US1271394A - Skirt-marker. - Google Patents

Description

E. A. WADE.

SKIRT MARKER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT-16. 1916.

Patented July 2, 1918.

ETHEIA. WADE, 0F SPRINGFIELD, MISSOURI.

SKIRT-MARKER.

Specification of Letters latent.

Patented July 2,1918.

Application filed September 16, 1916. Serial No. 120,500.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ETHEL A. WVADE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Greene and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skirt-Markers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the inventiomsuch as will enable others skilled in the art to which it-appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in that type of skirt marking device consisting of a hollow body in the form of the frustum of a cone, having horizontal, concentric rows of gage lines to admit of the bottom lineof a skirt being accurately obtained, and an object of the invention is the provision of a marker formed of flexible flat sections each having its opposite ends cut on diverging lines, and its opposite side edges cut on concentric curved lines, the said sections being adapted to be folded and to have their meeting edges overlapped and detachably -secured together to provide a frusto-conical shaped marker body, and, when the marker is not in use, to be detached and arranged in superposed relation so as to occupy a minimum amount of space.

Other objects will appear and be better understood from that embodiment of my invention of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming'a part thereof in which:

Figure 1 is a vertical elevation of the marker,

Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof,

Fig. 3 is a plan view ofthe sections, showing both meeting edges secured to each other.

Referring to the drawing in detail, the marker is designated, as an entirety, by the numeral 1, and consists, as shown more particularly in Fig. 3,'of a pair of sections 2 V and 3. These sections 2 and 3 are formed of flexible material, preferably cardboard, paper or any other flexible material, and each has its opposite ends, designated 4, out on diverging lines and opposite side edges 5 and 6 cut on concentric curved lines. The sections 2 and 3 are to be curved transversely and the opposed edges of the sections are adapted to be overlapped, and owing to the configuration of the sections a frusto-conical i Copies 0! this patent may be obtained tor body is provided, as shown in Fig. 1. The meeting edges of the sections 2 and 3 are provided with openings 8, which are adapted to receive suitable studs 7, so as to detachably connect the sections to each other. Each section is provided with a plurality of lines 9, which are spaced equidistances apart, and when the sections are in the formation shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the lines of one section register with the lines of the companion section and form concentric gaging lines. o

In use, the person on whom the skirt is to be fitted, stands within the conical shaped body and the skirt to be altered hangs outside of and around the body of the marker. The lines 9 on the body are preferably spaced about one inch apart, and if it is desired that the lower end of the skirt be hung, say two inches from the floor, the lower edge is turned up by the dressmaker to the second line from the bottom of the marker body and then marked, by means of a piece of chalk, completely around the skirt by following the mentioned second line on the marker body. When the marker is not in use, the sections can be detached from each other, and flattened and arranged in superposed relation so as to admit of being stored in a minimum amount of space.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new, is:

A skirt marker formed of a plurality of flexible, fiat sections having their edges cut on concentric curved lines and their ends out on diverginglines, said sections having a plurality of lines that are parallel with each other and with the curved edges of the sections, one end of one of said sections over- I lying the adjacent end of the other section,

attaching means connecting said end, sai overlying end bent at the inner edge of the overlying portion to position the main por tions of the sections in alinement, and the free ends of said section adapted for overlying engagementand connection to form a substantially, frusto-conical skirt marker.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses. I ETHEL A. WADE.

,Witnesses: Mon'rm H. JOHNSON,

LENORA J. BRANDON.

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