An Improved Corset Fastening.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd June, 1889-Accepted, 13th July, 1889
CUMI LULE
[Communicated from abroad by LEOPOLD SACANVILLE, of the City, County,
State of New York, United States, Manufacturer.]
An Improved Corset Fastening.
and
I, WILLIAM HUMPHREY WHEATLEY of 156 Strand in the county of Middlesex
Patent Agent 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 :-
The object of my present invention is to produce a corset fastener in which all the
buttons may be simultaneously released from the button clasps.
The nature of the invention consists in the details of combination and construction,
substantially as illustrated in the drawings, hereinafter described, and subsequently
pointed out in the claim.
Figure 1, illustrates a corset fastening constructed according to my invention with
the clasps closed on the buttons.
Fig. 2, illustrates the same, but with the clasps open and the buttons released.
A, and B, designate the two front springs of a corset. The clasps are attached to A,
and the buttons to B. The buttons are designated by h. The clasps consist each of
two pieces. The part R of the clasps is riveted or otherwise rigidly attached to the
spring A, in the manner and form illustrated. The other part R is pivotally attached
to the spring A by the rivet K, so that it can be oscillated upon said rivet K.
F designates a strip of sheet metal preferably sheet steel, extending almost through
the whole length of the spring A, and is attached to the part R, of the clasps by the
short straps r.
These straps are loosely pivoted on said metallic strip F by one end,
and loosely riveted by the other to the part R of the clasps as illustrated. For the
greater part of its length, this strip of metal F works on the under side of the
spring A, but one end of said spring passing through the mortise E, and the other
through mortise E' come upon the top of the spring A. The mortise E is placed at
the lower end of the corset, and the strip F is loosely riveted to the part R, of the
clasp below said mortise, said metallic strip F is furnished at either end with a metallic
tag, designated respectively by C, and P. The tag C, is drilled with a hole which fits
upon the button a. i, designates a metal clip riveted on the spring A, the better to
hold the strip F in position. At e, the part B, of the lower clasp is made a little
thinner to accomodate the strip F which is riveted upon it as aforesaid.
To use this device, when a corset constructed with it, is to be put on, the operator
draws the tag C, downward until the hole in said tag fits over the button a. Then
all the clasps are closed to the position represented in Figure 1. The corset is then
put on and buttoned in the usual way, and will be found to be as secure and satis-
factory as any ordinary corset. But when it is desired to open the corset the operator
takes the tag C, off the button a, and pulls the tag P. This opens all the clasps as
illustrated in Figure 2, and the corset is free to come open.
Having now fully described and ascertained what the nature of my said invention
is, and how the same is made and performed I do hereby declare that what I claim as
my invention and desire to secure by letters patent is,
The combination in a corset, with the spring A, having mortises E, and E¹ of the
metallic strip F working partly under and partly above said spring A, and passing
through said mortises, the straps b connecting the said metallic strip F and the
parts R, of the clasps, the clasps composed of two parts R and R¹ attached to the
spring A as specified, the tags C and F attached to said strip F as specified and

page_text: affording facility for slipping said strip and in connection with the button a, detachably
securing said strip F, and the spring B, and the buttons h upon said spring B, inter-
locking the clasps the spring A, all substantially as described.
Dated this 3rd day of June 1889.
W. H. WHEATLEY.