US1077061A - Base-ball glove. - Google Patents

Description

J. GAMBLE.

BASE BALL GLOVE.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG Patented Oct. 28, 1913.

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JOHN GAMBLE, OFPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO GEORG-E'A. REACH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 28, 1913.

I Zen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Base-Ball Gloves, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to base ball gloves.

The object of my invention is to produce a base ball glove which may be held comfortably in the preferred position on the hand of the wearer to receive the impact of a caught ball.

A further object of my invention is to produce a glove of said character provided with means for holding same upon the hand by contracting same about the knuckles of the back of the hand to prevent its displacement from the preferred position thereon, and a still further object of my invention is to provide a more simple, cheap and eflicient glove of said class than has heretofore been produced.

To these ends my invention includes the combination and arrangement of component parts to be hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention, Figure l is a perspective view of the back of a base ball glove embodying the preferred form of my invention: Fig. 2 is a similar View of a modified form of my invention.

Base ball gloves of preferred form are constructed of an integral front piece of flexible material forming the palm and finger portions which may be lapped over to form the back of the four or outer finger, and having the back of the hand portion and the backs and sides of the finger portions formed of sectional pieces or fourchettes which are united by longitudinal seams of stitching. The backs of such gloves are cut away at their inner ends at the wrist and provided with a strap and buckle or button or lacing strings to fasten them upon the hand of the wearer at the wrist such fastening means extending across the cut-out portion of the glove.

As heretofore constructed, and thus described, the wrist strap and other mentioned fastening means secured the glove very loosely upon the hand, and in violent and sometimes sudden movement of the wearer, the glove may become displaced on the hand so that the palm structure is not positioned over the palm of the hand, and in attempting to catch a ball an error results. For the purpose of obviating the looseness thus described, I provide means for securing such gloves about the back of the hand below the cut-out portion.

In Fig. l of the drawings is illustrated one form of my invention in which the back 1 of the glove is adjustably secured upon the hand by the transverse strap 2 and buckle 3. As shown, the strap is secured in the seam 4 which united the sections 5 and 6 which form the back of the first and second fingers, respectively, positioned immediately in the rear of the knuckles of the hand at the base of the fingers. By such construction the back of the glove may be adjust-ably contracted around the broad part ofthe hand and behind substantially the projecting knuckles and thus held comfortably in the desired position.

In the modified form of my invention shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, the back 14 of the glove is provided with a row of eyelets 7 adjacent to its rear edge in which pucker strings 8 are laced and secured at their outer ends on the outer sections of the glove. Said strings may be drawn to contract the back of the glove over the back of the hand and knotted to secure same.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to be secured by Letters Patent, is

1. A base ball glove, comprising a front portion and a back portion of flexible material having a cut-out portion at its inner end adjacent to the wrist, continuous finger pieces, and means for adjustably contracting the back portion above the cut-out portion substantially behind the projecting knuckles of the hand to secure the glove on the hand, substantially as described.

2. A base ball glove, comprising a front hand for adjustably contracting the back of portion and a back portion of flexible 1nathe glove to secure same on the hand, sulo terial having a cut-out portion at its inner stantially as described.

end adjacent to the Wrist, continuous finger JOHN GAMBLE. 5 portions, and a strap and buckle on the back Witnesses:

portion above the out-out portion substan- H. E. SMITH,

tially behind the projecting knuckles of the ROBT F. NIXON, J r.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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