Improvements in Fasteners for Corsets or the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Apr., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 8th Dec., 1894-Accepted, 2nd Feb. 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fasteners for Corsets or the like.
We, HERMANN ESCHEN of 25 Southampton Street Fitzroy Square, Engineer,
ARTHUR PERRY of Behring House, Argyll Street, Furrier, and BEATRICE
SHOWLER of 54 Bramah Road, Brixton, Spinster all in the County of London,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in fasteners for corsets or the like, and
consists in providing a projecting plate fixed to one of the corset-busks for instance,
which plate has an enlarged end, cut away or indented in several parts of its
periphery in which enlarged end is cut or otherwise formed, from the lower edge, a
curvilinear slot extending in an inclined direction toward the edge of the corset
busk. To the said slotted plate is pivoted a catch having preferably the form of a.
disc in which is cut or stamped or otherwise produced a slot corresponding in.
shape to that in the projecting fixed plate aforesaid, but in inclining in a reverse
direction.
The pivoted catch has an extended perforated part, or eye to receive the end of
a cord or the like, by which means the said catch is turned round on its pivot..
Upon the other corset-busk, for instance is provided a stud, the shank of which,
when the extended cord-attaching eye of the pivoted disc or catch is in a vertical
position and the mouths of the two slots aforesaid coincide, is inserted or pushed
into the said mouths, and the pivoted catch or disc then given a downward half-
turn, thereby causing the two busks to be locked together.
The lower parts of the corset-busks, for instance, are fastened or clasped by
suitable means, consisting of a number of plates fixed to the meeting-edge of the
busks, and having their vertical edges flanged or hooked, and designed to enter
between resilient plates, (one of each set of which, has its corresponding edge
similarly fashioned), fixed in suitable positions along the meeting edge of the
opposite corset-busk.
Dated this 1st do of Anvil 1001
Improvements in Fasteners for Corsets or the like.
We, HERMANN ESCHEN, of 25 Southampton Street Fitzroy Square, Engineer,
ARTHUR PERRY, Behring House Argyll Street, Furrier, and BEATRICE
SHOWLER of 54 Bramah Road, Brixton, Spinster, all in the County of London,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
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page_text: to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in fasteners for corsets or the like, and
has for its object to devise means for securely and quickly locking and fastening
corset-busks or the like together, in such a manner that such locking or fastening
means can be locked and unlocked and the busks or the like speedily and easily
united or disunited by a vertical movement.
And in order that this our said invention may be the more fully understood, we
have made reference to same in the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings,
wherein :-
Fig. 1 is a front elevational view of a pair of corset-busks with our locking or
fastening means applied thereto, and shewn unlocked.
Fig. 2 being a similar view shewing the busks locked together, while
Figs. 3, and 4 are elevational views of details of the locking or fastening
device.
Referring to the drawings, a is a plate which is rivetted or otherwise fixed to
one of the corset-busks c, the lower edge of the said plate a being notched or
cut-away in several places, more particularly at a¹ where a curvilinear notch or
slot is formed, extending from the lower edge of the plate from a point near the
'forward end of same, for about a third of the length of such plate, the said notch
or slot a being fashioned in an oblique direction as shewn, that is to say it
inclines from the bottom to the top toward the busk c to which the said plate a is
fixed.
To the aforesaid plate a is pivoted at a' a catch having stamped or otherwise
formed in same, a notch or slot b', corresponding in shape to the notch or slot a¹ in
the plate a, but inclining in the opposite direction to the former, which notch or
slot 6 partly coincides with the slot a¹ when the said catch b is turned upon its
pivot a to a certain position.
The said catch bis extended in the same plane at one part 6 which extended
portion is provided with an eye ³ to allow a cord or its equivalent d to be attached
to the said catch 6 for the purpose of turning the latter upon its pivot to lock or
unlock the busks.
The other corset-busk c' is provided with a projecting stud e, fixed to, or formed
integral with, the face of the said busk, in a position to correspond with that of
the locking device before-described, upon the busk c.
In operation, the cord d is given an upward pull to turn the catch b upon its
pivot a so as to cause the mouths of the notches or slots a¹ and to coincide
(Fig. 1), whereupon the shank of the stud e is inserted or pushed up into such
slots and the pivoted catch b then given a downward half-turn, by means of the
cord d, by this means causing the stud e to be locked within the said notches or
slots a and b (Fig. 2), thus securely locking the two busks a and b together at
their upper ends.
The busks are disunited by first giving the cord d an upward tug to turn the
catch upon its pivot a into the position shewn by Fig. 1, and then giving the
busk ca vertical downward pull.
The locking means as above described and as illustrated by the annexed drawings,
is intended for use in conjunction with devices for securing the lower parts of the
busks together.
These devices may take the form of hooked plates f and anchors or cramps f
such as those described and claimed in the Specification of an invention, for which
Letters Patent bearing date the 7th day of December 1893 and numbered 23,519
was granted to Beatrice Showler, or any other suitable fastening devices which
are opened and secured by a vertical movement, may be employed for the same
purpose.
We may stamp or otherwise form in the plate a two indentations a³ iu the
position shewn in Fig. 3 and provide a similar indentation 6' in the pivoted catch'b,
the object of such indentation being to constitute stops to assist in maintaining the

page_text: said catch 6 in its open or closed position as shewn by Figs. 1 and 2 respectively,
the indentation b (which of course is convex looking from the underside of the
catch) coinciding and fitting into one of the indentations a' according as the said
catch is in the position shewn by Fig. 1 or in that illustrated by Fig. 2.
Although we have described and shewn our invention as applied to fastening or
locking corset-busks, it is obvious that it may be used for many other purposes of
a like nature.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we are
aware of the Specification of Viehofer and Rehfuess' Patent No. 4876 of 1894
and we wish it to be understood that we make no claim to anything described and
claimed therein, but what we claim is :-
1. The fastening or locking device for corset-busks or the like, substantially as
described and as illustrated.
2. The fastening or locking device, consisting in a fixed notched plate to which
is pivoted a notched catch having an eye for the attachment of a cord, in
combination with a fixed stud, and devices for fastening the lower parts of corset-
busks or the like together, substantially as described, and as illustrated by the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this
day of November 1894.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London.