Improvements in Corsets with Detachable Busks.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Corsets with Detachable Busks.
A communication by MARTHA NOLTING, of Bilefeld, in the Empire of Germany.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both
in the County of Lancaster, 118, New Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, and 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The corsets with detachable busks hitherto known have the drawback that the
material on the front parts of the corset is greatly exposed to wear, as in the case
of corsets with busks sewn in. The material rapidly becomes unsightly and worth-
less by the breaking of the busks and by the frequent grasping of the material at
the front parts where the busks are inserted when fastening the corset.
In order to remove this drawback and at the same time to ornament the corset,
the loose busks according to the present invention are connected with the corset
material by means of bands.
The busks may be placed either on or beneath the edge or border of the corset.
material or between a double layer of material. Eyelets are formed in the material
of the corset at a suitable distance from the edge and bands are drawn through
these eyelets and laced over to fasten the busks.
The fastening may resemble the ordinary lace fastening. The bands must
however not be drawn through crosswise but be secured by single insertion or in any
other suitable manner calculated to ornament the corset and to save the front parts
of the same which are exposed to the greatest wear.
In consequence of this new mode of fastening. the band alone is affected and
when it becomes dirty or worthless can be easily and cheaply replaced by another.
By using coloured silk bands for this object the appearance of the corset may also
be considerably improved.
Instead of silk, cotton, or woollen bands, elastic india rubber ones may also be
used which increase the elasticity of the corset and thus assist health and con-
venience.

page_text: in the County of Lancaster, 118, New Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, and 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,
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 corsets with detachable busks hitherto known have the drawback that the
material on the front parts of the corset is as greatly exposed to wear, as in the case
of corsets with busks sewn in. The material rapidly becomes unsightly and worth-
less by the breaking of the busks and by the frequent grasping of the material at
the front parts where the busks are inserted when fastening the corset.
In order to remove this drawback and at the same time to ornament the corset,
the loose busks according to the present invention are connected with the corset
material by means of bands.
This improvement is shown in the accompanying drawings.
Figure 1 being part of a corset with a partially unfastened busk;
Figure 2 a view of a part of the corset when closed.
The busks may be placed either on or beneath the edge or border of the corset
material or between a double layer of material. Eyelets are formed in the
material of the corset a at a suitable distance from the edge, and bands e are drawn
through these eyelets and laced over to fasten the busks b.
The lacing shown in the drawings resembles the ordinary lace fastening of
corsets. The bands must however not be drawn crosswise from one edge to the other
of the corset as that would cause the two edges to be laced together. The bands
must therefore be laced on each edge separately in any suitable manner calculated
to ornament the corset and to save the front parts of the same which are exposed
to the greatest wear.
In consequence of this new mode of fastening, the band alone is affected and when
it becomes dirty or worthless can be easily and cheaply replaced by another.
By using coloured silk bands for this object the appearance of the corset may
also be considerably improved.
Instead of silk, cotton, or woollen bands, elastic india-rubber ones may also be
used which increase the elasticity of the corset and thus assist health and
convenience.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:-
1. In corsets, the arrangement of bands (c) passed through eyelets (d) in the
front and laced over loose removable busks in such a way as to securely fasten
the latter substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.
2. In corsets having fixed busks, the arrangement of bands (c) passed through
eyelets (d) in the front, and laced over the front edges, for the purpose of orna-
menting the corset, and protecting or saving the material of the corset substantially
as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 5th day of March 1808