US718320A - Device for drafting skirt-patterns. - Google Patents

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No. 718,320. PAT-BNTBD'JAN. 13,\190'3.'` GURMN.y f *DEVICE 'FOR DRAWING SKIRT .PATTERN APPLIoATIoN r'rnnn ooT'fs, 1901.

No MODEL.

UNITEDA STATES y nrnNr Fries.

EDWARD CURRAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,320, dated January 13, 1903.

VApplication filed October 8,1901. Serial No. 78,014. (No model-l t T0 @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD CURRAN, a citi- .zen of the United States, residing at Chicago,

those necessary to determine the lengths at" the front, sides, and back of the skirt.

My object is to provide a set of companion implements Which-are preferably in the form of skeleton frames, of improved construction, and which may be readily adjusted to conform relatively to measurements taken as described and which when adjustedwil'l present guide edges, along which the patterns may be accurately traced upon the cloth from which the skirt is to be madel or along which the cloth may be cut in the first instance to present sections or gores, which when sewed i together Will form a Well-fitting skirt.

sent skeleton frames, which may be formed' of strips of thin metal, though I formvthem preferably of strong and fexible cardboard. Each of the gore patterns or sections has a front strip a, made up of relatively adjustable upper and lower members or o?, respectively, a rear strip b, formed of relatively adjustable upper and lower members b' b2, respectively, anda bottom strip c. At the tops of the members a of each of the patterns is a backward-extending oifset d. The osets d of the front and side gore patterns are pro- -ea'ch of the lower members of the forward and rear strips are fasteners g, which extend through the slots f to hold the members together in sliding contact. The fasteners g may be of any desired form, those I prefer to'employ being of the type of the ordinary pronged paper-fastener. .In the case of the back-gore pattern D thetop offset d is pivotally fastened to the top of the member b'. The member b of. the gore-sections A,

kB, and C have link extensions b3, pivotally fastened at their lower ends to the upperends of the members b. Pivotaliy connected at one end with the upper end of each of the sections b3 ofthe patterns A, B, and C are 'links h," provided at their free ends with fasteners g, extendingthrough the slots d' of the offsets CZ, and on the same meinbers at the hip-line are pivotal links i, provided at their free ends with fasteners g, engaging the slots e of the offsets-e. 4The bottom strips c are curvilinear in form and pivotally connected at one end with the lower ends of the members a2,`and along their opposite end portions are provided with longitudinally-extending slots c', marked with scales c2. At the lower ends of the members b2 are fasteners g, en-

gaging the slots c' of the strips c.

The skirt-pattern is intended for use in Yshaping gores for a skirt of a particular style,

and different patterns would have to be provided for different styles. The front strips a of the front-gore pattern and rear strip b of the back-gore pattern are straight, while the other strips ct and b in all thepat-terns are shown to be curvilinear to give'proper shape to the gores for the `present style of skirt.

Each of the scales d2 may be marked with figures indicating inches, say,from 20 to 36. Each of the scales e2 may be marked with figures indicating inches, say, from 35 to 56, each of the scalesf' with IOO gures indicating inches, say, from 36 to 46, and the scales c2 with gures indicating from, say, 3 to 51j yards. Presuming the measurements of the person for whom the skirt is intended to be waist twentytwo inches, around the hips forty-two inches, length of front forty-two inches, length of side forty-four inches, length of back fortyive inches, and that the skirt is to be four and one-fourth yards around the bottom, each of the links h would be moved to register at its end with the line 22 on the scale d2, each of the links 'i would be moved to register at its end with the line 42 on the scale e2, the members of the front-gore pattern and CL2 of the next pattern would be shifted to register at their upper ends with the lines 42 on the respective scales f', the member b2 of the first side-gore patterns and a2 of the adjacent pattern would be shifted to register at their upper ends with lines 44 on the respective members b' cr, and the member b2 of the second side-gore pattern and members a2 b2 of the back-gore pattern would loe shifted or adjusted to register at their upper ends with the lines 45 on the respective members d' Z9. The sections shown together form patterns for the gores of half the skirt, the other half being the same. The pattern-sections when adjusted are laid upon two layers of the cloth from which the skirt is to be made, and the outer edges of the sections form guides for cutting or tracing the gores.

The present patterns are for a seven-gered skirt.

To produce a live-gered skirt from the same scribed to accurately present patterns from measurements taken. The sections may obviously be changed to suit different radical changes in styles of skirts, and the members may further be changed in the matter oi details of construction without departing from the spirit of my invention as defined by the claim.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- A In a sectional device for drafting skirt-patterns, a gore-pattern sectionframe having a side member formed of two sections one of which is slotted for slidable engagement with headed pins on the other section for lengthwise adjustment, a curvilinear side member formed of two adjustably-connected sections, a section flexibly joinedat the hip-line to one of the side members, a slotted extension on the other member at the hip-line, links adjustably connecting the sections at the waist and hip lines, and a curved bottom section pivoted to the lower end of one member and slotted for adjustable connection with the lower end of the upper member.

EDWARD CURRAN. In presence of- ALBERT D. BACCI, L. HEISLAR.

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