US1822010A - Glove - Google Patents

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C. C. CBC/l;

\Sept. 3, 1931.

GLOVE,

Filed Jan. 16, 1930 Inventor 6', 6'. C(40// A ttormy Fatented Sept. 8 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT rric CHARLIE C. CECIL, F SALEM, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR TO REX MANUFACTURING 00., OF ROANOKE, VIRGINIA V GLOVE Application filed January 16, 1930. Serial No. 421,220. I

The present invention relates to an improvement in gloves of a type commonly known as workingmens gloves and has for its principal object to provide a reinforcing tip for the back of the fingers of the glove.

Another very important object of the pres ent invention is to provide reinforcing means of this character which may be constructed of leather or other durable flexible material and in which the reinforcements for the several fingers of the glove are continuously formed and cut from the stock as a unit, the unit being so formed and arranged that the unit is located entirely on the back of the glove and no part of the unit enters the crotches of the fingers.

The invention is adapted for use on that type of glove known as the G-unn pattern in which the two middle fingers are formed separately from the palm portion and the inglove is sewn to the palm part, all of the finger seams are located on the back edge of the fingers. The outer edges of each finger part of the unit are sewn to the glove by the same stitches which connect the palm portions of the fingers of the glove to the finger parts of the back of the glove and the inner edges of the unit are sewn to the back part of the glove. Thus no part of the unit enters the crotches and the entire unit is located on the back of the glove.

A further object is to provide an article of manufacture of this character which is simple and practical in construction, which may be manufactured at comparatively low cost and which at the same time possesses the desired qualities of strength, durability and neatness.

Other objects and advantages reside in the special construction, combination and arrangement of the various elements forming the invention as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout, and in which:

. Figure 1 is a rear elevational view of a glove constructed in accordancewith my invention, 1

Figure 2 is a plan view of the continuously formed reinforcing tip for the fingers and Figure 3 is a transverse sectional view through one of the fingerstaken substantially along a line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Referring to the drawings'in detail the invention comprises a glove formed of the usual palm and back portions 4 and 5 respectively securedat their meeting side edges to each other and to the inner edge of which may beattached the usual gauntlet 6. The scams 3 for the hand portions of the palm and back are positioned inwardly of the sides along the back so as to keep the sides of the glove free from seams.

Finger stalls 7 are provided by forming the outeredges of the palm and back portion with strips of material 4 and 5 respectively sewed adjacent their side edges. The front side of the glove, including the finger strip, is preferably constructed of leather'or other suitable tough flexible material whereas the back portion 5 including the back of the finger strips is constructed of fabric, flannel or other substantially soft material.

.ris before stated the parts 4 of the two middle fingers are sewn at their inner ends tothe palm part of the glove while these partst of the index and little fingers are formed with the palm portion. Each part 4 is of such a width as to extend over the front and side portion of a finger so that when said part l" is sewn to the rear part 5 the connecting seamsare located on the back of thefingers.

To the'backs of the fingers 7 are secured reinforcing tips 8, the tips for the entire set of fingers being cut as a unit from thestock and connected to each other adjacent their,

tips, so that when. placed over thebacks of the finger stalls 7 in a manner as shown in Figure 1 of the drawings,the knuckles of the fingers will be free for unencumbered bending movement by the stiffness of the material of which the tips are constructed.

The reinforcing tips are secured to the back of the fingers and the back of the glove by a row of stitching 11 which extends entirely along the inner marginal edge of the tip, including each side of the V-shaped cut out portion 10. The outer marginal edge of the unit is stitched to the glove by the same stitches 14 which connect the parts a of the finger stalls with the parts 5 thereof.

It will be noted from an inspection of Figure 1 of the drawings that the connecting portion 9 of the tip extends inwardly along the back of the glove beyond the crotch12 between the fingers so that no portion of the reinforcing unit enters the crotches of the fingers.

The seam connecting the front and back portions of the finger stalls is positioned along the backs of the fingers, as indicated at 13.

However the seam 13 flares slightly toward the outer ends of the fingers so that the seam at the ends of the fingers will appear at the outer edges of the finger tips and not inwardly at either the back or front portion of the fingers. At the crotch however the seam 13 is brought rearwardly of the crotch along the back of the glove and this seam also serves as a securing means for the outer marginal edges of the tips 8.

The meeting edges of the material forming this seam are turned inwardly as will be more clearly observed from an inspection of Figure 3 of the drawings and are likewise secured by a row of stitching indicated at 14.

The tips 8 are cut from the'stock by dies in the usual manner and it will be apparent that by cutting the tips as a unit, that the tip for the entire set of fingers may be cut at a single operation and thus materially reduce the number of operations ordinarily required wihere the tip for each finger is cut individua ly.

Furthermore the tips may be sewed with the backs of the fingers with greater facility where the same are interconnected as the operator of the machine is not required to pick up each of the tips separately and place the same in position for the sewing operation.

Experience has shown that this saving in the steps required to produce the glove is material where quantity production is involved.

It is obvious that my invention is susceptible to various changes and modifications in construction without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the appended claim, and I accordingly claim all such forms of the device to which I am entitled.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is:

A glove including back and palm portions having finger pieces secured to each other to form individual finger stalls the finger pieces of the palm being of greater width than the finger pieces of the back whereby to dispose the meeting edges of the fingers along the back of the fin ers and reinforcing tips for the back of the finger stalls formed of a single piece of material and having a continuous front edge coextensive with the edges of the finger pieces and connected at the seams of said finger pieces and a continuous rear edge connected to the back of the glove.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

CHARLIE C. CECIL.

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