IMPROVEMENTS IN CUTTING OR SHAPING MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES OF DRESS
Year: 1853

page_text: This Invention received Provisional Protection, out notice to proceea
with the application for Letters Patent was not given within the
time prescribed by the Act.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Timewell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd November 1853.
I, JOHN TIMEWELL, of Duke Street, Saint James, in the County of
Middlesex, Tailor, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CUTTING OR SHAPING MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES OF DRESS" to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in a new and peculiar mode of cutting or
shaping materials for the purpose of simplifying the construction thereof
into articles of dress, and for rendering such articles more durable and
less expensive than heretofore by reason of there being fewer seams
required according to this Invention to produce an entire article of
dress or garment; for example, to construct a coat according to this
Invention it is only necessary to have four main seams, namely, two
seams for connecting the fore parts to the back of the coat, and two

page_text: seams for forming the sleeves thereof, thereby dispensing with the ne-
cessity for shoulder seams, and seams at the upper parts of the sleeves,
as by this Invention the fore parts, the back, and sleeves of the coat are
produced from one and the same entire piece of material, instead of
forming such parts of distinct and separate pieces as heretofore generally
practised in the manufacture of such said garments. And this mode of
cutting or shaping coats applies also to all such garments or articles of
dress as are formed with sleeves, such as shirts, waistcoats, and such
like articles, without reference to the nature of the material employed;
at the same time it will be found more desirable in making coats to use
those materials which have no face to them, as in using woollen cloths
some of the parts would come the wrong way of the wool or crosswise
thereof.

page_text: (This Invention received Provisional Protection, but notice to proceed
with the application for Letters Patent was not given within the
time prescribed by the Act.)
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Timewell at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd November 1853.
I, JOHN TIMEWELL, of Duke Street, Saint James, in the County of
Middlesex, Tailor, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CUTTING OR SHAPING MATERIALS TO BE EMPLOYED
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF ARTICLES OF DRESS" to be as follows:
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This Invention consists in a new and peculiar mode of cutting or
shaping materials for the purpose of simplifying the construction thereof
into articles of dress, and for rendering such articles more durable and
less expensive than heretofore by reason of there being fewer seams
required according to this Invention to produce an entire article of
dress or garment; for example, to construct a coat according to this
Invention it is only necessary to have four main seams, namely, two
seams for connecting the fore parts to the back of the coat, and two

page_text: scams for forming the sleeves thereof, thereby dispensing with the ne-
cessity for shoulder seams, and seams at the upper parts of the sleeves,
as by this Invention the fore parts, the back, and sleeves of the coat are
produced from one and the same entire piece of material, instead of
forming such parts of distinct and separate pieces as heretofore generally
practised in the manufacture of such said garments. And this mode of
cutting or shaping coats applies also to all such garments or articles of
dress as are formed with sleeves, such as shirts, waistcoats, and such
like articles, without reference to the nature of the material employed;
at the same time it will be found more desirable in making coats to use
those materials which have no face to them, as in using woollen cloths
some of the parts would come the wrong way of the wool or crosswise
thereof.