IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR CORSETS
Year: 1884

page_text: I WILLIAM PRETTY Junior of Ipswich in the County of Suffolk Corset Manu-
facturer do hereby declare the nature of any invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FASTENINGS FOR 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 has for its object improvements in fastenings for corsets.
A common arrangement at present in use for fastening corsets consists of two
steels or busks enclosed in the two edges of the garment which it is required
to fasten the one to the other, and on one of these steels small studs are fixed,
whilst upon the other there are projecting lugs with key-hole like holes. The studs
then when the two edges are brought together pass freely through the enlarged
ends of the holes but when the studs have passed to the smaller ends of the
holes the heads upon the studs prevent the two steels or busks separating, the
heads upon the studs being unable to escape through the narrower parts of the
holes.
This fastening however is not so secure as is desirable; it is dependent upon
the strain of the fabric for keeping the studs to those parts of the holes in the lugs
which are too small to permit them to escape. This fastening also allows more
independent movement of the two steels or busks than it is desirable that they
should have whilst connected.
According to my invention I improve theso fastenings by providing other inter-
mediate lugs on one stool or busk to project beneath the under side of the other
steel or busk or that upon which the studs are fixed. The steel or busk with the
studs upon it is thus supported upon the under side and consequently the studs
cannot escape from the holes even when they are at the larger end thereof except
the steels are bent in opposite directions and this is in no way likely to occur
accidentally.
On the other hand the fastening is easily opened and closed by intentionally
curving or bending the steels or busks inwards and outwards and so as to
disengage or engage the studs and lugs in regular order commencing at a free end.
In order that my said invention may be most fully understood and readily carried
into effect I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved fastening and Figure 2 is a back
clevation of the same.
A and B are two steels or busks secured in the edges of the fabric of which the

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A¹ A¹ A¹ are the ordinary studs upon the steel or busk A and B¹ B¹ are the
corresponding lugs on the busk B which have in them the köyhole like holes
already referred to,
B B are the additional lugs which I now fix upon the back of the steel or
busk B in order to support the corresponding steel or busk A on the underside.
The lugs may be rivetted to the steels or busk as is usual.
The addition of the lugs B³ not only renders the fastening very secure but it also
tends to maintain the two steels or busks truly parallel the one to the other in tho
same plano and edge to edge. So the garment is held in form more effectually than
heretofore.
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-
My improved fastening consisting of the parts ▲ A¹ B B¹ and B³ substantially as
herein described.
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