Improvements in Corset Fasteners.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Feb., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 21st Nov., 1894-Accepted, 26th Jan., 1895
Improvements in Corset Fasteners.
We, JAMES BALL, of 232 Stone Street, Arthurs Hill, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
in the County of Northumberland, Chemists Assistant, and FREDERICK EDMUND
BELLWOOD, of 111 Bell Terrace, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, aforesaid, Daper, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention has reference to the manner in which we construct corset fasteners
for preventing the busks of the corset from becoming unfastened and from altering
their position or working loose by the movement of the body.
In carrying our invention into effect we attach our fasteners to the ordinary
shaped and usual busk by rivetting or screwing one portion to one busk, and
another portion we screw or attach to the companion busk; the fastener itself
being in the form of an eye bolt or eye piece entering into a projecting staple plate
which carries a sliding pin or bolt within it for engaging with and passing through
the eye or eye bolt.
We make our staple plate portion of our fasteners of any suitable metal stamped
or cast, and we provide upon it a projecting barrel or boss, having an interrupted
portion forming a jaw piece into which the eye or projecting ring pieces upon the
companion busk may enter. Within the upper portion of the barrel we arrange
a sliding bolt and we provide projecting manipulating pins or bars to stand out
from one or both sides of the barrel through openings formed therein for enabling
the bolt or pin to be lifted out of the eye and thus the fastening to be released.
We modify the shape and configuration of the bolt and its manipulating device
together with the shape of the plate carrying the bolt barrel to suit the busk to
which it may be desired to attach it, and we provide horn pieces or projecting
ears for passing the rivets through to attach the plate to the busks, or we form the
plate of a width and length sufficient to readily receive the rivets or attaching
screws.
To keep the lock pins or bolts in position we sometimes arrange a spring around
or upon our sliding bolts.
We sometimes arrange in the bottom or sides of our projecting manipulating
bar ends, an indentation, and on the plate or on the boss sides near the top we make
a corresponding projection to fill the indentation for the purpose of holding the
sliding bar in position until the eye piece or ring on the companion busk enters the
plate or jaw hole, if so desired.
We may employ the whole of the fastenings for the busks of our improved
bolt and eye attachment type, as hereinbefore described, or we may make our
improved fastenings to be attached to busks having some of the ordinary pin and
open plate fastenings as now in common use; thus, we may make the fastenings for
the corset wholly of our improved kind as herein set forth, or we may use them in
combination with other fastenings, simply employing our special fastenings for
locking the busks together when so desired.
Dated this 20th day of February 1894.
:
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicants.

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Improvements in Corset Fasteners.
We, JAMES BALL of 232, Stone Street, Arthur's Hill, Newcastle-on-Tyne in
the County of Northumberland Chemists Assistant and FREDERICK EDMUND
BELLWOOD of 111, Bell Terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne aforesaid, Draper 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 reference to the manner in which we construct corset
fasteners for preventing the busks of the corset from becoming unfastened, and
from altering their position or working loose by the movement of the body.
In carrying our invention into effect we attach our fasteners to the ordinary-
shaped and usual busk, by riveting or screwing one portion to one busk, & another
portion we screw or attach to the companion busk: the fastener itself being in the
form of an eye bolt, or eye-piece entering into a projecting staple plate which
carries a sliding pin or bolt within it for engaging with and passing thro' the eye
or eye-bolt.
We make our staple plate portion of our fasteners of any suitable metal stamped
or cast, and we provide upon it a projecting barrel or boss A having an interrupted
portion forming a jaw piece B into which the eye or projecting ring pieces upon
the companion busk may enter.
Within the upper portion of the barrel A we arrange a sliding bolt F, and we
provide projecting manipulating pins or bars to stand out from one or both sides of
the barrel through openings formed therein for enabling the bolt or pin F to be
lifted out of the eye G, and thus the fastening to be released.
We modify the shape and configuration of the bolt and its manipulating device
together with the shape of the plate carrying the bolt barrel to suit the busk to
which it may be desired to attach it, and we provide horn pieces or projecting ears
for passing the rivets through to attach the plate to the busks, or we form the
plate of a width and length sufficient to readily receive the rivets or attaching
screws at holes E. E.
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To keep the lock-pins or bolts in position we sometimes arrange a spring around
upon our sliding bolts F.
e sometimes arrange in the bottom or sides of our projecting manipulating
bar-ends an indentation, and on the plate or on the boss sides, near the top we
make a corresponding projection to fill the indentation for the purpose of holding
the sliding bar in position until the eye-piece or ring G on the companion busk
enters the plate or jaw hole B, if so desired.
When our barrel has one opening H, only, we provide a notch D which enablės
the bar-handle C to be turned back upon the plate.
The accompanying drawings show the fasteners as attached to the busk, also
sections of staple-plate, sliding bar and eye-piece.
Referring more particularly to the drawings
Figure 1. illustrates an ordinary corset busk and its companion having the
improved fasteners attached and locking them securely together.
Figure 2. shows the staple-plate of fastener carrying at letter A the interrupted
barrel, at letter B the jaw-hole, the sliding bar handle at letter C turned back
into a notch or recess at letter D, and rivet holes at letters E. E., opening on barrel
at letter H.
Figure 3. shows a section of the sliding bar F.
Figure 4. at letter G shows a section of eye-piece which is attached to the
companion busk.

page_text: We may employ the whole of the fastenings for the busks of our improved bolt
and eye attachment type, as herein before described, or we may make our improved
fastenings to be attached to busks having some of the ordinary pin & open plate
fastenings now in common use, thus, we may make the fastenings for the corset.
wholly of our improved kind as herein set forth, or we may use them in combination
with other fastenings, simply employing our special fastenings for locking the busks
together when so desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is-
An improved & non-slipping corset fastener, of bolt and eye attachment type as
herein-before described and illustrated by the drawings.
Dated this 21st day of November 1894
JAMES BALL.
FREDERICK EDMUND BELLWOOD.