New or Improved Fastening Means for Corsets.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Mar., 1894-Accepted, 21st Apr., 1894
New or Improved Fastening Means for Corsets.
We CARL ROBERT VIEHOFER and BENJAMIN REHFUESS both of 3 Benthal
Road Stoke Newington in the County of London England 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 :-
Our invention relates to new or improved fastening means for corsets and has for
its object to attach corset busks together in such a manner that they can be readily.
detached by a mere unobservable manipulation without the wearer requiring to
undress.
In the accompanying drawings wherein like letters of reference indicate
corresponding parts
Figs. 1 to 5 show detail views of the fastening means or devices.
Figs. 6 to 11 show details of the clasp or lock.
Figs. 12 and 13 are views of the busks detached and locked respectively.
Our invention consists of a clasp or lock and of a number of fastening devices pre-
ferably arranged at equal intervals along each busk of a corset above or below the lock
according as the latter is fixed at the top or at the bottom of the busk B, whereby
these two busks B and B are secured together in such a manner as to become
immediately disengaged when the cap or front part of such lock is turned by its
cord an angle of 180° and a slight tug is applied to the same in an upward direction,
when the lock is fixed at the top of the busk or in a downward direction in the
contrary case, the method of fastening being such that the fastening devices can
only become detached one from the other by moving one of the busks in a vertical
direction.
The fastening devices c c³ Fig. 3 or d d' Fig. 4 rivetted to the busk B are forced
(Fig. 5) with their bent edges between the rearwardly curved edges of the devices
marked a in section Figs. 1 and 2 and a' in plan Fig. 2 and those of the springs
marked in section Figs. 1 and 2 and bin plan Fig. 2 respectively, these devices
and springs being rivetted to the busk B¹.
The lock proper consists of several blanks f9l and y Figs. 7, 8, 9 stamped from
suitable sheet metal, of a shell or cap & Fig. 6 and of a rivet Fig. 9 connecting
the blanks together as shown in Fig. 6. The blank g Fig. 8 which, together with
the cap enclosing it, may obviously have any desired shape, has an eyelet or hole h
whereto the cord i Figs. 12 and 13 is attached and a key hole slot m in the circular
part n of which the small excentric fits (Fig. 6) so as to be flush with the blank
Above this small excentric, upon which the blank g turns, is placed a larger
eccentric Fig. 9, the rivet p passing through these two excentrics; or the three
blanks i and
g
9 may be made in one piece with the rivet (Fig. 10); these
excentrics are both provided with a crescentic notch o and t respectively. z are
ordinary rivet holes. is a hole in the blank ƒ (Fig. 7) for the rivet p.
g
9.
The blank g being enchased in the cap k, the two excentrics are successively
placed one upon the other and the rivet which passes through them is secured at
one end to the excentric q and at the other to the piece which is thus undermost,
while its projecting part is rivetted to the busk B, the blank g turning, between the
blank and the large excentric q, upon the small excentric acting as an axis.
The piece u u' which, with the lock e serves to attach the two busks B B¹ together
is rivetted to the busk B' opposite the said lock.
By turning the cap and its cord i in the position shown in Fig. 12 the pin w v
(plan and section) Fig. 11 can be inserted in the slots m m¹ of the pieces g after
which the cap is turned in the position shown in Fig. 13, the pin wv being locked

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in the notches of the excentrics 7 and q in consequence of the rotation of the blank
and the two busks are now tightly fixed together. To open the corset, the cap is
turned in the position shown in Fig. 2 and the busk B is pulled up by the cord i, or
the busk B' is pressed down, when the fastening devices will slip off in an upward
direction on the devices f¹ will slip off in a downward direction respectively.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :
1. In the means for securing the two busks together consisting of a clasp or lock
formed of two attachable and detachable parts, of a number of fastening devices
likewise consisting of two parts one of which is resilient, for the purpose of releasing
the busks by merely opening the clasp or lock and exerting a pull on one of the
busks either up or down, according to the position of each lock, substantially as
herein described and shown.
2. In means for securing the two busks of a corset together such as above
claimed, the use of a lock consisting of a cap, four blanks and a rivet connected
together in the manner hereinbefore set forth, in which lock engages a piece
provided with a headed pin substantially as herein described and shown.
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3. In means for securing the two busks of a corset together, such as above
claimed, the use of a number of fastening devices fixed to one of the busks and
engaging by their anchor like or curved inner edges (Figs. 3 & 4) respectively
between the curved inner edges of the fastening devices a a¹ and those of the
springs bb fixed to the said devices of which a similar number are attached to the
other busk substantially as herein described and shown.
Dated this 8th day of March 1894.
CARL ROBERT VIEHOFER.
BENJAMIN REHFUESS.