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Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Feb., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 17th Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 1st June, 1889
I CONSTANCE AMELIA HARTSHORNE of Bradbourne Hall Wirksworth in the County
of Derby Gentlewoman do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:
My Invention of improvements in corsets consists essentially in a novel arrange-
ment or combination of the bones or stiffeners and the arrangement of the bosom
gores as hereinafter explained whereby they are rendered more comfortable to the
wearer and the figure is more effectually supported and improved than with stays or
corsets as heretofore constructed. The corset is gored in front for the breasts the
gores being preferably cut in one piece and pleated to give requisite shape and short
stiffeners are inserted in the two gores under the bust and in the body, being so
arranged that the ends of the stiffeners in the body meet those in the bust at the
bottom of the gores where the material forms a species of hinge the stiffeners in
the body being vertical and those in the gores inclining forwards.
A
By these means the bust is supported in a natural and comfortable manner.
waist tape is carried through the corset crossing the front bones or stiffeners at a
point above the centre and the improved bust support enables the corset to be made
lower under the arms and longer over the hips and stomach than is practicable with
corsets as heretofore manufactured.
The stiffened gores forming the supports for the bust as hereinbefore described can
be made separately and attached to ordinary corsets if desired.
Dated this 20th day of February 1889.
J. H. JOHNSON & Co.,
47, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C.,
Agents.

page_text: I CONSTANCE AMELLA HARTSHORNE of Bradbourne Hall Wirksworth in the County
of Derby Gentlewoman do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the samo is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in
and by the following statement :-
My Invention. of improvements in corsets consists essentially in a novel arrange-
ment or combination of the bones or stiffeners and the arrangement of the bosom
gores as hereinafter explained whereby they are rendered more comfortable to the
wearer and the figure is more effectually supported and improved than with stays or
corsets as heretofore constructed. The corset is gored in front for the breasts, the
gores being preferably cut in one piece and pleated to give requisite shape, and short
stiffeners are inserted in the two gores under the breasts and in the body of the
corset, they being so arranged that the ends of the stiffeners in the body meet those
in the gores at the bottom where the material forms a species of hinge the stiffeners
in the body being vertical and those in the gores inclining forwards. By these means
the breasts are supported in a natural and comfortable manner. A waist tape is
carried through the corset crossing the front bones or stiffeners at a point above the
centre and the improved breast supports enable the corset to be made lower under the
arms and longer over the hips and stomach than is practicable with corsets as
heretofore manufactured.
The stiffener gores forming the supports for the breasts as hereinbefore described
can be made separately and attached to ordinary corsets if desired.
And in order that my said invention may be fully understood I shall now proceed
more particularly to describe the same and for that purpose shall refer to the several
figures on the annexed sheet of drawings the same letters of reference indicating
corresponding parts in all the figures.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a corset constructed according
to my Invention in the position or form which it assumes when in use and Figure 2
represents the inside of the corset in the open or extended position.
This corset is made with any ordinary or suitable arrangement of ribs or stiffeners
at the back and sides, and in the front there are two rounded gores A inserted in
corresponding openings in the material and provided with short ribs or stiffeners a
which incline forwards and support the breasts of the wearer.
These ribs do not extend-beyond the gore the other part of the front of the corset
being stiffened by ribs c arranged and combined as indicated in the drawing or in any
other suitable manner. This corset is also provided with a waist tape B crossing the
ribs or stiffeners of the body of the corset as indicated in the drawing. The object of
this waist tape is to impart strength and firinness to the material generally.

page_text: 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. A corset having front or breast gores provided with short ribs or stiffeners so as
to support the breasts of the wearer substantially as herein before described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. A corset having stiffened front or breast gores supporting the breasts of the
wearer in combination with a waist tape crossing the front bones or stiffeners at a
point above the centre substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.