Improvements in Cutting out and Shaping Ladies' Garments.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Nov., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 31st July, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 31st Aug., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cutting out and Shaping Ladies' Garments.
I, THEODORE WILDE, of 50 Oxford Road, New North Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Furrier, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to effect improvements in cutting out and shaping
Ladies garments, my invention being more especially applicable to the manufacture
of seal-skin and analogous articles of wearing apparel.
In carrying out my invention, I dispense with the usual middle seam at the back
of shaped garments, and form the back piece all in one. I place the skin, or other
material, round the edge of a board, on both sides of which one half of the shape of
the back piece is carefully marked out, the edges of the board being cut, curved, and
otherwise formed to suit the figure. On each side of the board or boards lines are
delineated, to guide the cutter as to the forms of the back and other parts of the
garments, and the positions where darts are to be cut out, and other details; the effect
of my improvements being that the length and number of the seams are very much
reduced, and the garment is very much improved in appearance, and rendered
capable of lasting much longer than those of ordinary manufacture; the invention
also secures economy in the quantity of materials used in the manufacture of such
articles of clothing.

page_text: Improvements in Cutting out and Shaping Ladies' Garments.
I, THEODORE WILDE, of 50 Oxford Road, New North Road, in the County of
Middlesex, Furrier, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :—
The object of my invention is to effect improvements in cutting and shaping
Ladies' garments, my invention being more especially applicable to the manufacture
of seal-skin and analogous articles of wearing apparel.
In carrying out my invention, I dispense with the usual middle seam at the back
of shaped garments, and form the back piece all in one. I place the skin, or other
material, round the edge of a board, on both sides of which one half of the shape of
the back piece is carefully marked out, the edges of the board being cut, curved, and
otherwise formed to suit the figure. On each side of the board or boards lines are
delineated, to guide the cutter as to the forms of the back and other parts of the
garments, and the positions where darts are to be cut out, and other details; the effect
of my improvements being that the length and number of the scams are very much
reduced, and the garment is very much improved in appearance, and rendered capable
of lasting much longer than those of ordinary manufacture; the invention also
secures economy in the quantity of materials used in the manufacture of such articles
of clothing.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is
The improved method of cutting out and shaping Ladies' garments, and dispensing
with the usual middle seam in the back, by the means and in manner substantially as
herein before described.
GEO. DOWNING,
8, Quality Court, London,
Agent for Applicant.