Year: 1880

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I JULES DUFAUX of N° 89 Rue de la Mare, Paris, France, Manufacturer of Corset
busks seek leave to amend the specification of Letters Patent, No. 5265 of 1880,
as shown in red ink in the copy of the original specification hereunto annexed:-
That is to say at Line 38 of Page 2 I erase from the words "The said Sheath
the end of the line and I erase lines 39 and 40. At Line 1 of Page 3 I omit the
word "Sometimes". I erase the first claiming clause Lines 16, 17 and 18 of
Page 3 and I alter the second claiming clause as follows:-
In Line 19 of Page 3 I omit the word "Second" for "the" I substitute "a stay
or corset" and between the words "covering" and "provided "I insert "consisting
"of a woven tube".
My reasons for making this amendment are as follows:-
The said Letters Patent were assigned to me on the 31st March 1882. I desire.
to confine the invention to the more useful form of sheathed busk namely that
having a sheath woven with lists or edges by which it can be sewn on a garment.
JLS DUFAUX.

page_text: Stays or Corsets.
LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake,
and Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for an Invention of
"AN IMPROVED MANNER OF COVERING OR SHEATHING METAL BUSKS, AND
SECURING THE SAME IN STAYS OR CORSETS." A communication from abroad
by Marie Hyacinthe Fouillet-Chevance, of Paris, France, Merchant.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th December 1880.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE of the Firm of Haseltine Lake and Co. Patent
Agents, Southampton Buildings, London. "AN IMPROVED MANNER OF COVERING
OR SHEATHING METAL BUSKS AND SECURING THE SAME IN STAYS OR CORSETS."
[A communication from abroad by Marie Hyacinthe Fouillet-Chevance of Paris,
France, Merchant.]
This Invention relates to an improved covering for the busks or plates used in
ladies' corsets and bodices.
For many years past whalebone having become very rare and expensive, has, for
ladies' corsets and stays been replaced by small steel plates or springs. To prevent
rusting of the steel, various methods have been devised such as preparing the same
with varnish or paint; or covering it with some chemical substance; or galvanizing
or nickeling the steel or covering or sheathing it with paper, skin, or textile
fabric.
The covers or sheaths as usually made have to be secured by gum or paste and
consequently are applied in a moist condition and act more or less injuriously upon
the steel; but I obviate this difficulty by suppressing the pasting for the covers of
such steel-plates and by applying the said covers as hereinafter described.
According to my said Invention I insert the steel plates used as busks into tubes
of woven fabric forming covers or sheaths without a seam. These covers or sheaths
are woven (like the tubular ribbons ordinarily used for neckties) on ordinary guipure
looms. They may be made of a width barely exceeding that of the plate or spring
and thus the sheaths may be made to fit perfectly upon the plates.
Sometimes I make these sheaths wider than the plates they are to enclose. In
this case the parts on either side projecting beyond the steel plate or spring, are
woven so as to form lists or edges in double weft which allow the sheath carrying
the plate to be sewn onto the corset or stays in any desired position.
Instead of one plate or spring, two plates may be inserted within one sheath
either with or without an edge.
The two ends of the sheath are closed upon the plate or plates by a fold and then
secured by a few stitches of thread passed through a hole pierced in the steel plate
where one is used or passed between the two plates if two are inserted.
The above described sheaths or covers may be of any textile material such as
linen, hemp, cotton, wool, silk or the like.

page_text: Stays or Corsets.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th June 1881.
WILLIAM
"
ROBERT LAKE of the Firm of Haseltine Lake & Co. Patent
Agents, Southampton Buildings, London. AN IMPROVED MANNER OF COVERING
OR SHEATHING METAL BUSKS, AND SECURING THE SAME IN STAYS OR CORSETS."
A communication from abroad by Marie Hyacinthe Fouillet-Chevance of Paris,
France, Merchant.
This Invention relates to an improved manner of covering or sheathing metal
busks or plates and securing the same in stays or corsets.
For many years past, whalebone, having become very rare and expensive, has
for ladies' corsets and stays been replaced by small steel plates or springs. To
prevent rusting of the steel various methods have been devised such as coating
the same with varnish or paint or covering it with some chemical substance, or
galvanizing or nickeling the steel, or covering or sheathing it with paper, skin,
or textile fabric.
The covers or sheaths as usually made have to be secured by gum or paste and
consequently are applied in a moist condition and act more or less injuriously
upon the steel. I obviate this difficulty however by rendering the use of paste
unnecessary in covering such steel plates and by applying the said covers as herein-
after described.
According to my said Invention I insert the steel plates used as busks, into tubes
of woven fabric which constitute covers or sheaths without a seam. These covers
or sheaths are woven on looms similar to those ordinarily employed in the
manufacture of tubular ribbons for neckties. The said sheath may be made-of-a
width-barely-exceeding that of the plate or spring-and-thus-the-sheaths-may-be
made-to-fit-perfectly-upon-the-plates.
Sometimes I make these sheaths wider than the plates they are to enclose. In
this case the parts of the sheath projecting on either side of the steel plate or spring
are woven so as to form lists, selvages, or edges in double weft, which allow the
sheath carrying the plate to be sewn on to the corset or stays in any desired
position.
Instead of one plate or spring, two plates may be inserted within one sheatlı,
which may, or may not, have lists or selvages.
The two ends of the sheath are closed upon the plate or plates by a fold and
then secured by a few stitches of thread passed through a hole pierced in the steel
plate, where one is used, or passed between the two plates, if two are inserted.
The above described sheaths or covers may be formed of any textile material
such as linen, hemp, cotton, wool, silk or the like.

page_text: Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, and the manner of performing the same, I wish it understood
that I claim,
First. A stay-or-corset busk-inserted-or-enclosed in a tube of textile-material
which forms--a--seamless sheath--or covering--for--the--same, substantially as--set
forth.
Seeend. Enclosing the a stay or corset busk in a sheath or covering consisting
of a woven tube provided with lists or edges whereby the same may be conveniently
sewn on the stay or corset substantially as set forth.
In witness whereof I the said William Robert Lake have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Fourteenth day of June in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
44 DADT TTR

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Robert Lake, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake,
and Co., Patent Agents, Southampton Buildings, London, for an Invention of
"AN IMPROVED MANNER OF COVERING OR SHEATHING METAL BUSKS, AND
SECURING THE SAME IN STAYS OR CORSETS." A communication from abroad
by Marie Hyacinthe Fouillet-Chevance, of Paris, France, Merchant.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Robert Lake at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th December 1880.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, and Co., Patent
"AN IMPROVED MANNER OF COVERING
Agents, Southampton Buildings, London.
OR SHEATHING METAL BUSKS, AND SECURING THE SAME IN STAYS OR CORSETS."
[A communication from abroad by Marie Hyacinthe Fouillet-Chevance, of Paris,
France, Merchant.]
This Invention relates to an improved covering for the busks or plates used in
ladies' corsets and bodices.
For many years past whalebone having become very rare and expensive, has for
ladies' corsets and stays been replaced by small steel plates or springs. To prevent
rusting of the steel various methods have been devised, such as preparing the same
with varnish or paint, or covering it with some chemical substance, or galvanizing
or nickeling the steel or covering, or sheathing it with paper, skin, or textile
fabric.
The covers or sheaths as usually made have to be secured by gum or paste, and
consequently are applied in a moist condition and act more or less injuriously upon
the steel; but I obviate this difficulty by suppressing the pasting for the covers of
such steel-plates, and by applying the said covers as hereinafter described.
According to my said Invention I insert the steel plates used as busks into tubes
of woven fabric forming covers or sheaths without a seam. These covers or sheaths
are woven (like the tubular ribbons ordinarily used for neckties) on ordinary guipure

page_text: looms. They may be made of a width barely exceeding that of the plate or spring,
and thus the sheaths may be made to fit perfectly upon the plates.
Sometimes I make these sheaths wider than the plates they are to enclose. In
this case the parts on either side projecting beyond the steel plate or spring are
woven so as to form lists or edges in double weft, which allow the sheath carrying
the plate to be sewn onto the corset or stays in any desired position.
Instead of one plate or spring, two plates may be inserted within one sheath
either with or without an edge.
The two ends of the sheath are closed upon the plate or plates by a fold, and then
secured by a few stitches of thread passed through a hole pierced in the steel plate
where one is used or passed between the two plates if two are inserted.
The above described sheaths or covers may be of any textile material, such as
linen, hemp, cotton, wool, silk, or the like.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Robert Lake in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th June 1881.
WILLIAM ROBERT LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake, & Co., Patent
Agents, Southampton Buildings, London. "AN IMPROVED MANNER OF COVERING
OR SHEATHING METAL BUSKS, AND SECURING THE SAME IN STAYS OR CORSETS."
A communication from abroad by Marie Hyacinthe Fouillet-Chevance, of Paris,
France, Merchant.
This Invention relates to an improved manner of covering or sheathing metal
busks or plates, and securing the same in stays or corsets.
For many years past whalebone having become very rare and expensive, has
for ladies' corsets and stays been replaced by small steel plates or springs. To
prevent rusting of the steel various methods have been devised, such as coating
the same with varnish or paint, or covering it with some chemical substance, or
galvanizing or nickeling the steel, or covering or sheathing it with paper, skin,
or textile fabric.
The covers or sheaths as usually made have to be secured by gum or paste, and
consequently are applied in a moist condition, and act more or less injuriously
upon the steel. I obviate this difficulty however by rendering the use of paste
unnecessary in covering such steel plates, and by applying the said covers as herein-
after described.
According to my said Invention I insert the steel plates used as busks into tubes
of woven fabric which constitute covers or sheaths without a seam. These covers
or sheaths are woven on looms similar to those ordinarily employed in the
manufacture of tubular ribbons for neckties. The said sheath may be made of a
width barely exceeding that of the plate or spring, and thus the sheaths may be
made to fit perfectly upon the plates.

page_text: Sometimes I make these sheaths wider than the plates they are to enclose. In
this case the parts of the sheath projecting on either side of the steel plate or spring
are woven so as to form lists, selvages, or edges in double weft, which allow the
sheath carrying the plate to be sewn on to the corset or stays in any desired
position.
'
Instead of one plate or spring, two plates may be inserted within one sheath
which may or may not have lists or selvages.
The two ends of the sheath are closed upon the plate or plates by a fold, and
then secured by a few stitches of thread passed through a hole pierced in the steel
plate where one is used or passed between the two plates if two are inserted.
The above described sheaths or covers may be formed of any textile material,
such as linen, hemp, cotton, wool, silk, or the like.
Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent and the manner of performing the same, I wish it understood
that I claim,
First. A stay or corset busk inserted or enclosed in a tube of textile material,
which forms a seamless sheath or covering for the same, substantially as set
forth.
Second. Enclosing the busk in a sheath or covering provided with lists or
edges, whereby the same may be conveniently sewn on the stay or corset,
substantially as set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Robert Lake, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
W. ROB, LAKE
(L.S.)