Improvements in Corsets.
Year: 1895

page_text: This Print is in accordance with the Original Specification as it stands after-
Amendment (under Section 11 of the Patents, &c., Act, 1883), as required by
the decision of the Comptroller General of the 5th day of February 1897.
Date of Application, 1st Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 1st July, 1896-Accepted, 13th Sept., 1896:
Improvements in Corsets.
I EDWIN WATSON BUTLER 45 and 46 Broad Arrow Court Milton Street.
London E.C. Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the construction of corsets and
especially to the system of boning and is intended to provide a corset which can
ajust itself better to the movement of the body of the wearer combined with
greater strength & support than is the case with corsets of ordinary construction.
Instead of employing the ordinary upright system of boning with side steel
which are liable to break and injure the wearer, the strips of material forming the
sides are placed diagonally and arranged so as to cross each other exactly at the.
waist, thereby ensuring double strength at the point most liable to break.
The usual stiffening pieces at the front and back are employed, but as the side
strips are free to move one over the other slightly the corset will give freely when
any extra strain is placed at the same time affording complete support for the figure
and bearing on it evenly.
These improvements can be used in any make or style of corset and corsets.
according to this invention are especially applicable for use in rowing, lawn tennis
cycling golf and other sports as they give perfect freedom to the body & limbs.
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Improvements in Corset.
I EDWIN WATSON BUTLER of 22, Dickson Road, Crouch Hill, London, late-
of 45 and 46 Broad Arrow Court Milton Street E.C. Manufacturers Agent, do
25 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:-
improvements in the construction of corsets, and

page_text: especially to the system of boning, and is intended to provide a corset which can
adjust itself better to the movement of the body, and also give greater support than
is the case with corsets of the ordinary construction. Instead of employing the
ordinary upright system of boning with the side steels which are liable to break,
and injure the wearer the strips of material forming the sides are placed
diagonally, and arranged so as to cross each other exactly at the waist thereby
giving incrcased strength at the point most liable to break. These strips of
material employed may be of whale-bone French horn, steel, or any material
suitable for the purpose..
The usual stiffening pieces at the front and back are employed, but as the side
strips are free to move over one another slightly, the corset will give freely where
any extra strain occurs, at the same time affording complete support for the figure,
and bearing on it evenly.
In order that the invention may be more clearly understood, reference is had to
the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Fig. 1 shows one half of the corset
extended, so as to indicate the positions of the strips, and Fig. 2 shows the strips
detached from the corset, but placed in proper relative position...
A A' are the strips of stiffening material placed as shown diagonally so as to
cross each other at the waist. The corset B is provided at this point with a
band 6 stitched to the inside of the corset, and the stiffening strips cross under this
band. The longer ones also cross at a point a short distance below the top of the
corset. The usual vertical strips are placed at the front, the diagonal ones being
situated at the sides and back.
These improvements can be used in any make or style of corset, and corsets
according to this invention are especially applicable for use in rowing, cycling
lawn tennis, and other sports, as they give perfect freedom to body and limbs.
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 :-
(1.) Improvements in corsets, consisting in providing them with stiffening strips
placed diagonally, so as to cross each other at suitable points, substantially as and
for the purposes specified.
(2.) The improved corset having stiffening strips placed diagonally and crossing
at the waist substantially as described and shown in the accompanying drawings,
and for the purposes specified.
Dated 1018 1st day of July 1895.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, Agent for the Applicant.