Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1887
Complete Left, 22nd Nov., 1887
Complete Accepted, 24th Mar., 1888
A communication from EMILIO FERRARI, of Turin, Italy, Merchant Tailor.
I ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, M.L.M.E.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
The object of the present invention is to construct an adjustable model to repair or
adjust the cut of a misfitted or new garment. One form of this model may be
constructed as follows:-
On a central spindle provided with a hand wheel on the top and on which are formed
right and left handed screw threads are placed collars with internal screw threads
fitting the screws on the spindle. To these collars are pivoted the ends of a number
of toggle levers the other ends of which are pivoted to the inner sides of the model
which is longitudinally divided into four or more parts each part being provided with
a toggle lever arrangement.
When the operator finds that the size of the garment to be repaired or to be made
is larger than the model when closed he turns the hand wheel at the top of the central
spindle when the collars following the left and right handed screws of the spindle will
straighten the toggle levers and thus expand the model to the required size."
In another arrangement the ends of the toggle levers are pivoted one to the upper
and one to the lower collar on the central spindle the knees of the toggles sliding in
slotted guides on vertical rods attached at top and bottom to the sides of the model.
In this instance the toggle levers will be bent to expand the model.
As the operator very often encounters and has to deal with deformities or
extraordinarily developed parts of the human body and to ensure good fitting the
models for mens garments are fitted with the vertical rod or latter arrangement in
front and back and the models for ladies garments at the sides. These vertical rods
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page_text: are provided at top and bottom with a boss having an internal screw through which
passes a screw held to the side of the model by a ball and socket joint and provided
with a square head whereby this part of the model can be expanded independently of
the others. These parts are the chest and back also the stomach and posteriors for the
mens model and the shoulders and hips for the ladies model.
When the model is expanded and the sides thereof part another plate fixed to one
of the sides appears to fill up the interstice between the sides and serve as a support
at this place for the garment fitted on the model.
For the throat an extra nut and toggle lever arrangement is placed on the central
spindle working independently from the above named hand wheel.

page_text: I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, M.I.M.E.
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 :-
The object of the present invention is to construct an adjustable model to repair or
adjust the cut of a misfitted or new garment.
In the accompanying drawings
:-
Figs. 1 and 7 represent the model in a closed condition and mounted on a stand
provided with two spur wheels a a¹ and a crank handle & for the purpose of raising or
lowering the model on the stand according to requirement.
Fig. 2 represents the interior of the model with all its parts in elevation.
Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the model.
Fig. 4 is a horizontal section on line A²-B² of fig. 2.
Figs. 5&6 are details of the collars to which the toggle levers are pivotted.
One form of this model may be constructed as follows On a central spindle,
provided with a hand wheel A at the top and on which are formed right and left
handed screw threads A' A are placed collars B B formed with internal screw threads
fitting the screws on the spindle. To these collars are pivotted the ends of a number
of toggle levers 8, 9, 10, 11, fig. 3 the other ends of which are pivotted to the inner
sides of the model which is longitudinally divided into four or more parts each part
being provided with a toggle lever arrangement.
When the operator finds that the size of the garment to be repaired or to be made
is larger than the model when closed, he turns the hand wheel A at the top of the
central spindle when the collars following the left and right handed screws of the
spindle will straighten the toggle levers for instance as represented in fig. 3 to the
position shown in dotted lines 12, 13, 14, 15 and thus expand the model to the required
size, in this instance x-y, k-z. The toggle levers may be held in position by means
of the spiral springs A B C D.
To keep the shoulders 5, G in their proper position guides 1, 2 are fastened to the
upper collar by bolts 3, 4 which guides pass through the support 1, 2' which slides
thereon.
In another arrangement the ends of the toggle levers b, d, e fig. 2 are pivotted one
to the upper and one to the lower collar B B on the central spindle the knees d of the
toggles sliding in slotted guides on vertical rods attached at top and bottom to the sides
of the model. In this instance the toggle levers will have to be bent to expand the
model.
When the model is expanded and the sides thereof are apart a plate a a' bb'in

page_text: front, cc at the sides, and dd at the shoulders and fixed to one of the sections of
the model appears and fills up the interstices between the sections and serves as a
support at this place for the garment fitted on the model see fig. 7.
For the throat an extra nut X and toggle lever arrangement bb, c c¹ fig. 3 is
placed on the central spindle working independently from the above named hand
wheel A.
As the operator very often encounters and has to deal with deformities or extra-
ordinarily developed parts of the human body, to ensure good fitting, the models for
men's garments are fitted with the vertical rod arrangement in front and back and the
models for ladies garments at the sides. These vertical rods, Fig. 2, to which are
attached the above described toggle levers are retained rigidly in their position by the
said toggle levers and are provided at top and bottom with a boss tu having an
internal screw thread for the reception of screws attached to the sides of
the model by means of ball and socket joints and provided with square heads projecting
into the openings pqrs formed in the sides of the model. When it is desired to
expand one of the parts of the model provided with this arrangement independently of
the other parts the corresponding one of the said screws is turned by means of a suitable
key or otherwise in its boss fastened to the stationary or rigid vertical rod when the
part of the model will be expanded as the boss with the vertical rod remains stationary
and the screw is screwed out taking with it the part of the model to which it is
attached by means of a ball and socket joint. As an example the screw a¹ is repre-
sented as partly screwed out of its boss on the vertical rod while the other screws are
closed up. These parts of the models are the chest and back also the stomach and
posteriors for the men's models and the shoulders and hips for the ladies' models.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent and in what manner the same is
to be performed I declare that what I claim is :
1. In a tailor's or dressmaker's model the hand wheel A with the central spindle
formed with left handed and right handed screw ibreads A' A' substantially as and
for the purpose specified and represented in figs. 2 and 3 of the accompanying
drawings.
2. In a tailor's or dressmaker's model a series of toggle levers which are straightened
or bent by the rotation of the band wheel for the purpose of expanding or contracting
the model substantially as and for the purpose specified and represented in the
accompanying drawings.
3. In a tailor's or dressmaker's model a series of square headed screws held to the
sides of the model by ball and socket joints, by means of which any part of the model
provided with the arrangement may be expanded independently of any other
substantially as specified and represented in the accompanying drawings.
4. In a tailors or dressmaker's model an extra left and right handed screw on the
central spindle worked by a nut independently from the general hand wheel for the
expanding or contracting of the throat substantially as specified and represented in
the accompanying drawings.
5. In a tailor's or dressmaker's model the extra plates fastened to one side of the
sections of the model for the purposes of covering the interstices between the sections
when the model is expanded substantially as specified and represented in dotted lines
in fig. 7 of the accompanying drawings.
TALL
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