Improveшение и они воли
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1898
Complete Specification Left, 8th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 17th Sept.,
1898
Improveшение и они воли
I, WILLIAM MENZIES, of Danellen Villa, West Ferry, Broughty Ferry, in the
County of Forfar, Scotland, Warehouseman, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in corsets, the objects being to attach
the busks to the body of the corset in a new and improved manner; and to pro-
vide means for adjusting corsets to the figure in a more perfect way than has
hitherto been done.
In carrying out my invention I attach each busk to the body of the corset by
means of laces, such laces engaging with ordinary eyelets, with studs, spring
catches, or their equivalent. By such means a new busk or busks can be fitted
to a corset without sewing, with little trouble and in a very short time. By means
of these two sets of lacings in front, a person may adjust the corset to the shape
of their own body. The ordinary lacing or even elastic lacing may still be used
to attach the two sides of the corset together or, instead of such back lacing I may
join them together by means of a strip of elastic web. V shaped pieces of elastic
web may be inserted into the top and the bottom edges of the corset in order to
permit it to yield 'more readily to the motions of the body, such yielding being
advantageous if violent exercise be indulged in. Sometimes I cut the corset under
the arms and lace it together there, that is to say, the corset may be laced at the
back, sides, and front, or at the sides and front, or only at the front, as may be
found desirable.
D: 10+1 day of Wahruary 1898
Improvements in and relating to Corsets.
I, WILLIAM MENZIES, of Danellan Villa, West Ferry, Broughty Ferry, in the
County of Forfar, Scotland, Warehouseman, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in corsets, the object being to attach
the busks to the body of the corset in a new and improved manner;
and to pro-
vide means for adjusting corsets to the figure in a more perfect way than has
hitherto been done

page_text: In the accompanying sheet of drawings,-Fig. 1 shows a general or perspective
view of a corset provided with my improvements. Figs. 2, 3, and 4, show alter-
native methods of lacing. Fig. 5 is a front elevation and Fig. 6 a sectional plan
at A, A, (Fig. 5), of a portion of my improved corset, showing the essential parts
detached the one from the other. Fig. 7 is a perspective view, showing how my
improvements permit of the adaptation of the corset to the figure; and Figs. 8 and 9
show how such adaptation may be assisted by the incorporation or insertion of
elastic webbing, in bands or V-shaped pieces respectively. The same reference
numerals indicate the same parts in the several figures of the drawing.
In carrying out my invention, I attach each busk 10, to the body of the corset 11,
by means of laces 12, such laces engaging with ordinary eyelets 13 and 14 or their
equivalent, in such a manner as to more or less permanently secure the busk to
the corset. In effecting such attachment, the blades or cores 10" of the busks 10,
may be clothed or incased, preferably in the same material 10b, as that from which
the corset is made, and the eyelets 13 or their equivalent, secured in or upon such
material, so as to correspond with a similar set of eyelets 14, or their equivalent,
secured in or upon the body of the corset. The laces 12, which may be of elastic
or non-elastic material as desired; are then made to engage with the eyelets 13
and 14, in any suitable way, various alternative methods being shown in Figs. 1,
2, 3, and 4. By such means a new busk or busks can be fitted to a corset without
sewing, with little trouble and in a very short time. Thus, when one of the
busks 10 has its blade 10" broken, or for any reason requires to be renewed, it is
simply unlaced from its side of the corset, and a new one of similar pattern laced
on in its place.
By means of the two sets of lacings 15, a person may adjust the corset to the
shape of their own body. Thus, in Fig. 7 I have shown how the upper part of
the complete corset may be openly or loosely laced so as to relax the pressure of
such upper part upon the breasts. The ordinary lacing 16, or even elastic lacing,
may still be used if desired, to attach the two sides of the corset together, but in
consequence of my improved means of lacing, 15, in front; I am enabled to dis-
pense if need be with the lacing 16, and make the back of the corset whole; or
alternatively, to join the parts at the back by means of a strip of clastic web, 17,
as shown in Fig. 8; which will aid in the more easy adjustment of the corset to
the figure. To further aid in such adjustment and also in conjunction with my
system of front lacing 15, V-shaped pieces of elastic web 18, may be inserted
where desired, into the top and bottom edges of the corset, as shown in Fig. 9.
If elastic lacing be used as herein before mentioned, it will be obvious that such
lacing may act as an equivalent for the strip or V-shaped pieces described; by
allowing the parts, under the stretching of the laces, to assume such relative
positions as that shown in Fig. 7.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I wish it to be clearly
understood that I do not limit myself to the precise details of construction herein
set forth, but that I hold myself free to make such alterations in detail as conform
with the spirit and scope of my invention. I also wish it to be understood that
I am aware that corsets have been secured by lacing and that busks have been
secured to corsets by lacing the material of the corset about or around them; prior
to my invention; and that I lay no claim to such or to lacing generally; but I
declare that what I claim is:-
1. The method of attaching busks to corsets by means of laces engaging with
eyelets or their equivalent in or upon both, for the purposes set forth, and substan-
tially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 1 to 7, inclusive.
2. The method of constructing the busks so as to readily admit of such attach-
ment, and of their correspondence with the corset; by their provision with eyelets
or their equivalent corresponding to other such in the free edges of the corset,

page_text: and by their clothing with material resembling that of the corset, substantially
as herein before described and illustrated more particularly by Figs. 5 and 6.
3. In conjunction with the method of attaching the busks as claimed; the use
of strips or V-shaped pieces of elastic or of their equivalent, for the purposes set
forth, and substantially as herein before described and illustrated more particularly
by Figs. 7, 8, and 9.
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