Improvements in or relating to Corsets and the like.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 1st July, 1899
Complete Specification Left, 8th Mar., 1900-Accepted, 14th Apr., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Corsets and the like.
I, ROBERT LATIMER, of No. 60, Queen Street, Leicester, in the County of
Leicester, Corset Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:
This invention has reference to corsets, stays, or other similar article of wearing
apparel, and has for its object to provide means to obviate what is now a serious
defect, by the ends of the bones or other stiffeners pushing through the material
of which the article is composed, at both top and bottom-causing injury, not
only to the wearer but to the bodice of the wearer.
In carrying out this invention I make the steels in the usual way and of the
different lengths to suit the different parts of the article. I then stamp out a
hole or holes near each end, after the said steels have been covered with (as is
generally the case) similar material to the body of the article; or for ornamental
purposes the steels may be encased in fancy or different coloured material to that
of the body, a space of course being left on each side the steel for sewing on to
the outside of the article, when this has been done washers are placed on the
eyelets in an eyeletting machine and are driven through the hole or holes in the
steels and so secures both ends of the steels from pushing outwards through the
casing and doing the damage herein before referred to. Or the said steels may only be
covered with paper or linen and placed between the wearing surface and lining
of the article and eyeletted in the manner as herein above stated.
If desired the eyelets can be relieved by suitable fancy stitching or embroidery.
Dated this 29th day of June 1899.
W. BESTWICK MAXFIELD,
Applicant's Agent.
Improvements in or relating to Corsets and the like.
I, ROBERT LATIMER, of No. 60, Queen Street, Leicester, in the County of
Leicester, Corset 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:-
This invention has reference to corsets, stays or other similar articles of wearing
apparel or body support and has for its object to provide means to obviate what
is now a serious defect, by the ends of the bones or other stiffeners pushing
through the material or fabric of which the article is composed both at top and
bottom thereby causing injury, not only to the wearer but also to the dress bodice
and other articles of a like nature, worn over the stays or corsets.

page_text: In order that this my invention may be well understood a sheet of drawings
accompany this specification in which:-Figure 1 is a view of half of one design
of a corset constructed in accordance with this invention, Figures 2 and 3 are
cut off views of a steel, or may be whale bone, or imitations thereof, vulcanite
or other strip of about the full size. Figure 4 a sectional view of an ordinary
eyelet D a pin head indicated by dotted line, washers E and , used for
securing said strips, and Figure 5 a modification E' in the washers and d³.
In carrying out this invention steels A are employed by preference but other
material as above mentioned may be used in which holes B can be stamped or
drilled out Figure 2 by the aid of a suitable punch in an ordinary constructed
treadle or power driven punching machine. The said strips are cut to the width
and length desired and shaped as usual to fit the curves in the modelling of the
article, such as at the bust a¹ or upon the hips a. Although the strips as shown
in Figure 1 of the drawings are thereabouts of the same length and width they
may be varied, according to the design or style of the article, notably in the case
of stays or corsets which have a quantity of rows of piping or cording forming
ribs. After the said steels A have been stamped they are placed in the pockets c
which are generally made of the same or similar material or fabric as the body C,
and put in the ordinary eyeletting machine and eyelets D) with or without the
metal or other washers E are pressed through the hole or holes B and clinched
to a second washer 2, thus both ends of the steel are secure from pushing out-
wards, or from breaking through the fabric and causing the injury hereinbefore
referred to. If the said steels are secured in a casing in 'some fancy or different
coloured material or fabric to that of the body C, the necessary space being left
on each side of the steel to enable it to be sewn in place upon the article. In
some cases the said steels have edge protectors & Figure 1 and are covered with
paper or linen, stamped and eyeletted to or in the pockets c', or between the
wearing inner surface and outside of the stay or corset.
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The process of eyeletting the steels or other strips or stiffeners to or in the
stay or corset and the like instead of stitching the ends in as heretofore keeps
the said ends quite down to the fabric no matter whatever the position they may
be required to be placed in. If desired the eyelets I can be relieved by suitable
fancy stitching, embroidery or the like F Figure 1," or if the ventilating
spaces. d left by the eyelets D are objected to they can be filled by a plain or
ornamental head and washer "Figure 4" or by the washer El "Figure 5.
The latter serves to link the two eyelets together and may be in any suitable
floral or ornamental pattern and be made of other material than metal.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
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1. In corsets and the like the employment of steels or other strips A capable
of having a hole or holes B stamped or drilled therein and eyeletted thereto for
the purpose substantially as herein before described with reference to Figures 1
and 2 of the accompany drawings.
2. In corsets and the like the eyeletting of the steels or other strips A capable
of having a holes or holes B stamped therein as hereinbefore described for the
purpose, and with reference to Figures 3 and 4 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 7th day of March 1900.
W. BESTWICK MAXFIELD,
Registered Patent Agent,
No. 34, Belvoir Street, Leicester, Applicant's Agent.