Improvements in Stiffeners for Corsets and other Garments.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 28th Sept.. 1893
(omplete Specification Left, 31st Mar., 1894-Accented, 5th May, 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stiffeners for Corsets and other Garments.
I, JULIUS LINDAUER, of 42, Faubourg du Temple, Paris, in the Republic of
France, Corset Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
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My invention relates to stiffeners for corsets and other garments.
According to my invention I make the stiffeners of a very thin strip or core of
steel entirely covered with india-rubber which I vulcanise and harden in a mould
of the form to be given to the finished stiffener.
This stiffener can be employed in the manufacture of corsets, dresses and other
articles generally in which stiffeners are used.
The steel core is preferably thin and very flexible. The vulcanised and
hardened india-rubber covering gives the necessary thickness and width to the
stiffener, protects the steel from rust and prevents it from piercing the fabric of the
corset or dress.
Dated the 28th day of September 1893.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Stiffeners for Corsets and other Garments.
1, Julius Lindauer, of 42, Faubourg du Temple, Paris, in the Republic of
France, Corset 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 stiffeners for corsets and other garments and is illustrated
in the accompanying drawing, in which :-
Figures 1 and 2 are respectively face and edge views of the improved stiffener,
the outer covering being partly broken away to shew the interior strip or core.
I make the stiffener of a very thin strip or core a of steel entirely covered with
hardened vulcanized india-rubber b; the central steel core is by preference thin
and flexible and the vulcanized india-rubber covering gives the necessary consistence,
thickness, width and rigidity to the stiffener to which the small steel core gives
spring and elasticity.
My artificial stiffener is characterized and distinguished from all stiffeners which
have been hitherto used by the steel core being entirely surrounded, that is to say,
covered on the sides, edges and ends with india-rubber, pure or mixed, in the form
of dough or sheets, the whole being afterwards cured in a mould in which the
stiffener is vulcanized, hardened and completely formed by the processes usually
employed for the vulcanization of india-rubber; I thus obtain a stiffener in which
a hard india-rubber covering or body is firmly united to a steel core.
This stiffener possesses all the qualities of whalebone, besides which it possesses
more elasticity than the latter and being less rigid it does not pierce the fabric of
the corset or dress like whalebone does.
It is suitable for use for all purposes for which whalebone and similar stiffeners
are used.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improved artificial stiffener consisting of a steel core, by preference thin and
flexible, entirely covered with india-rubber which is then cured in a mould wherein
the stiffener becomes vulcanized, hardened and completely formed substantially as
herein before described with reference to the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 31st day of March 1894.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applic.nt.