US119642A

US119642A - Improvement in gauntlet-gloves

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Publication number: US119642A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1871-10-03
Anticipated expiration: 1888-10-03

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VIRGIL PRICE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAUNTLET-GLOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,642, dated October 3, 1871.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, VIEGII. PRICE, of New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gloves and Gauntlets; andI 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 speciiication, in which- Figure 1 represents a sectional side view of my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view of the gauntlet, and Fig. 3 an end view of the glove.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to so arrange detachable gloves and gauntlets that, when worn, they cannot come apart at the wrists, but will be properly held together, to appear as though united. The invention consists chiefly in forming aproj ecting bead at the upper end of the glove and a corresponding bead on the lower end of the gauntlet, so that thereby the glove will be prevented from slipping down out of the gauntlet.

A in the drawing represents a glove of ordinary or suitable kind. Its upper end contains, in a hem, a, a spring or string, '11, of. suitable fabric, but preferably of rubber or elastic. material, to make the glove self-closing at the wrist. This string in the hein a forms a projecting bead, c, at the `end of the glove. B is the detachable gauntlet, made of leather or other material. It has a projecting bead, d, formed at its lower end by a spring, c, contained within a hem, f. This spring c is preferably inclosed within a spirallywound wire, g, or within a tube which produces the requisite enlargement. The laps of the gauntlet are near the upper end connected by a button or swivel, h, whereon they are turned apart when the lower end is to be sufficiently enlarged for admitting the hand. At the lower end they are entirely disconnected except by the spring e, which is continuous, so as to hug the small end of the gauntlet close over the wrist and upper end of the glove. The bead d, catching over the bead c ofthe glove, prevents the latter from working down and the guantlet from working up, and holds by the spring e both parts A B so nicely together that they appearas if made in one piece. Still they are separated, so that new gloves may be used on the same gauntlets when the first gloves have become soiled by wear. A spring, i, made of flat metal, may be concealed within the middle of theganntlet to close the same at that place and hold the gauntlet stiff, but may also be dispensed with.

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

A glove having the projecting bead c, combined with a detachable gauntlet having the proj ecting bead d, with the continuous spring c therein, as and for the purpose specified.

VIRGIL PRICE.

Witnesses:

GEORGE W. MABEE, T. B. MosHER. (42)