An Improved Clip for Attaching to Busks of Corsets.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Feb., 1895
Complete Specification Left 17th Oct.. 1895-Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Clip for Attaching to Busks of Corsets.
I, RICHARD RIDEOUT BEARD of Ravenhurst Works Bradford Street,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a clip for attaching to busks of corsets, whereby the
skirts or garments are held and prevented from sliding up the corsets beyond a
fixed point.
Corset busks usually consist of two strips of steel extending up and down one at
each end, equipped with a series of fasteners by which they are jointed and
detached at will.
The said fasteners consist of a series of headed studs fixed to one strip, and a
series of plates provided with holes or slots to engage on the studs on the other
plate. By my invention I make one of the plates and preferably the second one
from the bottom of the busk with the depending hook shaped clip, slightly
cranked and projecting forward, and depending towards the bottom of the busk,
the said clip being somewhat in the form of a "spoon-bill." Into the said hook
shaped clip the bands of the skirts, or garments rise, and are held in their place on
the corsets and thus prevented from sliding up the busks or becoming disaranged.
1 may in some cases make the said hooked clip of a seperate plate, and attach it
to any convenient part of the busks. Or I may form it of the wire constituting
one of the headed studs attached to the opposite plate aforesaid.
Dated this and day of February 1895
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH,
36, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Clip for Attaching to Busks of Corsets.
I, RICHARD RIDEOUT BEARD, of Ravenhurst Works Bradford Street
Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturers 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 a clip for attaching to busks of corsets whereby the
skirts or garinents are held and prevented from sliding up the corsets beyond a
fixed point.
Corset busks usually consist of two strips of steel extending up and down, one
at each edge, equipped with a series of fasteners by which they are jointed and
detached at will. The said fasteners consist of a series of headed studs fixed to
one strip and series of plates provided with holes or slots to engage on the studs
on the other strip.
By my invention I make one of the plates and preferably one from the bottom
of the busk with a depending hook shaped clip, slightly cranked and projecting
forward and depending towards the bottom of the busk, the said clip being in the

page_text: form of a "spoon-bill." Into the said hook shaped clip the bands of the skirts or
garments rise and are held in their place on the corsets and thus prevented from
sliding up the busks or becoming disarranged.
I may in some cases make the said hooked clip of a separate plate and attach it
to any convenient part of the busks. Or I may form it of the wire constituting
one of the headed studs attached to the opposite plate aforesaid.
I will describe my invention by reference to the accompanying drawings the
same letters of reference indicating similar parts throughout. In making a clip
according to my invention I cut from sheet metal a blank of the kind shown at
Figure 1, and pierce the holes A, A, by which the finished clip is attached to the
busk, the hole or slot B, in the blank is to allow the stud to pass therethrough.
The flat and pierced blank Figure 1 is next operated upon by suitable tools so as
to give the blank the form represented in front elevation and side elevation.
Figure 2. By the operation of said tools a concave form is given to the body D
shown in section Figure 3) and at the same time beat or cranked into the form
represented.
Figures 4 and 5 represent the manner in which the clip is applied to a corset
busk. It will be apparent that in this position the skirts or garments will be
prevented from rising up the corsets and will engage between the body of the
clip D, and the busk,
Figure 6 illustrates a sheet metal clip made for attaching to any convenient part
of a corset busk.
Figure 7 illustrates a clip made from wire and forming part of a headed stud
instead of the plate.
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
what I claim is :-
(1.) An improved clip for attaching to busks of corsets substantially as herein-
before described and illustrated and for the purpose set forth.
(2.) In the modification the clip claimed above substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in Figures 6 and 7 of the accompanying drawings and
for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 16th day of October 1895.
WILLIAM HENRY BARACLOUGH,
36, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agent for the Applicant.