US251272A

US251272A - Johan p

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Publication number: US251272A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-12-20
Anticipated expiration: 1898-12-20

Description

(No Model.)

J. P. MULLER.

GLOVE FASTENING.

No. 251,272. Patented Dec. 20,1881.

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JOHAN P. MULLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

G LOVE-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 251,272, dated December 20, 1881.

Application filed November 1, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHAN P. MtSLLER, of the city, county, and Stateof New York, have invented a new and Improved Glove-Fastening; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompapying drawings, making part of this specificaion.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement in glove-fastenings and the invention consists in a fastening device for the wrists of gloves, composed of a cord, passed through four or more eyelets affixed to the wrist of the glove, the ends of the cord being provided with knobs or balls having shoulders on the ends next adjacent the eyelets, whereby the wrist may be drawn together and held in the closed position by the knobs,the shoulders of which jam the cord in one of the eyelets and prevent the cord from rendering.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 representsa plan or top view of glove with my fastening and with wrist unclosed, and Fig. 2 the same view with wrist drawn together by my fastening.

Similarletters of reference indicatelike parts in the two figures.

The purpose of this invention is to afford a ready means of closing the wrist part of gloves about the wrist of the wearer in a convenient-and positive way. Buttons that are ordinarily employed for this purpose frequently break loose from the threads which confine them to the glove, and the inconveniencein buttoning the glove, together with the liability of the button-holes tearing out, renders this method of attachment objectionable; and metal springs have been employed for the purpose of keeping the openings of gloves together, but their weight and tendency to cut through the glove make them undesirable, and the elastics, which are sometimes used, soon yield to wear and become useless.

To produce a fastening that shall be better and more certain in its working than any of those above enumerated and now known, and which shall be simple in its construction and positive in its action, I insert in the wrist A of a glove, B, on one side of the gore or open ing a, two eyelets, O, placed closely together and horizontally in line with each other, and

on the opposite side of the opening or gore a, are inserted two other eyelets, D, in like manner. Through the eyelets G is then passed a cord, E, so that the fold or bight shall be in one of these eyelets, the cord extending to and its ends passing through the eyelets D, as shown in Fig. 1. To these ends of the cord are fixed, inany desirable manner, knobs F, with a square edge, 1)., formed thereon; or, if preferred, instead of knobs balls or irregular forms of metal with roughened surfaces may be employed.

Now, my fastening device, constructed substantially as above described, is operated by simply drawing upon one of the knobs F, which will cause the cord E to freely render through the eyelets O and D until the opening or gore a of the wrist is drawn together and closed about the wrist of the wearer, and when so drawn together the other of the knobs F will be in close contact with one of the eyelets, l), and, with its square edge b, it will jam the cord E tightly within the eyelet D, and, by the increased friction in this way produced, stop it from rendering within the eyelet, and thereby prevent the unclosing of the wrist-openin g and holcLit firmly in the closed position until it is wished to again open it for the purpose ofremoving the glove, to do which it is only necessary to draw upon the knob F, which has jammed the cord, as before stated, when the cord will freely render through the eyelets.

The cord E should preferably be made with a somewhat roughened surface, to facilitate its binding or jamming by the knobs F in the eyelets D.

Gloves provided with this fastening device may be either lined or unlined, as may desired; but the device is particularly applicable to winter or lined gloves.

Either of the knobs F maybe used indifferently to drawthe wrist-openingtogether. When one is used for the pull the otherjams the cord.

Gloves have heretofore been secured at the wrist by a knotted cord jammed in eyelets, through which it is passed, one eyelet being arranged on each side of the wrist portion.

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

.. 1. The herein-described m'eansforclosing the the herein-described glove, having the wrist portion provided with a gore-piece, a, eyelets O O D D on opposite sides thereof, and the cord E, extended through said eyelets and p'ro- I5 vided with shouldered balls F F, substantially as and for the purpose described.

J OHAN P. MOLLER.

Witnesses:

H. L. WATTENBERG, G. M. PLYMPTON.