Improvements in Dress Forms or Pads.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 4th June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 4th Mar., 1890-Accepted, 5th Apr., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by SETH WHEELER, of Colonie, Montgomery, and North
Lansing Streets, Albany, New York, United States of America, Manufacturer.]
Improvements in Dress Forms or Pads.
I, HENBY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co. Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings in the County of Middlesex do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows :-
My invention relates to improvements in dress-forms, and has for its object to
provide a simple, cheap, light, and strong form which will be yielding and elastic
when subjected to pressure.
In the ordinary practice dress forms are made of permanent materials as metal,
rubber, fabrics held in shape by stiffening ribs or frames etc., and these, besides being
liable to heat the body of the wearer, are affected by perspiration and cannot on
account of their cost be thrown aside and replaced by new ones.
It is my object further, therefore, to provide a form which will have the necessary
elasticity and strength, and which besides being thoroughly ventilated may, when
soiled or injured in any way, be thrown aside and replaced by a new one.
My invention consists in a form composed of paper, linen, or other suitable textile
fabric, provided with corrugations so that it is capable of retaining its shape (or
regaining it after being distorted) without the aid of supplemental stiffening means.
The forms may be of any desired shape and they are formed of a single piece of
paper, stiffened linen, or other suitable material, stamped or pressed into the desired
shape.
The corrugations which consist of intervening grooves may be either radial or spiral
or concentric.
The object and advantage of these corrugations is that they add materially to the
strength of the form and at the same time allow it to yield without cracking or
creasing the surface. Upon being released from pressure the form provided with
corrugations immediately regains its original shape.
These forms may be further provided with perforations thus allowing a free
circulation of air in their interior and preventing heating of the body of the
wearer.
The forms are light, thereby obviating the chafing which usually attends the use of
heavy unyielding forms.
It will be understood that the arched outline of the surface of these forins
strengthens the same and enables them to resist pressure.
This corrugated form above referred to may be applied to other dress materials with
advantage.
Dated this 4th day of June 1889.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained 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 wish it understood that I claim :-
First. A dress form having a corrugated outer surface for the purpose above
specified.
Second. The improved hollow dress form, made from a single sheet of paper,
stiffened linen, or equivalent textile fabric and having a corrugated surface, with or
without perforations, substantially as and for the purposes, above specified.
Dated this 4th day of March 1890.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.