Improvements relating to Dummy Garment Samples.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 6th June, 1895-Accepted, 14th Sept.,
1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Dummy Garment Samples.
1, HERBERT JOHN HADDAN, of the Firm of Herbert Haddan & Co., Patent
Agents, of 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London, Civil Engineer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention a communication to me from abroad by Marcus
Aaron Adler, of 28 West Fourth Street, New York, N.Y., United States of
America, Designer, and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
"
The general object of this invention is to facilitate the carrying of samples of a
coat or other similar garment, by commercial travellers or "drummers and
especially samples of manufacturers goods.
Prior to this invention it has been customary with commercial travellers, to
carry either unmade samples of cloth, showing merely the pattern thereof, or half
sections of a garment, such as a coat, that is to say, a section equivalent to one-half
of a made up coat.
The disadvantages attending these systems of carrying the samples are, as to the
example first named, that the plain goods are not adapted to exhibit the appearance
of a garment made therefrom; while, as to the use of the made up half-sections
of the garment the samples involve a considerable waste of labour and material,
since, on account of frequent handling, and consequent wear, the sample sections are
generally unfit for further use in a garment.
With a view to obviate these disadvantages the invention consists in the employ-
ment of a series of parts, of cloth, each cut and finished to represent a profile of
the front edge of the coat or other selected garment, the parts being superimposed,
in symmetrical relation, and each being of a different or contrasting color or
pattern from the other of the series.
In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 represents a side view of an assemblage
of parts constituting the sample. Fig. 2 represents one of the parts detached.
Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts.
The letter A indicates each of the parts composing the sample, each being cut
and finished from a piece of the selected cloth, to represent the profile of the front
edge of a coat, which, in this example, is what is known as a sack coat. As shown,
each of the parts A is of a different or contrasting pattern from the other or
remaining parts; and in exhibiting the same as a sample the parts are superimposed
or laid one upon the other, in symmetrical relation, so as to present collectively,
the appearance of a series of whole coats; the boundary lines of the superimposed
parts being substantially parallel to each other.
The outermost member of the superimposed parts A, may be extended to
represent the side of a coat, including the sleeve as shown in Fig. 1 and the parts
may be provided alternately with a button and button hole, by means of which they
may be connected together.
In defining the scope of the invention I would remark that I do not claim the
sample composed of a flat half-section of a garment, nor one composed of pieces of
cloth mounted on a card. Neither do I claim the representation of patterns of
cloth in print, on a card; such being old, but. :-
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1 A series of dummy garment samules each consisting of
C norrow strip of

page_text: goods finished at one edge to exhibit the profile cut of a garment and unfinished on
the other edge, said samples being superimposed and provided with means whereby
they may be readily attached and detached, and said samples being arranged so
that their finished edges are free and exposed and their unfinished edges are
concealed, substantially as set forth.
2. A series of dummy garment samples each consisting of a narrow strip of
goods finished at one edge to exhibit the profile cut of a garment and unfinished on
the other edge, said dummy samples being superimposed and attached together
near the front finished edges thereof, but arranged so that said finished edges are
free and exposed, while the unfinished edges are concealed in combination with an
outer sample applied to said dummies and finished to exhibit a whole side or other
extended portion of the garment, substantially as set forth, whereby the appearance
of a series of whole samples is simulated.
3. A series of dummy garment samples each consisting of a narrow strip of
goods finished at one edge to exhibit the profile cut of a garment and unfinished
on the other edge, said dummy samples being superimposed so that their finished
edges are free and exposed, in combination with an outer sample applied to said
dummies and finished to exhibit a whole side or other extended portion of the
garment, said outer sample having its profile edge arranged above and parallel
with the profile edge of said dummy samples and concealing all unfinished edges
thereof, all of said samples being provided with means whereby they may be
readily attached together near their front edges, or detached when desired
substantially as set forth.
4. A series of dummy garment samples each consisting of a narrow strip of
goods finished at one edge to exhibit the profile cut of a garment and unfinished on
on the other edge, said dummy samples being superimposed so that their finished
edges are free and exposed, in combination with an outer sample applied to said
dummies and finished to exhibit a whole side or other extended portion of the
garment, said outer sample having its profile edge arranged above and parallel with
the profile edge of said dummy samples and concealing all unfinished edges thereof
substantially as set forth.
5. A dummy garment sample consisting of a narrow strip of goods finished at
one edge to exhibit the profile cut of a garment and unfinished on the other edge
substantially as described.
Dated this 6th day of June 1905
H. J. HADDAN.