material results, and also in animproved pattern for the same.

Figure l is a diagram of the pattern for the woven-stuff back and wrist. Fig. 2 is a diagram of the pattern for the leather front. Fig. 3 is a diagram of the pattern for the thumb.

Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are diagrams of the patterns l by which the leather sides and backs are cut for the second, third, and fourth fingers, respectively; and Fig. 7 is a plan of' the front and back of the glove, and the leather sides of the fingers stitched together at one inner edge, and the leather sides for the fingers' stitched to the backs.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the diagram of' the back or woven stuff, or the pattern for the same, together with which is the wrist-piece B, or the pattern therefor. This pattern for the woven-stuft" back is the same as now used, except the part B. The dotted lines c, Fig. l, show where the leather front and sides ofthe fingers are stitched thereto. C is the diagram or the pattern for or of the leather front, which is the same as the ordinary form, except the part D, which forms the leather side f'or the inside of the forefinger, partially covering the back of the saine, as shown at E, Fig. 7. The part F becomes the front side of the said forefinger, as clearly seen in Fig. 7, and is stitched to the part A at the line a', Fig. l.

G, Fig. 4, is a diagram or the pattern for `the piece which becomes the sides and back part of the second finger. H, Fig. 5, is the same for the third finger, and I, Fig. 6, the same for the fourth linger, and extends along the side to the wrist at I', Fig. 7. K, Fig. 3, represents a diagram of the pattern for the thumb.

The improvement iu these leather parts for the sides and backs of the fingers, by which they differ from the common arrangement, is in the connection of' the parts for the two sides by the curved ends L, which lap back over the ends or tips, so as to be stitched to the backs at a distance f'rom the ends, and on the curved lines b, whereas in the common arrangement the sides are made in two parts and join at the tips, the lines d of the stitching converging thereat. In this way I provide a more g simple arrangement for stitching the said parts to the back, also a much more durable arrangement, for the wear to which the ends of the fingers are exposed is not so disastrous when made in this Way, for in the old way the stitches are exposed more, and also the cloth extending down the point.

The dotted lines S, Fig. I, show how th pattern A B may be reversed on the material to be cut in a way to econoinize the same, the part, B, for the wrist being cut olf at the ends of the fingers, so that the two parts vso formed, by reversing the pattern, represent a rect-angular form.

After the part B of the back is stitched to the front on the line T, Fig. 7, I cut it transversely, together with the front woven material, as shown at to make the opening at 3. The combination, With the piece C for the leather front, of the part D, substantially as specified.

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 29th day of December, 1869.

AJOHN L. WHITTEN.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. MABEE, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

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