An Improvement in Busks and Steels used for Stiffening Corsets and other Articles of Dress.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 27th Sept., 1895-Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Busks and Steels used for Stiffening Corsets
and other Articles of Dress.
I, JOSEPH HEILBRUN, of 52, Aldermanbury, in the City of London,
Manufacturer's Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a com-
munication to me by the Actiengesellschaft fur Foderstahl-Industrie, vorm.
A. Hirsch and Co. of Cassel, Germany, Manufacturers,) to be as follows :—
This invention relates to the busks and steels used for stiffening corsets, bodices,
and dress bodies.
These steels are usually covered with paper or fabric and have their rounded
ends tipped with metal tips secured to them by pressure.
The invention bas for its object to obviate the defects incidental to these metal
tips which are liable to become detached from the busks or steels in the act of
introducing the latter into the sheaths provided for their reception in the corset,
bodice, or dress, and to become corroded by the moisture of the body.
The first mentioned defect auises from the tips presenting sharp edges which aro
apt to catch in the material of the sheath when the busk or steel is moved to and
fro in adjusting it in position therein and when a metal tip does become detached
it is so difficult to withdraw from the sheath as to necessitate ripping the latter
open.
By this invention both tho above mentioned defects are overcome and a better
finish is imparted to the article.
The invention consists in tipping the ends of the busks and steels by dipping
them in a solution, of celluloid in ether,which adheres well to the covering of the
busk or steel, effectually protects the end edges, and presents a smoothly finished
surface and edges which slip easily through the sheath and cannot possibly catch
in the material.
Dated this 29th day of December 1894.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
An Improvement in Busks and Steels used for Stiffening Corsets
and other Articles of Dress.
I, JOSEPH HEILBRUN, of 52 Aldermanbury in the City of London,
Manufacturer's Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a com-
munication to me by the Actiengesellschaft fur Federstahl-Industric, vorm.
A. Tirsch and Co. of Cassel, Germany, Manufacturers,) 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 the busks and steels used for stiffening corsets, bodices,

page_text: ends tipped with metal tips whose flanges embrace the end and side edges and are
secured in position merely by pressure.
The invention has for its object to obviate the defects incidental to these metal
tips which frequently become detached from the busks or steels in the act of
introducing the latter into the sheaths provided for their reception in the corset,
bodice, or dress, and are liable to become corroded by the moisture of the body
of the wearer.
The first mentioned defect arises from the tips presenting salient edges or corners
which are apt to catch in the material of the sheath when the busk or steel is
moved to and fro in adjusting it in position in the sheath and when a metal tip
does become detached it is so difficult to withdraw from the sheath as to necessitate
ripping the latter open.
By this invention both the above mentioned defects are overcome and a better
finish is imparted to the article.
The invention consists in tipping the ends of the busks and steels (after the
same have been covered with paper or other material in the usual way) by coating
them with a solution of celluloid preferably in ether. The celluloid solution is
applied preferably by dipping, it adheres well to the covering of the busk or steel,
effectually protects from corrosion the end edges of the steel which may be left
exposed by the paper or other covering and presents a smoothly finished surface
and rounded edges which slip easily through the sheath and cannot possibly catch
in the material.
In the accompanying drawing is represented a face view on an enlarged scale
of one end of a steel a covered with paper b cemented to it as usual and tipped with
celluloid c represented by the shaded part.
By dipping the end of the steel in a more or less viscid solution of celluloid the
latter adheres to the paper 6 a sufficient quantity of celluloid being thus taken up
to form a slightly thickened and rounded protective covering which by the rapid
evaporation of the solvent dies hard with a sinooth surface without bowever
forming such a salient projection as to show through the fabric when the bodice is
ironed as 15 the case with metal tips.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is,―
Tipping the ends of steels or busks for corsets and the like with celluloid
applied so as to form a smooth and rounded protective finish substantially as
described.
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53 Chaucery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
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