Device for Showing Clothing Stuffs in the Shape of Apparently Finished Suits.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 17th July, 1895-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Device for Showing Clothing Stuffs in the Shape of Apparently
Finished Suits.
I, WILHELM LÜNSER, of 23, Mariannenplatz of Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia,
German Empire, Lock-smith do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
In selecting a clothing-stuff for a new dress or suit, difficulty is often times
experienced in imagining, how the respective stuff may look, after being worked to
the suit or dress. To overcome that drawback, I propose to show the clothing-
stuffs in the shape of apparently finished dresses or suits, and I have devised for
that purpose the following contrivance.
A transparent plate consisting of glass, celluloid or any other suitable substance
is made partly opaque in such a manner, that the remaining transparent part repre-
sents the outlines of a dressed lady or gentleman. Into that remaining part I work
the contours of the various pieces composing the dress or suit of the figures, said
contours including the buttons, pockets, ribbons and similar minor parts.
Those portions of the plate which represent the head, the hands, and the feet are
made in a contrary way, in that the outlines and contours of said portious are left
transparent, whilst the small surfaces enclosed by said outlines and contours are
made opaque.
If, therefore, the finished plate is laid upon a piece of clothing-stuff, the latter
will appear through the transparent figure in the shape of a finished dress or suit,
worn by a lady or a gentleman, and the purchaser will thus be able to form a
judgement.
I have shown one form of my new device in the accompanying drawing, in which
is held by a frame c
the opaque glass-plate a having the transparent figure
provided with a back-board d. The clothing-stuff to be looked at is placed between
plate a and board d.
Concerning the opaqueness of the parts of plate a surrounding the figure, and of
the contours within the figure, the same may be produced for instance by paint, or
by an etching-medium, or by jets of fine gravel.
Dated this 20th day of October 1894.
WILHELM LUNDER,
By Geo. Thos. Hyde,
Agent for the Applicant.
Device for Showing Clothing Stuffs in the Shape of Apparently
Finished Suits.
I, WILHELM LUNSER, of 23 Mariannenplatz, of Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia,
German Empire, Lock-smith, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
In selecting a clothing-stuff for a new dress or suit, difficulty is often times

page_text: experienced in imagining how the respective stuff may look after being worked to
the suit or dress. To overcome that drawback, 1 propose to show the clothing-
stuffs in the shape of apparently finished dresses or suits, and I have devised for
that purpose the following contrivance.
A transparent plate consisting of glass, celluloid or any other suitable substance
is made partly opaque, in such a manner, that the remaining transparent part
represents the outlines of a dressed lady or gentleman. Into that remaining part
I work the contours of the various pieces composing, the dress or suit of the figures,
said contours including the buttons, pockets, ribbons and similar minor parts.
Those portions of the plate which represent the head, the hands, and the feet are
made in a contrary way, in that the outlines and contours of said portions are left
transparent, whilst the small surfaces enclosed by said. outlines and contours are
made opaque.
If, therefore, the finished plate is laid upon a piece of clothing-stuff, the latter
will appear through the transparent figure in the shape of a finished dress or suit
worn by, a lady or a gentleman, and the purchaser will thus. be able, to form a
judgement therefrom.
I' have shown one form of my new device in the drawing sent in with Provisional
Application, in which the opaque glass-plate a having the transparent figure bris
held by a frame c provided with a back-board'd. The clothing stuff to be looked
at is placed between plate a and board d
Concerning the opaqueness of the parts of plate a surrounding the figure, and' of
the contours within the figure, the same may be produced for instance by paint, or
by an etching-medium; or by jets of fine gravel.
Having, now particularly, described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion, and in what manner the same. isto. be, performed,. I declare,. that what. 1
claim is :-
As a means for showing clothing-stuffs in the shape of apparently dressed figures,
an opaque plate having transparent. portions representing the outlines of a dressed
lady or gentleman; said portions containing the contours of the various pieces
composing the dress or suit of said figure, substantially as described.
Dated this 17th day of July 1805
WILHELM LUNSER,
By Geo. Thos. Hyde,
1 Broad Street Buildings, London; E.C., Agent for the Applicant.