Woollen Drapers' and Tailors' Pattern Cutters.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd May, 1890
Complete Specification Left, 20th Mar., 1891-Accepted, 25th Apr., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Woollen Drapers' and Tailors' Pattern Cutters.
I, GEORGE BAKER, of 659, Fulham Road, Fulham, in the County of London,
Tailors' Cutter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
An instrument for cutting patterns of cloth and other fabric. It will consist of
two parts in the form of tailors' shears with three blades at the end of each part―
two at the sides and one at the end so as to cut pieces of cloth &c. at one cut.
Dated this 21st day of May 1890.
GEORGE BAKER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Woollen Drapers' and Tailors' Pattern Cutters.
I, GEORGE BAKER, of 659, Fulham Road, in the County of Middlesex, Tailor,
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 is designed to supply a tool for cutting off uniform samples of
cloth or any other description of fabric, and avoiding the necessity of marking the
fabric and then cutting out the piece marked with a shears in the usual way. It is
also applicable for cutting paper leather or other substances, of which a large
number of identical pieces are required.
It can be made in portable or stationary form. The portable form consists in
forming a handle and lever part similar to an ordinary tailors' shears, but in place
of the shearing jaws in front, the cutting parts are bent to a rectangular or other
preferred form, so as to enclose, and when cutting separate, the piece of material
required, at one operation or stroke of the shears.
I will now describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawing in
which
Fig. 1, shews a side elevation of my pattern cutter in portable form.
Fig. 2 shows a plan view of the same, and
Fig. 3 an elevation of the front of the cutter, in which can be seen the angle at
which the blades are set.
a is the upper jaw, b the lower jaw, c the spring, d the handle part, e the pivot.
It will be seen that the cutting jaws ab form a pair of hollow cutters similar to
those used in cutting presses by envelope cutters, and consist either of bent steel
bars with knife edges, or of a metal frame to which steel blades are attached. These
cutters meet accurately when severing the material, so as to divide it at one stroke, but
in order to make the labor of cutting less, they do not meet simultaneously at all parts
of their cutting edges. Thus for example the right side being rather lower reaches
the cutting position before the front or left. In this way the blades being skewed,
as shewn in Figs. 1 and 3, the actual cut travels along the sharp edges of the knives,
and the power required is gradual and moderate as in a pair of shears. The
instrument is, in fact, a shears with blades bent so as to enclose an open space
corresponding to the piece to be cut.
For a stationary cutter one of the jaws may be attached to a fixed vertical bar,
and fastened to a block of wood or bench.
Or if preferred, the lower jaw being 50 fixed the upper jaw may be attached to a
lever bar, which is pivotted at one end like a tobacco knife.
D

page_text: To prevent the material from slipping, the blades are not straight-edged but
curved or concave on the surface of their cutting edges as shewn in Fig. 1.
A suitable stop is provided to prevent the blades crossing each other more than
is necessary.
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
A pattern cutter with lever hand-parts and two pivotted frame jaws, enclosing a
space corresponding to the pattern required; such jaws being formed of, or
carrying steel blades with cutting edges, and such blades being set askew to each
other, and having concave depressions on their cutting edges, as herein explained
and described.
DL: DOLL
1001
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, E.C., Patent Agent.