Improvements in Steels or Stiffeners for Corsets.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Nov., 1895¹
Complete Specification Left, 23rd July, 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Steels or Stiffeners for Corsets.
ROBERT SIDNEY PROVIS, 33, Newton Street, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster,
Manufacturers Agent, do hereby declare. the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
A side steel for corsets, comprising two narrow pieces of steel. Into one piece two
small holes are bored, and into the second piece, one small hole, and one slot, are
drilled. The holes in both pieces to be bored, to correspond with each other. The
steels are then placed on top of each other, and through the both holes a revit is
placed and secured. Through the remaining hole in the first steel another revit is.
placed, and passed through the slot, in the other piece of steel, and secured by means.
of a small flange, & loft looso, so that the steel, on being bent, gives, a lever movement,.
which works, in the slot, and prevents breakage.
Dated this 16th day of November 1895.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Steels or Stiffeners for Corsets.
1. ROBERT SIDNEY PROVIS, of 33, Newton Street, Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Manufacturers' 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 improvements in steels or stiffenors which are inserted into
the pockets formed in the sides of the corset, the object being to provide means
whereby the said side steels or stiffeners are prevented from breaking.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood I have caused to be
appended hereunto one sheet of drawings marked with letters of reference indicating.
like parts in the various figures.
Figs. 1 & 3 are elevations and Figs. 2 & 4 longitudinal sections of my improved
corset steels or stiffeners.
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In carrying out my invention and referring to the figures generally, the
improvements consist in applying to the ordinary side steel or stiffener a over the part
where they generally break a strip of steel 6 of equal or similar thickness and width,.
but less in length.
According to one form of my invention, Figs. 1 & 2, I may secure the said strip b
to the stiffener a by rivetting one end of the former to the latter and providing the
stiffener a with a stnd a passing through a slot 6' in the other end of the strip b
which stud prevents the lateral movement of the strip but allows it to slide
longitudinally when the stiffener bends.
According to another form of my invention, I dispense with the said stud and slot,.
eee Figs. 2 & 3, and allow the pocket in the corset to prevent the lateral movement of
the strip b, which method being simpler than the former is preferable.

page_text: My improved steel or stiffener is inserted into the pockets of the corset in the
usual way, the strip & serving as a support for the steel a prevents the latter from
being bent to an acute angle and thus broken.
The ends of the strip 6 I may cap like those of the steel a.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is-
A steel or stiffener a for corsets having a protecting strip b attached, substantially
as and for the purpose set forth.
and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 22nd day of July 1896.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester,, Agents to Applicant.