Improvements in Fastening Devices for Wearing Apparel.
Year: 1898

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastening Devices for Wearing Apparel.
We, CALVIN EDWARD FOSBURGH, of 270, Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn, New York,
Bookkeeper, and EDGAR CHARLES FOSBURGH, of Norfolk, Virginia, Lumber Dealer,
both of United States of America, 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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The object of our invention is to afford facility for operating articles of wear-
ing apparel which have opposite portions secured in proximity to each other by
means of a lace, as, for example, a corset.
Our improvement consists in providing the opposite portions of an article of
wearing apparel with pulleys set in, or approximately in, a plane of such portions,
and provided with adjacent cheek pieces so that a lace or laces may pass from
one to another of the pulleys and tie. The facility with which it will run
through the check pieces will afford provision for drawing the said portions of
the article of wearing apparel towards each other or permitting them to recede.
We have illustrated our invention in a corset.
Figure shows the back portion of a corset embodying our improvement.
Figure 2 shows one of the pulleys and its block or pair of cheek pieces attached.
Figure 3 is a top view of the same.
Figure 4 is a view of the roller detached.
Figure 5 is a side view illustrating a modification.
Figure 6 is a view of the roller of the latter.
Figure is a diagrammatic view of two portions of an article of wearing
apparel with a different arrangement of lace.
Figure 8 is another diagrammatic view illustrating another arrangement of
lace.
Some of the figures are upon a larger scale than others.
Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the views.
Referring first to Figure 1, it will be seen that A', A², are the opposite portions
of a corset that B are pulley blocks or cheek pieces provided with pulleys and
arranged upon the edges of said portions A', A2, and that C is a lace. This lace
is passed around the pulleys at the upper ends of the portions A1, A2, and thence
around the others in such manner as to cross back and forth between them, the
ends of the lace being extended below the lowermost pulleys and there tied
together or engaged with any suitable catches upon the opposite portions of the
corset.
In Figure 7 we have shown a single lace attached at one end to the lower end
of one of the opposite portions A1, A2, of an article of apparel, and extended
thence around the lowest pulley of the opposite portion of the article, and thence

page_text: across to the next pulley of the first portion, and so on to the upper end of the
article where it is secured by any suitable catch.
In Figure 8 we have shown two laces, each fastened at one end to an end of
one of the two portions A1, A2, of an article of apparel, and passing thence
towards the middle of the vertical length of the article, first upon a pulley upon
one of said portions A¹, next around-a pulley upon the other of said portions A¹,
until they meet at the middle of the article. There they´may be tied together or
secured by suitable catches.
In Figures 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 we have shown our pulley block or cheek pieces
and pulley upon an enlarged scale, as already stated. The pulley block as here
shown consists of a single piece of sheet metal bent about the middle so as to
form two limbs or portions which are parallel to each other. Preferably they
flare outwardly from the middle, where they are united to the other end, so as
to give an enlarged portion which may be easily secured to the portions A1, A2,
of the article of wearing apparel. The securing may be done by rivets or
otherwise.
In the pulley block shown in Figures 2, 3 and 4 there is a slot D) in each of
the check pieces extending from the wider end towards the bent portion of the
pulley block where the two cheek pieces are united. This slot forms a bearing
for the journals of the pulley of the block, said journals being preferably
formed integral with the pulley. We have shown the journals as of the same
size throughout their lengths. The pulley is inserted between the cheek pieces
of the block with its journals in the grooves formed in the cheek pieces, and
slid up to the ends of the slots where it will have bearings.
The pulley block shown in Figures 5 and 6 is substantially the same as that
shown in Figures 2, 3 and 4, but instead of having slots extending through the
edges of the cheek pieces, it has slots which are enlarged at one end, one of them
sufficiently to permit the passage of the entire pulley through it, and the other
sufficiently to permit an enlarged head 62 on one of the pulley journals to pass
through it. Both journals have enlarged heads b². After sliding the pulley
towards the bent portions of the pulley block where the two cheek pieces are
united, its journals will have bearings in the slots. The pulleys in either form
will be prevented from passing out of the slots by the portions of the article of
wearing apparel to which they are attached.
While applicable generally to a variety of articles, our improvement has per-
haps special advantages for corsets, as it provides for easily drawing opposite
edges together by pulling upon the ends of the laces. The special forms of
pulley blocks illustrated and described by us are highly advantageous, as they
greatly facilitate the application of the pulleys through bearings or blocks, an
the latter to the articles upon which they are used, thus making the expense so
small as to render it practicable from a commercial standpoint to apply our
improvement extensively.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare. that what
we claim is;
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1. An article of wearing apparel having opposite portions provided with pulley
blocks and pulleys, in, or approximately in, the plane of such portions, and a
lace passing through said pulleys.
2. An article of wearing apparel having opposite portions provided with pulley
blocks and pulleys, in, or approximately in, the plane of such portions, and a lace
passing through said pulleys, said pulley blocks comprising cheek pieces pro-
vided with slots terminating in openings through which the pulleys may he
inserted and in which they may be sustained.
3. A pulley block composed of a piece of sheet metal bent over to form two
cheek pieces, said cheek pieces being slotted and provided with openings through
which a pulley having integral journals may be introduced.

page_text: 4. A pulley block comprising two cheek pieces provided with slots terminating
with openings through which a pulley having integral journals terminating in
heads may be introduced, said heads being adapted to project outside the check
pieces when the journals are in place within the slots of the cheek pieces.
Dated this 27th day of October 1898
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicants.