Improvements in the Manufacture of Bodices or Corsets.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 4th July, 1896
Complete Specification Left, 27th Mar., 1897-Accepted, 1st May, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION:
Improvements in the Manufacture of Bodices or Corsets.
We, EDUARD KOHNBERGER, SALOMON KOHNBERGER and ALEXANDER
NEUMANN, all of 23 Schottenring Vienna I, in the Empire of Austria Hungary,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is to provide bodices or corsets of non-elastic
material, while they are in course of manufacture, with elastic portions at those
parts which are intended to closely adhere to the body, and more particularly at
the waist, so that the body, at those parts, may undergo a moderate yielding
pressure, and no longer be liable to injury or inconvenience such as is caused by
the stays as at present made.
The process of manufacture of corsets or bodices of the class named, with
elastic waists, is carried out as follows.
A strip of elastic material, cut so as to correspond to the required width of the
waist band, is stretched in the direction of its length, and in this stretched condition,
has stitched on to its longitudinal edges pieces of non-clastic material which are to
form the portions of the bodice or corset that are to cover the bust or chest and
back.
Upon the pieces of material which are thus connected into one piece, and while
the waist band is kept stretched, strips are stitched on for the reception of whale
bones, springs or other stiffening ribs, or pockets are formed for the insertion of
the busks which may extend throughout the garment from top to bottom.
After the insertion of these several stiffeners into the spaces adapted for their
reception, the bodice or corset, which is now ready and only requires finishing,
is removed from the stretching frame or any other suitable stretching apparatus,
with the result that the elastic fabric of the waist portion contracts, so that the
garment shrinks as much as is necessary to enable it to closely adhere to the
outlines of the body.
The intermediate parts between the busks, whale bones or springs, over the chest
or bust, may be cut away if desired and suitable gussets of elastic material may be
inserted instead.
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HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.
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We, EDUARD KOHNBERGER, SALOMON KOHNBERGER and ALEXANDER
NEUMANN, all of 23 Schottenring, Vienna I, in the Empire of Austro Hungary,
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 object of this invention is to provide bodices or corsets of non-elastic
material, while they are in course of manufacture, with elastic portions at those

page_text: parts which are intended to closely adhere to the body, and more particularly at
the waist, so that the body, at those parts, may undergo a moderate yielding
pressure, and no longer be liable to injury or inconvenience such as is caused by
the stays as at present made.
The process of manufacture of corsets or bodices of the class named, with elastic
waists, is carried out as follows.
A strip of elastic material, cut so as to correspond to the required width of the
waist band, is stretched in the direction of its length and, in this stretched condition
has stitched on to its longitudinal edges pieces of non-elastic material which are to
form the portions of the bodice or corset that are to cover the bust or chest and
back.
Upon the pieces of material which are thus connected into one piece, and while
the waist band is kept stretched, strips are stitched on for the reception of whale
bones, springs or other stiffening ribs, or pockets are formed for the insertion of
the busks which may extend throughout the garment from top to bottom.
After the insertion of these several stiffeners into the spaces adapted for their
reception, the bodice or corset, which is now ready and only requires finishing, is
removed from the stretching frame or any other suitable stretching apparatus,
with the result that the elastic fabric of the waist portion contracts, so that the
garment shrinks as much as is necessary to enable it to closely adhere to the
outlines of the body.
The intermediate parts between the busks, whale bones or springs, over the chest
or bust, may be cut away if desired and suitable gussets of elastic material may be
inserted instead.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The process of manufacture of bodices, or corsets with elastic waist portions,
mainly consisting in stretching a strip of elastic material, cut so as to correspond
to the waist band in width, in the direction of its length, and being stitched
together along its longitudinal edges with the non-elastic upper and lower portions
of the garment, whereon, whilst such waist portion is still maintained in a stretched
condition, strips are stitched on so as to form receptacles or pockets for the
reception of whale bones, springs busks or other stiffening ribs, the busks extending
from the top to the bottom of the garment if required.
2. As a novel product of manufacture, a bodice or corset with an elastic waist
portion, obtained by the process summarised in the first claim.
Dated this 27th day of March 1897.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.