US745150A - Glove. - Google Patents

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No. 745,150. PATENTED OV. 24,1903.

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UNTTED STATES Patented November 24, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 745 ,150, dated November 24, 1903.

Application filed February 16,1903. Serial No. 143.465. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK H. BUsBY,

a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gloves; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

Myinvention relates tothe class of gloves; and it consists in the novel construction and relative arrangement of the parts or portions thereof, which I shall hereinafter describe.

The object of my invention is to provide a strong, well-fitting, and comfortable glove, with due regard to economy in cutting, said object being obtained by such `patterns as will give when united a glove in which the entire thumb is integral with the main por'- tion, leaving no seams of any kind in the palm of the glove, the thumb springing integrally from the palm in the most'natural and favorable position for freedom and fit and giving the maximum strength to resist all strains.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of my glove. Fig. 2 is a backgview of same. Fig. 3 is a view of the main pattern or trank forming the larger portion of the glove, including the integral thumb, and showing also in dotted lines the stretched point a3, underlying the upper part of the thumb portion. Fig. 4 is a broken or partial view of the trank of Fig. 3 reversed to show the stretched point a3 in full. Fig. 5 is a view of the fourchette of the second nger. Fig. 6 is a View of the fourchette of the third finger. Fig. 7 is a View of the front Wrist-gore.

-In the glove shown in Figs. 1 and 2 a single piece or trank A forms the entire front a of the palm and Wrist, with the exception of a gore in the Wrist, the entire thumb a', with its ball and Wrist extension, both front and back, the entire first and fourth ngers 1 and 4., the fronts 2 and 3 of the second and third fingers, and back 0.2 of the glove on the fourthfinger side. The remainder of the back of the glove is formed by the fourchettes B and C of the second and third iingers,respectively. The remainder or excepted part of the front of the glove-to Wit, the Wrist-is formed by a gore D, which is originally a single piece,

but when the glove is completed is, as shown, divided by the wrist-opening d To better understand the parts of the glove, I refer now to Figs. 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, which show the patterns or shapes of these parts before they are united. In Fig. 3 the main pattern or piece is designated by A, its several portions being correspondingly lettered and numbered to those of the glove-to Wit, the palm tt, the thumb'a, the first 'and fourth fingers 1 and 4, the fronts 2 and 3 of the second and third fingers, and the fourth-finger side of the back a2. The fourchettes B and CI of the second and third fingers 2 and 3 are shown in Figs. 5 and 6, and the Wrist-gore D is sho'Wn complete in Fig. 7. Now it Will be seen that when the main piece or trank A is bent or folded to have its several seams seWed up the front of the palm of the glove, as shown in Fig. l, has not asingle seam in it,

and the thumb forms an integral part of it,

thus avoiding the usual construction of a separate thumb in whole or in part and the usual seam bounding the ball of the thumb,as when the thumb is set into the usual thumbgouge. the only seam in the back is the short seam ly y, which extends from the base of the thumb connection with the first finger across to the seam b h, which unites the main piece to the second-finger fourchette B, said seam y y extending diagonally downwardly and in line With and continuing, in fact, the seam of the thumb itself. Finally, by reference to Fig. l, it Will be seen that the seams d d', which unite the gore D to the main piece, are Well down on the wrist of the glove. Thus I am enabled to securefthe main object of my invention, which is to form the entire thumb integral with the main part of the glove and to avoid any seams in the palm. There is in my glove, therefore, no seam on the palm to strain and open, as is the case' where' the thumb is in Whole or in part a separate piece and is let into a thumb-gouge. The seams d cI in the front being on the Wrist are not subject to injurious strain. also gives greater freedom to the thumb and to the Whole hand, makes a good t, gives durability to the glove, and results in economy in cutting.

In practice there is a further and very es- It will further be seen by Fig. 2 that- My construction IOC sential point to be noticed in the construction of the main piece A, with regard to the best position of the seam y y, which when the glove is sewed up is the only seam required to unite the thumb portion to the rest of the trank A. This seam is formed by the union of the edge fy, Figs. 3 and 4, at the base of the first finger with the edge y2, Fig. 3, on one side of the wrist or top below the thumb. If vthe edge y at the base of the first finger be cut in straight as the continuation of the thumb out and nothing further is done, the resulting seam y y will pass directly and substantially at right angles over the knuckle of the first finger. This is not the best disposition of this seam, as it is both inconvenient to the finger and is subject to the full strain of the most powerful knuckle. If the edge 'y' were cut from a little above at a downward inclination to meet the cutof the thumb, the resulting seam would extend at an upward inclination infront of the knuckle. This direction of the seam,while perhaps better than the straight one, is still not desirable, as it is unsightly. The best direction for the seam y y is that shown in Fig. 2, wherein it extends or inclines diagonally downwardly below the knuckle, thus giving entire freedom with minimum strain; but as this direction necessarily implies an undercutting of the edge y', which, as shown in Fig. 3, lies considerably under. the thumb, being formed by a positively-projecting point a3 of material integral with the rest of the piece, it would seem at first glance impossible to cut out such a pattern; but the capability of leather to stretch furnishes the solution. The underlying point a3 is stretched to its shape after a preliminary straight cut, and thereby forms the projecting point as, as shown in full in the reversed Fig.4,said pointhavinginclined edgey, which is necessary to give the required downward inclination to seam yy. It will be noted also that the thumb portion of the pattern of Fig. 3 is not cut at exactly rightangles to the remainder of the pattern, but is slightly downwardly inclined thereto. This necessitates the lower edge ofthe wrist or top of the glove to be cut parallel to the thumb inclination, whereby when folded the top will be square.. and the thumb will be given a more natural position with relation to the glove.

The gore D of Fig. 7 is a single piece at first, and on account of the incline of the thumb and top said gore is an unequal-sided triangle. It is seamed into the glove as a whole and is subsequently cut on the line d2, Fig. 7, to form the wrist-opening d, Fig. l, the cut of said opening being continued, as shown, beyond the apex of the gore-seams CZ' d', so that said cut enters the strong material of the glove and does not terminate in a union of seams.

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

1.V In a glove, a main portion formed from a trank having a thumb integral therewith, the trank being separated along the upper edge of the thumb and base of the first finger and the base of said linger having a point overlapping the thumb, the inner edge of said point inclining upwardly toward the interior of the trank, said trank having also a free edge below the thumb adapted to unite with the inclined edge of the point to join the thumb by a seam in the back extending diagonally downwardly across the base of the first finger below the knuckle.

2. A glove consisting of a' main portion formed from a trank having a thumb integral therewith, the trank being separated along the upper edge of the thumb and base of the first finger andthe base of said finger having a point overlapping the thu mb, the inner edge of said point inclining upwardly toward the interior of the trank, said trank having also a free edge below the thumb adapted to unite with the inclined edge of the point tojoin the thumb by a seam in the back extending diagonally downwardly across the base of the first finger below the knuckle, suitable fourchettes in the back, and a gore in the front wrist.

3. A glove consisting of an integral main portion forming the palm, the thumb with its wrist extension, the rst and fourth fingers with the wrist extension of said fourth linger, and the fronts of the second and third lingers, the thumb of said main portion be ing separated along its upper edge fromthe base of the first finger and the base of said finger having a point overlapping the thumb, the inner edge of said point inclining upwardly toward the interior of said main portion, said main portion having also a free edge below the thumb adapted to unite with the inclined edge of the point to join the thumb by a seam in the back extending diagonally downwardly across the base of the first finger below the knuckle, fourchettes forming the backs of the second and third fingers and the wrist extensions, and agore in the front wrist to complete the top.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

FREDERICK H. BUSBY.

Witnesses:

WALTER F. VANE, D. B. RICHARDS.

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