Improvements in Dress Stays.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 14th June, 1893-Accepted, 15th July, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Dress Stays.
I, GARRETT SMITH BROWN, of 48 Canfield Avenue, in the City of Detroit,
Wayne County, Michigan, United States of America, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of my 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 that class of dress-stays wherein a stay or steel is
completely covered with a fabric or the like and consists in the peculiar construction
hereinafter described and definitely claimed.
In the said drawings,
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a dress stay embodying my invention, showing the
materials opened up at one extremity to illustrate the construction, with the cap of
fabric at the end of the blade extending to the edges of the stay.
Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating a variation of my invention in which the
re-inforcing cap of fabric extends simply over and across the end of the blade.
Fig. 3 is a sectional view, showing the parts at one end and opened up to clearly
represent the construction.
Fig. 4 is a plan view of a sheet, showing how the cap illustrated in Fig. 1 may
extend across the sheet and be severed with each stay in the process of pinking
them apart.
Fig. 5 is a similar view showing a sheet provided with end caps which extend
over the immediate ends of the blades or steels.
B is the steel or body of the stay. A and E are the two strips or sheets forming
the back and front covering of the body. These strips are wider than the body and
are secured thereto and their overlapping edges are secured together by means of
gutta-percha tissue, which is shown at D. One of these covering strips is enough
longer than the steel or body to overlap the end and extend upon the opposite side
a small distance.
C is a cap of cloth, leather, tough paper or other non-metallic flexible material
folded over the end of the body and secured thereto by cementing as by the gutta
percha tissue shown at c. This cap is wider than the body and of the same width
as the covering strips. After the cap is secured in position, the ends of the short
strip are secured upon the cap on one side and the ends of the long strip E overlap
the end of the stay and fold upon the cap.
This gives me a tip secured on by the folded covering as well as by the gutta
percha tissue. If it is desired to sew the stay in and it is done by sewing through
the tip and the covering, the stay cannot be displaced because the tip cannot loosen,
as the covering will hold it firmly on the steel.
The caps C may be made of a width corresponding to the width of the steels, if
it is desired, as fully shown in Figs. 2 and 5.
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 :
1. In a dress stay, the combination of a body, a covering cemented thereto, a
non-metallic flexible top folded over the end of the body and cemented thereon,
and a covering for the body having its ends extending around the end of the body
and tip and cemented to the opposite side.
2. In a dress stay, the combination of a body or steel, a covering consisting of a
back and front strip of greater width than the steel cemented thereto and having
their projecting edges cemented together, a non-metallic flexible tip folded over

page_text: the end of the steel and cemented thereto, being wider than the steel, and end
extensions of the covering passing around the end of the steel and tip being
cemented to the opposite side.
1050
VA
GARRETT SMITH BROWN.
Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.