US223569A

US223569A - Shoe-maker s measuring-tablet

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Publication number: US223569A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1880-01-13
Anticipated expiration: 1897-01-13

Description

all the measurements relating to each size be- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGH WHITE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

--SHOE-MAKERS MEASURING-TABLET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,569, dated. January 13, 1880.

Application filed August 19, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HUGH WHITE, of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Makers Measuring- Tablets, of which the following is a speciiica tion.

The accompanying drawings show at Figure 1 a plan view, at Fig. 2 a cross-section, and at Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, of my in vention. Fig.4is a view of the movable tabulated measurements.

Like letters indicate like parts in all the figures in which they appear.

In said drawings, A is a flat tablet of any suitable size, with openings a, a a], and a? through it, as hereinafter specified. Centrally and parallel with the flat sides thereof the tablet is recessed to receive and hold a sliding plate or piece of paperboard, B, nearly coextensive with the tablet itself. This piece B contains the measurements of the diii'erent portions of the foot necessary to be known in cutting out the parts of the boot or shoe tabulated in vertical columns and horizontal lines,

ingarranged upon the same line. These tables become visible through the openings at a in the tablet, one set or table being shown upon one side and another set upon the other side of the tablet, as both sides of the board B are printed each with a different table and matter.

The opening a is for the purpose of disclosing the width -letter of the size, and hence such opening need be only large enough to show one letter.

The openin s a a are duplicates of each other, for disclosing the movabletable of measurements arranged in two columns. The object' of having two openings to is in order to save length and make the device compact and shapely.

The tables consist of measurements arranged in four vertical columns-ball, instep, heel, and ankle measurements of the same kind being in vertical lines and the same relation or size in horizontal lines.

Upon the tablet, at the top of the opening, are the titles or names 0 of the place of measurement, as shown in the drawings, and at the side are numbers 0, denoting the sizes. There appears, therefore, upon the device, first, the indicator-letter at a, denoting the width, as, say, Gr last, next, at the vertical openings, all of the sizes from 0 or 1 tolS belonging to this width. By moving the inclosed board B up or down the indicatorletteris changed and the tables also changed to correspond. The oblong aperture a affords a means of grasping the board with the thumb and finger 13:; eii'ect such change.

This device will be found to be exceedingly convenien t for shoe-makers and manufacturers, and also for dealers.

The matter of the tables on one face is made to denote mens and womens sizes, and on the other childrens and misses sizes, so that one apparatus does for both kinds of boots and shoes by simply turning the apparatus overin the hand.

I claim As anew manufacture, a slioe-makers tablet consisting of a tablet having openings to a. c, and an interior sliding piece, B, the tablet having numbers denoting the sizes at the side of the openings (1 a, and the piece B having the foot-measurements arranged in horizontal lines, so as to be visible through said openings a a, the mens and womens sizes being upon one face and the misses and childrens upon the reverse face, and having also widthmarks visible through the opening at, the whole being constructed and arranged as described.

HUGH WHITE. l/Vitnesses:

EDW. S. EVARTS, H. M. MUNDAY.