IMPROVEMENTS IN STAYS AND CORSETS
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Félicité Noëmi Thurel, of Orgelet, in the Republic of
France, but temporarily of 4, South Street, Finsbury, in the County of
Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STAYS AND CORSETS."
aled the 15th June 1877, and dated the 1st January 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Félicité Noëmi Thurel at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 1st January 1877.
FÉLICITÉ NOËMI THUREL, of Orgelet, in the Republic of France, but temporarily
of 4, South Street, Finsbury, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
STAYS AND CORSETS."
The object of this Invention is to render stays and corsets better adapted for
supporting the body of the wearer, and also to make them applicable for curing
certain diseases, and the Invention mainly consists in the employment of galvanized
copper strips in place of ordinary whalebone in stays for women, men, and children.
In carrying out my improvements I arrange the copper strips according to indi-
vidual requirements, but the strips will be partly perpendicular, partly transversal,
that is to say, perpendicular at the front and back of the stays, transversal at the
waist, and slanting at the sides, in order to follow the bend of the ribs, which they
will protect and strengthen through the well recognized influence of galvanized
copper.
For persons suffering from pain in the spine a quilted band of galvanized copper
perforated in such a manner as to allow the air to pass can be placed under the stay
lacing along the length of the back.
For ladies who are enceinte the herein-before described arrangement will be
alternated with elastic' bands in such a manner as to facilitate the growth of the
child and the respiration of the mother. The galvanic bands will support the
abdomen, and tend to develop the strength of the child and the mother.
For some persons the ordinary whalebone should be alternated with the galvanized
copper.
For children the same arrangement of galvanized copper may be used mixed with
elastic strips, so as to render it extremely supple.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Félicité Noëmi Thurel in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 29th
June 1877.
FÉLICITÉ NOËMI THUREL, of Orgelet, in the Republic of France, but temporarily
of 4, South Street, Finsbury, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN
STAYS AND CORSETS."
The object of this Invention is to render stays and corsets better adapted for
supporting the body of the wearer, and also to make them applicable for curing
certain diseases, and the Invention mainly consists in the employment of copper
strips (which may or may not be galvanized) in place of ordinary whalebone in stays
for women, men, and children.
In carrying out my improvements I arrange the copper strips according to
individual requirements, but the strips will be partly perpendicular, partly trans-
versal, that is to say, perpendicular at the front and back of the stays, transversal at
the waist, and slanting at the sides, so as to follow the bend of the ribs, which they
will protect and strengthen through the well recognized influence of copper.
For persons suffering from pain in the spine a quilted band of copper (galvanized
or not), perforated in such a manner, as to allow the air to pass, can be placed under
the stay lacing along the length of the back.
For ladies who are enceinte the herein-before described arrangement will be
alternated with elastic bands in such a manner as to facilitate the growth of the
child and the respiration of the mother. The copper bands will support the
abdomen, and tend to develop the strength of the child and the mother.
For some persons the ordinary whalebone should be alternated with the
copper.
For children the same arrangement of copper may be used mixed with elastic
strips so as to render it extremely supple.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and the best means with
which I am acquainted for carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood
that I do not confine myself to the precise details herein laid down, as the same
may be varied without departing from the peculiar character of the Invention,
but what I do claim is,―
Firstly. The manufacture of stays and corsets with copper strips (galvanized or
not) in place of the ordinary whalebone, and with or without a quilted band of
perforated copper under the lacing, such copper strips being arranged substantially
in the manner and for the purposes herein-before described.
Secondly. The combination with the said arrangement of elastic bands as and for
the purposes herein-before described.
Thirdly. The manufacture of stays and corsets in which the ordinary whalebone
or elastic strips are alternated with copper strips, as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Félicité Noëmi Thurel, have hereto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of June, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
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