US2178658A - Inseam measuring apparatus - Google Patents

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Nov. 7, 1939. J. TURPAN INSEAM MEASURING APPARATUS Filed Jan. 22, 1938 INVENTOR, Ja. me: TMYPMYL,

ATTORNEY.

Patented Nov. 7, 1939 INSEAM-MIEASURING APPARATUS James Turpan, Paterson, N. J.

Application January 22, 1938, Serial'No. 186,277

3 Claims.

This invention relates to apparatus for taking certain vertical measurements in respect to garments, as the inseam measurement of a customer when being fitted with a pair of trousers. Its principal objects is so to construct the apparatus when the garment is to hang a specified distance from the floor or other level that allowance may be taken for that condition in calculating the length of the garment. For instance, certain individuals require their trousers toreach quite to said level, whereas others require that they should reach to an extent more or less abovesaid level. As herein shown the apparatus follows the general construction of that set forth in my application Serial No. 155,357, which has matured into Patent Serial Number 2,126,517, but it involves a certain improvement therein in accordance with another object of this invention.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the apparatus, with both plungers raised;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary front elevation, partly broken away and partly in section and with the front panel removed;

Figs. 3 and 4 are sections on lines 33 and i4, respectively, of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a front-to-rear section of the lower end portion of the gage-plunger; and

Fig. 6 is a section on line 6-5, Fig. 1.

An upright supporting structure is here formed as follows: I designates a rectangular base to which are doweled, as at 2, two upright panels 3 in face-to-face contact with each other and having pairs of vertical grooves opposed to each other and forming guideways and 5. The panels may be doweled together at 6 but preferably they and the base are glued together. One groove of guideway d is to receive the gage-plunger and it has a countergroove l in which is secured a corrugated strip 8 whose corrugations are here onehalf an inch apart. In the other groove of this guideway 5 and near the top of the same is a stud 9. Secured to one panel, as by a staple W, is the cylindrical guide H for a detent l2 which may enter the other guideway 5 and which, between its shoulder 52a and the shell, penetrates a spiral spring [3 urging the detent inwardly; the detent is in the plane between the panels, whose adjoining faces may be cut away to receive it, and the handle or outer end of the plunger protrudes.

In the guideway 4 is slidable a rod l4 which forms the stem of the gage-plunger including a cross-bar l5 fixed to the upper end of the rod and preferably also including the following parts: An arm or extension member 86 penetrated by a thumb-screw l'l arranged in a slot 12a nearone end of the cross-bar; a stud [8 on the cross-bar to be received by the forked end 16b of the arm when the latter is elevated and alined with the cross-bar; and a stud i9 and a pointer 20 at the other end of the cross-bar. In the lower end portion of the rod I4 is inset a socket 21 which guides a detent 22 normally held protruding from the rod by a spring 23 interposed between the head shown at the outer end of the detent and the socket. This detent engages the corrugated strip 8. In the opposite side of this rod is a vertical groove 2 which receives the stud 9 and terminates short of the lower end of the rod so that the stud limits the upward movement of the latter.

In the guideway 5 is slidable a rod 25 which forms the scale-plunger. The cross-bar of the gage-plunger lies in the same plane as the scale plunger and its end having the stud I9 and pointer 28 closely adjoins the latter, the pointer lapping the scale-plunger and the stud engaging in a vertical groove 26 in such plunger and thus confining the pointer close to the same. That face of the scale-plunger which the pointer laps is provided with graduated scales as follows:

At a: is a line which, when it registers with a pointer y, here taken as the juncture between the side of plunger 25 and the curved top surface of the supporting structure, is a given distance from the level on which the customer stands. This line is the lowest of the lines of a graduated measurement scale having the lines above line .1: numbered 23, 24, etc., upwardly. Below this scale is a graduated allowance scale whose lines are numbered 1, 1 etc., downwardly. The lines of the first scale are here one inch and of the second scale one-half inch apart. In the plunger 25 is a notch 21 to receive detent l2 when line 33 registers with pointer y, and below this notch is a series of notches 28 spaced as a series from notch 27 the same as line a: from the allowance scale and spaced apart the same as the lines of such scale.

Combined with the supporting structure we thus have means to determine the measurement which is movable vertically upwardly and guided by said structure and has a vertically graduated measurement scale and. includes a vertical plunger (as 25), and the structure and plunger have 00- operative means (l2 and 21-28) to hold the plunger at any of different elevations, one of them (here the plunger 25) having the allowance scale and the other the pointer (as y) coactive with such scale to indicate the allowance at which the plunger is held. In this example the measurement scale is actually on the plunger 25 rather than plunger l4; and plunger [4 is of course present to aid in determining the measurement by cooperating with the plunger 25. But these conditions are not indispensable in the broad aspect of the invention.

Suppose the customer requires his trousers to hang to the floor. The scale-plunger is held, by engagement of detent l2 with notch 21, so that line a: registers with pointer 11. The gage plunger, which he straddles, is then raised to his crotch, its pointer indicating the measurement on the measurement scale. If the trousers are to hang a given distance from the floor, say one inch, the scale-plunger is held, by engagement of detent [2 with the topmost notch 28, and the gage-plunger operated as before.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim is:

1. An apparatus for the purpose described including supporting structure and a vertical scaleplunger and a vertical gage-plunger each vertically movable upwardly in and guided by said structure and the scale-plunger having a vertically graduated measurement scale and the gageplunger a pointer coactive with said scale, said structure and the scale-plunger having cooperative means to hold the latter at any of different elevations and one of them having a vertical allowance scale and the other a pointer coactive with the allowance scale to indicate the elevation at which the scale plunger is held.

2. In combination, supporting structure including a base and a pair of upright panels arranged in face to face contact with each other and having their lower ends conforming to a common plane'and abutting the base, said panels being secured together and to the base and forming between them a pair of vertical guideways, and a pair of plungers in the respective guideways, one plunger having a vertically graduated scale and the other a pointer in proximity to and cooperative with the first plunger.

3. Apparatus for the purpose described including a fixed structure, a scale plunger movable up and down and guided by said structure and having up-and-doWn-extending scales arranged one above the other and the upper one of which reads upwardly and the lower one reads downwardly, said structure having a pointer arranged to coact with the lower scale, and a gauge plunger movable up and down and guided by such structure and having a pointer projecting into proximity to the scale plunger and coactive with the upper scale.

JAlVIES TURPAN.

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