Improvements in Measuring Tapes or Scales for Use in the Manu- facture of Lasts for Boots and Shoes, for Measuring Patterns, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Nov., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 5th Aug., 1896-Accepted, 5th Sept., 1996
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Measuring Tapes or Scales for Use in the Manu-
facture of Lasts for Boots and Shoes, for Measuring Patterns, and
the like.
I, JOHN THOMAS DAY, of 42, Finsbury Pavement, in the City of London,
Journalist, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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My invention relates to scales for use in determining the instep and joint
measurements of lasts and patterns.
Hitherto in making patterns or lasts it has been usual to work by what is
known in the trade as the quarter inch scale, that is to say, last and pattern makers
have allowed a difference of a quarter of an inch between size and size for the
girth measurements of their lasts and patterns at the joint and instep. This is
generally recognized as an untrue gauge but it has been adopted as a matter of
practical convenience because no gauges have been procurable upon which are
clearly set out the more accurate measurements which are desirable. To meet this
difficulty some pattern and last makers have made arbitrary gauges for their own
guidance, which, however, have not been marked with either English inches or
English standard sizes and are consequently useless when it is desired to compare
them with the quarter inch scale previously mentioned as being in ordinary use.
According to my invention I adopt a scale of girth measurements which I have
determined by ascertaining the mean of the various dimensions now in general use.
These measurements I place upon a measuring tape or scale in conjunction with a
scale of standard English inches and an indication of the standard English sizes
used in the boot trade so that my improved tape or scale has upon it four different
scales, viz.-scale of inches, scale of girth measurements, of the joints, and a scale
of instep measurement, figures being suitably placed to indicate the sizes to which
the instep and joint measurements apply.
In some cases I find it advantageous to make a scale with several series of
measurements upon it corresponding with different "fittings" and which scale may
be sub-divided to separate the measurements for any particular fitting.
Instead of combining the scale of inches with the instep and joint measurements
upon the same side of the tape, the inches and size scale may be placed upon one
side of the tape and the instep and joint measurements upon the other side.
Dated this 5th day of November 1895.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Measuring Tapes or Scales for Use in the Manu-
facture of Lasts for Boots and Shoes, for Measuring Patterns, and
the like.
I, JOHN THOMAS DAY, of 42 Finsbury Pavement, in the City of London,.
Journalist, 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 scales for use in determining the instep and joint
measurements of lasts and patterns.
Hitherto in making patterns or lasts it has been usual to work by what is known
in the trade as the quarter inch scale, that is to say last and pattern makers have
allowed a difference of a quarter of an inch between size and size for the girth
measurements of their lasts and patterns at the joint and instep. This is generally
recognized as an untrue gauge but it has been adopted as a matter of practical
convenience because no gauges have been procurable upon which are clearly set
out the more accurate measurements which are desirable. To meet this difficulty
some pattern and last makers have made arbitrary gauges for their own guidance,
which, however, have not been marked with either English inches or English
standard sizes and are consequently useless when it is desired to compare them
with the quarter inch scale previously mentioned as being in ordinary use.
According to my invention I adopt a scale of girth measurements shown in
Figure 1 which I have determined by ascertaining the mean of the various dimen-
sions now in general use, and I arrange these measurements in conjunction with a
scale of standard English inches and an indication of the standard English sizes
used in the boot trade so that my improved tape or scale has upon it four different
scales, viz.―-
A scale of inches,
A scale of girth measurements of the joints,
A scale of instep measurements, and,
A scale to indicate the size to which the instep and joint measurements apply.
It is obvious that the different "fittings" require different ratios of the various
measurements and I find it advantageous to print or otherwise mark the series of
measurements corresponding with different "fittings" upon material which may be
sub-divided to separate the measurements for any particular fitting.
In some cases I combine with my series of scales a scale of French centimetres
and an indication of the standard French sizes as shown in Fig. 2.
Instead of printing my series of scales upon a sheet in the manner indicated in
the drawing they may be arranged end to end on a metallic or other tape or some
of the scales may be upon one side of the tape and some upon the other side.
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 manufacture and use of the improved measuring tapes or scales herein before
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 5th day of August 1896.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.