A New or Improved Article of Manufacture for Shaping or Fortifying the Shoulders of Garments.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Dec., 1898-Accepted, 28th Jan.,
1899
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Article of Manufacture for Shaping or
Fortifying the Shoulders of Garments.
I, GUSTAV GOLDMAN, M.D., of Baltimore, in the County of Baltimore and State
of Maryland, United States of America, Physician, 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 improvements in pads that are placed within outer and
inner layers of fabric, at the shoulders of garments to fortify and shape the same,
and the object of my invention is to provide a shoulder pad that can be placed in
position without any risk of wrinkling or mis-shapement while being fastened in
position, or when afterwards a garment is on the wearer's person and its shoulders
are subjected to tension or strain.
I attain these objects by means of shoulder pads illustrated in the accompanying
drawing, in which-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a shoulder pad made of a single fold of fabric
provided with opening and cuts in accordance with my invention.
Fig. 2 is an under plan view of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line x-x of Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a pad constructed of superimposed layers of fabric
one end represented as partly lifted up.
Fig. 5 is another perspective view of the pad shown in Fig. 4 with the end of
one layer partly lifted up.
Fig. 6 is a sectional view on the line y-y of Fig. 4.
A, represents a pad composed of a single fold of fabric, its under edge is
invertedly arched at a, extending from opposite terminal points a¹, the upper
margin a² is curved upwardly from said opposite points, thereby forming the device
crescent-shaped, as illustrated in the drawings. The lower surface is provided with
a series of openings a³ triangular in cross section, which taper upwardly from the
arched edge a, a given distance towards the upper margin, each of said openings
terminating at an end point at. The upper surface has a series of right line cuts a³,
which are shown as directly in alignment with the openings 3 but said cuts and
openings may be alternately arranged without departing from the scope and purview
of my invention.
The pad is constructed preferably of felt but any soft yielding fabric may be
employed in manufacturing the described device.
Thus far I have confined the description of my invention to a pad composed of a
single fold of material, as fully illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, but it may be
constructed of superimposed folds of fabric as illustrated in Figures 4 and 5 wherein
the upper layer at its outer margin a² is smaller than that of the underlying one,
but each layer of fabric is of the same shape as the single one shown in Figure 1,
and hereinbefore described. The upper layer at its under surface has a series of
tapering openings a³ extending from the lower arched margin. « to a terminal
point a, and the lower layer has a series of right line cuts a", which when the device
is completed may lie directly under the tapering openings a³, or be so placed as to

page_text: alternate therewith when the device is completed as the superimposed layers may
be fastened together by stitching or any suitable means.
As will be readily understood by all familiar with the line of art to which my
invention is allied the pads in practice are to be placed between the cloth and lining
at the shoulders of garments to give them proper shape and fortification.
Shoulder pads are usually constructed of wadding or fleecy material or stuffed
with hair, or any loose material become misshaped when being placed on garment
shoulders, and afterwards when on the wearer's person subjected to strain or tension
becomes wrinkled or forced into lumps which cannot be afterwards remedied. My
improved article of manufacture as herein described and illustrated overcomes such
difficulty as when subjected to strain the right line cuts will temporarily separate
and the tapering will assume their normal position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
A new article of manufacture for shaping shoulders of garments consisting of a
pad, having a lower arched margin and an upper curvilinear margin, each terminating
and meeting at opposite ends, one surface of the pad having a series of openings,
triangular in cross section extending upwardly from the lower arched margin and
tapering to a common point, the other surface provided with a series of right line
cuts extending upwardly from the lower arched edge a required distance in
direction towards the outer margin, substantially as set forth.
Dated this 15th day of December 1808
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.