IMPROVEMENTS IN CORSET BUSKS AND CLASPS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Chester Ammen Snow, of Washington, in the District of
Columbia, United States of America for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN
CORSET BUSKS AND CLASPS A communication from Catharine Anne Adams,
a person resident at Asheville, in the County of Buncombe, and State of North
Carolina, United States of America
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Chester Ammen Snow at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 27th September 1882.
CHESTER AMMEN SNOW, of Washington, in the District of Columbia, United
States of America, IMPROVEMENTS IN CORSET BUSKS AND CLASPS, a communi-
cation from Catharine Anne Adams a person resident at Asheville, in the County
of Buncombe and State of North Carolina, United States of America.
This invention relates to corset busks and clasps, and has for its object to
provide simple, durable, inexpensive, and efficient means by which the clasps may
be turned around on the busk or steel, so that the busk may be withdrawn from the
corset material when it is desired to wash the latter.
In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of a portion of two busks connected by
my improved clasps; Fig. 2 is a like view with the clasps disconnected and turned
round; Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view on the line x x Fig. 1.
Referring to the drawings, A designates one busk, which carries a series of
pivoted plates, B, having a pivot, b, and projecting pin or stud, b¹, at its other
end. These plates can be turned around on their pivots to the position shown in
Fig. 2.
C is the adjoining busk, which is provided with a series of holes or per-
forations, c, near its edge, just under which are pivoted the clasps, D, by means of
their pivot pin, d, at their lower rear corner. The clasps D are provided with the
usual T perforation, d', for engaging pins b'. At the upper rear corner of the
clasp D is provided an inwardly projecting pin or stud, d¹, which is normally in
hole c, so as to hold the clasp firmly in position. But, when it is desired to throw

page_text: clasp D around to the position shown in Fig. 2, the pin d has only to be
disengaged from hole c, when the clasp may be readily turned on its pivot.
If desired, busk A may be formed with a hole like busk C to receive an engaging
pin on the plate B.
The operation and advantages of this invention will be readily understood.
The clasps and plates may be readily and conveniently turned round, as specified,
and the busks withdrawn.
I claim as new :-
1. The combination, with the busk having a hole or perforation, of the turning
clasp-plate pivoted near said hole and having a pin or projection which enters the
latter to retain the plate normally in position; as set forth.
2. The combination, with the busk having a series of holes or perforations near
the edge, of the clasp plates pivoted at their rear corners in a line and near to
said holes, and provided at their other rear corners with an inwardly projecting
pin or stud normally accommodated in the hole; as and for the purpose set forth.
In witness whereof I, the said Chester Ammen Snow, have hereunto set my
hand and seal this twenty seventh day of September in the year of Our
Lord one thousand, eight hundred, and eighty two