Improvements in or applicable to Corsets and Corset Busks.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Corsets and Corset Busks.
I, SOPHIE LEES of 103 Marylebone Road London W. do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows
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This invention relates to certain improvements in or applicable to corsets and
corset busks the object being to facilitate the application and re-application to a
corset body of the corset busks or fastener portions thereof.
In carrying this invention into effect there is applied to the metal strap forming
one side of the "busks" metal pieces which will be rivetted upon or to the metal
strip on that side which is not occupied by the fastening loops or the studs. These
so rivetted metal pieces terminate outwardly in a beak which will be turned back
upon the underside of the corset busk so as to form hooks.
According to a modification of this the beaks of the hooks may be stamped up
from the metal constituting the busk.
Upon or in the body material of the corset are provided opposite to the said
hooks of the busk, eyelets or eyes with which the said hooks may engage and by
which the attachment of the busks can be readily effected. The hooks after
engagement with the eyes or eyelets may be stamped down for more secure
attachment.
In the event of the busk or one blade thereof breaking the hooks can be
disengaged from the holding portions of the corset body and another busk be
applied without the trouble hitherto necessary of opening and reclosing the pocket
in which the busk has hithertofore been held.
The busks may be removed for the purpose of washing or cleaning the body
material.
Dated this 20th day of Januar 1801
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or applicable to Corsets and Corset Busks.
I, SOPHIE LEES of 103, Marylebone Road London W. 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 relates to improvements in corsets and has reference to the mode
of attaching busks thereto whereby a worn out busk may be readily removed and
replaced by a new one.
In carrying my invention into practice I form on each front edge of a corset not
yet provided with its two busks, a series of holes provided with eyelets serving to
fasten the busks to the corset. For this purpose the eyes and the studs of the
corset are formed with hook like tails which engage in the eyelets aforesaid and
thus firmly secure the busks in position upon each edge of the corset.
In the accompanying drawings
Fig. 1. is an inside view of the two front ends of a corset.
Fig. 2 is an outside view of a portion of a corset shewing the manner in which
the busks are fastened to the corset and to one another.
Fig. 3 is a section on line xx of Fig. 2.
The busks are shown in Fig. 1. in their usual form that is to say encased in
material while in the remaining figures it is shown naked for the sake of clearness,

page_text: a, a, represent the edges of the corset which are furnished before the busks are
secured thereto with a vertical row of eyelets 6 through which pass the hooked
ends c of the eye and stud fasteners d, e of the busks B and B₁ respectively.
The fasteners are of ordinary construction with exception of an extension or tail
piece which is bent over to form the hooks c.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :
In corsets, the improved method of fastening removable busks thereto substan-
tially as herein described and shown and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 19th day of September
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
76, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.