Improvements in the Method of and Means for Facilitating the Drafting or Cutting Out and Perfect Fitting of Trousers, Breeches, and the like.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 27th June. 1890-Accepted, 30th Aug., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Means for Facilitating the
Drafting or Cutting Out and Perfect Fitting of Trousers, Breeches,
and the like.
I, JOHN LATIMER, of 7 Coronation Street, Leeds, in the County of York, Tailor,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide means whereby any sized trousers can be
drafted for cutting out so as to ensure perfect fitting in each case.
In carrying out the object of my invention I provide means consisting in a pattern
made of brass, iron or other suitable metal or material. The said pattern being made
in a certain number of pieces, parts of which are preferably provided with slots, and
set or thumb screws so that such parts or pieces can be moved or adjusted relatively
to each other as required by change of size of trousers, and can be so moved that the
change equally affects the different parts of the trousers, so that the measurement is
kept in proportion throughout, and the perfect fitting of the trousers is thereby
ensured. The shape of the "front" part of the trousers is obtained from the inside of
the pattern, and the shape of the "back" part of the trousers is obtained from the
outside of the pattern, the pattern being so shaped that all the necessary curves are
obtained.
Dated this 25th day of September 1889.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of and Means for Facilitating the
Drafting or Cutting Out and Perfect Fitting of Trousers, Breeches,
and the like.
I, JOHN LATIMER, of 7 Coronation Street, Leeds, in the County of York, Tailor,
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
The object of my invention is to provide means whereby different sized trousers
and breeches can be drafted for cutting out so as ensure perfect fitting in each
case.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1. is a plan showing method of and means for drafting for cutting out
trousers.
Fig. 2. is a plan showing method of and means for drafting for cutting out
breeches.
In carrying out the object of my invention I provide means consisting in a pattern A
made of brass; iron, or other suitable metal or material.
The said pattern A, being made in a convenient number of pieces, parts of which
have the necessary scales 1), E, F, G, on; such parts are provided with slots B, and
set or thumb screws C, so that they can be moved or adjusted relatively to each other
as required by change of size of trousers or breeches and can be so moved that the
change equally affects the different parts of the trousers or breeches so that the
measurement is kept in the required proportion throughout, and the perfect fitting
of the trousers or breeches is thereby ensured.

page_text: The scales are arranged as follows:-
The "waist "scale D is divided into inches and measures trousers or breeches all
round from 30 to 47, (each large space represents an inch larger in waist), and each
smaller space half an inch.
The scale E is divided into inches, from 36 to 50.
The "knee" scale F is divided into half inches from 16 to 21 inches.
The bottom" scale G is divided into half inches from 16 to 19.
The shape of the "front" part of the trousers or breeches is obtained from the
inside, see dotted lines, and the shape of the "back" part from the outside of the said
pattern, see dotted lines, the pattern being so shaped that all the necessary curves are
obtained.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what 1
claim is :-
1. The method of and means for facilitating the drafting for cutting out trousers
such as shown and described.
2. The method of and means for facilitating the drafting for cutting out breeches,
such as shown and described.
JOHN E. WALSH,
Royal Exchange Chambers, Boar Lane, Leeds, Agent for the Applicant.