Improvements in Forms for Displaying or Retaining the Shape of Garments and like Objects.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Jan., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 10th Oct., 1889-Accepted, 21st Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFI
ATION.
Improvements in Forms for Displaying or Retaining the Shape of
Garments and like Objects.
I, THOMAS GARE of 25 Booth Street Edgeley, Stockport in the County of
Cheshire, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as
follows:-
:-
My invention has for its purpose to provide ready, simple and inexpensive means
whereby coverings for the feet or head, or other garments and like objects can be
retained in shape during display, storage, manufacture, or repair, and which when
not in use, take up little space.
My improvements consist principally in the use and application for the said
purposes of an inflatable form, made of such material and shape, that when inserted
and inflated, it will expand, and assume and give the respective object the shape at
which it is to be displayed or retained.
The said form, at a suitable part, is furnished with an automatic valve preferably
consisting of a short flexible tube projecting outwards and inwards, the inner endi
thereof being split.
The said form may be inflated with air by the mouth or by hand by means of a
suction bag suitably applied to the inlet.
The air on entering causes the split end of the said valve to open, while on
ceasing the inflation, the pressure accumulated inside the form, closes the split end
and prevents the return of the air until the valve is opened, for the purpose of
emptying the form of air, or replenishing it.
Dated 9th day of January 1889.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant..
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Forms for Displaying or Retaining the Shape of
Garments and like Objects.
I, THOMAS GARE, of 25, Booth Street, Edgeley, Stockport, in the County of
Cheshire, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed to he particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement:→
My invention has for its purpose to provide means whereby coverings for the feet
or head, or other garments and like objects can be retained in shape during display,
storage, manufacture or repair, and which when not in use, take up little space.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to be
appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indicating
like parts in the various figures.
Fig. 1 shows the form applied to a lady's boot, and Figs. 2 & 3 show two different
makes of forms detached therefrom.
In carrying out my invention and referring to the figures generally my improve-
ments consist principally in the use and application, for the said purposes of an
inflatable form a, made of such material, (for instance india-rubber) and shape, that,
when inserted, and inflated, it will expand, and assume and give the respective object
the shape at which it is desired to be retained for displaying, storing, manufacturing
or repairing purposes.
The said form a, at a suitable part is furnished with an automatic valve, preferably
consisting of a short flexible tube c projecting outwards and inwards, the inner end c³
thereof being split.

page_text: The said form a may be inflated with air by the mouth or by hand, preferably by
means of a suction bag e, see dotted lines, Fig. 1, suitably coupled to the inlet c².
The air on entering causes the split end or valve c¹ to open, while on ceasing the
inflation, the pressure accumulated inside the form a, closes it and prevents the return
of the air until the valve c' is opened, for the purpose of emptying the form of air,
(which may be effected by inserting into the tube ca pipe) or replenishing it (after
removal of the said pipe).
The form a may be made of comparatively thin or thick elastic material capable of
more or less expansion.
When using comparatively thin elastic material, see Fig. 2 the parts of the form a
requiring less expansion than others, to attain in it the desired shape, is thickened by
fixing thereon suitable shaped pieces a' of thin material, which when the inflation
takes place has the effect of confining the expansion of the form a to the parts
between the said pieces a¹, see dotted lines.
When employing a comparatively thick and less elastic material, see Fig.-3 the
shape to be given to the form a is obtained by casting or blocking the material, in
which case, however, the form a will only slightly expand on inflation.
It will be evident that by suitably shaping the described form a and arranging the
means for inflating, the same may be equally as well adapted for retaining the shape
of or expanding other garments or objects, than those inentioned, either for displaying,
storing, manufacturing or repairing purposes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
"In forms for retaining the shape of garments or like objects, during display,
storage, manufacture or repair."
1st. The application for the said purposes, of a form a of suitable elastic material
and shape, capable of being expanded, to the desired shape, by inflation, substantially
as set forth.
2nd. The particular method of producing the form a, consisting either, in thickening
the part where the expansion of the form a is not required or in casting or blocking
it to the shape desired, substantially as set forth.
Dated this Sth day of October 1009.
Dated this on day of October 1009.
THOMAS GARE.
F. Bosshardt & Co.,
9, Milton Grove, Stockport, Agents to Applicant.