US437254A

US437254A - Glove-fastener

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Publication number: US437254A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-09-30
Anticipated expiration: 1907-09-30

Description

(No Model.)

M. D. SHIPMAN. GLOVE PASTENER.

No. 487,254. I Patented S ept 30. 1890;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MADISON D. SHIPMAN, OF DE KALB, ILLINOIS.

GLOVE-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,254, dated September 30, 1890.

Application filed January 22, 1889. Serial No. 297,157. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MADISON D. SHIPMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at De Kalb, in the county of De Kalb and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gloves or Mittens, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements ,in gloves or mittens, and by means of which the wristlet portions of the same can at will be readily contracted about the wrists of the wearer or be expanded to facilitate removal; and it consists in the combination, with the glove or mitten, of the devices and elements hereinafter described, and set forth in the claim.

The objects of this invention are to provide a simple and inexpensive means by which the wearer can at will contract the wristlet portions of the gloves or mittens about his wrists and loosen the same to facilitate their removal. I attain these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents awristlet portion of the mitten or glove with my improved device in its simplest form combined therewith and illustrates the same beforethe wristlet portion of the glove or mitten is contracted. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same, with the device operating to hold the wristlet portion contracted, and showing a pull 12 Fig. 3 is a perspective view and illustrating another modification of said loop.

The same letters of reference refer to like parts throughout the several views.

A is a portion of the wristlet of a glove or mitten. a is one side thereof, and a is the opposite side.

Bis the contracting-cord, which has one end I) secured at one side of the wristlet, as at side a, in any suitable manner, as by means of a knot made with the end I) of the cord, so as to prevent its being drawn through the eyelet c, secured with side a; or the end Z) of this contracting-cord can be stitched or otherwise secured to the side portion a, as .may be desired.

D is a suitable runway or orifice, made in the side portion a of the wristlet and through which the contracting-cord B can be freely run. This runway can be protected by means of an eyelet secured to the material, as shown. lVhen the wristlet is made of strong materialsuch as leatherthe eyelet may be omitted, and perforations through the leather for receiving the cord can be employed.

The contracting-cord B is carried from its end I), secured to the side a of the wristlet, over and across the outside of the wristlet, and is then passed through the runway D and turned back on itself, when it is looped with the body of the said cord, as illustrated in the several figures, by means of loop D, made integral with the body of the cord by means of suitable knot, as knot 11, Figs. 1 and 2, for holding the said loop D in normal condition. From this loop D is extended a portion I) of the cord, which is provided,preferably, with knot b which serves as a convenience for grasping and holding the said contracting-cord when it is to be operated. The loop can be produced integral with the cord and without the employment of the knot 6 (shown in Fig. 1) by means of a metallic clamping-band d, or by binding with thread or otherwise securing the limbs of the loop D from spreading, as shown in Fig. 3. The open ingD surrounds theportion B of the contracting-cord B, and when the wristlet is expanded this running loop or opening D will be near the side a. of thewristlet and at the runway or perforation D, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. After the glove or mitten has been drawn on the hand of the wearer he will grasp the knot b or the free end b ,and,pulling on the same in direction of arrow in Fig. 1,will draw the portion B of the contracting-cord through the runway or perforation D and the loop D to situation shown in Fig. 2, or to a distance on B, as the size of the wrist of the wearer will permit, when the cord B will have its loop end held by loop D from being drawn back, while the length of the holding portion of the contracting-cord between the sides a and a will be lessened so as to hold the wristlet gathered or contracted about the wrist of the wearer, and the loop D will be held in place by the pinch between the material of the wristlet and the portion of the cord which this loop surrounds and the friction through out the doubled portion of said cord. By pulling on the knot 11 or end 19 of this contracting-cord in the direction of arrow in Fig- 2 the loop will he carried away from side portion a toward the runway D of the side portion a, when the \vristlet can be opened out or expanded for the removal of the glove or mitten.

A metallic piece secured to the end of the pulling portion 1) of the cord and operating as an enlargement can be substituted for knot D.

By my above-described improvements a simple and inexpensive means is provided by which the wearer can readily, without the assistance of others, contract the Wristlet of a mitten or glove around his wrists and at will loosen the same for removal.

Havingdescribed my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with a glove, a cord B attached at one side of the wrist and extending across to an eyelet or openingin the opposite side, passing through the same, and a loop encircling the cord B intermediate the point of attachment and the eyelet or opening, said loop being formed integral with the free end of said cord, substantially as described.

MADISON D. SHIPMAN. \Vitnesses:

CHARLES II. SALISBURY, JOHN F. BERGQVIST.