Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 18th June, 1895-Accepted, 20th July, 1895
A communication to me from the Sisters HOFFMANN, Milliners, of 11, Krausen-
strasse, Plauen, in. the Empire of Germany.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the Firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 65 and 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of an improved fastening for corsets, and other garments,
and consists of two strips of whalebone, metal, celluloid, or other suitable elastic
material, covered with cloth or other fabric, one of which is sewn upon each of the
edges of the garment which are to be fastened together.
One of the strips is provided with hooks and the other with eyes projecting
above the covering of the strips, and by fastening the hooks into the eyes the edges
of the garment are united.
The hooks and eyes may be fixed upon the strips in different ways, for instance
they may be provided with openings by which they are rivetted to the strips by
small rivets.
Dated this 24th day of Santambor 1801
EDWARDS & Co.,
65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.
A communication to me from the Sisters HOFFMANN, Milliners, of 11, Krauen-
strasse, Plauen, in the Empire of Germany.
I, EDMUND EDWARDS, of the Firm of Edwards and Co., Patent Agents and
Engineers, of 65 and 66, Chancery Lane, in the County of Middlesex, 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 and accompanying drawing, that is to say :-
This invention consists of an improved fastening for corsets, and other garments,
and is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which
Figure 1 shews the back of one of the strips to which the hooks are fastened.
Figure 2 shews a front view of the other strip, which carries the corresponding
eyes.
Figure 3 shews the two strips hooked together.
The improved fastening consists of two strips a, b of whalebone, metal, celluloid,
or other suitable elastic material, covered with cloth or other fabric, one of
which is sewn upon each of the edges of the garment which are to be fastened
together.
One of the strips is provided with hooks e and the other with eyes d projecting

page_text: above the covering of the strips, and by fastening the hooks into the eyes the edges
of the garment are united.
The hooks and eyes may be fixed upon the strips in different ways, for instance,
as shewn in the drawing, they may be provided with openings c¹ and d¹, by which
they are rivetted to the strips by small rivets.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said iuven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
a
The fastening for corsets or other garments, consisting of two elastic strips
and b, sewn upon the edges of the garment which are to be fastened together one
strip being provided with eyes d and the other with hooks c, by which they are
fastened together, as described and illustrated.
Dated this 8th day of June 1895.
EDWARDS & Co.,
65 and 66, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicant.