IMPROVEMENTS APPARATUS FOR
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Grant of Crasswell Street Landport in the
County of Hants Engineer for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
APPARATUS FOR WORLD
IN
LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Grant of Crasswell Street Landport in the
County of Hants Engineer for an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
APPARATIIS
MOULDING OR BLOCKING CORSETS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Grant at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 6th June 1883.
ALFRED GRANT. of Crasswell Street Landport in the County of Hants
Engineer. IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR MOULDING OR
CORSETS
"
"
BLOCKING
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for moulding or
blocking corsets.
It is usual to mould or block corsets by lacing them when properly stiffened and
whilst moist upon a heated form or block- of a proper shape and there allowing
them to dry.
Now in order to obtain a more perfect moulding of the bosom of the corset I
combine with the form or block apparatus to hold the corset against it. Upon the
top of the form or block I provide an horizontal rack capable of sliding in guides
in the direction from front to back and this gears with a toothed arc upon an axis
having an arm to which a coiled spring is attached. The spring tends to draw
back the rack and to bring a finger, or presser which is attached to the fore end of
the rack to bear against the front of a corset laced upon the form or block.
The upper part of the front of the corset is thus pressed in the middle
against the form or block and made to enter to the bottom of the concavity
between the projections upon the form or block by which the breasts of the corset
are moulded.
In connection with the toothed arc there is a handle by which the rack is moved
forward to release the corset when dry and a catch is also provided to retain tho
rack whilst another corset is laced upon the form or block.

page_text: When the lacing is complete the latch i is lifted and the finger b is allowed to
retire. The spring g draws the finger back and causes it to press against the
front of the corset and thereby to conform to the re entering curvature of the form
or block. The bosoms or breasts of the corsets are thus formed much more
accurately than when as heretofore the re-entering curvature of the bosoms or
breasts is retained whilst the corset is on the block by the elasticity of the steels
forming part of the corset.
Having thus described the nature of my said invention and the manner of
performing the same I would have it understood that I claim
First In combination of a moveable finger with the forms or blocks on
which corsets are moulded; the said finger being so arranged that whilst the
corset is upon the form or block it can be caused to press on the same and
compel it to conform to the re entering curvature of the block and thereby
ensure the proper moulding of the bosoms or breasts of the corset substantially
as described.
Second-The apparatus substantially as described and represented in the
annexed Drawings.
In witness whereof I the said Alfred Grant have hereunto set my hand and
seal this First day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and eighty three.