US689354A - Hemming-gage. - Google Patents

Description

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HEMMING GAGE.

(Application led. July 30, 1901.)

( llo Model.)

UNITED 'STATES ATENT Fries.

MARI A. COL'ION, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF TVVO-THIRDS TO ALEXANDER MONTVILLE AND LANDRY HARVVOOD, OF KANSAS CITY,

MISSOURI.

HEMMlNG-GAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 689,354, dated December 17, 1901- Applioation filed July 30, 1901. Serial No.. 70,233. (No model.)

T @ZZ whom, t may concern:

Be it known that'I, MARI A. COLTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have inventedv certain new and useful Improvements in Hemming-Gage's, `of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a hemming-gage; and my object is to produce a device of this v1o character whereby uniformity in thedepth of 2o der that it may be fully understood reference is to be had tothe accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of the hemming-gage as arranged to receive the fabric 2 5 to be hemmed. Fig. 2 is an enlarged crosssection of the same. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the gage as closed upon the fabric to be hemmed.

Referring now to the drawings in detail, 3o where like reference-numerals designate corresponding parts, l designates the top plate, and 2 the base-plate, of the gage, said plates being preferably of oblong rectangular form and hinged together at one side margin, as shown at 3, this hinge providing an abutment for a purpose which hereinafter appears. The top plate is provided with parallel series of holes 4, extending from a point near the hinged margin toward the opposite or outer 4o margin and preferably obliquely in order that a greater number of holes may be provided between said margins than if the line extended across the plate at right angles to its length. These holes are numbered, consecutively, 1, 2, 3, 4, dsc., beginning with the holes nearest and the same distance from/the hinged margin in order that longitudinally-ahmed holes ofv the different series shall be correspondingly numbered 5o for a purpose which hereinafter appears.

The base-plate is provided With indentations 5 in its upper side, arranged in oblique series and corresponding in number and relative position to the holes 4, so that when the top plate is folded down parallel with the base-plate, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, said holes and indentations 5 will register. It is to be understood that while the indentaions above referred to are desirable they are not absolutely necessary tothe operation of 6o the device.

The u-pper side of top plate l is provided with a measuring-scale 6, extending transversely, the inner end of the scale coinciding with the abutment or hinge 3 in order that 65 when the inner edge of the fabric, as at a, is fitted properly between the plates and against the abutment the operator can determine at a glance in just what holes to stick the marker 7, which may simply be a pointed instrument 7o to form indentations in the fabric or apencil to mark the fabric, as shownvin Fig. 2. vFor example, should it be desired to produce a hem an inch and five-eighths deep the operator inserts her marker in each of the holes 2l, so as to produce a mark or indentation thereon, according to the kind of fabric. In delicate fabrics, Where a pencil-mark would be objectionable, the marker may simply be a pointed piece of wood, which will slightly 8o indent the fabric at the desired points. After the fabric is thus marked the top plate is thrown upward and the fabric slid longitudinally through the device, so as to dispose a different portion on plate 2. The top plate is then folded down and the operation above described repeated, so that eventually the fabric will be provided with a series of marks or visible indentations from one end to the other and a uniform distance from the free 9o edge. The operator then turns up the hem along said line quickly and easily and completes the hem in the usual manner.

A device of this character to' be perfectly equipped for use in connection with all sorts of fabrics may be provided with devices for penetrating or pinching the fabric, and thereby eliminating all possibility of slippage. These devices. will preferably be in the form of short pins 8 on plate 2 and indentations 9 too y imp 'oved l1emming-gage handemminO1 i 'll be easier and the accomplished work Q re accurately and margin tov; quickly, and it; will be understo f course series of inthat the ventio "susceptible of odiiczih with said holes. ion in m nor partie ars with nt; departin0 ge, comprisingy two plates 4o rom L principle nd scope or sacriicinoF i margin and forming an x5 any of 1t advantabes. In will b apparent efabricto behem ed, also that; t is gage can he used to equal adi t, aseri s of holes exvantage for m asuriugr preparato 'y to cutting Len ing from said connected m rhin toward goods onlhe bias and for measuring for rulits opposite edge, and the othe es of in- 45 fies. deutet-ions registering with said holes, and a 2o Heu/im.,r thus described the in vention, what marker for insertion through said holes, sub- Iclaim as new, nd desire to secure byLer/ers stantially as and for the purpose set forth. Paten r., is` n testimony whereof I a x y signature 1. A h ing-gege, comprising vwo plates in he presence l wo witnesses. connected at one side margin and forming an f ARIE A. COI/FON. 25 abutmentthereat for Lhefabric to he hemmed, lVitnesses: V

one of sai( pl' t s having'parallel series of 0 es exte ding ohliqu ly of the plate, lhe

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