AN IMPROVEMENT OR LMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR CORSETS GAITERS AND LEGGINGS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS to be as follows:-
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I JOHN JENKIN CLARKE of the firm of J. J. Clarke and Company of
No 93 Broad Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturers
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR
LMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR CORSETS GAITERS AND LEGGINGS AND OTHER
ARTICLES OF DRESS to be as follows:-
"
My invention consists of the improvement or improvements herein after described
in fastenings for corsets gaiters and leggings and other articles of dress the object
of my said improvements being to prevent the accidental detachment of the row
of studs on one part of the fastening from the row of eyes on the other part of
the fastening when the pull or cross tension on the two parts of the fastening is
relaxed.
For convenience of description I will describe my improvement or improvements
as applied to a corset fastening.
I use at the inner edge of one of the busks a series of equi distant, headed, stude
of the ordinary kind but instead of using at the inner edge of the other busk
eyes having in them piercings or slots of the ordinary kind I construct the eyes in
the following manner so as to produce a locking of the stud in the eye when the
said stud is in its fastening position.
For this purpose a slightly yielding tongue is made to overhang the larger slot
in the eye. The said tongue has the same shape as the said larger slot and is made
by piercing the eye and lifting the pierced part slightly out of the plane of the said
eye. The free end of the tongue is situated over the junction of the large slot
with the small slot in the eye. The head of the stud on being passed through the
large slot in the eye bears against the underside of the tongue and as the stem of
the stud passes into the smaller slot the head of the stud escapes from under the
said tongue and bears against the free end of the tongue. It is necessary to
depress the head of the stud below the free end of the tongue before the stud can
pass under the said tongue to effect the disengagement of the two parts of the
fastening.
The top and bottom eyes only or each of the eyes on the busk may be con-
structed according to my invention and the said eyes may be fastened to the busks
or strips by rivetting or by closing a portion of the metal of the eye upon the busk
or strip.

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DREUIFICATION.
I, JOHN JENKIN CLARKE, of the firm of J. J. Clarke and Company, of
No 93 Broad Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick Manufacturers do
hereby declare the nature of my invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVE-
MENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR CORSETS, GAITERS AND LEGGINGS AND OTHER ARTICLES
OF DRESS" and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
'described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My Invention consists of the improvement or improvements hereinafter described
in fastenings for corsets, gaiters and leggings and other articles of dress, the object
of my said improvement or improvements being to prevent the accidental detach-
ment of the row of studs on one part of the fastening from the row of eyes on the
other part of the fastening, when the pall or cross tension on the two parts of the
fastening is relaxed.
For convenience of description I will describe my improvement or improvements
as applied to a corset fastening.
I use at the inner edge of one of the busks, a series of equi-distant headed studs
of the ordinary kind, but instead of using at the inner edge of the other busk,
eyes having in them piercings or slots of the ordinary kind, I construct the eyes in
the following manner so as to produce a locking of the stud in the eye when the
said stud is in its fastening position.
For this purpose, a slightly yielding tongue is made to overhang the larger alot
in the eye. The said tongue has the same shape as the said larger slot and is made
by piercing the eye and lifting the pierced part slightly out of the plane of the said
The free end of the tongue is situated over the junction of the large slot
with the small slot in the eye.
eye.
The head of the stud on being passed through the large slot. in the eye bears
against the underside of the tongue and as the stem of the stud passes into the
smaller slot the head of the stud escapes from under the said tongue and bears
against the free end of the tongue. It is necessary to depress the head of the stud
below the free end of the tongue before the stud can pass under the said tongue to
effect the disengagement of the two parts of the fastening.
The top and bottom eyes only or each of the eyes on the busk may be constructed
according to my invention; and the said eyes may be fastened to the busks or
strips by rivetting or by closing a portion of the metal of the eye upon the busk or
strip.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in elevation a pair of corset
busks provided with fastenings constructed according to my invention; Figure 2
represents a cross section of the same taken on the dotted line Figure 1, drawn to
a larger scale; Figure 3 represents a plan of upper side of the two parts of the
fastening separated, and Figure 4 represents a plan of underside of the eye part
of the fastening; Figure 5 represents the same view as Figure 2 with the two
parts of the fastening in the act of being unfastened or fastened.
"
Figures 3, 4 and 5 are drawn to the same scale as Figure 2.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of
the drawing.

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are the two busks of the corset, the inner edge of the busk a being furnished
with the ordinary studs c, c² and the inner edge of the busk b being furnished with
eyes d, d and e, e. The eyes marked d, d at the top and bottom of the busk are
constructed according to my invention and I will confine my description to the said
eyes, but the eyes marked e, e are of the ordinary kind. Each of the eyes d, d
has the usual large circular slot f through which the head of the stud c passes,
the said large slot opening into the smaller slot g into which the stem of the stud
passes as usual, but for the purpose of locking the stud e² in the smaller slot g after
the busks have been fastened, a slightly yielding tongue his combined with the
eye, the said tongue h being made to overhang the larger slot fin the eye as best
seen in the sections Figures 2 and 5. The said tongue h has the same shape as the
said larger slot f and is made by piercing that part of the eye and lifting the
pierced. part out of the plane of the said eye, the other slot g of the eye being com-
pletely pierced out. It will be seen by an examination of the drawing that the
free end of the tongue h is situated over the junction of the larger slot ƒ with the
smaller slot g in the eye.
In fastening the two busks a, b of the corset together, the heads of the middle
studs c, c are engaged with the middle eyes e, e in the ordinary way, but the
engagement of the end studs c, c2 with my improved eyes d, d is effected as
follows. The head of each of the studs c², c² on being passed through the larger
slot of the eye d bears against the underside of the tongue has illustrated in
Figure 5, and as the stem of the stud passes into the smaller slot g the head of the
stud escapes from under the said tongue and bears against the free end of the
tongue as represented in Figure 2. The locking of the studs c², c' in the eyes d, d
is thereby effected and the accidental detachment of the studs from the eyes when
the pull or cross tension on the busks a, b is relaxed is prevented.
In order to disengage the studs c², c² from the eyes d, d it is necessary to depress
the head of the studs below the free ends of the tongues has illustrated in Figure 5
before the studs can pass into the larger slots f in the eyes.
My improved eyes may be rivetted to the edge of the busk in the manner
represented in Figure 1 and be covered with a fabric in the usual manner; or the
rivetted eyes may have the ornamental (or other) figure represented in Figure 6
and be exposed on the outside of the covering fabric. Or the eyes may be fastened
to the busk by closing portions of the metal of the eyes over the edges of the busk
as represented in Figure 7.
To increase the elasticity of the tongues h, the bridge piece by which the tongue
is joined to the eye may be reduced in width by piercing out portions of the metal
of the said bridge piece as shown at h², h² Figure 7 and making a corrugation at
the junction of the tongue and bridge piece. A detached view of the eye made as
last described is shown in Figure 7.
All the different forms of eyes represented may be modified as described with
respect to the eye Figures 7 and 74.
Instead of making the tongue in one piece with the eye it may be made
of a separate elastic piece fastened over the larger hole or slot f in the eye as
represented in Figures 8 and 9. In Figure 8 the separate elastic tongue is marked i
and is rivetted to the eye of the fastening and in Figure 9 the separate elastic
tongue is marked k and is fastened to the eye by closing portions of the said eye
upon the tail piece of the separate tongue k. But I do not limit myself to any
particular method of attaching the separate elastic tongue to the eye.
Although I prefer to apply my improved eyes to the top and bottom only of the
busk as represented in the drawing yet each of the eyes of the several fastenings
may be constructed as described and represented with respect to the said top and
bottom eyes.
I apply my improved fastenings to gaiters, leggings and other articles of dress
substantially in the manner herein before described and represented with respect to
corset fastenings.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The combination with one or more of the eyes of fastenings for corsets, gaiters
and leggings and other articles of dress, of a yielding tongue made to overhang
the larger slot in the eye and situated slightly out of the plane of the said eye, for
the purpose of locking the stud in the eye, whether the said yielding tongue be
made in one piece with the eye or of a separate piece attached to the eye,
substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawing.