US1470538A - Skirt marker - Google Patents

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W. MILLER SKIRT MARKER Oct. 9, 1923.

Filed July 25. 1921 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 W. MILLER SKIRT MARKER I5 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed July 25, 1921 W. MILLER Get. 9, 1923.

SKIRT MARKER Filed July 25. 1921 3 Sheets-Sheet 5 Patented Oct. 9, 1923.

, UNITED STATES WILLIAM HILLltB, or amncrms'rnn, ENGLAND.

Application illed July 25, 1921. Serial No. 487,571.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM Mnmm, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at Manchester, England, have invented new and useful Im rovements in a New or Improved Skirt arker, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to appliance for marking skirts or other garments and has for its object to rovide improved means whereby said marking may be effected by powdered chalk or coloured material delivered in spray form at the desired point.

According to the invention the marking device comprises a reservoir for the powdered marking material having an inlet for air under pressure to enter above the marking material which is agitated and rises in a cloud which is carried through a separate outlet communicating with a nozzle like fitting from which the powder is projected to effect the desired marking.

The device is articularl advantageous for marking the ottom of ladies skirts or other garments when being fitted and is combined with a stand to constitute a gauge, so arranged that it can be adjusted at any predetermined distance above the floor level. It may then be moved to different points around the person being fitted, with the nozzle-like fitting in contact with the cloth or adjacent thereto, when the compressed air will cause the marking material to be projected on to the material to indicate the level to which the skirt is to be trimmed.

The invention will be more particularly described by the aid of the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a form of the device mounted on a stand.

Figs. 2 and 3 are detail views drawn to an enlarged scale showing the marking material reservoir and method of mount-' in the same.

ig. 4 is a cross sectional view of the reservoir.

Figs. 5 to 9 are detail views of the nozzle cording to one convenient manner the improved marking device comprises a cup-like reservoir a to receive the powdered marking material, which will usually be white chalk for marking dark materials, but a coloured chalk for marking light material.

The reservoir is provided with a cap 6 'for charging purposes and has a trans- 'lhe reservoir is carried by a clip or arm 9 on a vertical pillar It provided with a foot or stand 2'. Slidably mounted on the pillar h is a projecting arm j at the end of which is secured the marking nozzle is in the form of a tubular fitting provided with a horizontal slot in. The nozzle is connected by a flexible pipe I with the reservoir outlet and the pillar h is preferably calibrated at It so that the nozzle can be set at any predetermined distance above the floor level.

At the top of the pillar is a handle 11, and adjacent said handle is a blower n in the form of a rubber bulb connected by the tube m with the air inlet 0 of the reservoir (1. Instead of a rubber bulb an air pump may be provided adjacent said handle, preferably forming a continuation of the pillar see Fig. 10. The pump plunger n can be grasped by the hand used to grasp the pillar handle h and the act of so grasping raises the pump plunger, which when released returns under spring pressure and forces air through a conduit (not shown) to the reservoir containing the marking material to cause said material to be projected from the nozzle as in the last example. The pump plunger is provided with a non-return valve such as the usual cup leather to allow the passage of air on the up stroke whilst preventing the return of said air on the down stroke, the air having free access above the plunger around arm and nozzle of which Fig. 8 shows the the plunger rod or through a perforation same in cross section.

Fig. 10 shows a modified form of a pump and Figs. 11 and 12 show in detail an arrangement in which a central screw is used to raise and lower the nozzle.

In carrying the invention into effect acin the cylinder top.

As shown more particularly in Figs. 5 to 9, the arm 9' is adapted at one end for attachment to the vertical pillar h, a screw 0 see Figure 5 or a cam as shown in Figure 9 being provided to secure it in the adjusted position along the length of the pilwith a somewhat fan shaped'shallow. recess open at the extreme end, the other two sidesbeing provided with a V-groove k to receive suitable compressible packing material such as rubber. vided with a complemental groove to cover the recess, leaving the/desiredoutlet slot is at the front end, said top plate being provided with a nipple is for the flexible suply pipe 1. The bulb or other air pump may be mounted on a fitting rotatably mounted on the handle so as to readily swivel round the same and prevent the flexible supply pipe becoming fouled. The pillar h is calibrated and to ensure that the slot k correctly records the height as marked on the pillar, a screwed pin 0 or like device may be provided on the arm 7' to constitute an adjustable index pointer when assembling the marker. In practice the pillar h is calibrated before-being attached to the stand or base and when attached to said base, the calibrations do not always indicate the correct height in units above the ground level, although the distance apart of the units is correct. Consequently the screw forms a readily adjustable indicator which, after the nozzle has been set to a given height off the'floor, as gauged by measurement, the screw can be raised orlowered to register with the corresppndingly marked calibration, so that thereafter the nozzle may be set for any height by moving it up or down until the top of the screw registers with the calibration on the pillar indicating the desired height.

Instead of a straight slot, or row of holes, said slot or holes may be arranged to form any desired pattern and it will be obvious that the device may be used to mark the thinnest material without any support at the rear. The pedestal-like fitting may be made of metal or wood and if desired a screw 1) or like means may be provided engaging a nut g secured to the arm 7' by means of which the nozzle arm may be raised or lowered, see Figs. 11 and 12, said screw or the manipulating head having markings thereon, if desired, by means of which the nozzle may be set to the required hei ht.

y these means a simple and eflicient marking device is provided which can be used for all materials and by means of A top plate is pro-- which garments can be marked off to a perfectly horizontal plane quickly and without laborious stooping on the part of the fitter. All liability of the nozzle becoming voir for the marking material provided with an opening for charging purposes, a removable closure for said openlng, an air inlet leading to a depending dome arranged above the marking material, an air outlet for the mixed air and marking material arranged at the top of the reservoir, a flexible conduit leading from said reservoir out let to a nozzle, a nozzle having a slot or perforations therein and having a rearward extension slidably mounted on a pillar, a pillar having a base to constitute a stand upon which the-nozzle is mounted so as to be capable of vertical adjustment thereon, and upon which the reservoir is carried together with means to supply compressed air to the reservoir substantially as described.

2. Apparatus for marking textile material comprising, in combination, a reservoir for the marking material provided with an opening for charging purposes, a removable closure for said opening, an air inlet leading to a depending dome arranged above the marking material, an air outlet for the mixed air and marking'material arranged at the top of the reservoir, a flexible conduit leading from said reservoir outlet to a nozzle, a nozzle having a slot or perforations therein and having a rearward extension slidably mounted on a'pillar, a .pillar having a base to constitute a stand upon which the nozzle is mounted so as to be capable of vertical adjustment thereon, and

upon which the reservoir is carried together with means to supply compressed air to the reservoir, said pillar being calibrated to facilitate the adjustment to a predetermined height above the floor level, substantially as described.

1 In testimony whereof I have signed name to this specification.

" WILLIAM MILLER.

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