Multiple-curved fashion design tool
OwnerRoger W. Burke, Sheila T. Booneinventors
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Abstract
A multiple-curved fashion design tool of substantially transparent colored plastic material for fashioning and tailoring both ready-made and home-sewn clothing. Adjoining one-by-one inch grids with 1/8" divisions are formed in each major surface of the tool and are disposed thereon so as to encompass the entire periphery of the tool. Each of the unique curved and straight edge portions of the tool are especially adapted for and combine with the continuous grid to permit the tool to be readily useful in a wide range of fashioning and tailoring applications.
Claims6
A multiple-curved fashion design tool for adapting both ready-made and home-sewn articles of clothing to particular contours and configurations of a particular subject comprising:
- (a) an article of substantially transparent plastic material having an irregular elongate outer configuration, a predetermined thickness and opposing major faces;
- (b) each major face being characterized by having a substantially linear end, an upper perimeter being substantially linear for substantially two-thirds its length beginning at the linear end, and thereafter curing upwardly for the remainder of its length thereby defining an inner curvature, and a lower perimeter which curves outwardly downward from the linear end for substantially about one-half its length, thereafter curves inwardly until it reaches the maximum tool length and thence defines an arc one end of which substantially converges with the upper perimeter thereby defining an outer curvature and providing the tool with an approximated substantially semi-circular end;
- (c) means defining regularly spaced apart numerical indices at predetermined locations arranged substantially all along both the upper and lower perimeters of each major face thereby defining means for performing linear measurements with the tool;
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- (d) means defining thereon a grid pattern correlated to said numerical indices, the grid pattern extending substantially all along the upper and lower perimeters of each major faces.
A multiple-curved fashion design tool for adapting both ready-made and home-sewn articles of clothing to particular contours and configurations of a particular subject comprising:
- (a) an article of substantially transparent plastic material having an irregular elongate configuration, a predetermined thickness and opposing major faces;
- (b) each major face being characterized by having a substantially linear end, an upper perimeter being substantially linear for substantially two-thirds its length beginning at the linear end and continuing to a first position, and thereafter curving upwardly for the remainder of its length to a second position thereby defining an inner curvature, and a lower perimeter which curves outwardly downward from the linear end for substantially about one-half its length to a third position, thereafter curves inwardly upward until it reaches a fourth position and thence undergoes a rapid upward curve to a fifth position at the maximum tool length, and then continues in an arc one end of which substantially converges with the upper perimeter at said second position thereby defining an outer curvature and providing the tool with an approximated substantially semi-circular end;
- (c) means defining regularly spaced apart numerical indices at predetermined locations arranged substantially all along both the upper and lower perimeters of each major face thereby defining means for performing linear measurements with the tool;
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- (d) means defining thereon a grid pattern correlated to said numerical indices, the grid pattern extending substantially all along the upper and lower perimeters of each major face.
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