US1740218A - Glove and method of making the same - Google Patents

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S. E. BENJAMIN ET AL GLOVE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Filed March 25, 1929 Dec. 17, 1929.

ends]! 1. 101a Y ATTOR N EYS WITNESSES Patented Dec. 17, 1929 UNITED STATES Pasteur OFFICE SCHUYLER E. BENJAMIN AND WENDELL P. MURRAY, 0F GLOVERSVILLE, NEW YoRK,

ASSIGNORS TO LOUIS MEYERS & son, me, or NEW YoRK, N.. Y., A CORPORATION 7 OF NEW YORK GLOVE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Application filed March 23, 1929. Serial No. 349,414.

' vention being to provide a slip-on glove having no fastening devices and having a, slit or opening at the side thereof, said glove having an integral, inwardly turned hem, pref erably relatively wide, joined to a finishing strip in such a manner as .to provide a neat and attractive appearance and one which is strong and durable in use.

A further object is to provide a glove 'of this character which will have a distinctly novel, sporting appearance with strongly reinforced edges and neatly rounded corners so constructed that the Wrist, cufl or gaunt-let portion may be worn straight or folded back upon itself, as desired.

With these and other obiects in View, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts which will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in theclaims.

In the accompanying drawings- Figure l is a plan view of the glove blank;

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the upper.

end or cuff, wrist or gauntlet portion of the glove showing the first step in the method of constructing the glove;

Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2 showing the next step in the method of forming the glove;

F igure 4 is a view similar to Figures 2 and 3 showing the final step or completed glove construction Figure 5 is a view in elevation looking into the inside of the cuif portion of the glove with the same spread open to illustrate the construction of the cuff.

1 represents the glove blank and our imroved blank differs from an ordinary glove Elank in that it has an extension or hem portion 2 at the upper end or wrist portion of the glove with notches 3 at the edges of the blank, the walls of said notches being curved so that when the hem 2 is folded down onto the blank or body portion of the glove on the line indicated by'the dot and dash line 4 the corners of the glove at the wrist portion will be neatly rounded."

We would have it understood. that we employ this reference character 1 to indicate not only the blank but the glove generally, but as our invention has particularly to do with the upper end or wrist portion of the glove it is not necessary to describe in detail the manner of assembling the palm and finger portions of the glove as we follow, the common well known practice or method in the construction of this portion of the glove.

The upper end of the glove is referred to by many different names such as the wrist port-ion, the Fcufl or the gauntlet but to avoid repetition we shall hereinafter refer to this portion of the glove as the cuff portion. The inner portion of the glove is designated as the palm portion while the other portion will be referred to as the back portion for the purpose of identification.

,The blank 1 is folded and secured along one edge by a line of stitching 5 which terslip-on glove and which is free from buttons or fastening devices of any character.

The construction of this cuff portion of the glove is what constitutes our invention and which will now bedescribed in detail.

As above stated, the glove has a relatively. wide hem 2 constituting an integral part of the cuff portion. In constructing the glove a border strip 6 is secured to the edge of the hem 2 at its extremities, preferably by stitching 7. This is indicated in Figure 2 of the drawing and constitutes the first step attractive appearance.

in the formation of the cuff portion of the glove.

The hem 2 is then folded against the outside of the cuff and the edge of the strip 6 is secured to the edge of the glove by a line of stitching 8, which line of stitching extends around the curved corners of the cutf formed by the notches 3 so as to give a neat and attractive, strong and durable finish to the glove at these points. The strip 6 outlines the opening or slit in the side of the glove and is secured at one edge only to the glove by the lines of stitching 8. This step in the method of making the glove is shown 3learl y in Figure 3 of the drawings.

The next step in the method is to turn the hem 2 and the strip 6 inwardly against the inner face of the glove and secure the strip 6 and the hem 2 by a line of stitching 9, which may be an overhand stitch or a glove machine stitch, as desired. This is indicated in Figures 4 and 5 of the'drawings so that the-glove when finished has a neat and It will thus be noted that by reason of our improved construction and method we produce a novel glove of the slip-on type, fully reinforced and strengthened where strains and wear are most apt to occur.

Various changes and alterations might be made in the general form of the parts de scribed without departing from our invention and hence we do not limit ourselves to the precise details set forth but consider ourselves at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall ,within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

We claim:

1. The herein described method of making gloves, including the provision of a glove blank having'a hem at its cuff portion and notches at its edges adjacent the hem, first securing the glove at the edges thereof, then securing a strip to the edges of the hem at the ends of the hem, then turning the hem outwardly and locating the strip against the edges of the body of the glove, then sewing one edge of the strip to the edges ofthe glove, then folding the hem and the strip inwardly, and finally securing the strip and I the hem to the glove by a line of stitching.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a slipon glove having a palm portion and a back "portion, a line of stitching extendin for a portion of the length of a pair of a jacent edges of the palm and back portions for securing said edges together and terminating short of the cuff portion of the glove to provide a slit or opening at the cuff portion, an integral hem on the glove secured against the inner face of the glove, a strip secured at its ends to the edges of thehem, said strip at its edges secured to the edges of the Walls of the slit in the glove and disposed entirely within the glove, and a line of stitching viding an additional reinforcement at this 1 point, the inner portion of the strip being isposed at the end of the first-mentioned line of stitching.

SCHUYLER E. BENJAMIN. WENDELL P. MURRAY.

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