Improvements in Corset Busks and Stiffeners.
Year: 1895

page_text: Improvements in Corset Busks and Stiffeners.
I, ADOLF RAU trading as C. G. Rau, F. C. Stein's successor, of Goeppingen,
in the Kingdom of Wurtemburg, 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 :-
The object of the present application for Letters Patent consists in a method
whereby the frequently occurring breakage of corset busks and fasteners,
especially when the wearer stoops, can be avoided.
I am aware that many attempts have previously been made in this direction but
as far as I know have not led to a satisfactory result.
I attain the desired end in the simple manner hereinafter described :-By
providing the busk or fastener with a strengthening device, consisting essentially
of a steel wire.
Referring to the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 shows my improvement attached to a straight fastening device.
Fig. 2 a curved or spoon shaped fastener.
Fig. 3 shows the same as attached to a corset stiffener.
Fig. 4 the same in side view, and
Figs. 5 and 6 show an alternative method of attaching the same.
Attached to the plate a Figs. 1 and 2, at the place particularly strained when
the wearer bends, there is secured a little plate c by means of clips b. The said
plate being provided with curved projections. Through these projections the
wire d which forms the strengthening device passes, and may have any suitable
shape, according to the drawing, the same has an elliptical form, but it might also
be formed of two pieces or otherwise. The length of the wire d can of course be
any suitable one as shown in Figures 3 and 4 in which the stiffener a' is provided
with a much longer wire d. The wire in question may be secured in any desired
manner as shown in Figures 5 and 6. In this method of securing the same the
strengthening wire d is secured at its ends by means of little plates c to the
fastening plate a or to the busk a¹. If necessary the fastening could also take
place at any other suitable point, and the same method of securing the wire could
obviously also be applied to busks of curved or other shapes. It is obvious that
the strengthened wire could be applied to the outer as well as to the inner surface
of the busk or fastening plate. In fastening plates for instance, it is preferable to
attach the longer wires to the inner surface.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improvement in corset busks and fastening plates characterised by having
strengthening wire (d) suitably attached at or about the bending point for the
purpose of preventing the breaking of the busks or fastening plates.
2. In corset busks and fastening plates as set forth in Claim 1, the method of
securing the wire d by means of small plate c riveted to the buskз or fastening
plates.
3. In corset busks or fastening plates substantially as described in Claim 1, the

page_text: fastening of the wire d by means of two or more plates c riveted to the busks or
fastening plates, substantially as described and illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6.
Dated the 17th day of July 1895.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents.