Patent GB-715370-A (GB)
Title: A measuring instrument for making garments
IPC: A41H1/06
Filed: 1952-05-12
Abstract: 715,370. Tailors' measuring apparatus. SANKEY, K. G. A. May 12, 1952 [May 11, 1951; Jan. 12, 1952], No. 11908/52. Class 141 A tailors' measuring apparatus has various devices for taking measurements s about the neck and shoulder region of a person, for making a coat or similar garment, the devices being provided with length scales for obtaining measurements in comparison with the corresponding measures of a normal figure having the same chest measurement. The apparatus is attached about the neck of the person being measured by means of a device for obtaining the neck hole diameter of the garment, which comprises a pair of L - shaped neck embracing parts 3, Figs. 1 and 2, each having rearward portions 10, 11, slidable in a head part 2, and forwardly bent arms 4 to the extremities of which curved plates 6 for engaging the shirt collar of the person are attached by pivots 5. The bars 11 are formed with teeth which mesh with a cogwheel 14 on a knob 15 which is turned to set the device so that each plate 6 engages the shirt collar. The upper of the bars 10 has an indicating mark 16, Fig. 7, visible from the rear of the device. The position of the mark 16 indicates the neck hole diameter. A fixed scale 17, on the head 2; indicates points corresponding to the neck hole diameter of a normal figure for various chest measurements. A millimetre scale 20 having a centre zero line 33 is slidably mounted on the head 2. When the scale 20 is moved along until the marks 16 and 33 are in alignment, the distance between the mark 16 and the point on the scale 17 corresponding to the same chest measurement as the person being measured, can be read from the scale 20 as a positive or negative quantity, which indicates the amount by which the neck hole diameter should be above or below the normal size for the chest measurement of the person. The shoulder length, slope and twist are measured by a device attached to a part 29 carried by a neck embracing part 3 in such a manner that it will rest against the neck root. A shoulder pad 39, Fig. 9, is carried by a bar 35 which is slidable with respect to a bar 36. The bar 36 is attached to the part 29 and the shoulder pad 39 is arranged to rest with the extremity of the pad on the outer part of the shoulder. A millimetre scale 47 on the bar 36 has a zero line 48. A scale 49 on the bar 35 indicates positions of the zero line 48 for the shoulder lengths corresponding to normal figures of various chest measurements. The amount by which the person's shoulder length is greater or less than that of the normal figure of the same chest measurement is read from the scale 47 as the distance between the actual and normal positions of the zero line 48. A bar 46 is hinged to the bar 35 and slidably engages a beam 44 having a head part 42 and a spirit level 43. A scale 50 is marked on the head part 42. A bar 40 slidable within the head part 42 and pivotally attached to the bar 35 is provided with an indicating mark 52. When the bar 46 is adjusted to a level position the distance the mark 52 lies above or below the zero line 51 of the scale 50 indicates the amount by which the shoulder is higher or lower than normal. The forward or rearward twist of the shoulder is indicated by a scale 59, Fig. 10, on a wire bow 56 attached to the part 29. For measuring the height of the chest and back from the shoulder, a bar 63, Fig. 14, is attached to a pivot 32 extending from a side piece 4 of the neck hole measuring device. Slidably mounted on the bar are head parts 66, 67 which have spirit levels 74. Arms 64, 65 depend from the head parts 66, 67 for engagement with the chest and back. Indicating marks 71, Fig. 12 (not shown), near the ends of the bar 63 are visible through the head parts 66, 67 and co-operate with fixed and slidable scales on the head parts in a manner similar to that described for the neck-hole measuring device, so that measurements in comparison with a normal figure of the same chest measurement can be obtained.