US1894091A - Glove and the production thereof - Google Patents

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H. GlLLlAN Jan. 10, 1933. 1,894,091

Fild June 17. 1930 iii Patented Jan. 10, 1933 UNITED STATES HERMAN GILLIAN, OF COS HOCTON, OHIO GLOVE AND THE PRODUCTION THEREOF Application filed June 17,

This invention relates to gloves.

This invention has utility when incorporated in canvas or work gloves and in the 5 lfnethod of cutting the fabric elements there- Referring to the drawing Fig. 1 is a View of the back of a glove embodying the invention herein;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a finger and hand 10 back element;

Fig. 3 is a view on the line IIIIII, Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is a plan view showing the method of cutting the elements of Fig. 2 from strip stock.

The invention herein lies particularly in the production and use of the fabric elements of a glove which form the middle part of the hand back and the back of the two middle fingers as well as the fourchettes therebetween. From strip stock 1 which may be of any desirable material, glove elements 2 are Cut simultaneously in large quantities. By the use of a multiple die cutting through several layers of stock, together with the particular shape of the elements disclosed herein, a great saving in material is had as well as an improved glove.

Each element has a hand back portion 3 terminating in an abrupt enlargement to form a finger portion having a finger back region 4 and fourchette forming extensions 5 therefrom. The sides 6 of the hand back portion are straight and parallel. Side or edge 7 extends between the sides 6 at one end of the element to form the wrist terminus. The corners 8 between the sides 6 and the side 7 are curves with a short radius.

Each fourchette portion 1 has a straight side 9 extending at approximately a right angle from a side or edge 6 to junction 10 therebetween, the junction being a relatively small curved section having the same radius 45 as the curved corners 8.

From the outer termini 11 of the sides 9, the fourchettes have curved sides 12 extending toward curved terminus or finger tip portion 13.

In cutting, parallel rows of the elements extend across the fabric strip. Said rows 1930. Serial No. 461,733

as adjacent to each other have the junctions 11 abut to form a parallel sided serrations. The length of the fourchette side 9 is one half the width of the hand back portion 3. The sides 6, 7, have a right angle therebetween, the corners 8 and 10 are of the same radius.

Therefore a hand back portion 3 will completely interfit between each pair of elements 2 as adjacent in a row across the strip, stock 1. The elements are reversely symmetrical and a succeeding and interfitting row extend 1n the opposite direction from the finger portions or the first row.

The two completely interfitting rows formmg the series of elements have only a small waste piece 14: on each end thereof along the strip sides. Assecond series of elements in a pair of like rows is cut adjacent the first series and the abutting elements are offset so that the second series partially interfits with? the first series. This leaves a minimum of waste, there being only small pieces 15 between the finger portions.

By this interfitting relationship between series of elements, there is a saving of the strip length 16 between each series cutting. This has proven, in normal sized gloves, to amount to ten yards of material for each one hundred dozen pair or a saving of three cents per dozen pair.

There is a cutting of 22 elements from a running length of 12" normally 33 wide as against a cutting of 28 elements from a running length of 18 and 38 wide using the finger tip straight line abutting method. 8

In a glove, the elements 2 are assembled by fastening means 17 usually stitching and the sides 6, 9, 12, 13, are turned to be assembled to adjacent elements. The sides 6 are sewed to another side 6 of an adjacent ele-- ment 2. The sides 9 are also sewed to adjacent sides 9 thus completing a fourchette between the two having a straight line finger crotch region extending from the hand back portion to a palm element 18. There is formed; a box-type crotch region defeating binding or puckering between the fingers of a wearer. The palm and finger front element 18 may be stitched to the sides 12 and 13 completing the hand covering part and gauntlet 19 sit-r tached to the edge formed by the adjacent wrist termini 7 completing the glove.

What is claimed and it is desired to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

5 A glove hand back comprising a plurality of similar interfitting elements, each element extending from wrist to finger tip as a full finger back, said element having a finger back section extending from the finger tip to lat- 1 eral abrupt shoulders, which shoulders each approximate one-quarter the general width of the finger back section adjacent the shoulders, there to leave from the shoulders a hand back section of half the width of the finger 1 back section, said half width portion of the hand back extending to a wrist terminus, said elements arranged side by side in a series with the wrist termini lying in a line parallel to their tips along a lineal extent of said series said wrist termini of the first series interiitting with the wrist termini of a second reversely disposed similar series with the wrist termini of one abutting the shoulders of the other in pairs, said first series being scalloped at the line of the finger tips on the other side of the first series away from the second series and there sinuously interfitting said finger tips of the first series with the finger tips of a third similar series disposed I in the direction of the second series.

In witness whereof I afiix my signature.

HERMAN GILLIAN.

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