G. J. GLOVER. -. No. 220,281. Patented Oct. 7,1879.

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N.PETERS. FHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER, wAsmNGTON, D c. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES J. GLOVER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOXING-GLOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 220,28 l, dated October 7,1879; application ?led July 17, 1879.

To all whom it may concern: the shape of a bag to cover the hand; but Be it known that I, CHARLES J. GLOVER, where the ventilators c are introduced in the of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State outer fabric it is unnecessary to have a double of New York, have invented an Improvement thickness; therefore the inner material will in Boxing-Gloves, of which the following is a usually be sewed to the outer material, a, at speci?cation. the line 8. - Boxing-gloves are usually made with sepa The space between the outer material, a, rate places for the ?ngers and thumb, and with and inner material, I), is to be padded with the backs padded. This involves the use of a suitable material, and it is preferable to use large number of separate pieces in the con nearly the same amount of padding at each struction of the glove, and increases the cost side, so that either part can be used at the of the same. Gloves of this character are also back of the hand. objectionable because the hand can be opened The ?exible handle h extends from one side and used to slap an opponent in a manner that of the glove to the other, the outer covering, sometimes peels the skin, and the thumb and a, being, by preference, cut so as‘to turn in ?ngers can be used to scratch if the person wardly at the parts 4 and be gathered up and using the same is so inclined. attached to the ?exible handle. ' The object of the present invention is to sim In use, the hand is inserted into the glove, plify the construction, to render the glove and the ?ngers passed over the handle, so as cheaper, and to compel the person using the to grasp the same in clinching the ?st. same to keep the hand clinched, so that an This glove prevents the person who uses the undue advantage cannot be taken of an oppo same slapping, scratching, or an op nent. . ponent. My glove is made somewhat in the form of The ventilators are simply openings in the two bags, one Within the other, the inner one kid or other material at c, and covered with being of a size to receive the clinched ?st. netting or crocheted disks. The outer one is larger, so that padding is in I claim as my invention— troduced between the two to completely en 1. The boxing-glove made of outer and in velop-the back, the ?ngers, and the thumb of ner material, without ?nger or thumb pieces, the hand; and there is a ?exible handle the inner space for the closed ?st being pro ingfrom one side of the glove to the other, vided with a handle crossing the same, and which is grasped in the clinched ?st to keep the glove being padded, as set forth. the glove in its place on the hand. There are 2. The combination, in aboxing-glove, of an ventilators at the sides. inner bag for the closed hand, an outer bag of In the drawings, Figure 1 is a section of the larger size, and padding between the two that glove as on the hand. Fig. 2 is a section at extends equally, or nearly so, along the back the line as w, and Figs. 3 and 4 represent the and at the opposite side of the closed hand, as material for the glove as cut out. set forth. The outer covering, a, is preferably in one Signed by me this 7th day of July, A. D. piece; but two or more pieces may be used. 1879. The same extends over the back of the hand, CHARLES J. GLOVER. and is brought back again and sewed together Witnesses: at the seams 1 2 to surround the wrist. GEO. R. TRUMAN, The inner material, b, may be made up into PETER FLETCHER.