Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Mar., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 19th Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 22nd Jan., 1889
1, CARL BRUNO DIENER, Manufacturer, of Waldenburg, in the Kingdom of Saxony,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to faciliate the rapid opening of corsets when the
person wearing them meets with an accident.
For this purpose one side or busk of the corset is provided with a vertical row of
buttons, and the other with a corresponding series of specially constructed fasteners.
Each fastener consists of a flat metal plate fastened at one end to the corset busk and
provided in the centre with a hole for introducing the button in the ordinary manner.
A narrow slot extending from this hole to the free edge of the fastening plate serves
to receive the shank of the button. The slotted end of the said plate is bent and
folded down, so as to form a flat loop between the head of the button and the vertical
steel plate or busk to which the button is riveted.
In ordinary use, a flat steel strip or bar passes through all the loops from top to bottom
of the corset and prevents the button shanks from sliding out through the slot of the
fastener. But in case of accident, the said steel strip is seized at the upper end and
drawn out longitudinally through all the loops, thereby allowing each button to slide
out through the slot of the corresponding fastener.
Dated this 20th day of March 1888.
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
433, Strand, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, CARL BRUNO DIENER, Manufacturer, of Waldenburg, in the German Empire,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same may be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement
.
My invention has for its object to facilitate the rapid opening of corsets when
the persons wearing them meet with accidents. For this purpose I construct the
busks or fastening of the corset in a special manner as illustrated by the accompanying
drawings Figs. 1 to 8.
The fastening shown in Figs. 1 to 4 chiefly comprises a busk A provided with a
row of buttons, and a busk B provided with a corresponding series of specially con-
structed fasteners. Each fastener consists of a metal plate D having in the middle a
hole for introducing the button in the ordinary manner. A narrow slot a extending
from this hole to the free edge of the fastening plate serves to receive the shank
of the button. The slotted end b of the plate D is bent and folded down, so as to
form a flat loop between the head d of the button and the steel-busk A to which the
button is riveted.
In ordinary use, a flat steel strip or bar E passes through all the loops from top to
bottom of the corset and prevents the button shanks from sliding out through the
slot a of the fastener. But in case of accident, the said steel strip is seized at the
upper end (which may carry a ringlet as shown) and drawn out longitudinally through
all the loops, thereby allowing each button to slide out through the slot of the
corresponding fastener, so as to open the corset without loss of time.
The loop of the fastener D may be formed by an elastic tongue, as shown in Fig. 4,
which allows the locking bar E to be introduced into the loop from the side and holds
it therein.
.
Figs. 5 to 8 illustrate a modified construction, which requires a shorter motion of
the locking har for opening the corset. In this case, the corset is fastened by means
of a flat bar F armed with a series of closing hooks or tongues e.
The busk A is provided with corresponding socket or eyelet pieces f, f¹ in which
the tongues e can be easily moved up and down, in such a manner, that in the closed
state of the corset, each tongue e is held by two socket pieces and ", and that for
opening the corset the tongues e can be withdrawn sufficiently to clear the recess g
which is formed between two corresponding eyelet pieces and f¹. The buttons d
fixed to the busk B are adapted to enter the recesses g and to be retained therein by
the locking bar F. To prevent the locking bar from being drawn out too far, it is
armed with a safety hook which limits the upmotion of the same and serves also to
guide the tongues e. It will be seen that the essential feature of this modification is
the use of a special kind of tongues e which can be uniformly moved to and fro
between corresponding eyelet or socket pieces and by means of a locking
bar in such a manner, that the buttons situated in the recesses may be held or
released at will.

page_text: Having now particularly described the nature of my invention and in what manner
the same may be performed, I declare that what I claim is:
1. A corset, having the distinctive feature, that the fastening is formed of eyelet
pieces D provided with loops or extensions 6, buttons d fitting into the said eyelet
pieces, and a locking bar adapted to pass through the pieces D and to retain or release
the buttons as required.
2. A corset fastening, comprising in its construction a longitudinally movable
bar F armed with tongues or hooks e, eyelet or socket pieces and fƒ¹ arranged in
pairs and adapted to guide the tongues e, and buttons d situated between the
eyelet pieces and f1, the tongues e being adapted to be shifted by a short motion
of the bar F in such a manner, that the buttons d may be retained or released, as
required.
3. A corset fastening comprising in its construction a locking bar F armed with
tongues e, socket pieces and f1, and buttons d, and provided with a stop or safety
hook for limiting the motion of the bar F.
The whole substantially as described and illustrated.