IMPROVEMENTS IN CORSET BUSKS
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Abraham Jacobson, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, Stay and Corset Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN CORSET BUSKS."
Sealed the 9th December 1879, and dated the 13th June 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Abraham Jacobson at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th June 1879.
ABRAHAM JACOBSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Stay and Corset
Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN CORSET BUSKS."
This Invention relates to improvements in corset busks, whereby the same are
rendered stronger at the parts where strength is most required, and more supple or
elastic where such characteristics are necessary, and the object of the Invention is
further to render the corset busk practically unbreakable.
In carrying out my Invention I apply an additional strip or plate of iron or steel
at the back of the usual busk, but shorter in length, and I rivet this plate firmly to
the busk in two or more places near the bottom, and so strengthen the same, and
connect the upper part of such strip to the busk by means of two or more button
beaded studs, which pass through slots formed in the busk, and thus allow such
plate freedom to yield so as to give the requisite elasticity at this part.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Abraham Jacobson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 13th
December 1879.
ABRAHAM JACOBSON, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Stay and Corset
Manufacturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN CORSET BUSKS."
This Invention relates to improvements in corset busks, whereby the same aro
rendered stronger at the parts where strength is most required, and more supple or
elastic where such characteristics are necessary, and the object of the Invention is
further to render the corset busk practically unbreakable.
And in order that this my said Invention may be the more readily understood
and carried into practical effect, I have hereunto annexed a Drawing illustrative of
my improvements, and will now proceed to describe the same, reference being had
to the figures and letters of reference marked thereon.
Figure 1 represents a front view, and Figure 2 a back view of a corset busk,
constructed in accordance with this Invention; and Figure 3 is a front view,
and Figure 4 a back view, of a straight corset busk, also constructed according to
my said Invention. The same letters of reference refer to similar parts in all the
views.
In carrying out my Invention I apply an additional strip or plate of iron or steel
A at the back of the usual busk B, but shorter in length as illustrated, and I rivet
this plate firmly to the busk B in two or more places near the bottom by means of
the rivets C, and thus I strengthen the same where strength is most required. I
connect however the upper part of the strip A to the busk by means of two or more
button headed studs D, riveted or otherwise sccured to the strip A, and which pass
through slots E formed in the busk, and thus allow such plate freedom to slide or
yield, so as to give the requisite elasticity or suppleness at this part. I thus
construct an improved corset busk, which is practically unbreakable and inde-
structable.
Having thus particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
Invention, together with the best method with which I am acquainted for carrying
the same into practical effect, I wish it to be distinctly understood that I do not confine
myself to the precise form of corset busk illustrated on the accompanying Drawing,
as the improvements are equally applicable to other corset busks and of different
shapes, but that I claim,-
The improvements in corset busks, substantially as herein-before described and
illustrated on the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Abraham Jacobson, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this 11th day of December, in the year of our Lord 1879.
ABRAHAM JACOBSON. (L.S.)