US408771A - Dress-form - Google Patents

Description

W. VOGLER.

(No Model.)

DRESS FORM.

Patented Aug. 13, 1889..

N. PETERS, Phaloimw m her. wnhingwn. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM 'VOGLER, on SOMERVILLE, rmssnormsnrrs.

pREss-FoRM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 408,771, dated August 13, 1889.

Application filed May 14, 1889. Serial No. 310,756. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM VOGLER, of Somerville, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Dress-Forms, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention is intended as an improvement upon that described in United States application No. 283,746, filed August 25, 1888.

In the dress-form to be herein described the wings, preferably of wire, are connected with arms, a series of which are held at a certain distance apart by means of a carriage,which carriage is shown as made radially adjustable toward and from the standard of the dress form by means of a grooved cam-plate having preferably a single spiral or scroll-like groove; but instead the said cam-plate may have several grooves, or be made after the fashion of what is called a snail-cam; but the spiral groove affords more accurate adjustment and enables the wings to better retain and remain in their adjusted position when a dress is on the form. The carriages referred to receive the arms of the wings and keep them separated. These carriages have studs or pins which enter the groove or grooves of the cam-plate, and co-operating with each of the grooved cams used and the said car riages is a slotted cap-plate through "which the said studs or pins are extended, to thus enable the cap-plates to serve as a guide for the carriages in their radial movements. A shoe interposed between the cam and coverplate and fast on the said stud or pin serves to keep the said studs or pins in the grooves of the cam-plate, the said shoes aiding in keeping the said studs or pins in uprightposition.

My invention in dress-forms consists, essentially, of a standard, a grooved. camplate thereon, -an independent slotted cap-plate, a series of carriages having pins or studs, and shoes to be actuated by the'said grooved cam, combined with a series of arms arranged in groups and having depending wings attached thereto, the said armsbeing connected with the said carriages to operate, substantially as will be described; also, in a dress-form, the combination of the following instrumentalities, viz: A standard, two grooved cam-plates thereon, two independent slotted cap-plates co-operating therewith, a series of carriages, and connected pins or studs acted upon by one of the-said cams, a series of wings hav ing arms connected to and made movable with the said carriage, the bust or holder section connected with the said wings, a series of neck-rods, and a series of neck-carriages to which the said neck-rods are connected, substantially as will be described.

Other features of my invention will be pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a sufficient portion of a dress-form to enable my present invention to be understood, the lower part of the standard being broken out, the wings being in section, while the front half of the bust or shoulders is supposed to be omitted. Fig. 2 is a top or plan View of the upper portion of the form represented in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of Fig. 1 with the shoulder or bust portion removed, the standard being in section. Fig. at is an enlarged detail of the neck portion of the form with part of the shoulder or bust in section at the right. Fig. 5 is a sectional detail of the upper part of the form in the line 01;, Fig. 4; Fig. 6, a plan view of the cam employed in the neck of the form for expanding the shoulder or bust portion.

Fig.

7 is an enlarged detail of the form, showing the arms carrying the skirt-wings, and the means for supporting and adjusting the said arms. Fig. 8 is a partial section in the line .23 of Fig. -7. Fig. 9 is adetail showing in plan view the cam employed to expand and contract the lower part of the form, the said cam being located in the waist of the form. Fig. 10 shows a modified form of cam which may be used; and Fig. 11, an under side view of one of .the cap-plates, showing the shoes in place.

The standard ct, preferably of metal, will in practice have a suitable foot orf'eet to rest upon the floor. This standard has screwed to it by a suitable set-screw, as a, the hub of a grooved cam-plate a the said hub in practice preferably having inserted within ita sleeve, as I), through which the said screw extendsto impinge against the standard a. This too sleeve above the cam-plate a is provided with a shoulder or collar, as b, which serves to keep down in proper position a cap-plate b having several radial slots, as 2, the said capplate and grooved cam-plate being rotatable one with relation to the other about the said sleeve. The cap-plate at its under side below the slots thereon has lips 40 (see Fig. 11) to receive and guide the shoes 0. The upper side of each like-grooved eam-plate a and 071 (shown separately in Figs. 9 and (3) has a groove made as a scroll, it starting from the central part of the cam-plate and passing around and around the same substantially to its edge.

Each shoe 0 is fitted to slide in guideways formed by lips 40, (see Fig. 11,) projecting from the under side of the cap-plate b each shoe having a stud or pin, as c, the upper part of which enters a carriage, as d, to which is connected all the arms 9 of each set of wings g to be moved with the said carriage. These studs or pins 0 are free to play in the slots 2 of the cap-plate, and below the shoes the said studs or pins enter the groove or grooves of the cam-plate, according to whether the said cam-plate has one groove or more than one groove. By permitting the studs or pins to enter the groove or grooves of the cam-plate the said carriages, when the cam-plate or capplate is rotated one. with relation to the othe about the standard, are moved radially toward and from the said standard to expand or contract the dress-form.

The wings g, composed preferably of wire and shaped substantially as shown, depend from the like arms g, and the said arms, herein supposed to be of wire, are connected in suitable manner with the said carriages, as by the studs or pins 0, the said arms being kept separated from each other for any desired or proper distance by entering slots in the upturned or flanged outer ends d of the said carriages (I. The inner ends of the said arms 9 are herein represented as bent or provided with eyes which fit over the pins or studs 0, or they may fit any suitable pin or stud extended above the carriage, so long as the said arms are connected with and so as to move in unison with the said carriages. The upturned or flanged part (1 of the carriages d are herein represented as of segmental form.

Ihave herein shown four arms 9' connected to each stud 0; but I may use a greater or less number of arms or wings wit-h each carriage, according to the number of wings desired in each group of wings, and the distance apart of the arms will depend upon'the distance apart of the slots in the flanged parts (1 in which the said arms are dropped or laid.

In case of accident to any one or more arms or wings they may be readily removed from the form and new ones substituted, or Wings of other shape may be readily substituted.

I have shown each wing as having an upwardly-extended finger, as 3, (represented best in Fig. 8.) These fingers serve to receive sockets or eyes 4, preferably of metal, secured in suitable manner to the shoulder or bust portion h of the form. The shoulder or bust portion is herein represented as composed of four pieces, preferably of papier-mach or paper,or other suitable or usual material. The upper ends of the bust or shoulder portions have loops or eyes, as 5, (see Figs. 4 and 5,) which receive, as herein represented ,the downturned ends of neck-rods m, composed preferably of wire, each neck-rod having its inner end bent to form an eye to embrace a pin or stud, as m, erected upon the neck-carriages m interposed between the slotted cap-plate m and the grooved cam m The said cam m and cap-plate m surround a pipe h loose on the standard a and resting loosely on a collar a secured to the red by means of a suitable set-screw m, the small pipe 7L8 having preferably a head n, and a collar 7 is screwed into or secured in other suitable manner to the cam-grooved plate we, so that the cam may be rotated by the said pipe while the cap-plate coni iected to the shoulder portions remains at rest. The pins or studs m, as described of the pins or studs 0, are also extended through a shoe, the shoes in the neck of the form being marked p and thence into the grooves of the neck-cam m The cam m the disk m", the pin or stud m, shoe p and the carriages m are substantially the same as the parts shown and previously described as employed at the Waist of the form to provide for adjustment of that part, and by rotating either the cam-plate 'm or the slotted plate m the carriages m may be adjusted readily to expand or contract the upper part of the shoulder or bust portion of the form.

Referring to Fig. 6, it will be seen that the cam m as described of the cam a", has a scroll-shaped groove.

vent the rotation of the wings and slotted cap-plate about the standard, except when the form is to be expanded or contracted; but with the scroll-cam the locking device will not be required.

The form with the wings may be readily rotated about the standard without expanding or contracting the same; but by engaging the upper end of the pipe h in one hand and rotating the form, the cap-plates rotating with the form and about the standard causes the pins or studs 0 and m to travel in the camgrooves and expand or contract the form according to the direction of rotation.

I do not intend to limit my invention to the exact number of cam-grooved plates employed in the form or to the exact shape of the grooves in thesaid cams.

I claimj 1. In a dress-form, the standard, a grooved cam-plate thereon, an independent slotted cap-plate, a series of carriages having studs and shoes to be actuated by the said .grooved cam-plate, combined with a series of arms arranged in groups and having depending wings attached thereto, the said arms being c011- nected with the said carriages, to operate substantially as described.

2. In a dress-form, the combination of the following instrumentalities, viz: the standard, the grooved cam-plate a an independent slotted cap-plate co-operating therewith, a series of carriages, and connected studs acted upon by said cam-plate, a series of wings having arms connected to and made movable with the said carriages, and the bust or shoulder section connectedwith the said wings, a series of neck-rods, a series of neck-carriages to which the said neckarods are connected, and a slotted cam-plate, as m, and a cap-plate, as m to actuate the said neck-carriages, substantiallyas described, 7

3. In a dress-form, the standard, the carriage notched at one end and provided with a stud, a shoe connected to thesaid stud, and a series of wings having arms also connected to the said carriage, combined with a grooved cam-plate and a slotted cap-plate, to operate substantially as described.

4;. In a dress-form, a grooved cam-plate, a slotted cap-plate provided with radial guideways, a series of shoes placed in the said guideways, a series of studs carried by the said shoes, and a series of carriages connected with the said studs and having a series of holding-notches, combined with a series of wings having arms connected to and kept separated at the proper distances apart by the said carriages, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my nam e to this specification in the presence of two sub- GEO. W. GREGORY, B. DEWAR.

Images