US956370A - Dress chart and templet. - Google Patents

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S. KOMURA.

DRESS GHART AND TEMPLET- APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 27,1909.

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SANEMON KOMURA, OF SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA.

DRESS CHART AND TEMPLET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 26, 1910.

Application filed March 27, 1909. Serial No. 486,244.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SANEMON KoMURA, citizen of Japan, residing at San Jose, in the county of Santa Clara and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dress Charts and Templets, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a chart and pattern, or templet, for cutting out garments such as ladies waists, coats, jackets and the like. Its object is to provide a simple, practical chart, and pattern or templet which can be fitted readily to the body, being made adjustable to fit persons of diiferent size and figure, and which device can be laid directly upon the goods, and the goods marked out and cut.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, having reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspectiveview of the invention as applied. Fig. 2 is a view of the front pattern. Fig. 3 is a view of the back pattern. Fig. 4: is a detailed view of the waist line adjustment. Fig. 5 is a detail of the shoulder strap.

The invention about to be described is particularly designed to be fitted to one side of a person so that one-half of the front and one-half of the back of the waist or jacket can be measured, and thereafter the entire jacket be cut out from this one setting or measurement of the device.

A represents a semirigid strip, adapted to be fitted around the waist, and having suitable means at its ends as the strings 2 for securing it thereto. 4

3 is a front piece, vertically slotted near its lower end as at 4, to provide adjustable connection with a holding-device 5 on the strip A. This holding-device as here shown, is made of metal and adapted to be moved back and forth along the strip A, through a slot 6 in the latter. The upper end of the front 3 is made hook-shaped, as shown at 7 to engage a flexible neck band-piece 8.

9 is an adjustable shoulder-strap made in two sliding 0r telescoping sections, and slidably connected at one end by a loop 10, or other suitable means, with the neck-band 8. The opposite end of the shoulder-strap connects with an adjustable arm-hole strap 11; this strap 11 having telescoping members 12 sliding in suitable guides in a portion of the said strap 11, so that the arm-hole opening may be enlarged or diminished according to the measurements to be taken. The lower end of the front telescoping member 12 connects with an under arm strap 13 which is vertically adjustable in a loop 14: on the strap A. Also the lower end of this semiadjustable arm-hole member 12, and the up per end of its under arm strap 13, are co11- nected with the front 3 by an adjustable or eXtendible arm brace 15.

By means of the parts so far enumerated, the front half of a waist, as is represented in Fig. 2 may be cut out, as will be shortly described.

The rear telescoping member 12 of the arm-hole connects with a second under arm strap 16 which is similar to and parallel with the strap 13, and this strap 16 is also vertically slidable in the loop 14 on the strip A. A sliding loop 17 embraces the two straps 13-16, and when pushed up toward the arm-hole strap, this loop 17 tends to draw the upper ends of the under arm straps 1316 together and inclose the arm.

18 is a back strap which is slotted lengthwise at its lower end as at 19, and engages a holder 20, which is likewise adjustable, in a lengthwise extending slot 21 of the" strip A. The upper end of the back strap 18 has a hook 22 by which it can be engaged with a neck-band 8, and the back strap" is connected with the under arm strap 16 by an extendible back brace 23.

In practice the device is applied to one side of a person who is to be fitted, with the shoulder-strap 9 resting on one shoulder, then the neck-strap 8 is fitted to the neck and tied at the ends by means of the strings 24, and likewise the strip A is tied around the waist. The front 3 is then hooked at 7 to the neck-band, and adjusted by means of the adjustable connections provided at 4c, 5 and 6. Likewise the arm-hole strap 11, and its members 12, are fitted around and beneath the arm, and the sliding loop 17 slipped up against the braces and 23. The under arm straps 1316 being properly adjusted in the loop 14 carried by the waist-band 8 the back strap 18 being hooked over the neck-band is then similarly adjusted, and likewise are the back and front braces 15 and 23. In this adjustment of the device to the body, the front strap 3 is designed to extend directly down the middle of the body, or to correspond to what would be the front of the waist while the back strap 18 is positioned, with its outer edge along the line of the center of the back.

Having adjusted the various parts in the manner shown, the device is united at the neck and waist, and taken off, and then laid out upon the goods. By slipping down the sliding loop 17 the various parts will spread out so as to be laid flat on the goods, and then two sections of cloth or patterns, represented respectively by Figs. 2 and 3 may be cut out by the device; the pattern or section represented at Fig. 2 being out along the outside edges of the front 3, shoulder-strap 9, under-arm strap 13, intermediate section of. arm-hole strap 11, and corresponding movable member 12, and the section of the neckband 8 between the under strap 13 and front 3. The section or pattern correspond ing to Fig. 3 or the back quartersection of the garment being cut by following the lines of the back strap 18, under-arm strap 16, shoulder-strap 9 of the back portion of the neck 8, arm-hole strap 11, and corresponding member 12, and the back part of thestrip A. In Figs. 2 and 3 I have given the various parts of the patterns reference characters corresponding to similar straps or parts of the device shown in Fig. 1, that the purpose of the invention may be better understood. The entire garment is cut out with this one fitting, because the two sides of the garment are simply duplicated, and one pattern for one sideof the front, and one pattern for one side of the back, serve for the two opposite sides. These various straps referred to are made of any suitable material like stifi' cardboard, or light sheet metal suitably protected by a clot-hbinding or covering so that while these parts can be readily fitted to the various contours of the body, they will have sufficientinherent rigidity so that they may be laid fiaton the material to be cutout to form the proper functions of a pattern.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desireto secure by Letters Patent is 1. A dress chart and templetcomprising band, and: the otherof said under arn straps having an, adjustable brace connecting it with the back band, and loops embracing the parallel underarm straps and. slidably mounted thereonand adapted to draw the upper ends of said straps together and inclose the arm.

2. A dress chart and. templet comprising a neck-band, and a waist, strip, connectible and disconnectible from. the wearer, an adjustable front band, and a siinilarback band connectible and disconnectible from the neck-band, an adjustable bendableshoulderstrap carried by the neck-band, an adjustable armrhole band carried by the shoulder strap, parallel, SPZIQGCLUDClQIj arm strapsv carried'by the arnrholeband, and independ; ently adjustable on the waist-strip, one of said under arnrstraps, having an adjustable brace connecting .it'w iththe front band, and the other ofsa dnnder arm straps having.

an' adjustable brace connecting it with the back band, said arm-hole band includinga pair of:sliding sections, each of which is connected to l a respective. one of said 1 under.

arm bands, and a sliding loopengaging the two under arm bands.

In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto set,

1ny hand,in presence, of two subscribing witnesses.

SAN EMON KOMURA.

Witnesses:

CJF. WYMAN, M. C. WYMAN.

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