IMPROVEMENTS IN CORSETS
Year: 1884

page_text: I MARY ANN DEVENISH Wife of the Reverend Edwin Isaac Devenish of Caistor
in the County of Lincoln Primitive Methodist Minister do hereby declare the
nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CORSETS" to be as follows:-
The Corsets to be improved for the purpose of Mothers nursing and suckling
Children by the insertion of three Flexible Steels shaped to the. figure, the two top
steels being slightly bent or curved and opening at the Breasts. (See Drawings
left herewith) The three Strels will be joined together under the Breasts with
Brass Rivet allowing the Steels to work freely and independently. The two Steels
fitting the Corset to the Breasts to be closed and opened from the upper part by
means of small Brass Knob ou the under Steel letting and fastening into the Eye
made for the purpose in the Upper Steel. The three Steels to be sewn in Corset
purposely made for them.
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page_text: I MARY ANN DEVENISH the Wife of The Reverend Edwin Isaac Devenish of
Caistor in the County of Lincoln Primitive Methodist Minister do hereby declare
the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN CORSETS" and in what
manner, the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in Corsets the object of the improvements
being to obviate the difficulty experienced by Mothers in nursing and suckling
Children when wearing.Corsets of the ordinary construction.
For this purpose I insert at each side of the Corset three flexible steels shaped
to the figure the two top steels being slightly bent or curved and opening at the
breast portion of the Corset.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will describe the same
by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1, is an elevation of
a Corset provided with my improvements; figure 2, is an elevation of the same
but shewing the Corset open at the breast parts thereof; figure 3, is a detached
view on a larger scale of my improved steels for Corsets the steels being in their
open position, and figure 4, a view of the steels when closed. Similar letters in all
the figures represent similar parts.
a, is the Corset of ordinary construction except that it is formed with two
openings b, b, at the breast parts of the Corset. To each of these openings I adapt
the upper steels c, c, the lower steel d, being fixed in the Corset similarly to the
ordinary steels; the three steels are jointed together under the breast parts of the,
Corset at 'e, as shewn, by means of a rivet, thereby allowing the steels, to work
freely and independently of one another. The steels, c, c, which fit the Corset to
the breasts are provided one with a stud f, and the other with an 'eye g, the stud f,
fastening into the eye g, so as to allow the breast parts of the Corset to be opened
and closed and fastened as required: The steels are sewn in the Corset which is
provided with suitable pockets for the purpose
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By this arrangement of Corset if it be desired to nurse. or suckle a child by the
person wearing the Corset it will be simply necessary to unfasten one of the top'
steels c, c, and the Corset can be opened as shewn in figure 2, and the breast be
uncovered. To close the opening the top steels c, c, are brought together and
fastened as hereinbefore described.
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 :-
1. The improved Corset herein before described and represented in the acconi-
panying drawing.
2. The combination, with a Corset formed with openings at the breast parts, of
steels arranged and operating as and for the purposes hereinbefore described
and represented in the accompanying drawing.
3. The improved steels for Corsets herein before described and represented in the
accompanying drawing.
Dated this 20th day of November 1884.