Improvements connected with Busks of Ladies' Corsets.
Year: 1897

page_text: I, GUSTAVE ROSENWALD, of The Firm Rosenwald Brothers, 27 and 28, Noble
Street, City of London, Warehouseman, do hereby declare the nature of the said
invention to be as follows:-
This invention has for object, certain improvements in busks for ladies corsets
whereby they possess less liability to break from the various stooping postures,
than those at present in use, and without interfering with the flexibility and
comparative rigidity to recover their upright position after being bent by the
stooping.
The busks also retain their shape under the usual conditions of wear.
For the purpose of this invention we attach two strips of steel, or for the sake
of lightness one strip of steel and one of whalebone, in the direction of their
length. For increasing the flexibility of the busks we apply between the two
strips a ply of india rubber of sheet or strip of varying thickness, or thicker in
the centre or at the ends, the thicker portion of the rubber being arranged at the
part of the busk where the greatest amount of bending takes place, and consequent
liability to fracture.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for G. Rosenwald.
Improvements connected with Busks of Ladies' Corsets.
I, GUSTAVE ROSENWALD, of The Firm Rosenwald Brothers, 27 and 28, Noble
Street, City of London, Warehouseman, 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:-
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This invention has for object, certain improvements in busks for ladies corsets
whereby they possess less liability to break from the various stooping postures,
than those at present in use, and without interfering with the flexibility and
comparative rigidity to recover their upright position after being bent by the
stooping.
The busks also retain their shape under the usual conditions of wear.
For the purpose of this invention, I attach one strip of steel and one of whale-
bone, in the direction of their length.

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My invention will be well understood by reference to the annexed drawings,
Figure 1 of which illustrates a busk A of steel and a strengthener strip B of
whalebone wrapped or encased in close contact by the cover C of fabric.
additional strip B of whalebone gives extra resistance against fractures without
materially increasing the bulk or weight of the busk.
I have at Figure 1 shown two busks, one to be on each edge of the corset, and
with the button heads D) on one, and eyeletted plates E on the other F for ready
attachment in the well known manner.
The combined busks of my invention can be prepared with attachment or grip
plate G according to the example represented at Figure 2 to be pushed on to the
ordinary busk, and be held in position as a stiffener to them, said additional strip
occupying a mid position for both ordinary busk strips to have a bearing to
resist fracture of itself and of the ordinary busk strips.
At Figure 2, 1 show the additional busk H of two plys A, B, of steel and
whalebone respectively encased as a single article.
Among the many advantages to be derived from what I term my whalebusk
straight corset fastener, of which the steel is of the finest watch spring variety
in combination with real whalebone strips, in the rendering such busks and the
like unbreakable. very light and flexible, they having proved a perfect comfort
to wearers during cycling and tennis, and also while playing golf.
The busks are very light in weight, and if covered with kid leather, their flexi-
bility is not so affected by the heat of the wearer's body during slight violent
exercise as with those covered with a more absorbent fabric such as cottontape.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
As a single article encased, the combination of a strip of steel and a strip of
whalebene as a busk or busk protector, as and for the use or purposes as set forth
and represented.
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