US1254913A - Butler's glove. - Google Patents

Description

J. C. KITAMURA.

BUTLERS GLOVE.

APPLICATION EILED JUNE 17. 1916.

Patented J an. 29, 1918.

JAMES c. nrmuna, or Los ANGELES, oamronnu.

BUTLERS GLOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 29, 1918.

Application filed June 1 1, 1918. Serial No. 104,637.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES C. KITAMURA, a subject of the Emperor of Japan, residing at Los Angeles, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Butlers Glove, of which the following is a specification.

An object of this invention is to provide a superior convenience for the use of butlers and other persons in the operation of dusting furniture, cleaning silver, polishing shoes, polishing furniture and any and all kinds of service where a dust cloth or polishing cloth may be used.

An object of this invention is to provide a glove that is convenient for such work as polishing silver, dusting furniture, polishmg shoes with great ease and facility and without soiling the hands, and which is also adapted for convenient use after the manner of an ordinary glove.

Other objects, advantages and features of novelty may appear from the accompanying drawings, the subjoined detail description and the appended claims.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention.

Figure 1 is aperspective view of a butlers glove constructed in accordance with this invention, looking at the palm or inside of the glove.

Fig. 2 is a reduced view of the back or outside of said glove.

Fig. 3 is a fragmental cross section on line 90 Fig. 1, on an enlarged scale.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of another form of the butlers glove.

The body of the glove may be cheesecloth, canton flannel or any other desired flexible sheet material of suflicient strength, and comprises the usual palm 1, thumb 2 and fingers 3 on the inner side and the back 4, thumb 2 fingers 3' on the back side. The front and back sides are connected together in the usual manner of the art of glovemaking by seams 5 located along the margins of theglove, there bein in all ten marginal seams which only di er in length and location, and are therefore not indicated by separate characters.

Along the marginal seams and projecting inwardly, that is to say, toward the palm side of the glove, are a seriesof flaps 6, arranged in parallel sets; there being a set of flaps at each edge or margin of. the glove body and at each side of the glove fingers including the thumb, there being ten sets in all and a plurality of flaps in each set. Said flaps at each edge of the fingers extend along the edges of the fingers con-- tinuously almost from end to end thereof and extend edgewise beyond one side of the fingers and are adapted to overlap and cover the intermediate faces of the same.

In some instances, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, the'flaps are made of plaits of flexible material, said material bein -doubled upon itself and 'sewn to the margins of the glove at the seams thereof. In other instances, as indicated in Fig. 4, the flaps may be made of separate strips, the free edges 7 of which are single ply. The flaps may be of any desired width, and I have found that an inch or an inch and a half The two sets of flaps for each finger are fastened at their closed edges to opposite sides of the fingers respectively and are of a width greater than the diameter of the finger, and they project laterally beyond the finger so that they may combine to form a cover for that side; but may be easily separated to expose the wall of the finger so that the same may be used as the ordinary finger of a glove when the wearer wishes to grasp an object therewith.

The flaps preferably terminate a little short of the finger ends, so that the tips 8 of the glove fingers may be formed of a single thickness of material free from the flaps, so that the flaps may be easily separated to allow objects to be COIIVGIIIGIltlY' handled with the gloved hand.

In practical use the attendant will draw the gloves onto his hands in the usual manner of putting on gloves, and may then use the face, formed of the flaps to rub the furniture, silver, shoes or other objects that are to be dusted, polished or cleaned, and by thrusting the flaps aside, may use the fingers to graps obj ects'as with the gers of a common glove.

The gloves may be removed instantly, thus leaving the attendant free from the cleaning appliance.

I claim:

1. A glove comprising a body having fingers and flaps connected to the adjacent sides of the fingers and extending edgewise beyond, the front faces of the fingers and adapted to overlap to cover said faces, and. to be separated to expose said faces.

2. A glove comprising a body having fingers and flaps connected to the adjacent sides of the fingers and extendin edgewise beyond the front faces of the fingers and.

( leaving the finger tips bare of flaps.

ee-nets adapted to overlap to cover said faces, and

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles, California, this 10th day of June, 1916.

JAMES C. KITAMTURA. Witness:

JAMES R. TOWNSEND-

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