An Improvement connected with Whalebone, French Horn, Metal, or other Flexible Material Strips employed as Stiffeners in Lady's Dresses and other Garments.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 29th May, 1893-Accepted, 22nd July, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement connected with Whalebone, French Horn, Metal,
or other Flexible Material Strips employed as Stiffeners in
Lady's Dresses and other Garments.
I, GUSTAVE ROSENWALD, of the Firm Rosenwald Brothers, of 27 Noble
Street, City of London, Warehousemen, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
:-
This invention relates to a certain improvement connected with whalebone,
French horn, metal or other flexible material strips employed as stiffeners in lady's
dresses and other garments, in order to obtain greater stiffness, and bending
resistance, with less liability to snap and break during stooping or other motion of
the wearer's body.
The usual stiffeners for the sides and backs of lady's dress bodies, corsets, and
like garments, are plain surfaced strips of whalebone French horn, or metal, and
from their uniformity of thickness throughout their length offer little resistance to
snap when slightly bent, this being chiefly due to the reduction of temper, or a
separation of the minute fibres in the stiffeners arising from the heat of the body
during wear. By my invention without increasing the thickness, or interfering
with the necessary yielding properties of the material, I by corrugating such strips,
either in straight or wavy undulations strengthen the strips to a great extent, which
enables them to resist the bending action, or the liability to fracture.
Dated this 11th day of March 1802
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Gustave Rosenwald.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Gustave Rosenwald.
or
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement connected with Whalebone, French Horn, Metal,
other Flexible Material Strips employed as Stiffeners in
Lady's Dresses and other Garments.
I, GUSTAVE ROSENWALD, of the Firm Rosenwald Brothers, of 27 Noble
Street, City of London, Warehousemen, 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 :-
This invention relates to a certain improvement connected with whalebone,
French horn, metal or other flexible material strips employed as stiffeners in lady's
dresses and other garments, in order to obtain greater stiffness, and bending
resistance, with less liability to snap and break during stooping, or other motion of
the wearer's body.
The usual stiffeners for the sides and backs of lady's dress bodies, corsets, and
like garments, are plain surfaced strips of whalebone, French horn, or metal, and
from their uniformity of thickness throughout their length offer little resistance to
snap when slightly bent, this being chiefly due to the reduction of temper, or a
separation of the minute fibres in the stiffeners arising from the heat of the body
during wear. By my invention without increasing the thickness, or interfering
with the necessary yielding properties of the material, I by corrugating such strips,
either in straight or wavy undulations strengthen the strips to a great extent, which
enables them to resist the bending action, or the liability to fracture,

page_text: Figure 1 of the annexed drawings shows a strip of material with straight
corrugations.
Figure 2 a section of same indicating the corrugations on both faces of the
strip.
Figure 3 represents a strip with wavy corrugations.
Figure 4 section of same.
Figure 5 shows by way of example, a sectional side elevation of a machine by
which corrugation of strips of semi hard yet flexible material can be effected.
Figure 6 plan of the machine.
The machine is composed of a frame A with end uprights B, B, having
bearings C, C, for the axles of rollers D, D, to work in. Each roller has a
broad notch E with inclined walls F, F, formed in it for the reception and
fixture of an engraved or stamped steel band G, the ends H, H, of which, when
the band G is placed around roller D, are slided or sprung into the notch E and
hold itself in position. I, I are blocks of india rubber or wood fitted in the
notches to fill them up. The outer surface of the rubber projects slightly beyond
the periphery of the band when in place to grip the strip and draw it in between
them for the impression on the band to be impressed upon it, the two rollers D, D,
acting in unison for that purpose by the gear wheels J, J, when turned by the
crank handle K.
L is a table on which the strips to be impressed can be placed in bulk, and on
which an attendant can separate them and push them singly against a raised
ridge M, and then to push each strip in succession under the upper roller.
Each roller D has a rubber or wooden block I fitted in, and one of said blocks
has a rib I, and the other recess for the rib I' to enter said rib forming a stop,
against which each strip is pushed for entering the rollers D, D, when the
crank handle K is at the particular part of its travel, such as that shown on the
drawings.
The flutings or corrugations N, N, of plain, straight, or of wavy shape are from
and to the portions just within where the holes P, P, are usually made for what is
known as fan stitching when the strips are encased in, or covered by a fabric in the
well known manner. With larger rollers, the strips may be corrugated straight or
wavy for their full length.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
Corrugating dress and corset stiffener strips in straight or wavy lines by pressure,
said corrugations commencing and ending within or extended beyond the fan
stitching holes of each strip substantially as and by the means described.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Gustave Rosenwald.