Improvements in and relating to Busks for Corsets and similar Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Nov., 1889-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Busks for Corsets and similar
Purposes.
I, ALFRED GREENHALGH of 16 Tatton Road South, Heaton Chapel near Stockport
in the County of Lancaster, Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention relates to the manufacture and construction of busks which are used
in making corsets or similar articles. As usually made they are stamped or otherwise
formed from steel sheets being made to the required shape but it is found that the
form given leaves the busk weak at a point about midway of its length, and thus
leads to frequent breakages when it is fixed in the corset. My invention has for
its object the strengthening of the busk at its weak point or throughout its entire
length. To effect this I construct the busk of steel or other suitable material with
longitudinal corrugations or flutes which may extend the whole, or part of its length
as desired. The corrugations may be formed before or after the busk is shaped, or
may be produced while the busk is being shaped, and may be produced by stamping,
rolling or in any other convenient manner. Although I specify the use of the busks
for corsets only hitherto it will be understood that they may be equally applied for
any other similar purpose. I may also use only one flute or corrugation throughout
the busk or I may form it with more than one flute for a certain part of its length
and with one flute for the remainder of its length or the corrugations may be varied
as desired.
Dated this 8th doir of Inne 1889
JOSEPH NASMITH,
Agent to the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Busks for Corsets and similar
Purposes.
I, ALFRED GREENHALGH of 16 Tatton Road South, Heaton Chapel near Stockport
in the county of Lancaster, Merchant, 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 :—
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My Invention relates to the manufacture and construction of busks which are used
in making corsets or similar articles and has for its object the strengthening of the
busk so as to prevent it breaking so easily at its weakest point which
half way of its length. And in order that my said Invention and the method of
carrying it into effect may be more easily understood I have hereunto affixed a sheet
of drawings in which Fig. 1 is a front view of a pair of busks linked together
constructed according to my said Invention and drawn to a reduced scale. Fig. 2 is
an enlarged transverse sectional view through the corrugated portion of one busk.
In carrying my said Invention into effect, I form by stamping or in any other
convenient way from strips or sheets of steel or other suitable material a blank husk
in a manner which will be well understood by any manufacturer of busks. The
blank thus formed is afterwards bent at its lower portion so that the busk is curved
longitudinally to fit the figure better when inserted in the corset. After it is so
bent it is tempered and fitted with the necessary fittings to enable two busks to be
hooked or linked together. The whole of the operations just described are those
commonly carried out in the manufacture of busks of ordinary construction and being

page_text: well known I only describe them and do not claim them as part of my said
Invention.
During the time that the busk is being made in the manner hereinbefore described
I form in it one or more longitudinal corrugations as shown at A in Fig. 1. The
corrugations may be formed of equal or unequal pitch and may extend the whole of
the length of the busk or only part thereof as shown in Fig. 1. The corrugations
may be produced when the busks are being stamped out of the sheet of steel by
suitably arranging the stamping tools; or they may be formed by a separate operation
by rolling stamping or pressing at any time before the busk is hardened; or they
may be produced at the same time as the busk is being curved longitudinally as
herein before described; or the busks may be stamped out of sheets previously
corrugated as desired. I do not specify particularly which of these courses I may
adopt any of them being practicable.
Although I have hitherto described the manufacture under my said Invention of
busks from steel sheets or similar material they can be also produced from vulcanite
or some similar plastic substance by moulding or pressing in a manner which is well
understood.
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:-The construction of busks for corsets with corrugations running longitudinally
of the busk in the manner substantially as herein described and illustrated.
2: The use of busks for corsets in which corrugations running longitudinally of
the busk are formed substantially as herein described and illustrated.
Dated this 2nd day of November 1889.
ALFRED GREENHALGH.