Improvements in or relating to Corset Busks or Fastening Devices.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1894-Accepted, 21st Apr., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Corset Busks or Fastening Devices.
A communication by CARL SCHOLL, of the Göppinger Maguet Fabrik, of
Göppingen, Würtemberg, in the Empire of Germany, Manufacturer.
1, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street,
Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster and 323 High Holborn, in the County
of Middlesex, Civil Engineer, 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 :-
The advantages of corrugated wire springs as corset steels or bones are already
known and recognised by the public. Such springs have, however, not hitherto
been employed for the two fastening busks of the corset, as the practical attachment
of the fastening parts, such as clasps, hooks, studs or the like to such busks, causes
difficulties which are overcome by the devices hereinafter described, forming the
object of this invention.
In the improved fastening device shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3 on the accom-
panying drawing, in various shapes, the fastening parts are either themselves
formed out of the wire of the corrugated wire busks, that is to say, they form
a projection and continuation of the corrugated wire spring 'busk (Figure 2), or the
clasps, hooks or the like are formed by special wires inserted in the corrugated
spring busks (Figure 1), or special studs may be soldered or suitably attached to
the corrugated busks, as in Figure 3.
In Figure 1, a method of fastening is shown in which the hooks c', and eyes or
loops c are formed of two special wires C, which are attached in any convenient
manner to the wavy or corrugated busks A and B.
In Figure 2, the loops a and hooks b of the corrugated busks A and B for
projecting parts of the continuous wire.
The fastening device shown in Figure 3 differs again from that shown in
Figure 2 in that, instead of the hooks b, studs d are employed, which are soldered
to one of the corrugated busks B, or may be attached to the wire by means of a small
It is also evident that a
plate, this plate being burred round the former as shown.
large number of variously shaped hooks, clasps or the like may be employed on the
two corrugated busks A and B without departing from the principle of the
invention. The same remark applies to the attachment of the fasteners directly in,
or on, the corrugated busks and in any convenient manner as well as the most
suitable section of wire employed for these busks.
Figures 4 and 5 show a flat corset busk formed of two or more pieces connected
at their ends by means of spiral spring hinges so as to be flexible, and suitably
elastic.
The connection of the spiral spring hinges For F' with the flat busks G or G¹
may be made in various ways.
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In the one shown in Figure 4, the ends of the hinges are made conical towards
the spring f, and corresponding therewith, the ends of the busks are also made
conical and provided with counterhooks g, which, when the binge F and the
busks G are held together by means of the burred round metal grip h, prevent the
said busks from becoming separated from the hinges.
Figures 5, 5 and 5B show rectangular shaped ends to the hinges, which hold the
busks G' secure by means of metal grips h', which are bent or burred round over
the said hinges, the busks G' and the metal grips being held firmly together by
means of one or more rivets i.

page_text: These spiral spring hinges For F¹ may be employed with equal advantage for
flat or solid corset springs or bones as for corrugated wire busks, and also for
corset fasteners with solid busks, or for those in which corrugated wire is
employed in this latter case, for instance, as shown at e in Figures 1 and 3.
It is evident that the combination of all the kinds of fasteners and busks
hereinbefore described, or any one of these arrangements, with one or other of the
same, or with several of the same, may be varied at will.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:
1. A fastening device for corsets or the like consisting in the employment of
corrugated wire busks A and B, one of which husks B has, at certain distances
apart, hook shaped parts b, which engage in suitable loops or eyes a, formed at
suitable distances apart on the other busk A, substantially as hereinbefore described
and shown on the accompanying drawing.
2. In the fastening device for corsets or the like described in Claim 1, the
arrangement of special wires C inserted in the corrugated wire busks A and B,
which wires C are provided with hooks c¹ or eyes e in any suitable manner
substantially as described and shown.
3. In the fastening device for corsets or the like described in Claim 1, the
replacement of the hooks on the busk B by studs d attached to a strip of sheet
metal, which latter is bent and burred round on one of the busks opposite a
projection on the other wire busk substantially as herein before described and
shown.
4. In the fastening device for corsets or the like described in Claim 1, the
arrangement of one or more spiral spring hinges e, which are not specially inserted
but form a continuation of the corrugated wire substantially as shown in
Figures 1 and 3.
5. In the fastening device for corsets or the like, the use of the spiral spring
hinges described in Claim 4 for flat wire springs or bones and flat-wire-fasteners or
busks, these hinges F or F¹ being made separately, and fastened to the bones
or busks G or G by means of metal grips or holders or ', which are bent and
burred round the ends of the hinges substantially as hereinbefore described and
shown in Figures 4 and 5.
Dated this 23rd day of February 1894.