Improvements in Busks or Steels for Garments.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Oct., 1895-Accented, 7th Dec., 1995
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Busks or Steels for Garments.
I, ISIDOR KLEINMANN, of 111 Landsbergerstrasse, Berlin, in the Kingdom of
Prussia, German Empire, 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:-
This invention relates to hodice steels, consisting of two bodice steels a and b,
intersected at that point where breaking usually takes place, of known form, size
and shape, which pieces, separated from each other, are connected each by one
couple of steel-spring plates e and in such a manner, that these steel-plates are
rivetted either on the lower a or the upper half of the bodice steel, and are
connected adjustably with each other either in the lower a or the upper half b of
the bodice steel by means of one or several small rivets, so that the bodice steels
are able to deflect sufficiently according to the rivets guided in slits.
This manner of fastening of the two bodice steel halves is represented in three
variations in the accompanying drawings.
and
Fig. is a plan view of a double bodice steel,
Fig. 2 an inferior view of Fig. 1,
Fig. 3 a vertical section through a bodice steel,
Fig. 4 the same plan view at a double bodice steel like Fig. 1(first variation).
Fig. 5 an inferior view of Fig. 4 and
Fig. 6 a vertical section through a bodice steel,
Fig. 7 the same plan-view of a double bodice steel like Fig. 1 (second variation)
Fig. 8 is a vertical section through a bodice steel.
In the Fig. 1, 2 and 3 a bodice steel cut into two parts is represented, of which a is
the upper and the lower part. These parts are connected with each other by the
steel-plates and arranged so between a and b, that the steel-plate being on the
front side of the bodice steel is shorter than the other, arranged on the lower side.
The rivets k, connect the parts a, e and frigidly one with another, while the
rivet is fixed to the part and its shauk can slide to and fro in a slit d of the
part hand at the same time in a slit e of the part. The lower rivet h in its part
is fixed to the part fand can move to and fro with its shank in a slit i, arranged in
the lower part . 11 are the loops and m m the hooks of the bodice steels.
In the variation represented in the Fig. 4, 5 and 6 the arrangement is quite the
same as in the Figures 1, 2 and 3, only with that difference, that the lower part b
of the bodice steel is shaped equally broad and not fish-body like. A little
variation in these constructions is represented in the Fig. 7 and 8 in the second
variation. Here both steel-plates e and are uniform shaped and rigidly connected
by two rivets on each lower bodice steel half, only the rivets are arranged
adjustably in the slits n n of the upper half of the bodice steel. The bodice steels
can also consist of more than two parts connected together by intermediate, elastic
steel plates.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
ion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A bodice steel, consisting of two or more parts, the single parts of which are

page_text: connected by one or more elastic steel-plates, which connection is produced partly
by rigid rivets and partly by rivets adjustably arranged in slits, substantially as
and for the purpose specified.
MAX WERTHEIM,
Agent for Applicant.