IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENING CORSETS BY A
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Louis Van Caneghem, of No. 6, Conduit
Street, Regent Street, in the County of Middlesex, and of
No. 138, Faubourg St. Denis, Paris, Steel Busk Manufacturer,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENING CORSETS BY A
Sealed the 30th January 1854, and dated the 12th August 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Louis Van Caneghem
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 12th August 1853.
I, LOUIS VAN CANEGIEM, of No. 6, Conduit Street, Regent Street,
in the County of Middlesex, and of No. 138, Faubourg, St. Denis,
Paris, Steel Busk Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENING CORSETS BY A
MECHANICAL BUSK" to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of a mechanical busk composed of steel or
other suitable substance, and I explain the same thus:-
A, B, is an ordinary busk ou which are rivetted perpendicularly 3 or
several pins e.

page_text: C, D, is a piece of steel, into which are cut perpendicularly 3 or
several grooves f. g.
C, D, applies on A, B, in the points g, on e, and makes a fastening
in sliding on the point h; sce A,A, B,B.
, is an eyelet cut into the piece of steel C, D, to tic a piece of 5
tape.
Observation. The same result or effect is obtained in riveting the
pins e, on the piece of steel C, D, and on cutting the grooves f, g, on
the busk A, B.
MODIFICATION.
A, B, is an ordinary busk, into which are cut horizontally 3 or
several grooves f. 9.
C, D, is a piece of steel, on which are riveted 3 or several pins e.
C, D, applies on A, B, in the points e, or y, and makes a fastening in
sliding on the point h; sec A,A, B,B, plan 2.
Observation. The same effect is obtained in riveting the pins e, on
the busk A, B, and in cutting horizontally the grooves f, g, in the piece
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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent
filed by the said Louis Van Caneghem in the Great Seal Patent
Office, on the 1st February 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
LOUIS VAN CANEGIEM, of No. 6, Conduit Street, Regent Street, in the
County of Middlesex, and of No. 138, Faubourg, St. Denis, Paris,
Steel Busk Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twelfth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the seventeenth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Louis Van Caneghem, Her special licence that T,
the said Louis Van Caneghem, my executors, administrators, and as-
signs, or such others as 1, the said Louis Van Caneghem, my executors,

page_text: administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
FASTENING CORSETS BY A MECHANICAL BUSK," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Louis Van Caneghem, by an instrument in
writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and as-
certain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Louis Van Caneghem, do hereby
declare the nature of my said 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 consists of a mechanical busk composed of steel or
other suitable substance, and I explain the same thus :-
A, B, is an ordinary busk, on which are rivetted perpendicularly
three or several pins c.
C. D, is a piece of steel, into which are cut perpendicularly three or
several grooves f, g.
C, D, applies on A, B, in the points g, on c, and makes a fastening
in sliding on the point ; see A,A, B,B.
n, is an eyelet cut into the piece of steel C, D, to tic a piece of
tape.
Observation. The same result or effect is obtained in rivetting the
pins c, on the piece of steel C, D, and on cutting the grooves f, g, on

page_text: C, D, applies on A, B, in the points e, on 9, and makes a fastening
in sliging on the point h. See A,A, B,B, plan 2.
Observation. The same effect is obtained in rivetting the pins e, on
the busk A, B, and in cutting horizontally the grooves f, g, in the piece
of steel C, D.
In witness whereof, I, the said Louis Van Caneghem, have here-
. unto set my hand and seal, this Thirty-first day of January,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-
four.
LOUIS VAN CANEGHEM. (L.S.)