Garment fitting system

• US 6,813,838 B2
• Filed: 01/14/2003
• Issued: 11/09/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bruce Mccormick
• Original Assignee: Bruce Mccormick
• Inventors: McCormick, Bruce
• Primary Examiner(s): Fulton, Christopher W.
• Application Number:
  US10/341,656
• Publication Number:
  US 20030171839A1
• Time in Patent Office: 665 Days
• Field of Search: 33/17.R, 33/2.R, 33/8, 33/11, 33/12, 33/16, 33/17.A, 700/131, 700/130, 700/132, 700/133, 700/134, 700/135, 700/136, 705/1, 705/10, 705/26, 707/4, 707/104
• US Class Current: 33/17.00R
• CPC Class Codes: A41H 3/007 Methods of drafting or marking-out patterns using computers computer-aided design G06F30/00

Abstract

A method and device for fitting a ready-made garment to the body of an individual person with a fit that meets the individual person'"'"'s preference, the method comprising the steps of; selecting an existing garment from the individual person'"'"'s own wardrobe, the garment having a preferred fit on the individual person, measuring a prescribed set of critical dimensions of the existing garment and recording the dimensions with an identification of the individual person, and manufacturing one or more garments having said critical dimensions.

Claims

1. A method of fitting a ready-made garment to the body of an individual person with a fit that meets the individual person'"'"'s preference, said method comprising the steps of:

selecting an existing garment from said individual person'"'"'s own wardrobe, said garment having a preferred fit on said individual person,

measuring a prescribed set of critical dimensions of said existing garment and recording said dimensions with an identification of the individual person, and

manufacturing one or more garments having said critical dimensions.

2. The method as defined in claim 1 wherein:

said set of critical dimensions includes dimensions which will result, after cutting and sewing the garment, in a garment which will conform to the individual person'"'"'s body in a preferred fit,

measuring at least some of said critical dimensions from a common datum point on the selected garment.

3. The method as defined by claim 2 wherein said garment is a trousers, said method including the steps of:

selecting the inseam sewing junction in the crotch of the trousers as the datum point for measuring the inseam, the rise and the drop of the trousers.

4. A measuring apparatus for obtaining measurements of critical dimensions of a trousers in said apparatus comprising:

an upright measurement frame adapted to support said trousers for measurement by measuring instruments installed on said frame,

said frame being a generally rectangular box-like structure adapted to support plural measuring instruments,

said measurement frame terminating at its upper end in a horizontal support surface having a datum point thereon at a central location on said support surface,

means for holding the crotch joint of a trousers in position at said data point during measurements of said trousers,

a waist measuring instrument mounted on said measurement frame including a pair of oppositely disposed measurement probes for receiving the waist band of said trousers and measuring the girth thereof,

a thigh measuring instrument disposed at the upper end of said measuring frame comprising a measurement probe for measuring the girth in the thigh region of said trousers,

a cuff measuring instrument comprising a pair of cuff measurement probes disposed at the lower end of said measurement frame for measuring the girth of one of the cuffs of said trousers,

a front rise measuring instrument including a measurement probe mounted on the upper portion of the measurement frame on the front surface thereof and extending along a vertical centerline of the measurement frame for measuring the front rise of said trousers,

a rear drop measuring instrument including a measurement probe mounted on the rear surface of said measurement frame at the upper portion thereof and extending along a vertical centerline thereof for measuring the rear drop of said trousers, and

an inseam measuring instrument including a measurement probe mounted on one of said front and rear surfaces of the measurement frame in vertical alignment with the front rise measuring instrument for measuring the inseam of said trousers.

5. The apparatus as defined in claim 4 including:

pneumatic actuating means for said measurement probes, and

an electrical transducer coupled with each of said probes for reading the measurement thereof.