The Combination of an Adjustable, Attachable, and Removable Belt to a Corset and the Attachment of the Belt to a Corset by Certain Fastenings.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 1st June, 1899-Accepted, 22nd July, 1899
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
The Combination of an Adjustable, Attachable, and Removable Belt
to a Corset and the Attachment of the Belt to a Corset by Certain
Fastenings.
I, JANE HAMILTON ROBERTSON, of 171, High Street, Kensington, in the County
of Middlesex, Corset Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:
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The helt made by me is shewn in Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings
and can be made in any similar shape in any pliable material as wool linen
cotton leather elastic webbings or the like having always elastic webbings (E,
Figure 1) and openings and laces (A. Figure 1) on its component parts with
eyelets or holes and laces as shewn in Figure 1 the material being marked M.
The openings sometimes have flaps to cover them. The belt has inserted or
placed on it columns or rows of eyelets or holes vertically and horizontally inserted
in and on the upper part of the band all round the belt with laces as shown in
Figure 1. The belt is shaped to the corset and abdomen of the wearer and is
placed on the lower portion of a corset which the belt overlaps covering and
supporting the abdomen of the wearer where the belt is adjusted and fitted to
the wearer by the laces and eyelets or holes of the belt.
To adjust and fit the belt to the corset in the manner described I adopt several
plans of dealing with the corset to receive the belt.
A. I place and insert at the bottom or lower part of the corset rows or columns
of holes or eyelets similar to those placed in the belt vertically and horizontally
as shewn in Figure 2 or BI place and insert fewer rows and columns of eyelets
or holes as shewn in Figure 5 or C I attach laces or strings to the corset with
or without eyelets or holes as shewn in Figure 4.
In all these cases I use laces to adjust fix and fasten the belt to the corset as
described and to the wearer interlaced between the eyelets or holes of the belt
and corset or the laces of the corset into the belt exactly as the belt is adjusted.
The belt as worn over the corset is shewn in Figure 3.
Unted th th amh 1800
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
o The Combination of an Adjustable, Attachable, and Removable Belt
to a Corset and the Attachment of the Belt to a Corset by Certain
Fastenings.
I, JANE HAMILTON ROBERTSON, now of 14, Pulteney Bridge, Bath, in the County
of. Somerset, formerly of 171, High Street, Kensington, in the County of Middlesex,

page_text: Corset Maker and Belt Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The belt as made by me is sometimes made to fit the shape of the lower
-portion of a corset and the abdomen and is sometimes made in the shape shewn in
Figure 1 of the drawings left with the Provisional Specification but the belt can be
made in any suitable shape varying therefrom, in any pliable material such as silk
wool cotton linen leather elastic webbing or the like, the belt sometimes having
elastic webbings as shewn at the letters E in Figure 1 of the said drawings and
material as shewn at the letters M in the same Figure 1 and openings and laces
with eyelets or holes (sometimes with flaps of the material to close the openings)
as shown at the letters A in the same Figure 1 but as necessary and component
parts of my invention and the belt, the belt must always be made with one or more
openings to enable it to be opened and closed and extended and diminished in size
and shape by means of eyolote or holes and laces as shewn in the same Figure 1 and
also with eyelets or holes and laces in rows and columns, at about three quarters
of an inch apart, all round the upper surfaces of the belt as shown in Figure 1 of
the same drawings or some variation thereof in position or in the greator or
less number of the eyelets the holes or the laces. The eyelets or holes in the belt
are usually inserted and made in the belt as shewn in Figure 1 of the said
drawings but may be increased or diminished in number or varied in position to
adjust the belt to the corset.
The corset to receive the belt is then prepared in the following manner:
Similar columns and rows of eyelets or holes are made or inserted in the lower
portion of the corset either with or without laces attached to interlace with the
eyelets or holes or laces of the belt. The number and position of the eyelets
holes and laces vary as may be desired as shewn in Figures 2, 4, and 5 of the
same drawings.
The corset is sometimes prepared with only a few eyelets or holes and laces
to interlace with the belt as shewn in Figures 4 and 5 of the same drawings or the
corset has laces only attached to it to interlace in the eyelets or holes of the
belt as shewn in Figure 4 of the same drawings.
The belt and corset being so made and prepared the belt is placed on the lower
part of the corset overhanging and overlapping the abdomen sides and posterior
of the person and there can be attached to the corset and adjusted to the person.
of the wearer and removed at will by the lacings and fastenings as described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what.
I claim is:
The combination, as a new and novel invention, of a belt so made and described
by me with a corset prepared as described by me and attached to a corset as
described, and adjusted by the fastenings described by me.
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