Improvements in or Applicable to Stays and Corsets.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or Applicable to Stays and Corsets.
I, WILLIAM WILLERINGHAUS, of 51 and 52, Aldermanbury, in the City of
London, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communi-
cation to me by Seiler & Co., of Ostwall, Geldern, in the German Empire, Manu-
facturers,) to be as follows:-
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In stays and corsets as hitherto manufactured the fastenings have been per-
manently attached to the busks and consequently the busks to the garment and in
the event of the busk breaking it has been necessary to unpick the covering in
order to remove the broken busk and replace it by a new one.
The object of this invention is to remedy this defect and, for this purpose, I
construct each side of the stay or corset which receives the busk with a pocket
into which the busk which has no fastenings attached thereto can be placed, the
fastenings of the stay or corset, which may be of any suitable construction being
attached to the outside of the said pockets. Suitable means are provided for
closing the lower end of the pocket so as to keep the busk in position after it has
been placed in the pocket.
In some cases instead of the said pocket the fastenings of the stay or corset
are formed with bridge pieces into which the busk can be passed. In this arrange-
ment each side of the corset is provided with a flap to cover the said bridge
pieces and busk after the busks have been placed in position.
By this arrangement it will be obvious that in the event of a busk breaking it
is simply necessary to draw it from the corset and replace it by a new one no
unpicking of any kind being required.
noted the 21st day of December 1897

page_text: cation to me by Seiler & Co., of Ostwall, Geldern, in the German Empire, Manu-
facturers), and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:.
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In stays and corsets as hitherto manufactured the fastenings have been per-
manently attached to the busks and consequently the busks to the garment and in
the event of the busk breaking it has been necessary to unpick the covering in
order to remove the broken busk and replace it by a new one.
The object of this invention is to remedy this defect and, for this purpose, I
advantageously form the fastenings of the stay or corset with bridge pieces into
which the busk can be passed, each side of the corset being provided with a flap
to cover the said bridge pieces and busk after the busks have been placed in
position.
To enable the invention to be fully understood I will describe it by reference
to the accompanying drawing in which:-
Figure 1 is a front elevation of a portion of a corset made with my improve-
ments:
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;
Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1, but shewing the busk flaps cut away
and the busks partially removed:
Figure 3 is an elevation of one of the fastening eyes:
Figure 4 is a plan thereof;
Figures 5 and 6 are views similar to Figures 3 and 4 of one of the fastening
hooks:
Figure 7 is a section on the line 7-7 Figure 1:
Figures 3 to 7 are drawn to a larger scale than Figures 1 and 2.
a is the body of the corset, b, b are the busks, the said busks being independent
of the fastenings and c, c are the hooks and d, d the eyes forming the fastenings
for the corset and at the same time bridge pieces under which the busks b, b can
be passed. These hooks and eyes are formed of strips of sheet metal c and d
respectively having their rear parts c¹, d¹ broadened and provided with eyes or
holes whereby they can be suitably secured to the corset as shewn in Figure 2.
From the broadened part c¹ or d forwards the fastenings are bent outwards and
at their front ends are formed with hooks and d² respectively, the said hooks
being adapted to be passed over the meeting edges of the corset as shewn in
Figure 7 so as to form the bridge pieces for the busks. The hook strips c are pro-
vided with buttons c3 and the strips d with eyes ³, preferably formed as shewn by
the bending back of the tongues forming the hooks.
e, e are the flaps provided on each side of the corset for covering the bridge
pieces and busks when the latter have been slid into position, and f, f are spring
fastenings furnished at the lower ends of the said flaps e, e and busks b, b for
securing the busks in position in the corset.
With a corset made as above described it will be obvious that the busks can,
when required, be taken out with facility by turning back the flaps 4, e and
simply sliding out the busks, and be replaced with equal facility even when the
corset is being worn. Furthermore when a busk breaks it is simply necessary to
draw it from the corset and replace it by a new one, my invention obviating the
usual unpicking necessary when removing a busk in corsets as heretofore generally
made.
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 corsets, making the busks independent of the fastenings which are formed
of hooked strips carrying eyes and buttons respectively and adapted to be secured
to the body of the corset so as to form bridge pieces for the busks which can be
slid under them, substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated.

page_text: 2. Corsets made substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawing.
Dated this 21st day of September 1898.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.