Improvements in Corset Back Fastenings.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Aug., 1893--Accepted, 30th Sept., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Corset Back Fastenings.
I, SIGMUND LINDAUER of Cannstadt, Wurtemburg, in the Empire of Germany,
Manufacturer, 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 :-
My invention relates to improved means of lacing corsets, whereby the laces run
more freely and with less friction than when ordinary eyelets are employed, so that
the drawing together of the two parts of the corset is effected easily and to a
uniform extent, by a single pull applied to the ends of the laces, the wearer being
thus enabled to draw the corset tight without assistance and the free running of the
laces permitting of the two portions of the corset readily adapting themselves to
the various movements of the body. Such lacings are usually applied to the back
of the corset, the eyelets being inserted in the fabric of the corset from which they
are very liable to tear out, the eyelets being situated just in rear of the back steels
over and under which the laces pass. Owing to the increased thickness caused by
these steels the laces rub on and quickly wear the covering fabric against which
they are pressed on the underside by the body of the wearer and owing to the great
friction to which they are subjected, the laces can only be drawn tight by a number
of pulls applied to the laces at each successive crossing point.
This invention consists in affixing eyes to the back steels in such manner that
the eyes project from the steels, the one set towards the other, so as to afford space
for the laces to run in passing from one eye to the next, without being forcibly
pressed against the wearer's body.
The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, forming part of this
Specification, which represents in
Figure 1 a face view of the corset back with my improved lacing arrangement
and in Figure 2 a longitudinal section, on line 1-1 Figure 1 and to a larger scale,
shewing the preferred mode of fixing the eyes to the steels.
Figure 3 shews one of the eyes separately.
a a are the ordinary back steels inserted in sheaths in the edges of the two back
portions of the corset in the ordinary way. bb are the eyes made preferably of
wire bent somewhat to the form of ordinary dress eyes, but they might be stamped
out of sheet metal provided that care be taken to round off the interior edges of the
eyes so as to avoid fraying the laces. These eyes are secured to the outer faces of
the steels by rivets c which pass through holes punched in the steels and
through the end curls b' of the eyes which are covered by the heads of the rivets.
The eyes might be soldered but rivetting is preferred. They are so fixed
that the bow portion of the eye projects beyond the edge of the steel, as shewn,
so that the two sets of eyes project towards one another and the laces d when
threaded through the eyes, as shewn, lie wholly in the space between the two steels.
The eyes are of course fixed to the steels before the latter are covered so that the
projecting bow portions of the eyes only are visible. The laces being threaded
through the eyes, as shewn, it is only necessary to pull on the ends of the two laces
to draw the two parts of the corset equally together at top and bottom, which may
be done by the wearer without assistance.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
The heroin dosanihed lasing attachments for corsets consisting of eres affixed to

page_text: flat steels and projecting from the edges thereof, in the manner and for the purpose
specified.
Dated this 2nd day of August 1893.
D. LINDAUER,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.