US1266602A - Skirt-gage. - Google Patents

Description

K. KNORR.

SKIRT GAGE. APPLlCATlON FILED AUG.30.1'9H,

1%66562. Patented May 21,1918. P7 7 IIVVE/VTOR A TTORNE Y KATHERINEKNORR, 0F NORWALK, CONNECTICUT.

SKIRT-GAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 21, 1918.

Application filed August 30, 1917. Serial No. 188,936.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KATHERINE KNORR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norwalk, county of Fairfield, State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Skirt-Gages, of which the following is a specification.

The purpose of this invention is to provide an inexpensive and easily operated skirt gage which shall be equally adapted for use by dressmakers or by persons making their own dresses and which will enable the user, in a simple and expeditious manner and without assistance, to mark a skirt for turning up at the bottom, so that the hem may be accurately located at any desired distance from the floor and at just the same distance from the floor entirely around.

With this and other objects in View, I have devised the novel skirt gage which I will now describe, and which comprises a chalk holder and a clamp adapted for attachment either to the edge of an open door or to the edge of a table.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my novel skirt gage shown as in place upon a door, which is indicated by dotted lines;

Fig. 2 a front elevation corresponding therewith;

Fig. 3 a view showing the gage attached to the edge of a table;

Fig. 4 a perspective view of the chalk holder detached, and

Fig. 5 is a view illustrating the operation of my novel device in marking a skirt.

The body of the clamp comprises a base 10, and arms 11 extending from the base and lying parallel to each other. One of the arms is provided with a thumb screw.

12 having a head 13 which is preferably swiveled on the end of the screw to prevent marring a door or table. The chalk holder is formed from sheet metal and comprises a base 14 and spring arms 15 which are adapted to grip and yieldingly retain an ordinar flat piece of tailors chalk indicated by 16, and appearing in dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 3.

In order to adapt my novel gage for attachment either to the edge of an open door or to the edge of a table, it is necessary that the chalk holder be attached to the clamp in such a manner as to adapt it to be placed horizontally to the base of the clamp or at right angles thereto, that it be adapted to be conveniently shifted from one position to the other, and that it be rigid in either position. I therefore provide the base of the chalk holder with holes 19 and 20 and pivot the chalk holder to the base of the clamp by means of a headed stud 17 passing through hole 19 in the base of the chalk holder and through the base of the clamp. 21 denotes a pin projecting from the face of the clamp in horizontal alinement with pivot stud l7 and in position to engage hole 20 in the base of the chalk holder, and 22 denotes a similar pin projecting from the face of the clamp in vertical alinement with pivot stud 17 and in position to be engaged by hole 20 when the chalk holder is swung to a position at right angles to the clamp, as in Fig. 3. In other words the pins are equidistant from the stud and on radial lines at right angles to each other. In order to shift the chalk holder from one position to the other, the end opposite to the pivot stud is sprung upward sufiiciently to disengage hole 20 from the pin with which it has been in engagement and then the chalk holder is given a quarter turn to place hole 20 in alinement with the other pin and the base of the chalk holder is released and will spring into engagement with the pin, so that the chalk holder will be rigid in either position in which it may be placed.

The operation of my novel skirt marker is as follows: The operator puts on the skirt, then measures five inches, downward from the waistline in front to a point indicated by 18 which gives a starting point from which to mark a hip line. The operator then adjusts the clamp on the edge of a door or table as indicated in Figs. 1, 2 and 5, or in Fig. 3, at the required height to place the chalk in vertical alinement with the starting point. The operator then turns herself entirelv about, pressing the skirt against the chalk as she does so, which marks a hip line entirely around the skirt. It will be noted that this hip line is the same distance from the floor entirely around without regard to whether the hips are broad or narrow. The distance from the chalk to the floor is measured and the required distance of the hem from the floor is deducted from that measurement which determines the dis tance of the hem from the hip line.

For example, if the distance from the chalk to the floor (which of course is the same as the distance from the hip line to the floor) is forty inches, and the hem is required to be eight inches from the floor, the lower end of the skirt requires to be turned over and pinned or basted with the edge thirty-two inches from the hip line entirely around. The usual manner of'doing this is to use a skirt board, not shown as it forms no portion of the present invention, turning the skirt about the board and turning over the lower end of the skirt and securing it with the edge thirty-two inches from the hip line entirely around, that is, at a distance from the hip line equal to the distance of the chalk from the floor less the required distance of the hem from the floor.

Having thus described my invention, I

c1aim:

' 1. A skirt gage comprising a clamp, a chalk holder pivoted thereto, and means right angles to each other, and a chalk v holder pivoted on the stud and having a hole adapted to engage either pin whereby the chalk holder may be secured in place on the clamp in positions at right angles to each other.

3. A skirt gage comprising a clamp having abase, and arms adapted to engage the edge of a door or table, a thumb screw in one of the arms for adjustably securing the clamp in place and spaced apart pins projecting from the face thereof, anda chalk holder pivotally secured to;v the clamp and having a hole spaced away from the pivotal point and adapted to be engaged by either of the pins. 1

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

KATHERINE KNOBR.

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