Improvements in Tailors' Graduated Squares.
Year: 1897

page_text: I, ALEXANDER WOOD, of Ditton Street, Ilminster, Outfitter, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to improvements in graduated squares for use by cutters in
the tailoring trade, and has for object to provide a square that is easy to read and
understand, not liable to get out of order and possessed of perfect graduation.
In the squares at present employed by tailors' cutters for drafting systems for
cutting out different garments, there are so many lines and figures set out upon
such squares as to render the reading of same a difficult and complicated matter.
Now by my invention which consists in the employment of an elastic strip
divided into inches and suitably graduated, fixed at one end to one arm of the square
the other end being provided with a pin or peg adapted to take in one of a number
of perforations in the said square so as to be capable of being adjusted to any
graduation, all complications are avoided and the necessity of employing a number
of differently graduated tape measures of various lengths is obviated.
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CIL 1
1007
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for tlie Applicant.
Improvements in Tailors' Graduated Squares.
I, ALEXANDER WOOD, of Ditton Street, Ilminster, Somerset, Ladies' and Gentle-
men's Outfitter, 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:-
This invention relates to improvements in graduated squares for use by cutters in
the tailoring trade, and has for object to provide a square that is easy to read and
understood, not liable to get out of order and possessed of perfect graduation.
In the squares at present employed by tailors' cutters for drafting systems for
cutting out different garments, there are so many lines and figures set out upon
such squares, and as they have to be used in conjunction with graduated tape
measures, the reading of same is rendered a difficult and complicated matter.
Now, by the employment of an elastic strip divided into inches which in turn
are suitably sub-divided, fixed at one end to the square the other end being capable
of being adjusted to any graduation or division on the square, all complications
are avoided and the necessity of employing a number of differently graduated tape
measures of various lengths is obviated.

page_text: In order that this my invention may be the more readily understood and carried
into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of illus
trative drawings, wherein:
Fig. 1 is a plan view of a square constructed in accordance with my invention, and
Fig. 2 a side view of same partly in section.
Referring to the drawings, a is a square of suitable size and material, the arm a¹
of which is divided into inches. To one end of this arm a¹ is fixed in any suitable
manner one end of a strip 6 of suitable elastic material, (preferably vulcanized
india-rubber) which elastic strip is divided into inches, such inch spaces being
again subdivided into fourths or other suitable graduations.
The free end of the elastic strip b is provided with a metal or other tip b¹ having a
peg or pin 63 upon its underside adapted to take into any of a suitable number of
perforations c arranged longitudinally in the arm a¹ of the square a.
The elastic strip in the example shewn, it will be observed, is divided into eighteen
inches in the first instance, this being the length of the scale employed for drafting
a diagram of the chest of a man having the average chest measurement of thirty-
six inches.
The elastic strip 6 is so graduated that when stretched to the eighteen inch mark,
the graduations agree with those on the square. The strip 6 is capable of both
expansion and contraction, and when the pin or peg is inserted in any perforation,
other than that shewn on the drawing, the graduations on the said strip are read
in conjunction with the square which is properly graduated, that is to say, the
nine inch mark on the elastic strip is always the half of the latter, but may vary
in actual measurement according to the scale.
When a cutter is drafting, say for instance, a forty-inch chest, all that he would
have to do would be to stretch the elastic strip and insert the peg or pin 62 into
that perforation which would bring the eighteen-iuch division upon the said elastic
strip level with the twenty-inch mark upon the arm a¹ of the square, and then
employ the usual scale and method used by tailors' cutters.
A smaller diagram is obtained by allowing the elastic strip to contract until
the pin or peg 63 is level with the desired perforation and then inserting the peg
or pin 6 into that one of the perforations c that is desirable.
The other portion of the square a may be divided and sub-divided in any suitable
manner.
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:-
In squares employed by tailors' cutters for drafting diagram of garments, the
employment of a suitably graduated elastic strip, fixed at one end to the square
and having at its free end a peg or pin adapted to take into any one of a number
of longitudinally arranged perforations in the square, said square being suitably
divided or subdivided, substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 5th day of February 1898.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
HUGHES, SON & Co.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.