Improvements in Stools for use in Trying on, Dressing and Adjusting Ladies Gowns.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Jan., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 8th Oct., 1897-Accepted, 4th Dec., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stools for use in Trying on, Dressing and
Adjusting Ladies Gowns.
I, HUGO BERG, of Elberfeld Schwanenstrasse, rhenish Prussia, Germany,
manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to stools used in trying on and adjusting ladies gowns,
and it has for its objects to facilitate this work for the dress-maker or seamstress
in avoiding the hitherto necessary, and wearisome kneeling down on the floor for
fitting and adjusting the lower parts of the gowns and allowing this work to be
done in sitting before the respective person.
These objects are attained by using my improved stool with a turntable on its
top, upon which the lady, desiring to have her gown tried on and fitted accurately
in length and in the different seams or trimmings, can stand conveniently raised
sufficiently above the floor, so that the seamstress, in sitting before the said
apparatus can do her work in an easy and accurate way. The turntable, which
is preferably fitted with a post and a handrail to allow a person standing
on it to take hold of and lean to this post when the turntable is turned round, is
so constructed that it can be easily turned by the seamstress and also stopped
at any point of its revolution.
A brake is therefore fitted to the stationary frame of the stool; and steps for
going up on the turntable are provided for this purpose
A vertical scale is guided in a boss projecting at the side of the upper step and
is fitted at its top with a chalk-holder so that the seamstress may mark continuous
or interrupted lines on the gown of the person turned round with the turntable, in
any height above the table, in holding the gown in contact with the marking
chalk-pencil; a suitable box may be attached to the underframe for storing
therein needles, thread, scissors and other auxiliaries used by the seamstress
during work.
When gowns.with a train are to be tried on and trimmed, a light board may be
added to the turntable in a suitable way, so, that the train of the gown will be
supported by it, said additional board being so arranged, that it can be turned
round with the turntable and the person thereon.
601
fber 1904
KARL J. MAYER
Agent for Hugo Berg.

page_text: Improvements in Stools for use in Trying on, Dressing and
Adjusting Ladies Gowns.
I, HUGO BERG, of Elberfeld Schwanenstrasse, rhenish Prussia, Germany,
manufacturer, 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:―
My invention relates to stools used in trying on and adjusting ladies gowns,
and it has for its objects to facilitate the trying on and adjusting ladies gowns in
that respect, that it enables the dressmaker to do all the work which she formerly
had to perform in a kneeling position and creeping round the person, whose dress
was to be tried on, can now be done in a convenient upright or sitting position
and the dressmaker instead of having to go round the person now can stay at her
place while the person with dress is turned round on the platform of the stool,
which is constructed as a turntable of special make, I attain these objects by the
arrangements shown in the accompanying drawing, in which
Fig. 1 is an upright view of the stool.
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scale.
2 is a view seen at rightangle to fig. 1 from the left side.
3 is a plan of fig. 1 with part of the platform broken out.
4 showns the brake arrangement of the platform in plan in an enlarged
On legs A, which are connected together at top and bottom by crossed stays B
is carried by bearings C in the centre of the cross stays a vertical shaft D
with a large flange or disk E at its top, to which is secured a circular plat-
form F. Two steps G and H serve for mounting upon the platform. The step H
is in same level with the platform, but separated from it. A hand rail Jon
the platform serves as a support for a person standing on the platform.
...The platform is free to turn round with its spindle, but it can be set fast by 2
means of a brake arrangement consisting of a lever K put loosely on the spindle
above the upper stays C and connected at its outer end to a bar L, by means of
which it can be pulled on one side. To the upper step H is fixed an elastic shoe
or brake block M, which can be pressed against the circumference of the plat-
form, when the lever L is pulled forward, the upright head M of lever K reaches 3
over the shoe M, which is curvol excentrically to the circumference of the
platform and therefore its inner face is pressed against the latter, when the
lever L is pulled forward as explained and the platform is then held fast.
At one side of the upper step H there is fixed a boss P, in which a scale bar O
can be adjusted vertically. At the top of this scale bar there may be fixed a 3
pencil or chalk holder.
When gowns with a train are to be tried on and trimmed, a light- board may
be added to the turntable in a suitable way at the opposite side of the hand rail J,
so that the train, of the dress will be supported by said board, which of course
can also be turned with the table so far as the upper step H will allow.
The use of the new trying-on stool is as follows: The person whose gown or
dress has to be tried on and adjusted and to be trimmed with ribbons and the
like, steps on the platform and the dressmaker sitting on a chair then turns the
same gradually round, marking by means of the chalker O on the dress the
heights above ground, at which a fold-(volant)— -or a ribbon has to be sewn.
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page_text: 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.) In a stool for trying on dresses and gowns the combination of legs A and
cross stays B with a vertical shaft D journalled in said stays, a platform F fixed
at top of the shaft D, and a hand rail J at one side of the platform as specified
and for the purpose set forth.
2.) In a stool for trying on dresses and gowns the combination of legs A and
cross stays B with a vertical shaft 1) journalled in said stays, a platform Fat
top of the shaft, a hand rail J at one side of the platform, steps G H in front of
the platform and a scale bar O with a pencil or chalk holder at its top as described
and illustrated and for the purpose set forth.
3.) In a stool for trying on dresses and gowns the combination of legs A and
Crous stays B with a vertical shaft 1 journalled in said stays, a platform Fat
top of the shaft, a hand rail J at one side of the platform, steps G H in front
of the stool, a scale bar O fixed to the upper step H, and a bar L connected to a
lever K, said lever having an upright head M holding the brake block M between
itself and the circumference at the platform F, the whole as illustrated and
specified and for the purpose set forth.
ntd bi ch If 1907