Improvements in Busks, Whalebones, and Springs for Corsets: and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Oct., 1896
Complete Specification Left 6th July 1897-Accented 7th Aug 1897
Date of Application, 9th Oct., 1896
Complete Specification Left 6th July 1897-Accented 7th Aug 1897 wir
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Busks, Whalebones, and Springs for Corsets:
and the like.
I, JEAN ANTOINE SCHWEITZER, of 53 Rue Bichat, l'aris, in the Republic of
France, Civil Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
With my invention the busks, whalebones, and steel springs for corsets, dresses,
crinolines, skirts, dress improvers, and the like, are lined with animal or vegetable
parchment, vulcanised fibre, paste board, or similar material.
The steel blades or busks are lined on one or both sides according to require-
ments, and I vary the thickness of the lining or of the busk itself so as to increase
the rigidity of one part and decrease it at another, thus obtaining flexibility and
rigidity in the places where such are required.
The blades and lining are rivetted or hooked together at one or both extremities,
or at one extremity only, as may be desired.
I am aware that busks or steels for corsets and the like have been covered with
tawed white skins or white cloth, before, but such covering or lining has only
been employed to insulate the steel from the clothing to prevent rusting and does
not strengthen or support the steel or whalebone so as to render it unbreakable.
Dated this 9th day of October 1896.
JOHN P. O'DONNELL, Fel. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
70 and 71 Palace Chambers, Westminster, S.W.,
Agent for the said Applicant.
Improvements in Busks, Whalebones, and Springs for Corsets
and the like.
I, JEAN ANTOINE SCHWEITZER, of 53 Rue Bichat, Paris, in the Republic of
France, Civil Engineer, 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 :-
With my invention the busks, whalebones, and steel springs for corsets, dresses,
crinolines, skirts, dress improvers, and the like, are lined with animal or vegetable
parchment, vulcanised fibre, paste board, or similar material.
The steel blades or busks are lined on one or both sides according to require-
ments, and I vary the thickness of the lining or of the busk itself so as to increase

page_text: the rigidity of one part and decrease it at another, thus obtaining flexibility and
rigidity in the places where such are required.
The blades and lining are rivetted or hooked together at one or both extremities,
or at one extremity only, as may be desired.
I am aware that busks or steels for corsets and the like have been covered with
tawed white skins or white cloth, before, but such covering or lining has only
been employed to insulate the steel from the clothing to prevent rusting and does
not strengthen or support the steel or whalebone so as to render it unbreakable.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
Busks or steels for corsets, dresses and the like, lined or covered with animal or
vegetable parchment, vulcanised fibre, pasteboard, or similar materials, the busk
or its covering varying in thickness at different parts so as to give the necessary
rigidity in one part and flexibility in another, substantially as herein described.
Dated this 6th day of July 1897.
JOHN P. O'DONNELL, Fel. Chart. Inst. P.A.,
70 and 71 Palace Chambers, Westminster, S.W.,
Agent for the said Applicant.