IMPROVEMENTS IN CLASPS FOR CORSETS, CORSELETS, OR STAYS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edward Griffith Brewer, of 89, Ohancery Lane,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CLASPS FOR CORSETS, CORSELETS, OR STAYS."-A communication from
abroad by James Potter M Lean, of Brooklyn, New York, in the
United States of America.
Sealed the 11th September 1874, and dated the 28th July 1874,”
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Edward Griffith Brower.
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 28th July 1874, pursuant to the 9th Section,
of the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDWARD
GRIFFITH BREWER, of 89, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex,
send greeting.
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WHEREAS. I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS: IN
CLASPS' FOR CORSETS, CORSELETS, OR STAYS," and have petitioned Her Majesty...
to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and assigns, Hor.

page_text: Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn Declaration
that it has been communicated to mo from abroad by James Potter
M'Lean, of Brooklyn, New York, in the United States of America.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edward Griffith Brewer, do hereby
declare that the following Completo Specification, under my hand and 5
seal, fully describes and ascertains the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, in and by the following
statement, reference being had to the accompanying Drawings, and to
the letters of reference marked thereon, that is to say :—
The novelty of this Invention consists in the construction of wire 1
busks or clasps to be used in lieu of the well-known flat steel clasps of
commerce, for uniting corsets or stays, the hooks and eyes or loops being
formed of the same piece of wire as the body of a clasp itself.
Figure 1 represents a pair of wire clasps A, having the hooks and
eyes 1, 2, 3, 4, formed of the same piece of tempered steel or brass wire, 1
either flat or round, as the body of the clasp itself. These steel or brass
wire clasps or busks may be formed of round wire and flattened upon ·
the anvil in the form shewn at Fig. 1, which is a nickel plated steel
wire busk made by hand, but when made by machinery tho zig-zag
bars "", "", must be as close together as possible.
Figure 2 is a section of a nickle plated wire clasp mado of finer wire,“
say No. 17, and is rendered more rigid by under and over laying the
alternate zig-zag bars r', r, or otherwise securing the flat steel or brass
wire strips 8, 8, to support and stiffen the flexible clasps A¹.
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The advantages of this wire corset hooks over the ordinary steel clasps 2
are, first, they yield to every movement of the body without cramping
the same, and cach turn of the wire being rounded and smooth prevents
cutting the garments or person of the wearer, and the corsets wear much
longer from the fact that the wire clasp entirely overcomes the cutting
propertics of the flat steel and rivetted clasps that are in common 3
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page_text: Second. In combination with the clasp, constructed substantially as
described, the strengthening strip 8, arranged as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edward Griffith Brewer, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of July,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-four.
EDW³. GRIFFITH BREWER. (L.S.)