An Improvement in Corsets, Bodices, Belts, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Sept., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 11th June, 1896-Accepted, 11th July, 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Corsets, Bodices, Belts, and the like.
1, SAMUEL ROYLE, of Grosvenor Factory, Grosvenor Street Southsea in the
County of Hants, Corset Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for its object to prevent the ends of the steels, bones, or
other stiffeners used in corsets, bodices, belts, and other female body-garments,
from wearing through the covering fabric which they are particularly liable to do
by the friction of the outer garments upon the covering fabric at these points and
by the working loose of the steels or bones in their sheaths.
The invention consists in the application to corsets of metal clips placed outside
the covering fabric after the insertion of the steels or bones, the clips being so
formed as to embrace the ends of the steels or bones at the lateral and end edges
so as to retain them securely in place both laterally and longitudinally. For this
purpose the clips are formed of suitably shaped plates stamped out with three
tangs adapted to be passed through the corset covering fabric or completely
through both the corset covering and lining fabrics after the insertion of the steels
or bones in their sheaths, one tang passing at either side and one at the end of the
steel or bone and all three being clenched by turning inwards towards each
other at the back of the steels or bones, or of the lining fabric, as the case may be.
The body portion or plate of the clip may be suitably shaped and decorated so as
to present an ornamental appearance, and it is this plate which receives the
friction of the outer garments and by protecting the corset covering fabric
prevents the ends of the steels or bones coming through whilst the tangs
embracing the steel or bone tightly prevent it working loose in its enclosing
sheath.
Dated this 12th day of September 1895.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
An Improvement in Corsets, Bodices, Belts, and the like.
1, SAMUEL ROYLE of Grosvenor Factory, Grosvenor Street, Southsea, in the
County of Hants, Corset 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 :-
This invention has for its object to prevent the ends of the steels or bones, used
as stiffeners in corsets, bodices, belts, and other female body-garments, from
wearing through the outer or covering fabric which is liable to occur in
consequence of the friction at these points and of the working loose of the steels
or bones in their sheaths.
The invention consists in the application to the corset after the insertion in
their sheaths of the steels or bones of metal clips so formed as to pierce through
the outer and inner fabrics and to embrace the ends of the steels or bones in such

page_text: mauner as to retain them securely in place both laterally and longitudinally. For
this purpose the clips are formed of suitably shaped plates stamped out with three
or more tangs adapted to be passed through both the outer and inner fabrics
forming the sheath after the insertion of the steel or bone in the sheath two of
the tangs passing at opposite sides and one or more at the end of the steel or
bone and all three being clenched by turning inwards towards each other at the
back of the sheath so that the steel or bone is thereby held immovable in the
sheath. The body portion or plate of the clip may be suitably shaped and
decorated and it is this plate which receives the friction of the outer garments
and by protecting the outer fabric from external wear prevents the ends of the
steel or bone bursting through it, whilst the tangs by embracing the steel or bone
tightly hold it immovable and prevent it working loose in the sheath and wearing
through the fabric from within.
In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification
Figure 1 represents an outer view of part of a corset shewing one of the clips as
applied to the end of a bone.
Figure is a corresponding inside view, a part of the lining being supposed
removed to shew the tangs.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of a clip before insertion.
The clip consists of a plate or body portion a of brass or other metal and of a
width adapted to the breadth of the steel. It has punched out with it two side
tangs and one or more end tangs which are bent down perpendicular to the
plane of the body portion a. After the bone or steel d has been inserted in its
sheath e, but before the corset is lined, the clip is inserted so that its tangs
transfix the inner and outer walls of the sheath and pass at either side and at the
end of the steel d, the tangs being then turned inwards and clenched as shewn in
Figure 2. The tangs are afterwards concealed by the lining fabric f of the corset.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what mauner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The application to corsets of clips substantially such as herein described for
securing the ends of the bones or steels in their sheaths and preventing wear of
the outer fabric as specified.
Dated this 10th day of June 1896.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.