IMPROVE- MENTS IN BUSKS FOR STAYS, CORSETS AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1884

page_text: I, FRANCIS ROBERT BAKER of Buckingham Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of said invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BUSKS FOR STAYS, CORSETS AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES," to be as
follows:-
The object of my invention is to prevent the twisting and detachment of the
fastener plates or connections of stay and corset busks, leggings and the like; that
is to say the metallic fastenings or plates of the ordinary construction by which
stay and corset busks and such like articles are fastened together, have no lateral
support to prevent them from being twisted or torn from the busks on the change
of posture of the wearer.
My said invention consists in forming a series of ledges or supports along one or
other of the meeting edges of the busks or metallic strips to be fastened, for
breaking the joint of the meeting edges on the two busks coming together so that
the front edge of one busk or strip rests upon the ledges or supports on the other
busk or strip; the ledges or supports constitute lateral stays, which give strength
and prevent the twisting and wrenching of the fastenings without diminishing the
elasticity of the busks or strips.
I will describe my invention as applied to a stay busk or corset.
In carrying out my invention I attach to the underside of a stay busk by
rivetting or otherwise, a series of ledges or supports, situated at suitable distances
apart The said ledges stand out in advance of the connecting edge of the busk,
while the ledge or support itself is in the same plane as the back of the busk, so
that on the meeting edges of the busk being brought together, they lie in the same
plane.
I prefer to connect the ledge like ears or supports by the same rivet or rivets
that connect the fastener or fastener plates to the busk.
Instead of using separate supports or ears as described which are attached by
rivetting, they may be made or cut out from the metal of the busk itself—When

page_text: so made they are bent down into the proper plane so as to form a rabate or ledge
upon which the corresponding busk or half busk rests when fastened.
Instead of employing a series of supports or rests as described a continuous
support or rest may be formed on the front edge of one or other of the busks with
like effect, thus forming a longitudinal rabate on the edge of the busk, and in the
ledge of which, the edge of the other or half busk rests, thus breaking the joint of
the meeting edges on the two half busks coming together by the edge of one resting
upon the ledge or support of the other.

page_text: I, FRANCIS ROBERT BAKER of Buckingham Street, Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Engineer do hereby declare the nature of said invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BUSKS FOR STAYS AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES," 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 invention is to prevent the twisting and detachment of the
fastener plates or connections of stay and corset busks, leggings and the like; that
is to say, the metallic fastenings or plates of the ordinary construction by which
stay and corset busks and such like articles are fastened together, have no lateral
support to prevent them from being twisted or torn from the busks on the change
of posture of the wearer.
My said invention consists in attaching or forming a series of pressure plates or
ledge supports along one or other of the meeting edges of the busks or metallic
strips to be fastened, for breaking the joint of the meeting edges on the two busks
coming so that the front edge of one, busk or strip, rests upon the ledges or
supports on the other busk or strip; the pressure plates.or. ledge supports
constitute lateral stays, which give strength and prevent the twisting and.
wrenching of the fastenings without diminishing the elasticity of the busks or
strips.
will describe my invention as applied to a stay busk or corset.
In carrying out my invention, I attach to the underside of a stay busk by
rivetting or otherwise, a series of ledges or supports, situated at suitable distances
apart. The said ledges stand out in advance of the connecting edge of the busk,
while the edge or support itself is in the same plane as the back of the busk, so
that on the meeting edges of the busk being brought together, they lie in the same
plane.
I prefer to connect the ledge like ears or supports by the same rivet or rivets.
that connect the fastener or fastener plates to the busk.
Instead of using separate pressure plates or supports as described, (which are
attached by rivetting) they may be made in one piece with the metal of the busk.
When so made they are bent down into the proper plane so as to form a rabate or
ledge upon which the corresponding busk or half busk rests when fastened.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawing the
manner in which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents two half. stay busks, one of which is provided with pressure
plates or ledge supports made according to my invention-Figure 2 represents the
back of the half busk provided with the said pressure plates or ledge supports
Figure 3 represents a front and side elevation of the pressure plate separately---
Figure 4 represents upon an enlarged scale the two half busks figure 1 unfastened,
the said section is taken upon the dotted lines A B-Figure 5 represents the same
fastened-Figure 6 shows the pressure plates arranged in an intermediate position

page_text: between the necked fastening studs and in figure 7 the said pressure plates or ledge
supports are made in one piece or out of the metal of the half busk-Figure 8 is a
transverse section on the dotted lines C D.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
a is the half busk which carries the pressure plates c which are attached to the
half busk,,by the same rivet termination that affixes the necked stud fastener d;
that is, the shank termination of the necked stud passes both through the busk and
through the rivet hole o* of the pressure plate and is rivetted or expanded on the
back side thereof; so that the same rivet that attaches the necked fastening stud
to the busk, attaches the pressure plate.
The pressure plate has a cross rib c³, which prevents lateral displacement of the
pressure plate after its attachment.
By arranging pressure or ledge supports as represented, the weakest parts of the
busk are protected, and breakage thereby prevented; and further, the said pressure
or supporting plates prevent the fastener plates e on the other half busk 6 from
being twisted or torn from their rivet pins on the change of posture or on use by
the wearer so that by placing tongue like plates, at the junction of the rivets of the
necked stud fasteners, the parts of the busks are greatly strengthened, and the
bending or flecture of the said busk, takes place only at intermediate positions, or
at parts where there are no rivettings.
The seats or flats of the pressure plates are in a plane a little below the top of
the busk, so that on the two half busks coming together as represented in figure 5,
the meeting edges of the busk are evenly disposed, or lie in the same plane..
The arrangement of the pressure plates figure 6, in intermediate positions
between the necked studs prevents that cross bending which is common with busks
of the ordinary kind, and so prevents fracture at the rivetings. The said pressure
plates so disposed, also form rests or ledge supports, for the half stay busks carrying
the fastening plates.
The application of my invention to other like articles differs in no essential
respect from its application to a stay busk.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
The improvements in stay busks and other like articles, that is to say, arranging
or employing pressure plates or ledge like supports, upon the stud side of stay
busks for preventing breakage of the busks, and undue strain and displacement of
the fasteners substantially as described and illustrated.