Designs or Patterns Marked thereon to Facilitate the Cutting Out of the Fabric according to the said Patterns or Designs.
Year: 1885

page_text: Designs or Patterns Marked thereon to Facilitate the Cutting
Out of the Fabric according to the said Patterns or Designs.
I, CHARLES DENTON ABEL of N° 28 Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in
the County of Middlesex, Consulting Engineer and Patent Agent 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:-
According to the present invention textile or other fabrics are marked in the
piece with the designs or patterns of wearing apparel or other articles to be
produced from such fabrics, so that such fabrics, when purchased, already have the
necessary patterns or designs upon them of the articles which the purchaser desires
to produce. Thus a piece of cotton fabric such as is used for the manufacture of
workmen's blouses has printed upon its entire length the patterns required for
such blouses, as indicated at Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings, the parts
marked a, b, c, d being the patterns of the several parts of the blouse. The fabric
may for this purpose either be printed with consecutive sets of complete patterns
for a blouse, as indicated, or separate pieces of the fabric may each be printed with
repetitions of one and the same pattern, so that there are as many separate pieces of
fabric as there are patterns required. The first described method is more suitable
for retail commerce, where a purchaser, only requiring to produce a single garment,
obtains all the patterns he requires on one and the same piece by cutting off
a length at x x Fig. 1, so that by cutting this out along the lines marked, he will
at once have all the patterns necessary to produce the garment.
The second method is more suitable for wholesale manufacture of wearing apparel
or other articles, and with it the advantage is gained of enabling each piece of fabric
to be manufactured of a special width suitable for the particular pattern to be
marked upon it, so that it will cut up without waste of material; or the fabric
may have such of the several patterns marked upon it as will enable it to be so cut
up as indicated at Figs. 2 and 3.

page_text: The marking of the patterns on the fabric may be effected in a variety of ways;
thus the necessary lines may be produced in weaving or by printing in colours,
either by means of cylinders or by flat plates, or they may be burnt in by means
of highly heated metal surfaces with the pattern lines in relief thereon. Again,
where the surface of the fabric is wholly or partially covered with an ornamental
design printed or otherwise produced upon it, this design may be so arranged that
its position on the fabric will indicate the lines on which the cutting has to be
effected without the necessity of marking such lines themselves. Thus Fig. 4 shews
a fabric with a striped design, in which the stripes are arranged in such different
positions as to indicate the boundary lines of the several patterns. Fig. 5 shews
a fabric for covering umbrellas, the positions of the design indicating the lines along
which the triangular pieces are to be cut.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that
what I claim is
1. The herein described method of marking designs or patterns for cutting out
upon textile and other fabrics by producing upon the piece goods, the lines of the
required patterns either by weaving or by printing or burning by means of printing
cylinders or plates or by heated cylinders or plates having the pattern lines formed
in relief upon them:
2. In producing patterns for cutting out on fabrics as referred to in the
preceding claim, the method of so arranging the ornamental or other designs upon
the fabric that their positions indicate the lines along which the fabric has to be
cut without requiring the boundary lines themselves to be marked, substantially as
herein described.
3. An improved manufacture of textile or other fabrics consisting of piece goods
having patterns or designs marked upon them whereby the fabric can be cut out
according to the said patterns or designs substantially as herein described.
Dated thig 7th day of November 1885