US2112413A - Cutting feature for cloth measuring machines - Google Patents

Description

I 1 w. E. AESCHBACH 2,112,413

March 29, 1938.

' CUTTING FEATURE FOR CLOT Filed Aug. 12, 1935 Patented Mar. 29, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CUTTING FEATURE FOB- CLOTH MEASUR- ING MACHINES Application August 12, 1935, Serial No. 35,726

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a method for marking cloth, ribbon or the like which is particularly useful in connection with cloth measuring and computing machines as used in stores, though not in any sense limited in use to such machines.

In the sale of cloth, ribbon and other fabrics, a measured length is cut from a bolt or roll. Heretofore it has been substantially the universal practice to cut a measured length, using shears or other suitable cutting implement, making a plain out which is very easily duplicated.

It has been found that in some instances customers return the goods sold them claiming a shortage of measurement. In such cases the store which sold the goods has had to take back the goods first sold and furnish the customer with the desired length. Such goods as are returned them become remnants, which must be sold at a loss, as it is practically impossible to dispose of a particular measured length of cloth except in the practice of using it as a remnant and selling it at a reduced price.

Because of the ease of duplication of the out which has heretofore been made it has been possible for a customer to order a length of cloth, ribbon or the like which will be delivered to the customer accurately measured. After the goods are delivered, the customer may cut a portion from the goods delivered and then return the balance to the store claiming undermeasurement. This has happened and, irrespective of the certainty of the merchant that it has occurred, he has been faced with the necessity of taking back the goods sold, for which undermeasurement has been claimed, and furnish a new full measure of the goods, sustaining not only the loss incurred through selling the goods returned as a remnant, but also that which comes from that portion of the goods which was abstracted from the first sold.

It is an object and purpose of the present invention to provide a method of marking the goods sold at each end thereof so that when it is returned to the store with a claim of undermeasurement, it can be positively determined whether in fact such undermeasurement occurred, or whether full measurement was given and a part of the goods cut off and the balance returned.

The invention which I have made, while of a simple character, is very practical and useful and has been applied by me to fabric measuring or computing machines of the general type and character illustrated in patents having Nos. 1,336,230 and 1,369,663, both granted upon the application of Walter E. Hosch.

For understanding of the invention reference may be had to the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view, with parts broken away, illustrating a cloth measuring machine equipped with the cutting blades by means of which my invention is accomplished.

Fig. 2 is a plan of a length of fabric which has been. measured on the machine and which has been cut from the bolt or roll, and

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary plan illustrating the manner in which the fabric is marked at an edge at the end of the measuring operation of the machine so as to distinctively mark both the piece which has been measured and sold and the end of the bolt or roll from which said piece is cut.

The machine, which shows a conventional type of cloth measuring and computing machine, is very extensively used in retail stores. It has a horizontal slot 2 through which the fabric is drawn during the measuring operation, the fabric actuating a measuring roller which in turn drives suitable indicators and price charts, so that at the end of a measuring operation the amount of the fabric measured and the cost thereof may be read by the clerk. The mechanism for accomplishing what has been described is no part of the present invention and need not be set forth in detail.

With my invention a notched cutting blade 3 is located at the rear portion of the throat or slot 2 substantially flush with the bottom side of said slot or the upper side of the table over which the fabric is drawn. In machines of this character a cooperating cutting blade is carried on a pivotally mounted lever 4 which, at its upper end, has an outwardly extending thumb piece 5 whereby the operator may press thereon and move the lever downwardly, a spring (not shown) normally holding the lever in the upper position appearing in Fig. 1.

In the carrying out of my invention a cooperating cutting blade 6 having a notched surface at l is secured to the lever in such a position that when the lever is turned downwardly the notched cutting surfaces 3 and l cooperate to slit the inner edge of the cloth or ribbon which is located in the slot 2, to mark the point at which the length of fabric measured is to be cut from the bolt or roll.

Referring to Fig. 3, a fragment of the fabric of the bolt or roll is indicated at 8. When the lever 4 is depressed at the end of the measuring operation a out which is made in the edge of the fabric of a zig-zag character is shown at 9. This cut may be not over one-half of an inch in length. The remainder of the cut, so as to sever the measured piece from the bolt, will be substantially along the dotted line Ill, and made as a plain cut, as by shears or other suitable cutting means. That portion indicated at 8a at the right of the dotted line II] will be the fabric measured and cut from the bolt, while that indicated at 8b will be of the fabric remaining with the bolt.

In Fig. 2 there is shown a length of fabric II, which has been measured and which has been out from the bolt. It is apparent that when any fabric is notched at its edge, using the type of cutting knives illustrated at 3 and 1, there will be two sides to the cut, one of an irregular zigzag character at the end of the fabric measured and the other of a similar character at the front end of the fabric remaining on the bolt. Therefore, on any measurement of the fabric the front end thereof will be marked as indicated at 9a by reason of the preceding cut made upon completion of the preceding sale. The rear end of the fabric II measured will be marked with a similar zig-zag cut as indicated at 9b. Therefore any length of goods measured on the machine is distinctively marked at both ends. A customer having pilfering propensities cannot cut from either end of the goods and escape detection.

The invention, while relatively simple, is very practical and useful. The character of the zigzag marking shown may be widely varied without departing from the invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patents is:

In a cloth measuring machine, means for measuring cloth by passing an edge thereof through the machine and means for notching an edge of said cloth at the end of said measured distance comprising a shear having jaws with medially positioned serrated portions.

WALTER E. AESCHBACH.

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