Improvements in the Method of Capping or Protecting the Ends of Busks, Stiffeners, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 31st July, 1891-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Method of Capping or Protecting the Ends of
Busks, Stiffeners, and the like.
I, RICHARD HOWARD WALL of The Ashby Busk Works, Hackney Road in
the County of London, Busk Manufacturer, 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:-
The object of this invention is to prevent the ends of busks stiffeners and the
like from cutting or otherwise injuring the case or the fabric of corsets dresses, or
other garments in which the said busks or stiffeners are inserted.
The caps or protectors at present in use for this purpose are generally made of
metal and are very liable to cut through the fabric in which they are enclosed.
According to my invention I obviate this defect by forming the caps or protectors
of busks stiffeners and the like of indiarubber or other suitable soft material
which will not cut or injure the fabric in which the busk stiffener or the like is
enclosed.
I prefer to use a material which is both soft and flexible such as indiarubber
from which the caps or protectors may be formed by moulding or in any other
suitable manner. The caps or protectors which I have found most suitable for my
purpose and which I prefer are made by cutting indiarubber tubes of a diameter
somewhat smaller than the width of the busk or stiffener into suitable lengths and
stretching or springing the same over the ends of the busks or stiffeners and I
secure the same thereto by suitable cement the projecting ends of the caps or pro-
tectors being fastened together by cement so as to form a closed cap or protector.
And in order that my invention may be the better understood I will proceed to
explain the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1 represents a stiffener the ends of which are protected by caps constructed
according to this invention.
Fig. 2 represents edge view of same.
Figs. 3 & 4 side views of stiffeners ready for capping.
Fig. 5 detail of cap.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the figs.
a is the stiffener bb the caps formed of pieces of indiarubber tube as shewn in
Fig. 5, sprung or stretched over the ends of the stiffener a and fastened thereto by
the usual cement or solution used for fastening indiarubber to metal this solution is
also used to fasten together the projecting portions cc of the caps bb so as to
protect the edges d d of the stiffener a.
The ends of the stiffeners may be formed as shewn in Fig. 3 with notched
portions ee or plain as in Fig. 4.
In conclusion I would remark that I do not confine myself to the precise form
of caps or ends of busks and stiffeners herein described and shewn as the same
may be varied within wide limits without departing from the principle of my
invention neither do I bind myself to make the caps as herein described as these
may be made in any suitable manner.
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
Protecting the ends of busks, stiffeners and the like by means of a cap formed

page_text: of indiarubber or other suitable soft flexible material substantially
and shewn.
as described
י נ.י.ת
ERNEST SALAMAN,
Agent for Applicant.