An Improved Sampling Device for Dress Goods and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Feb., 1893
Complete Specification Left.. 30th Aug., 1893-Accepted, 30th Sept., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Sampling Device for Dress Goods and the like.
1 JOSEPH MORTON BOSTWICK, of Janesville, in the County of Rock, and
State of Wisconsin, United States of America, Merchant, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It is well known in the dry goods trade that considerable waste occurs in giving
patterns to customers by the system commonly employed, of pieces cut off the
rolls of material, as this involves the necessity, when measuring off a piece of the
goods, of ignoring the end from which a portion has been taken, so as to give
the purchaser a full length, and the merchant is compelled to suffer the loss of an
inch or so from the length of the goods and of the full width of the piece. Where
a large business is done it will be readily seen that this loss must assume considerable
proportions in the course of a year, especially in view of the fact that it is not
customary to charge for patterns.
The object of my invention is to minimize the expense of furnishing such
patterns and at the same time to provide a convenient means whereby suitable
samples of the goods may be handed to customers from the actual roll or package
when it is being exhibited.
In my invention a piece of card board is laid upon the wooden or other core or
centre over which the goods are wound, and a strip of the goods of sufficient width
to show the pattern, and kinked or folded to reduce its apparent length is also laid
along the core or centre of the roll of goods, one end of said strip of goods being
passed through the slot in the piece of card board before referred to, and projecting
beyond the end of the roll. The salesman when desirous of furnishing a pattern
simply pulls upon the projecting end of the strip of goods and cuts off a sufficient
quantity. The strip being of ample length packed along the core by means of
numerous kinks will serve to supply a great number of patterns and by this means
the roll of goods need not be interfered with for this purpose.
1000
F. W. BARKER,
Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Sampling Device for Dress Goods and the like.
I, JOSEPH MORTON BOSTWICK, of Janesville, in the County of Rock, and
State of Wisconsin, United States of America, Merchant, 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 :—
It is well known that in the dry goods trade considerable waste occurs in giving
patterns to customers by the system commonly employed of pieces cut off the rolls
of material, as this involves the necessity, when measuring off a piece of the goods,
of ignoring the end from which a portion has been taken so as to give the purchaser
a full length, and the merchant is compelled to suffer the loss of an inch or so from
the length of the goods and of the full width of the piece. Where a large
business is done it will be readily seen that this loss must assume considerable
proportions in the course of a year, especially in view of the fact that it is not
customary to charge for patterns.
The object of my invention is to minimize the expense of furnishing such
patterns and at the same time to provide a convenient means whereby suitable

page_text: samples of the goods may be handed to customers from the actual roll or package
when it is being exhibited.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I have attached hereto a
sheet of drawings clearly illustrating the same.
Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view taken through a roll or
bolt of dress goods showing my improved sampling device in position for use.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of my improved sampling device; and,
Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same.
In the figures, A represents a core or winding board for dress goods, B the dress
goods wound thereon, C a narrow strip of goods kinked or folded at a ; D a piece
of card board having slot or opening 6 through which the sample strip may be
drawn as required.
The said piece of card board D is laid upon the wooden or other core or centre A
over which the goods B are wound, and a strip of the goods C of sufficient width
to show the pattern, and kinked or folded to reduce its apparent length, is also laid
along the core or centre of the roll of goods, one end of said strip of goods being
passed through the slot in the piece of card board before referred to, and projecting
beyond the end of the roll. The salesman when desirous of furnishing a pattern
simply pulls upon the projecting end of the strip of goods and cuts off a sufficient
quantity. The strip being of ample length packed along the core by means of
numerous kinks will serve to supply a great number of patterns, and by this ineans
the roll of goods need not be interfered with for this purpose.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The combination with a roll of cloth or dress goods, of a sampling device
consisting of a strip of card-board, or equivalent, having a slot at or near one end
thereof, and a strip of cloth or dress goods folded upon said piece of card-board
and having one end projecting through the said slot and adapted to be pulled out
for the purpose of cutting off samples; the said strip of card-board together with
the folded strip of cloth or dress goods being laid upon the board or core and held
in place by the roll of cloth or dress goods which is wound around and upon the
board or core, substantially as and for the purposes set forth and illustrated.
2. The improvements in sampling devices for dress goods and the like,
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore described, set forth, and
illustrated in the drawings annexed.
Dated this 25th day of August 1893.
F. W. BAKKER,
Applicant's Agent.