Shoulder Gauge (Patent No: 387179)

Inventor: Aitken, Albert Emerson

Location: Edmonton

Comments: N/A

Description: Having regard to the foregoing disclosure, the Patent of which this specification forms part confers, subject to the conditions prescribed in the Patent Act, 1935, the exclusive right, privilege and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others to be used, the invention as defined in claims submitted by the patentee as follows:-

1. A tailor's measuring device comprising a frame having at least one substantially straight side which is adapted to be placed on the person to be measured and is of a length such that it extends at least substantially to the centre of the back of the neck when one end is on the point of the shoulder, an indicator movable in an arcuate path in the plane of the frame, in such a way that a line drawn from said indicator through the centre of the circle on an arc of which said path lies is always at the same angle to the horizontal, and cooperating indicating means fixed on the frame.

2. A tailor's measuring device comprising a frame adapted to be placed against the centre of the back of a person to be measured and to strike such back at least near the base of the neck and at the point of greatest rearward projection of the upper part of the back, an indicator movable in an arcuate path in the plane of the frame in such a way that a line drawn from said indicator through the centre of the circle on an arc of which said path lies is always at the same angle to the horizontal, and cooperating indicating means fixed on the frame.

3. A tailor's measuring device comprising a frame having one side adapted to be placed against the centre of the back of a person to be measured said side being long enough to extend down from near the base of the neck to below the line of the points of the shoulder blades of a normal person and being curved to conform closely with the outline of at least the lower portion of such part of a normal person's back, an indicator movable in an arcuate path in the plane of the frame, in such a way that a line drawn from said indicator through the centre of the circle on an arc of which said path lies is always at the same angle to the horizontal, and cooperating indicating means fixed on the frame.

4. A tailor's measuring device as defined in claim 3, in which about the lower three-fifths of the curve are on a radius of about 11 1/8 inches.

5. A tailor's measuring device as defined in claim 4, in which the chord of the whole curve is about 9 3/4 inches.

6. A tailor's measuring device as defined in claim 5, in which about the upper two-fifths of the curve are on a radius of about 7 1/8 inches.

7. A tailor's measuring device as defined in claim 2, in which the frame has at least one substantially straight side which is adapted to be placed on the person to be measured and is of a length such that it extends at least substantially to the centre of the back of the neck when one end is on the point of the shoulder.

8. A tailor's measuring device as defined in claim 3, in which the frame has at least one substantially straight side which is adapted to be placed on the person to be measured and is of a length such that it extends at least substantially to the centre of the back of the neck when one end is on the point of the shoulder.

9. A tailor's measuring device as defined in claim 4, in which the frame has at least one substantially straight aide which is adapted to be placed on the person to be measured and is of a length such that it extends at least substantially to the centre of the back of the neck when one end is on the point of the shoulder.