Improvements connected with the Steels or Bones of Ladies' Bodices or other Garments.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Dec., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Sept., 1892-Accepted, 22nd Oct., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with the Steels or Bones of Ladies' Bodices
or other Garments.
FRANCES HUGHES of 8 Church Street Rhosymedre in the Parish of Ruabon in
the County of Denbigh Widow do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
A cap, made of brass, metal, or any other material with two or more holes to
secure to ladys bodices or any other garments &c. to prevent the whalebone or
steel &c. been displaced or wear through the material &c.
Dated this 1st day of December 1891.
FRANCES HUGHES.
Fredk. Walker, M.S.E.,
Engineer, Registered Patent Agent,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with the Steels or Bones of Ladies' Bodices
or other Garments.
I, FRANCES HUGHES, of 8, Church Street, Rhosymedre, in the Parish of Ruabon,
in the County of Denbigh do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement :-
This invention consists of a cap made of metal or alloy or other suitable material
with two or more holes to secure to ladies' bodices or other garments the said cap
being formed so as to fit on to the ends of the whalebones or steels and prevent
their being displaced or wearing through the material.
In order that my invention may be well understood and carried into practice I
will now further describe the same by referring to the accompanying sheet of
drawings on which Fig. 1 is a front view and Fig. 2 is a side view of one of the
steels of a lady's bodice provided with one of my said caps at each end; Fig. 3
shews the said cap separately in front elevation side elevation and in plan on an
enlarged scale, and Fig. 4 shews similar views of a slightly modified form of the
said cap.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the figures of the drawing.
A is the steel, B is part of the material of the bodice or other garment and
CC are the two caps in which the ends of the steel fit easily and which are
sewn on to the material B. It will be seen that each of the caps CC is of a
flattened shape and only open at one end c' the other end c³ being closed to prevent
the end of the steel A passing through. Flanges d' & are formed at each side of
the
cap and in these flanges are holes e through which the cap is sewn to the
material B of the bodice as shewn in Fig. 1.
The
The
is by preference made from sheet brass or other alloy or metal.
cap
cap can either be of a flat shape as shewn in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 or made slightly oval
as shewn in Fig. 4 or made of other shape corresponding with the cross section of
the whalebone or steel on to which the cap has to fit. The dotted lines in Fig. 2
shew how the steel A can be sprung out of and removed from the caps CC when
the material B is required to be washed.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In combination with the steels or whalebone of ladies' bodices and other
garments the use of caps such as C adapted to removably fit on to the ends of the
said steels or whalebones and to be sewn on to the material of the bodices for the
purpose and substantially as hereinbefore set forth.
2. The cap C substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 1st day of September 1892.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.