Improvements in or relating to Corset Busks.
Year: 1897

page_text: We, WILLIAM HILL COOPER and GEORGE EDINMORE GATHER trading as Richard
Cooper & Company of Ashbourne in the County of Derby, Corset Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to corset busks, and has for its object to produce busks
which will be stronger, and which will not cone accidentally undone when in use on
the wearer's body.
In carrying our invention into effect, we form our busks so that in each pair, one
of the busks shall have pieces or bits projecting against the side or face of the
adjacent busk. These pieces or bits are for holding the busk when on the body level
or flush so that the busks will not come undone, and moreover greatly strengthen
the busk, acting in an as efficient a manner as double busk with less weight and metal.
These projecting pieces or bits may be clipped on to the busk, riveted thereto, formed
in one piece with the busk, formed on an auxiliary plate or busk which is riveted
to the inain busk, or in any other suitable manner. The invention can be applied
to the spoon busk or to any busk. The pieces or bits may be in any place on the
steel, and although in the samples we have prepared we have used four pieces or
bits, yet we might use any other suitable number according to the size of the busk
or other circumstances.
Improvements in or relating to Corset Busks.
We, WILLIAM HILL COOPER and GEORGE EDINMORE GATHER, trading as Richard
Cooper & Company of Ashbourne in the County of Derby, Corset Manufacturers, 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 corset busks, and has for its object to produce busks
which will be stronger, and which will not come accidentally undone when in use on
the wearer's body.
The invention will be understood from the following description, reference being
had to the accompanying drawings, in which:-
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Figure 1 is a general view of a corset with our improved busks applied thereto.
Figure 2 a detail view on an enlarged scale, and

page_text: Figure 3 a cross section through the busk shewing the busks connected and
disconnected.
In these figures, A are the busks, B the eyelets on one of the busks and C the
studs on the other on which the eyelets fasten. We form our busks A so that in
each pair one of the busks shall have pieces or bits D projecting against the side or
inside face of the adjacent busk. These pieces or bits D are for holding the busk
when on the body level or flush, so that the busks will not come undone, and
moreover greatly strengthen the busk, acting in as efficient a manner as a double
busk with less weight and metal. These projecting pieces or bits may be clipped
onto the busk, rivetted thereto, formed in one piece with the busk, formed on an
auxiliary plate or busk which is rivetted to the main busk or in any other suitable
manner. The invention can be applied to the spoon busk or to any busk. The
pieces or bits may be in any place on the steel, and although in the drawings we
have shown four pieces or bits D, yet we may use any suitable number according to
the size of the busk or other circumstances.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
1. The improvement in corset busks, which consists in forming or providing one
in each pair with pieces or bits so arranged as to project against the side or inside
face of the adjacent busk when the two busks are fastened together, substantially as
and for the purpose described.
2. In corsets, forming one of the busks with pieces or bits D adapted to project
against the inside face of the adjacent busk when the two busks are brought
together in such manner as to hold the busks when on the wearer's body level or
flush, so that they will not come undone, and moreover greatly strengthen the busk
and act in as efficient a manner as a double busk with less weight and metal,
substantially as set forth.
WM. P., THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and London, Patent Agents.