Improvements in Covers for Corsets.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Aug., 1898-Accepted, 5th Dec., 1896
Improvements in Covers for Corsets.
I, HANNAH FRRUD, of 68 West 23rd Street, in the City, County and State of New
York, United States of America, 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 :-
Referring to the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of one of my novel corset covors, Fig. 2 a front view
of same applied to a corset, Fig. 3 a rear view of same applied to a corset,
Fig. 4, detailed view of iny novel fastening, Fig. 5, a dotailed view of such fastening
showing it applied to the corset lacing,
Fig. 6 is a detailed view showing my novel method of detachably retaining the
cover upon the eye of a clasp of the corset,
Fig. 7, dotail showing my method of detachably securing the said covers to the
knobs of the clasp of the corset.
The object of my invention is to provide a novel article of clothing for the purpose
of protecting the exterior of corsets from wearing and soiling, and to improve the
appearance of corsets, and to so shape, devise, and provide such novel garinent with
attachments us to insure its being applied and used with inappreciable change in
the present conventional appearance and form of the corset and costume generally,
and also to insure its being removed from and applied to the corset with ease and
convenience and applied in such a manuer as to fit and without affecting the present
external appearance of the dress or other garment.
I obtain these objects of the devices illustrated in the drawing.
A, A 1 represent the two parts of my cover. They are preferably made out of any
light weight material adapted to being laundered, and are, in the usual well known
manner, so shaped and gored as to possess the usual contours of the external surface
of a corset or corset waist. I secure those covers detachably to the corset in the
following way:-
That portion or edge of the cover, A, which overlies that part of the corset carrying
the eyes of the corset clasp a, a, a, I provide with loops b, b, adapted to pass over and
embrace the eye as shown in Fig. 6. The front of the other half of my cover A 1,
which overlies the complomontary half of the corset (1, I provide with buttonholes d, d,
adapted to pass over and embrace the knobs c, c, of the corset clasp.
The rears of the corset covers are secured at their edges to the corset lacings in the
following manner :-
I provide the rear edge of the corset, as shown in Figure 3, with a button or
other suitable knob e, secured to said edges by a prolonged flexible connection n, and
secured to the edge at about the same point, I also provide a loop m, through which
passes the said button e and its flexible connection n. The attachment is made to
the lacing by carrying the flexible connection n, on one side thereof, the loop m on
the other side thoreof, and buttoning the loop over the button.
The operation of any invention is as follows:-
The covers are applied by buttoning tho holos d, d, upon the knobs e, of the
corset clasp, and on the other side of the front edge by passing the loops b, b,
over the eyes of the corset clasps as shown in Fig. 2. The rear edges are in
turn secured by buttoning the loops m upon the buttons e, and around such ones
of the lacings as will insure the proper fit. To remove the cover at any time,

page_text: the attachments and fastenings are loosened or unbuttoned. By providing the
fronts of the covers with a positive fastening, and the rear with a fastening thus
adapted to adjustability in relation to the lacing, I am enabled to draw into correct
and close position my coverings by the same operation. which laces or adjusts the
corsets, whereby the desired close and perfect fit is secured, notwithstanding trifling
variations in the shape of the covers or the corsets. My method of fastoning
likewise obviates the use of unusual or unconventional devices for securing the
covers in position, and also obviates the use of such devices as would be incommodious
for or unadapted to the laundrying of the covers. At the same time my fastenings
onable the cover to be maintained strongly and firmly in the exact position required
for use, and this without, as heretofore in cases of corset coverings, relying upon
the support of the shoulders or arms of the wearer, whereby the frequently
objectionable sleeves heretofore supposed to be necessary aro dispensed with.
Another advantage arising from the peculiar construction of cover and means of
attaching and securing the same which I have invented, is the applicability of the
cover to varying makes of corset. As is well understood, the corsets of different
manufacturers vary among themselves somewhat in the relative position of the clasp,
the knobs and eyes of which are, in some instances, higher or lower than in others
relatively to the other portions of the corset. By making my knob boles d vertical
instead of horizontal as shown in Figure 7, and by somewhat prolonging them, as
compared with the length, there shown and by correspondingly prolonging my
loops h, b, I am enabled to adapt my corset cover to be secured smoothly and
effectively to the front of the aforesaid varieties of corsets, since when the holes
and the loops are thus vertically prolonged, they are held by knobs or eyes insorted
into them at any point throughout their entire length.
The general advantages of such covers in the matters of preventing wear as well as
soiling of the oxterior of the corset will be too well appreciated to require further
comment.
I am aware that corset covers have heretofore been made deriving their support
and fit from arm straps or supports passing over the shoulders of the wearer, or
constructed in the shape of fit bags or slips, into one of which each half of the
corset is slipped or fitted, and that this latter style of corset cover has been
partially retained in position by passing through oyelots in its rear edges the usual
corset Incing, and I claim none of these devices.
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 :-
1. A two part corset cover, each part having fastenings on its front edge adapted
to be attached to the fastenings of the corect, and a series of independent flexiblo
fastenings on its rear edge, each fastening being formed of a plurality of parts,
adapted to ongage with one another and with the corset, substantially as set forth.
2. A corset cover having a backwardly projecting flexible and adjustable rear
fastening, consisting of a knob e, a flexible connection n and a loop m, substantially
Ds and for the purpose described.
3. An external detachable and adjustable corset cover consisting of the two
complomentary parts A, A 1, provided at their opposing front edges with button-
holes d, d, and loops b, b, and at the rear with loops m, and with knobs e, secured to
flexible connections n, substantially as and for the purposes described.
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