An Improvement in the Construction of Stiffeners, Busks, and the like for Ladies' Wearing Apparel.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 11th Dec., 1890-Accepted, 17th Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Construction of Stiffeners, Busks, and the
like for Ladies' Wearing Apparel.
I RICHARD HOWARD WALL of Blythe Street Works, Bethnal Green in the County
of Middlesex, Busk and Bodice Steel Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to bo as follows:-
The object of my invention is to strengthen the parts liable to break of stiffeners
busks and the like as used in corsets, dress bodices, and the like.
By applying to the metal steel busks one or more strips of bone or other like
material I get this improvement with a fractional increase of weight or bulk.
According to this invention I take the ordinary steel busk of any shape, thickness
or number of plates and attach to the same one or more strips of whalebone, horn,
vulcanite, or either of the various similar manufactured articles.
The bone strip or strips are so attached to the busk as to give it strength at the
weakest part without increasing the rigidity, bulk or weight.
The application may be made either to the front or back of the busk, or in case of
two or three plated busks (now so much in use) they may be conveniently placed
between such plates.
The length of the strips applied may extend the whole length of the busk or only
partly, provided always the strips are placed over the central parts of the busk where
breakage usually occurs.
In the case of stay busk fasteners I attach the strips of bone either wholly or only
at the ends by the material covering the same. I also in some cases attach the strips by
the metal caps at the ends of the busks.
In applying this invention to dress body stiffeners 1 insert a thin strip of bone into
the same woven tube as the steel, I sometimes use a web of three thicknesses woven,
so as to form two tubes one above the other using one tube for the bone, and one for
the steel, with edges woven together so as to form one compact busk or stiffener.
Dalth: with Antalian 1800
RICHARD HOWARD WALL.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Construction of Stiffeners, Busks, and the
like for Ladies' Wearing Apparel.
1 RICHARD HOWARD WALL of Blythe Street Works, Bethnal Green in the County
of Middlesex Busks and Bodice Steel 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:―
The object of my invention is to strengthen the parts liable to break of stiffeners
and busks, as used in corsets dress bodices and the like.
By applying to the metal steel busks one or more strips of bone or other like material
I get this improvement with a fractional increase of weight or bulk.
According to this invention I take the ordinary steel busk of any shape, thickness
or number of plates and attach to the same one or more strips of whalebone, horn,
vulcanite, or either of the various similar manufactured articles.
The bone strip or strips are so attached to the busk as to give it strength at the
weakest part, without increasing the rigidity, bulk or weight.
The application may be made either at the front or back of the busk, or in case of
two or three plated busks (now so much in use) they may be conveniently placed
between such plates.

page_text: The length of the strips applied may extend the whole length of the busk or only
partly, provided always the strips are placed over the central parts of the busk where
breakage usually occurs.
In the case of stay busk fasteners I attach the strips of bone either wholly or only
at the ends by the material covering the same. I also in some cases attach the strips
by the metal caps at the ends of the busks.
1
In applying this invention to dress body stiffeners 1 insert a thin strip of bone into
the same. woven tube as the steel 1 sometimes use a web of three thicknesses woven so
as to form two tubes ono above the other using one tube for the bone and one for the
steel, woven together so as to form one compact busk or stiffener.
In order that my said invention may be the better understood I will proceed to
explain the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Figure. I represents the front of a busk fastener with the bones A attached by the
cover.
Figure II shows the bones attached to the back of a busk fastener by means of the
end metal caps B these also form side steels for riding habits or stays, when used
separately before the fitting connections D are attached.
Figure III is a bodice stiffener E shows one end of the article completed F shows
the same with the upper cover removed and the steel showing, and G shows both the
second cover and steel removed, leaving only the bone and the lower cover-or this
may be reversed viz. -the bone placed in the upper tube and the steel in the
lower.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is
The application of bone, horn, & like substances to steel, the combination of which
gives strength to the busks and stiffeners I use the same for, with only a fractional
increase of weight or bulk.
Dated this Tenth day of December 1890.
RICHARD HOWARD WALL.