USRE6352E - Improvement in gloves - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SOLOMON J. oLiJTn AND DANIEL M. DURFEE, or nooKwoon, NEW YORK.

-' IMPROVEMENT m GLOVES.

Specification forming part of Lette'rs Patent No; 129,934, dated July 30, 1872; reissue No. 6,352, dated March BO, 1875; application filed February 25, 1875. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, SOLOMON J. CLUTE and DANIEL M. DURFEE, of Rockwood, in

the county-of Fulton and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gloves; and we do hereby de-. clare that the following is a full, clear, and

- exact description thereof, that will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to that class of gloves which are known to the trade as the Plymouth Glove, and has for its object to adapt said glove for the attachment of a wrist, so as to form a gauntlet, or, as we term it, a .Plymouth Gauntlet. The Plymouth glove,

' as now manufactnred,is composed of a palmpiece and two fourchettes,the former being cut so as to form the backs of the first and fourth fingers, while the fourchettes form the backs of the second and third fingers. -To adapt this glove to the reception of a wrist it is necessary to have a seam on the little-fin-' ger side of, the glove, and to shorten the lengthlof thepalm-piece and fourchettes. The best and easiest way of making the seam on the little-finger side we have found is by the use of three fourchettes instead of two, the additional fourchette forming the back of the little finger, and the palm-piece correspondingly reduced in width. The nature of our inventiomtherefore, consists in a Plymouth glove formed with a seam on the little-finger side, and reduced, in length to adapt it to receive a wrist and form a Plymouth gauntlet.

Our invention'also consists in a glove formed of a palm-piece, with finger projections, and three fourchettes, all as hereinafter more full y set forth. 1

In the annexed drawing, Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4 are diagrams, showing the several pieces used for the hand and finger coverings of the glove.' Fig. 5 is a top view of the glove. Fig.

6 is a section through one of the fingers.

A represents the palm-piece of a glove, cut with the finger projections a, b, d, e, and e.

.The fourchettes,=which, in conjunction with the part c of the palm-piece, form the back of. the glove and part of the side portions of the fingers, are marked B O D. When united together a seam, h; h, is formed on the littlefinger side of the glove. In the Plymouth glove there is no seam on this side, the palmpiece and fourchette B being all in one piece,

and the parts are vmade considerably longer. By our invention we reduce the palm-piece one-sixth in width and one-tenth in length on the upper or wrist end, or about twenty-five per cent.- The fourchettes are shortened to correspond with the palm-piece;

very important advantage resulting from this mode of cutting out the glove is, that a skin which is defective in many parts or places may be' utilized where it could notv be under the old practice, or by use of the ordinary patterns, it being always difficult to cut palmpieces in suflicient number to. use up the skins.- This economic result is attained without any material oflset by increased cost on account of the slight difi'erence in labor-in sewing or making up the glove, labor being always a small item of expense as compared-with the stock or material used.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A glove formed of a palm-piece having finger projections, as shown, and fourchettes, forming the back of the hand,lwith a seam on the little-finger side, and reduced in length to receive a wrist-piece, all constructed and arranged to" form a gauntlet, substantially as described.

r We also make an enlargement of the glove at the wrist 2. A glove formed of a, palm-piece, A, pro- .vided with the finger projections, as shown,

and the three fourchettes B O D, constructed and arranged substantially for the purposes herein set forth. I

3. The enlarged or projected corners i i, formed on the palm-piece A and fourohette B, respectively, substantially as and for the 'purposes herein set forth.

'In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands this 15th day of February, 1875.

SOLOMON J. OLUTE. DANIEL M. DURFEE. Witnesses:

' THOMAS. BYRNE,

JAS. F. DUHAMEL.

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