Year: 1896

page_text: I WALTER WILLIAM BROWN of Stamford Factory Landport Hants, Corset
Manufacturer: do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to Stays Corsets and Belts and is 'devised to render Busks
and Stiffeners less liable to breakage, and so that in the event of breakage of a
Busk or Stiffener the Stay, Corset, or Belt can continue to be worn without
discomfort or injury to the wearer.
My invention consists in protecting the Busk or Stiffener at the point most
subject to strain and bending by fastening or affixing (preferably by sewing)
to the material on the inner side of the Stay Corset or Belt along the Busk or
Stiffener to be protected, two small pockets arranged at suitable distances apart
and sufficiently large to admit the ends of a protector which I construct of any
suitable material which is preferably made of steel of the kind usually employed
in Stays Corsets and Belts and covered in the ordinary way. This protector I
construct about 6 inches in length and arrange the pockets accordingly so that
the protector extends evenly along that portion of the Busk or Stiffener where
strain and bending host frequently occurs in the wearing of the Stay Corset, or
Belt. In the event of any one or more of the protectors being broken the
replacing of such protector or protectors can readily be effected, or should the
Busk or Stiffener be broken the Stay Corset or Belt can by means of my invention
continue to be worn without discomfort or injury to the wearer.
Dated the 23rd day of September 1896.
THEO. MCKENNA,
Agent.
I WALTER WILLIAM BROWN of Stamford Factory Landport Hants, Corset
Manufacturer, 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:-
My invention relates to Stays Corsets and Belts and is devised to render busks
and stiffeners less liable to breakage and so that in the event of breakage of a
Busk or Stiffener the Stay Corset or Belt can continue to be worn without
discomfort or injury to the wearer.
My invention consists in protecting the busk or stiffener at the point most
subject to strain and bending by fastening or affixing (preferably by sewing)

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to the material on the inner side of the Stay Corset or Belt along the
busk or stiffener to be protected two small pockets arranged at suitable
distances apart and sufficiently large to admit the ends of a protector
which I construct of any suitable material which is preferably
of steel of the kind usually employed in Stays Corsets and Belts and covered
in the ordinary way. This protector I construct about 6 inches in length and
arrange the pockets accordingly so that the protector extends evenly along that
portion of the busk or stiffener where strain and bending most frequently occurs
in the wearing of the Stay Corset or Belt. In the event of any one or more of
the protectors being broken the replacing of such protector or protectors can
readily be effected or should the busk or stiffener be broken the Stay Corset or
Belt can by means of my invention continue to be worn without discomfort or
injury to the wearer.
The pockets may be made separately and affixed by any suitable method or
they may be formed by two parallel bands extending across the Corset at suitable
distances apart and in which pockets are formed preferably by stitching.
To assist in keeping the protectors in position another band may be made to
extend across the Corset between the two before mentioned bands spaces being
reserved for the insertion of the protectors.
To make my invention more readily understood I will describe the same by
the aid of the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 1 shews the inside view of one half of a Corset. On the Casings A
containing the stiffeners or busk are affixed by sewing separate pockets B into
which are slipped the protectors C.
Fig. 2 is a similar view in which the pockets B to receive the protectors C
are formed in bands D extending across the Corset an additional band E being
added if desired.
It is obvious that the invention is equally applicable to a stay or belt as to a
corset.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said 3
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
Constructing pockets in corsets stays and belts to receive protectors substantially
as, and for the purposes, described.
Dated the 21st day of June 1897.
THEO. M°KENNA,
17 & 18 Basinghall Street London,
Agent.