Improvements in the Manufacture of Fabrics or Materials Employed in the Making of Garments, Uppers of Slippers, Boots and Shoes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Sept., 1889-Accepted, 5th Oct, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Fabrics or Materials Employed
in the Making of Garments, Uppers of Slippers, Boots and
Shoes.
I JOHN REDMAN of Salem Mills Hebden Bridge, in the County of York, Wholesale
Clothier, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows
This invention has for its object, to dispense with marking plates, to effect great
saving in material and labour employed in the cutting out of garments and uppers for
slippers and boots and shoes manufactured from material other than hide, such as
woven fabrics felted fabrics or composition fabrics.
Heretofore in preparing for cutting out garments and uppers the practice has been
to employ "plates of the required size and these have been used as marking plates
which were laid upon the piece from which the garments or uppers are to be cut and
the outline traced by means of a pencil or marker; the quantity of waste from material
of any given width, being dependent on the skill with which the plates are manipulated
but in all cases where plates were used, skilled labour was requisite and much waste
of material occurred especially in pattern or figured fabrics.
According to this my said invention I print or weave on the material, the design or
pattern (if any) for the several parts of the garment and also the "front" of the
upper," or for the front, and "back" of the upper, also the correct outline, or con-
figuration of the front or back or either of either, garments, slippers, shoes, or boots
is woven or printed on the fabric, whereby I ensure the pattern or design, (if any)
being central or in correct position, on the garment or upper, whatever its size, and
also provide. an outline for each front, or back, by which the cutter is provided with a
guide, and has simply to cut by the outline, no skilled labour being requisite.
Dated this 3rd day of December 1888
WALTER BRIERLEY,
Town Hall Buildings, Halifax, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Fabrics or Materials Employed
in the Making of Garments, Uppers of Slippers, Boots and
Shoes.
I, JOHN REDMAN, of Salem Mills Hebden-Bridge, in the County of York, Wholesale
Clothier, 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 has for its object, to dispense with marking plates, to effect great
saving in material and labour employed in the cutting out of garments and uppers for
slippers, and boots and shoes manufactured from material other than hide, such as
woven fabrics, felted fabrics or composition fabrics.
Heretofore in preparing for cutting out garments and uppers the practice has been
to employ "plates" of the required size and these have been used as marking plates
which were laid upon the piece from which the garments or uppers are to be cut and
the outline traced by means of a pencil or marker; the quantity of waste from
material of any given width being dependent on the skill with which the plates are
manipulated, but in all cases where plates were used; skilled labour was requisite and
much waste of material occured especially in pattern or figured fabrics.
According to this my said invention 1 print or weave on the material, the design or
pattern for the several parts of the garment and also the "front" of the "upper," or

page_text: for the front, and "back" of the upper, also the correct outline, or configuration of
the front or back, or either, garments, slippers, shoe, or boots is woven or printed on
the fabric, whereby 1 ensure the pattern or design (if any) being central or in correct
position, on the garment or upper, whatever its size, and also provide an outline for
each front, or back, by which the cutter is provided with a guide and has simply to cut
by the outline, no skilled labour being requisite.
Such being the nature and object of the said invention, the following is a complete
description of same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which
examples of the woven outlines for guidance in cutting out are illustrated.
1 is the piece required to form a slipper, at 2 are the cutting outlines the latter
being woven in such positions as to reduce the waste of fabric to a minimum there is
no skill required in the marking, thereby greatly economizing time and making the
most of a given quantity of material.
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.
The improved manufacture of fabrics for purposes aforesaid as herein described
whereby the operation of cutting out is facilitated and the waste of material reduced
to a minimum.
Dated this 2nd day of Santamben 1000
Dated this 2nd day of So
September
1000
JOHN REDMAN.
By his Agent, Walter Brierley,
Central Chambers, Halifax.