IMPROVEMENTS IN BUSKS FOR STAYS OR CORSETS
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Mar., 1886.
Complete Left, 24th Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 25th Jan., 1887.
1 CHRISTOPHER LONGBOTTOM, of 27 Kirkgate, Bradford in the County of York,
Estate Agent, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN
BUSKS FOR STAYS OR CORSETS to be as follows:-
This invention relates to novel and useful improvements in metal busks for stays
or corsets; and its object is to provide a more supple and durable busk than those
hitherto used, the fastenings of which may be a part of the same.
My invention consists in disposing the metal of the busk in a waved, serpantine,
tortuous, or parallel form, thus increasing the length of metal and therefore the
elasticity of the busk.
One method of carrying out my invention consists in waving or corrugating the
metal forming the busk in one or more directions preferably transversely.
Other methods of obtaining the object of my invention consist in winding metal of
a suitable section in the form of a flattened helix which may be made sufficiently wide
to form a busk; or two or more may be employed braced together by the fastenings or
other means.
Or busks may be formed of a suitable section of metal curved from
side to side in a serpantine or tortuous manner.
Any of the forms of busks above described may be applied in combination with the
flat busks generally used.
I also use flat steel busks, preferably of thiner metal than those commonly in use,
combined with one or more additional or parallel plates which plates may be of the
same length as the busk or each other or they may be varied in length.
Suitable fastenings are applied to the different forms of busks described, and
secured in any convenient manner.

page_text: I CHRISTOPHER LONGBOTTOM, of 27 Kirkgate, Bradford, in the County of York,
Estate Agent, 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 :-
This invention relates to novel and useful improvements in metal busks for stays,
or corsets; and its object is to provide a more supple and durable busk than those
commonly used.
My invention consists in transversely corrugating, or waving, the metal strips
forming the busk the whole length of the strip, or at the part or parts required to be
the most pliant; or in employing thiner metal than is ordinarily used and disposing
it in layers to form a laminated busk, thus in each case greatly increasing the pliability
of such busks.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this
specification in which Figure 1 represents a front view of a corrugated busk.
Figure 2 represents a side or edge view of such busk.
Figure 3 represents a front view of a laminated busk. Figure 4 is a side view of
the same.
The busk A (Figures 1 and 2) is only corrugated at the part B where it is exposed
to the greatest strain and requires to be the most pliant, but it may be corrugated at
other parts, or such corrugations may be continued the whole length of the busk.
The said busk is covered with a suitable material, and clasps or fasteners are
attached in the ordinary manner. When the said clasps are attached to the
corrugated part of the busk they are preferably shaped to bend thereto.
The laminated busk C (Figures 3 and 4) is formed of layers of thin metal secured
together by the rivet D and further bound together by the material with which they
are covered.
Suitable clasps or fasteners are attached, preferably to the longest layer
or strip.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is:
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1. The construction and use of corrugated busks for stays or corsets, substantially
as herein shown and described.
2. The construction and use of laminated busks for stays or corsets, substantially as
herein shown and described.
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