MANUFACTURING THE IMPROVED DESCRIPTION OF CORSET OR STAY IN WHICH IMPROVEMENT
Year: 1885

page_text: of Manufacturing the same.
HENRY RICHARD JAMES 50 Bow Street Landport Portsmouth Corset Cutter
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for MANUFACTURING THE IMPROVED
DESCRIPTION OF CORSET OR STAY to be as follows:-
The Corset or Stay is made in such a manner, so that the wearer or others for
the purpose of washing, cleaning, or any other required purpose, may easily and
readily insert and withdraw the bones, steels, busks, or any other supports that
may be used, without unripping, or in any way damaging, or interfering with the
workmanship, or make of the Stay.
MANNER IN WHICH IMPROVEMENT IS EFFECTED.
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The parts of the Corset or Stay, in which it is intended that supports shall be
inserted are prepared as follows:-The Corset or Stay is faced with strips of clotb,
or other material, which are stitched on to form part of the Stay, either from the
top downwards, or from the bottom upwards, and the bones or other supports are
placed between this and the material used in the body of the Stay. If it is desired
that the bones or other supports should be withdrawn or inserted from the top, then
the strips are stitched on from the bottom to about one inch from the top; but if
desired that the bones or other supports be inserted or withdrawn from the bottom,
then the strips are stitched on, from top downwards to about one inch from the
bottom. Smaller strips or pieces of cloth or other material are then stitched on
either from the top downwards, or from the bottom upwards, and are made of
sufficient length, to meet and overlap the longer strips, and form a short tab, so
that they may be buttoned or otherwise fastened on to the longer strips.
If the strips are placed on the interior or lining of the Stay, they are carried
to about one inch from the top, or bottom, and then made to pass through an
opening or buttonhole, and of sufficient length to turn down or up, as the case may
be, and form a short tab so that they may be buttoned or otherwise fastened on
the outside of the Corset or Stay.
When the Corset or Stay is made of two or more thicknesses, and the longer
facing strips are not required, the bones or other supports are placed between the

page_text: material used, and a small opening is made in the material, at about one inch from
the top or bottom, at the ends of the supports and the smaller strips only are
stitched on, and of sufficient length to form short tabs to cover the openings, so
that they may be buttoned or otherwise fastened.
FOR INSERTING OR WITHDRAWING BUSKS OR FRONT SUPPORTS.
The front of the Corset or Stay is made of two or more thicknesses, and the
busk or front support is placed between them, and is laced in by the well-known
eye-let hole principle, but the method here used, and the means provided for
withdrawing or inserting the busk or front support are as follows:-the Stay is
piped or bound at bottom as in ordinary manner, to about four inches from the
edge of the Stay, where the busk is placed, leaving that part of the Stay directly
below the busk open; and this portion is buttoned or otherwise fastened, so that
it can be readily opened, thus affording a ready means for inserting or withdrawing
the busk.
Having thus described the said Invention, I claim the method of preparing.
Corset or Stays, as herein described by me, so that all supports may be withdrawn
or inserted at pleasure, by unbuttoning or otherwise unfastening the prepared
parts, without unripping or in any way damaging the workmanship or make of
the Stay.

page_text: of Manufacturing the same.
HENRY RICHARD JAMES 50 Bow Street Landport Portsmouth Corset Cutter
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED DESCRIPTION
OF CORSET OR STAY and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
I, Henry Richard James, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement and the accompanying drawings.
The object of my Invention is that the wearer or others for the purpose of
washing, cleaning, or any other required purpose may easily and readily withdraw
and insert the bones, steels, busks, or any other support that may be used, without
unripping or in any way damaging or interfering with the workmanship or make
of the Corset or Stay.
The accompanying Drawings show the various parts of the Corset or Stay to
which my Invention relates.
Figures A, B, C represent strips of cloth or other material which are cut of
sufficient width to cover the required number of supports, and their names A, B, C
will be used throughout the accompanying drawings.
Fig. A. is a short strip with pointed end containing a button hole, and is used
in Fig's. 1, 2, 3, 4.
Fig. B, is a similar strip but much longer and is used in Fig's 6, 7, 8.
Fig. C, is a long strip with horizontal ends, and is used in Fig 1, 2, 3.
Fig's. 1, 2, 3) are front views of the top part of Corset or Stay and are faced
with strips (A & C) on the material forming the body of the Corset or Stay.
Fig. 1 shows particularly the strips (C) stitched on to the front of the Corset or
Stay from the bottom upwards to about one inch from the top; it also shows the
support spaces, (m) and the supports (D) protuding.
Fig. 2) particularly shows the strips (A) stitched on from the top downwards,
and are of sufficent length to overlap the strips (C), so that they may be buttoned
or otherwise fastened on to strips. (C). The dotted lines (n) on strips (A) indicate
stitching which is employed to keep the supports from shifting.
(Fig. 3) particularly shows the strips or short tabs (A) unfastened, and the
supports (D) protuding.
Figs 4 & 5, illustrate cases when the Corset or Stay is made of two or more
thicknesses of material, and the strips (C) are not used. The supports are placed
between the material forming the faceing and lineing of Corset or Stay and the
dotted lines (d) indicate the position of supports. (D, D) in Fig. 4) are supports
protuding through an opening (n) cut in the material forming the faceing of
front, but not in the material forming the lining.

page_text: Fig. 5) shows the strips (A) stitched on to the front of Corset or Stay and of
sufficient length to cover the openings (n) and buttoned or otherwise fastened
down.
Fig's 6, 7, & 8 illustrate cases in which the strips are stitched on to the lining or
back of Corset or Stay.
Fig. 6 shows particularly a button hole or opening (n) cut right through the
material forming the faceing and lining of Corset or Stay, about one inch from
the top.
(Fig. 7) is a back view showing strips (B) stitched on from the bottom upwards
to the opening or buttonhole, and of sufficient length to allow the pointed end (e)
being turned through the opening (n) and being buttoned or otherwise fastened
down on the outside or front of Corset or Stay as shewn in (Fig. 8).
Fig. 9 shows the part where busk or front supports are placed, and is made of
two or more thicknesses and the supports is placed between them, and is laced in
by the well known eyelet hole principle (h) (which I dont claim). The material
forming the front and back of Corset or Stay at the bottom, about four inches on
each side of the busk are not stitched togeather but left open as shown in (Fig. 10)
and fastened, as desired by means of eyelet-holes or buttons (see f).
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 method described and shewn by the accompanying drawings so that the
bones, steels busks or other supports used in the Corset or Stay may be withdrawn
or inserted at pleasure, without unripping, damaging or in any way interfering
with the workmanship or make of the Corset or Stay.
HENRY RICHARD JAMES,
50, Bow Street, Landport,
Portsmouth, Hants.