Improvements in Bust Supporters.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 22nd Sept., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Bust Supporters.
I, HUGO SCHINDLER, Manufacturer, of Mariaschein, near Teplitz, Bohemia, in
the Empire of Austro-Hungary, 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 a bust-supporter, serving as a substitute for corsets,
and which is extremely flexible and easily fitted to any shape of waist or figure.
The improved bust-supporter is represented in the accompanying drawings in
which
Figure 1 shows the bust-supporter opened and spread out;
Figure 2 is a cross section thereof on the line of Figure 1.
Figures 3, 4 and 5 are respectively back, front and side views of the same,
It use.
The bust-holder or supporter consists essentially of two equal and symmetrical
parts H H', which, when the braces or shoulder-straps are drawn up, are held
close up to the arm-pits. After opening or releasing the buckles S attached to the
breast-straps and which may be of any desired make, the bust-holder H H', or
the breast part thereof, may be raised or lowered by drawing the shoulder-strapst t¹
in or out of the buckles S.
After this adjustment in height of the breast portion the two halves H H' are
united by the hooks and eyes and o near the top, and fastened round the waist
by passing the hook through the eye o' of the rubber or elastic band g. There-
upon by means of the back-straps 6 b' and buckles S' the parts H H' are drawn
closely together until the elastic band g is no longer distended.
To this end the strap is sewn on the half H, and on the half H', and the
free ends of the straps secured alternately to the buckles S' of the halves Ĥ' and H
respectively, the strap 6 passing through the slote in the half H.
The other fittings of the bust-supporter are already known. For instance in
convenient and suitable places whale-bone or steel strips or busks are sewn into
the body of the bust-holder, and these being elastic yield to the movements of the
body.
This bust-supporter, contrary to all kinds of corsets and like appliances hitherto
in use, does not bear upon or above the waist, but is carried by the shoulders and
upper part of the body so that the more important vital organs of the central
and abdominal region of the body are in no way constrained but perfectly free and
infettered.
K are caps or sleeves which may be slipped over the buckles S to prevent and
relieve undue pressure from the latter, prejudicial to the body of the wearer.
The strips of materials, pendent from the bottom of the bust-supporter, are
intended to protect the underclothing and keep them in due position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is;-
1. A bust-holder or supporter characterised by two symmetrical halves such
as H H fitting close up to the breast and held beneath the arm-pits by shoulder-
straps such as t t'in such manner that by releasing or tightening such straps by
means of the buckles or equivalent S the breast is carried higher or lower as
required while the two halves are joined together at the upper part by means of
hooks and eyes or equivalent devices and at the waist by means of an elastic or

page_text: rubber band g the close and proper fit of the bust-supporter being ensured by two
back-straps such as attached at one end to the two halves H¹ H respectively
their other ends being secured in the buckles S¹ substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. The bust supporter substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 8th day of August 1894.
W. P. THOMPSON & BOULT,
Agents for the Applicant.