cor busks
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Jan., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 16th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 15th May, 1897
I, THOMAS HAYWARD' 15 Chrysselle Road North Brixton S.W. Decorator. etc. do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in stay or corset busks and steels, the
object being to minimise the chances of the busks and steels breaking when in use
and the same is carried out as follows
Instead of forming the busk or steel in one piece I form it in two sections which
are provided with tongues or projections which engage in slots in the sections that
is each section is provided with a tongue or tongues and slot or slots.
By this means the busks or steels have greater flexibility and thus are not so apt
to break when being bent as takes place when in use.
E. EATON
Agent for Applicant.
I, THOMAS HAYWARD 15 Chrysselle Road North Brixton S.W. Decorator etc.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention relates to improvements in stay or corset busks and steels, the
object being to minimise the chances of the busks and steels breaking when in use
and the same is carried out as follows:-
Instead of forming the busk or steel in one piece form it in two sections which
are provided with tongues or projections which engage in slots in the sections; that
is, each section is provided with a tongue, or tongues and a slot or slots. By this
means the busks or steels have greater flexibility and thus are not so apt to break
when being bent as takes place when in use.
In order that my invention may be fully understood I will now refer to the annexed
drawings in which :-
Figure 1. is a front elevation of my invention.

page_text: Figure. 3. view of the sections removed or separated from one another.
Figure. 4. front elevation of a modified form of my invention.
a and a' are the two sections having the tongues 6 and 61 which engage in slots or
apertures c and c¹; the ends of the tongues b and b¹ may engage in gaurds guards or
shields at or about the points d & d' as shown in Figure 1 by the dotted lines. The
tongues 6 and 6¹ enter the slots c & c¹ in the sections a and a¹.
Referring to Figure 4. In this case the one tongue g is passed into the slot formed
by the shield or gaurd guard h secured to the section i, the tongue or projection j
upon same being passed through a slot k in the section and then into the gaurd
guard l.
The busks or steels are secured in the stay or corset by means of sewing or other
convenient means.
Although for purposes of illustration I have shown a busk or steel formed of two
sections it will be readily seen that I may forin the busk in two or more sections
without departing from my invention.
I am aware that it has previously been proposed to construct a stay or corset
busk of two or more parts or sections rigidly connected together at or near the lower
end of the busk and free to slide one on another at the upper end, but busks so
constructed do not, according to my experience, possess the requisite flexibility and
freedom from breakage, and I would have it understood that it is essential to my
invention that one part or section of a busk be free to slide at each end on another
part or section and that each of such parts or sections be provided with a tongue or
projection and also with slot or aperture or slots or apertures adapted to receive
the tongue or projection of the other such part
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that subject to
the above disclaiming note what I claim is :-
1. In a busks and or steels for stays or corsets, forming the busk or steel in parts
or sections connected together in the manner hereinbefore described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings by means of tongues or projections formed upon the
sections which engage in slots or apertures with which formed-m the sections are
provided with or without gaurds guards or shields for the reception of the ends of
the tongues or projections aforesaid when the parts or sections are connected
together.
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