Improvements in or connected with Corsets or the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Dec., 1893-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Corsets or the like.
I, GEORGE AIREY of 61 Warrior Square, St. Leonards-on-Sea, in the County
of Sussex, Gentleman 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 improvements in or connected with corsets or the like
and has for its object to provide a substitute for the whale bone or flat steel supports
in corsets or for any similar purposes where resiliency combined with a certain
amount of vertical rigidity is required. And in order that the said invention may
be the more readily understood, I have shewn the same on the accompanying sheet
of illustrative drawings wherein :-
Fig. 1 is a view of my invention in a form of a corset support shewn separate
from a corset and with the protective covering removed.. Fig. 2 being a similar
view with the covering shewn on, while Fig. 3 is a view of a corset with my
invention applied thereto.
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Referring to the drawings a are lengths of any suitable wire or the like having
the requisite resiliency for the purpose, preferably three in number though I do
not confine myself specifically to this number but may employ more or less
according as same is desirable or convenient. These said lengths of wire or the
like are plaited as shewn in the drawings or interlaced or arranged in any other-
suitable fashion so as to form a compact strand capable of lateral resiliency yet
at the same time possessing sufficient vertical rigidity for the purpose in view. The
extremities of such strand I provide with caps a to prevent the several lengths
of wire or the like unravelling and to maintain the whole more firmly and
compactly.
This capped strand a as shewn in Fig. I would now be covered with a casing a³
of calico or other suitable material (Fig. 2) with the caps a cither inside same or
covering the ends of both the casing a as well as the ends of the wire or other
strand a.
In applying the invention to corsets the strands a (one of which with the
covering removed is shewn in Fig. 3) would be fastened to the corset in the usual
manner and would fulfil the same purposes in a more efficient and satisfactory
manner than the old form of whale bone or flat steel supports b (Fig. 3).
In addition to the application to corsets the invention is applicable to all
purposes where a support of this kind is employed or required. In lieu of plaiting
or interlacing the wires or the like as shewn and described I may arrange two,
three, or more thin steel or other strips side by side and connect same together by
caps at the top and bottom and by means of metallic bands at certain intervals of
their lengths.
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 :-
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1. A support for corsets or for similar purposes consisting of a number of lengths of
wire or other suitable material interlaced plaited or arranged in any other suitable.
fashion so as to form a compact strand and having capped ends and a protective.
covering substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1893.
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HUGHES & YOUNG,
12, Basinghall Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.