Improvements in Busks for Corsets and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Busks for Corsets and the like.
A communication from abroad by GUISEPPE GUIDO, of Catania, Italy.
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I, REGINALD WILLIAM JAMES, of the Firm of Fell and James, of 1, Queen
Victoria Street, in the City of London, Chartered Patent Agent, 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:
This invention relates to a new type of busks and has for its object the pro-
viding of a busk furnished with means for automatic fastening and unfastening,
which consequently permit the instantaneous clasping and unclasping of the
corset to which my busk is applied. In the following description I shall describe
two forms of busks made according to my invention, these two forms only differ
in detail of construction, the principle being the same and being capable of ready
adaptation to other forms of construction without going beyond the limits of
my invention.
My new busk for corsets with simple automatic clasps consists of two metal
strips which are flexible and parallel and are covered with cloth and are about
15 millimeters broad, according to the dimensions of the corset to which they
are to be applied; to the left strip are fastened, by means of two rivetting pins
for each clasp, five clasps spaced equally apart; to the right strip, corresponding
with the clasps are soldered and rivetted five metal buttons with hemispherical
heads the buttons on entering into the recesses of the clasps fastening the corset
and causing the two strips to approach one another.
In the accompanying drawings:
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Figures 1 and 2 represent one form of my busk, when the corset is unfastened
and fastened respectively.
Figures and 4,represent another form, also when the corset is unfastened and
fastened respectively.
The reference a and b indicate the two forms of buttons in the two forms of
the busks.
The button, with its head indicated by 1, when it has once entered into the
circular hole of the corresponding clasp keeps the corset fastened by a simple
movement which causes the button to come out of its hole, the whole corset
becomes unfastened automatically, a contrary movement which causes the button
to re-enter into its hole, suffices to instantaneously fasten the corset.
The busk has two different forms of construction, one of which is less simple
than the other. In the first (see Figures 1 and 2) the clasps have the form of
a hook e with a rectangular recess e, four millimetres wide, made in the lower
edge, the top clasp has not got a recess but only the circular hole into which
the corresponding button enters, the side of this hole is recessed into a semi-
circle laving a diameter equal to that of the stem of the button. The buttons of
the left strip have hemispherical heads with a diameter of 5 millimetres.
In the second form of construction (see Figures 3 and 4) the buttons have the

page_text: shape indicated at b. This second form of busk is less simple, but is more certain
and elegant, the clasps d, as seen in Figures 3 and 4 are made like a key; the
recess is in the form of a Z with the middle stroke in a vertical position. The
end of the upper horizontal part of the recess ends in a circular hole, into which the
corresponding button enters. In the first or top clasp. the button enters directly
into its hole, and the recess f below the hole has no object but that of giving
to this clasp the same shape as that possessed by the others.
The buttons of the left strip have their heads very much smaller than those
of the other form of busk, only having a diameter of about 3 millimetres. A
corset provided with this second form of busk (Figures 3 and 4) becomes un-
fastened automatically by a simple movement which causes the top button to come
out of the hole of the corresponding clasp and which also causes the two strips
to move lengthwise relatively to one another so that the stems of the other buttons,
sliding in the recesses, come out of the recesses, disconnecting the two strips.
By means of a movement in the opposite direction, the corset becomes fastened
again automatically.
The advantages possessed by a corset mounted with this type of busk are con-
siderable the principal one is that in the case of the indisposition of the person
wearing such a corset, one can unfasten the corset without disarranging the dress,
provided one can make the top button come out of the hole of the corresponding
clasp, and that one can also fasten the corset again without disarranging the
dress, by moving the two strips in such a way as to cause the top button to enter
its hole.
It is to be understood that the number of clasps and corresponding buttons and
their dimensions are only given in the description by way of example and that
one can vary them in any manner according to custom.
"Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what
I claim is
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A busk for corsets, consisting of two flexible strips, the one provided with a
series of clasps and the other with a corresponding series of buttons, the top
clasp of said series of clasps having a hole perforated in it, while the other clasps
have an open recess of such a shape that in causing the top button to enter into,
or come out of, the hole of the corresponding top clasp. the two strips of
the busk become by a simple movement automatically fastened together or
completely unfastened, respectively substantially as described.
Daial this 14th Way of WuJ, 1800
FELL & JAMES,
Agents for the Applicant.