AN IMPROVEMENT IN STAYS AND BUSKS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Ingleby of No 7 St. Peters Square Manchester
in the County of Lancaster for an Invention of AN IMPROVEMENT IN STAYS
AND BUSKS Communicated to him from abroad by Peter Wilhelm
Ziegler of Cannstatt in the German Empire.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Ingleby at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th August 1882.
JOSEPH INGLEBY of No 7 St Peters Square Manchester in the County of
Lancaster AN IMPROVEMENT IN STAYS AND BUSKS " Communicated to him
from abroad by Peter Wilhelm Ziegler of Cannstatt in the German Empire]
When steel is employed for the bones or busks of stays or corsets the double or
pleat of cloth in which the steel is held becomes rapidly worn through especially
at the lower part and cut by the friction against the edges of the steel so that the
steel becomes displaced. In order to provide against this, each steel is according
to this invention made at its upper end with a round hole through it slotted
downwards to a less width and within the double in which the steel is to be held
at the upper part thereof a small plate is fixed having a button or flanged knob
projecting from it. The steel being pushed into the double of the stay or corset
until the head of the button can pass through the round part of the hole in the
steel, the stem of the button becomes engaged in the narrower slotted part of the
hole, and the steel is then held or suspended in its place, without requiring
the fabric to be stitched over the top end and the steel so suspended although
capable of a slight displacement in a vertical direction cannot of itself become loose
nor do its edges rub against the fabric of the sheath causing wear.

page_text: Fig 1, shews a front view of a pair of stays or corset provided with busks or
steels constructed and attached according to the before described invention.
Fig. 2 shews a vertical section through one of the pleats containing a busk or steel,
and fig: 3 shews detached views of the busk or steel and the plate with button
by which it is held.
The steel a having at its upper end the slotted hole b is inserted through the
upper open end of the pleat c until the upper enlarged end of the slot 6 passes over
the button of the plate d attached to the inner face of the pleat, so as to engage
the button in the slot. The steel then possesses a certain freedom of motion up
and down in the pleat, the upward motion being limited by the abutment of the
lower end of the slot against the neck of the button, so that, on stooping, all strain
is taken by the said button, and there is no pressure of the steel against the lower
closed end of the pleat, while the upper end thereof is left open. At the same time,
the steels can be readily removed from and replaced in the corset when required.
Having thus described the nature of the said invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed as communicated to me by my foreign correspondent, I
claim :-
First Securing busks or steels in stays or corsets, by providing the busk or
steel with a longitudinal slot which is made to fit over and take a bearing against
a stud or button secured to the corset, so that the ends of the pleat containing the
steel are preserved from pressure and wear substantially as herein described.
Second: The use of busks or steels for stays or corsets, having longitudinal slots,
or slots adapted to engage with studs or buttons, secured to the stays or corset,
substantially as herein described

page_text: Third: The use for stays or corsets, of a plate having a stud or button for
attachment of slotted busks or steels thereto, within the pleats for received the
busks or steels, substantially as herein described.
In Witness whereof I the said Joseph Ingleby have hereunto set my hand
and seal this Twenty fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one
thousand, eight hundred and eighty three.
JUSEPH INGLEBY (L.S.)