US839302A - Tailor's measuring device. - Google Patents

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' PATENTED DEC. 25, 1906.

Jun. 839,302.

' L. LEIN. TAILORS MEASURING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED ALLY 21, 1906- WITNES INVENTOR- L-UDWiQ Lam BY I ATTORNEY? Minus PETERS c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LUDWIG LEIN, OF. ORANGE, NEW

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 25, 1906. 1

Application filed May 21.1906. Serial No. 317,864.

T 40% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LUDWIG LEIN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tailors Measuring Devices; and I do hereby declare the followstick which combine 'to form a single measure; to secure a simple standard which shall afford a firm support for the device, while being cheap and easy to manufacture; to avoid adjustments, thus securing greater accuracy,

' and to obtain other advantages and results,

as may be brought out in the following description.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is aplan of the standard for my improved measuring-gage. Fig. 2 is a front View of the complete device in part section, and Fig. 3 is a side view of the device shown in position for measuring the bottom of a skirt or any drapery on said skirt.

It will be understood that it is diflicult for a tailor or dressmaker to properly gage the bottom of a skirt or get its edges in parallel relation to the floor unless by the use of some instrument. Furthermore, the instru-. ment should rest in a very stable position upon the floor without any tendency to be disturbed in its measuring relation to the skirt by being moved around, and there should be no parts which have to be adjusted to secure a measurement. These features are all secured by my device, as shown in the drawings, wherein 1 indicates a base or foundation constructed of wood and having its edges at two sides 2 and 3 and at one end 4 beveled or sloped. A casting 5 is secured by a foot 6 to the baseboard 1 by means of screws 7, passing through slots 9 9 in said foot. This casting provides an upright portion 8, which is of rectangular cross section and cored out to form a socket 12 for a measuring-rod 19, said socket being open at both ends. The casting 5 is so disposed upon the base 1 that one of the wide faces of the upright portion 8 lies flush with the unbeveled edge 10 of said base, the foot 6 projecting oppositely, as shown. 11 in the base-piece. 1 has its head projecting into the passage or opening 12 of said casting, and so cooperates with the screws 7 to secure the upright portion 5 firmly in position. The said socket 12 contains a removable measuring-rod 19, having inches and subdivisions marked thereon in any usual manner, the first inch (marked 15 being so located as to indicate not an inch from the end of the rod, but one inch from the floor or under surface of the base-piece 1. Furthermore, the outside of the upright portion 8 has marks or grooves 16, which exactly correspond with those of the stick, and the two partsform a single measure or scale. The lower end of the rod 19 rests upon the top of the base 1 and is preferably recessed, as at 18, to receive the head of the screw 11.

A skirt 21 in the drawings shows how my device is employed to assist the dressmaker in securing the proper height at all points at the bottom of said skirt accurately and easily. The device isstood on the floor close to the skirt and moved around to different points of the periphery thereof, and it should be noted that in doing this there are no adjustments or changes of parts to aflect the A screw accuracy of the measuring. Furthermore,

'the skirt is avoided.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is 1. In a skirt-measuring device, the combination of a base-piece having a vertical edge, an u right portion flush at one side with said e go and having at its opposite side a foot, said upright portion providing a socket openat the top, screws securing said foot to the base, and a measuring-rod removably inserted in said socket.

2. In a skirt-measuring device, the combination of a broad base-piece having one edge vertical and the others beveled, an up-- right portion mounted on said base-piece flush with said vertical edge, and a measuring-rod removably carried by said upright portion, said beveled base being adapted to receive pressure to move the device laterally and at the same time prevent tilting.

3. In a skirt-measuring device, the combination of a base having a vertical edge, an upright tubular socket mounted upon said base with one side flush with said edge and having at the other side a slotted foot, holding-screws in said slots, a screw or thelike projecting from the base upwardly into said socket, and a measuring-rod removably inserted in said socket.

4. In a skirt-measuring device, the combination of a base having a vertical edge, an upright tubular socket mounted upon said base with one side flush with said edge and having at the other side a slotted foot, holding-screws in said slots, a screw or the like pro ect1ng from the base upwardly into said socket, and a measurlng-rod inserted in said socket and having its lower end recessed to receive said projecting member.

5. In a skirt-measuring device, the combination of a broad base having a vertical edge, an upright socket arranged flush with said. edge, and a measuring-rod relnovahly inserted in said socket, graduations being provided upon both said rod and the socket which cooperate in measuring from the bottom of the base upward.

LUDVVIG LEIN.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK GERMANN, J12, ETHEL B. REED.

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