IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FASTENINGS OF STAYS OR CORSETS AND OTHER GARMENTS
Year: 1872

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Morgan-Brown, of the Firm of Brandon
and Morgan-Brown, Engineers and Patent Agents, of 38, South-
ampton Buildings, London, and 13, Rue Gaillon, Paris, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FASTENINGS OF STAYS OR CORSETS AND
OTHER GARMENTS."-A communication from abroad by Hugo Schultz,
of Paris, France.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Morgan-Brown
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 30th November 1872.
I, WILLIAM MORGAN-BROWN, of the Firm of Brandon and Morgan-
Brown, Engineers and Patent Agents, of 38, Southampton Buildings,
London, and 13, Rue Gaillon, Paris, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FASTENINGS OF STAYS OR CORSETS AND
OTHER GARMENTS," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the fastenings of
stays or corsets and other garments, and is intended to supersede the
usual manner of attaching the busks to stays by sewing.

page_text: My Invention consists in forming or attaching in the tissue at each
end of the stay vertical pockets or openings at certain distances apart
from top to bottom of the same, and I provide one side of each busk
with similar pockets or vertical openings arranged so as to fit into the
spaces left between the pockets on the two ends of the stays, and I
connect one busk to one edge of the stays by a vertical pin or blade
inserted preferably from the top through the line of pockets, alternating
on the edge of the stay and the edge of the busk, and provided at its
extremity with a knob or projection intended to maintain the same in its
place. The two busks thus attached to the stays can then be united or
connected in any convenient manner.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Morgan-Brown in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 23rd May 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
MORGAN-BROWN, of the Firm of Brandon and Morgan-Brown, Engineers
and Patent Agents, of 38, Southampton Buildings, London, and 13, Ruc
Gaillon, Paris, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirtyeth day of November, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, in the thirty-
sixth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto the said William Morgan-Brown, Her special license
that I, the said William Morgan-Brown, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said William Morgan-Brown, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE FASTENINGS OF STAYS OR CORSETS AND OTHER GARMENTS," a communi-
cation to me from abroad by Hugo Schultz, of Paris, France, upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said William Morgan-
Brown, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing

page_text: under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said William Morgan-Brown, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :—
This Invention has for its object improvements in the fastenings of
stays or corsets and other garments, and is intended to supersede the
usual manner of attaching the busks to stays by sewing.
My Invention consists in forming or attaching in the tissue at each
end of the stay vertical pockets or openings at certain distances apart
from top to bottom of the same, and I provide one side of each busk
with similar pockets or vertical openings arranged so as to fit into the
spaces left between the pockets on the two ends of the stays, and I
connect one busk to one edge of the stays by a vertical pin or blade
inserted preferably from the top through the line of pockets, alternating
on the edge of the stay and the edge of the busk, and provided at its
extremity with a knob or projection intended to maintain the same in its
place. The two busks thus attached to the stays can then be united or
connected in any convenient manner.
In order that my Invention be clearly understood and easily put into.
practice, I will proceed to describe the same in detail conjointly with the
seven Figures of the accompanying Drawings, of which Figure 1 is an
elevation, and Figure 2 a plan of one edge of a corset provided with my
improvements; Figure 3 an elevation, and Figure 4 a plan of the pin or
blade used for connecting the same with its busk; Figure 5 an elevation,
and Figure 6 a plan of one busk; and Figure 7 an elevation of these.
three parts united according to my improvements.
In these Figures a represents the edge of a corset provided with
vertical pockets or openings 6 made in tissue leather or any other.
appropriate flexible material united to the corset preferably by sewing,

page_text: and arranged so as to leave spaces c of about the same depth as the
pockets themselves; d is the busk covered with a tissue, and provided on
one of its edges with pockets b' of the same nature, size, and material as
those 6 attached to the corset, and for the same purpose, but arranged so
that the spaces c¹ between each pocket correspond with the pockets on
the corset, and vice versa; e is the vertical pin or rod, which may be in
metal, whalebone, or other appropriate material, and which, inserted
from above passes through each alternate pocket in the corset and the
busk, which two parts are by these means easily and securely united,
and as easily separated by withdrawing the said pin from above. The
opposite edge of this busk is provided with metallic eyes f for the
purpose of uniting with the busk attached to the other edge of the
corset, and which to that effect is provided with the metallic pins g,
shewn in Figure 7. This latter Figure represents the parts forming the
other extremity of the corset united as above stated.
As a modification to the improvements of the above-described arrange-
ment I also make the pockets of my detached busks in metal, either in
the shape of an entire loop, as in the case of the tissue, or merely in the
shape of a hook, and in such case I prefer reducing the depth of said
pocket to, say, about three-eighths of an inch, and I augment propor-
tionally the depths of the tissue pockets on the stay.
"
It will thus be seen that by means of these improvements I obviate
entirely, "when stays require washing or repairing," the necessity of
unsewing the basks and subsequently re-sewing the same, since these
parts, as above described, are by means of my improvements instantly
disconnected or re-united.
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Having now described and particularly set forth the nature of the said
Invention, and the manner of carrying the same into effect, I would have
it understood that what I claim is,―
'
Firstly. The system and use of pockets, as above described, adapted"to
the edges of corsets.
Secondly. The system and use of detached busks also provided with
pockets or metallic hooks, as above described, so as to be readily-united
with or separated from the edges of the corset by the insertion or
extraction of the pin or blade, as described and illustrated.

page_text: And, thirdly. The application of the above-described arrangement of
parts to corsets or stays as well as to gaiters, leggings, and other similar
wearing apparel.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Morgan-Brown, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of May,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
three.
WILLIAM MORGAN-BROWN. (L.S.)