US576922A - tyler - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. TYLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GLOVE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 576,922, dated February 9, 1897.

Application filed June 10, 1896. Serial N0. 594,949. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. TYLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, county of New York, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gloves, of which the follow.- ing is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in gloves; and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts hereinafter described, and subsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a plan View of the front or palm side of my improved glove. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the back of the glove. Fig. 3 is aplan view of the blank for the lower part or body of the glove. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the blank for the upper part or fingers of the glove. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the thumb-blank. Fig. 6 is a plan view of one of the six fourchettes.

The object of my invention is to easilyand cheaply produce a glove having the parts most exposed to wear made more durable than the less-exposed parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the glove-body or hand portion without fingers and thumb and made of comparatively thin material.

0 represents the thumb, B the finger portion of the glove, andD one of the fourchettes, each made in a separate piece from the body portion A and of comparatively thick and durable material.

The thumb is secured in a thumb-aperture in the body portion of the glove in the usual manner.

The finger portion comprises a single piece provided with individual sheaths for the several fingers and is joined to the body portion of the glove bya seam extending transversely of the glove in any known manner.

My invention is especially adapted for gloves made of silk, cotton, lisle-thread, wool, or other textile fabric, and in such gloves it is desirable to have the body or hand portion of the glove sufficiently elastic to permit the glove to be easily applied to and removed from the hand and also to fit the hand in use. For this reason I prefer to have the seam by which the body and finger portions of the glove are joined extend in a devious line transversely of the glove.

The seam S is shown extending in a sinuous line across the glove, the adjoining edges of the body and finger portions being respectively concaved and convexed on the back and respectively concaved-and conveXed on the front of the glove. The line of union is thus made much longer than the transverse dimensions of the glove, whereby the elasticity of the fabric is not destroyed by the seam.

A glove is most exposed to wear at its extremities, and by'makin g the attached thumb, fourchettes, and finger portions of comparatively thick and durable material I am able to greatly increase the wearing qualities of the glove.

By joining the upper and lower parts of the glove by a seam, as previously described, I am able to make a much more perfect-fitting glove than heretofore.

I am aware that it has been heretofore proposed to secure to the bodyportion of a glove finger-pieces of material differing from the material of the body; but it was also pro- .posed to have a separate individual piece or pieces for each finger, which pieces were to be separately secured to the body by stitching. Since none of the fingers are of the same length, the finger-pieces to be secured to the glove-body are not interchangeable, and very much valuable time would be lost in the selection of the proper finger-piece to be secured in each finger-opening in the body, and even with extraordinary care mistakes would frequently occur which would render the glove unsalable. By having all the finger-pieces connected by a single piece common to and integral with each finger-piece no time is wasted in selection, and no mistaken arrangement of the finger-pieces can happen, and no objection able seam is formed at the junction .of the finger and hand portions which would tend to hurt the hand of the wearer when closed upon such seams. It

has also been proposed to secure to the hand portion a Wrist-piece below the thumb; but I do not claim such constructions.

WVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A glove consisting of a hand portion, finger-pieces, diifering in material fironi. the hand portion, and an attaching portion integral with, and common to, each finger-piece,

secured to the hand portion above the thumb :o by a transverse seam, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 5th day of June, 1896.

WM. I-I. TYLER. \Vitnesses:

O. A. VVADLEY, ARTHUR 0. Ports.

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