An Improvement connected with the Caps of Steel and like Stiffeners used in Lady's Dress Bodies.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Oct., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 6th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 12th Jan.,
1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement connected with the Caps of Steel and like
Stiffeners used in Lady's Dress Bodies.
I GUSTAVE ROSENWALD of the Firin Rosenwald Brothers, 27 and 28 Noble
Street, City of London, Warehousemen do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows :-'
According to the present system of constructing and fixing caps on ends of steel
and like stiffeners employed to prevent chafing, abraiding and cutting the fabric
when inserted in lady's dress bodies the caps have rounded extremities of very
little more than the thickness of the steel to which they are affixed and do not as a
rule after a little wear afford the protection they are applied for. This is very
much brought about by the pressure exerted when being fixed on the steel the
folded portion of the metal being then crushed and fibrised as to present a fine file
like edge.
Now the object of my invention is to completely overcome the foregoing
objections by swelling the rounded ends of the caps to much greater width than
that of the thickness of the steel either by non-crushing it in the press or by the
insertion of a wire, cord or twine as a liner therein against which as a cushion the
end of the steel can bear when the cap is pushed home just prior to the pressure on
the tang part of the cap.
By this invention the folded rounded edge of the cap is left smooth and
perfectly free of roughness so that there is no risk of the fabric either of the
galloon case if such be used or of the fabric of the dress body being chafed
and cut.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said G. Rosenwald.
An Improvement connected with the Caps of Steel and like
Stiffeners used in Lady's Dress Bodies.
I, GUSTAVE ROSENWALD, of the Firm Rosenwald Brothers, 27 and 28 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:-
.
According to the present system of constructing and fixing caps on ends of steel
and like stiffeners employed to prevent chafing abrading, and cutting the fabric
when inserted in lady's dress bodies, corsets, stays, and other suitable parts of
wearing apparel, the caps have rounded extremities of very little more than the
thickness of the steel to which they are affixed, and do not as a rule after a little
wear afford the protection they are applied for, this is very much brought about

page_text: by the pressure exerted when being fixed on the steel, the folded portion of the
metal being then crushed and fibrised as to present a fine file like edge.
Now the object of my invention is to completely overcome the foregoing
objections by swelling the rounded ends of the caps to much greater width than
that of the thickness of the steel either by non-crushing it in the press, or by the
insertion of a wire, cord, or twine as a liner therein against which as a cushion the
end of the steel can bear when the cap is pushed home just prior to the pressure
on the tang part of the cap.
By this invention the folded rounded edge of the cap is left smooth and perfectly
free of roughness, so that there is no risk of the fabric, either of the galloon case,
if such be used, or of the fabric of the dress body, corset, stay. or other part
of the fabric to which such stiffeners may be applied or encased being chafed
and cut.
The invention will be clearly understood by an inspection of the annexed
drawings.
Figure 1 is an elevation.
Figure 2 an edge view of a cap ended strip of, say steel with the swelling or
bulged and round ends, the swelling or bulge being from both side surfaces of
each cap.
:
Figure 3 an edge view represents the swell or bulge on or from one side
surface only.
f
The swellings or bulges thus indicated can be produced during the folding or
stamping of the cap, or by a tool after the folding and before the crushing pressure
of the tang on to the steel strip, or it may be formed by a pressure on the tang
only, or in such manner that said rounded ends remain hollow, so that the part
between the tang and the extreme end on one or on both sides are left of greater
width than that of the tang portion by a lip shaped extension merging into a round
broad central part and dying away at the ends of the rounded protuberance to
nothing at the side edges whether such rounded protuberance be from both sides
and beyond the thickness of the tangs, or from one side only, such protuberance,
swellings, or additional widths or thickness of rounded formation can be retained
even if crushed by the insertion of a piece of wire, cord, twine, or other liner, as at
Figure 4, against which the steel or other stiffener can bear previous to the
pressure which puts the cap into actual biting or nipping contact with the
stiffener.
A is the stiffener or what is known as a bodice steel or baleen, B the cap on the
ends thereof. C the enlarged part of rounded form in cross section and decreasing
at the edges where it merges into the tangs or neck. D is a wire, cord, or twine
if such be needed in the hollow of the rounded and swelled part, in which case the
ends of the stiffeners A would not go to the extreme ends of the caps, but would
abut against the wire or lodge itself in the cord or twine, and be cushioned therein
which would act as a further check against abrasion from rough wear of the
garment in or to which such a capped stiffener had to be applied.
.
The swelled or bulged ended caps which forms the essential novelty of my
invention can with the steel, whalebone, cane, or other material now sold under a
general head of whalebone or baleen can be encased by a wrapping, a weaving, or
by sewing strips on as in the well known manner and the ends of the fabric casing
can be fan stitched, or be otherwise finished, or my caps can be put on the ends
after, and upon the ends of the casing, the fan stitching being through the
holes E.
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 :-
1. The manufacture of caps with swellings or side protuberances and rounded
ends, as and for the purposes set forth.

page_text: 2. The combination of swelled or side protuberances from one or from both
sides of a cap having decreased or ordinary size of thickness of the tang portion
with stiffener strips when employed in the manner and for the purposes
described.
The 6th day of Decembar 1901
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.