US1047083A - Apparel-corset. - Google Patents

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D. KOPS.

APPAREL CORSET. urmoumn Hum JULY 13, 1912.

1,047,083. Patented Dc. 10,1912.

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DANIEL KOPS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

APPAREL-CORSET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 10, 1912.

Application filed July 13, 1912. Serial N 0. 709,132.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL Kors, a citizen of the United States, residing at the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Apparel-Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to apparel corsets having yielding characteristics at the lower back parts and lacing edges, and the same is an improvement upon the devices shown and described in Letters Patent granted to me June 18, 1912, and numbered 1,030,190. In the devices of said patent, there were overlying parts which increased the thickness and also caused an uneven yielding of the elastic members, which it is the object of the devices of my present invention to overcome.

In carrying out my invention, I employ elastic edge inserts in a part of the back preferably in the lower part and lower back corners of the corset at the lacing edges, and which contain a portion of the lacing eyelets. These elastic edge inserts preferably occupy a vertical position lengthwise in line with the lacing edges, and lie in the same plane with the fabric of the body and skirts of the corset and the elasticity or stretch is advantageously at right angles to the length of the elastic member, and in line circumferentially with the skirts of the corset. These elastic edge inserts may be of any width desired or may be formed of two strips connected edgewise. These elastic edge inserts are each preferably formed with inelastic lengthwise margins and an elastic center, and one of said inelastic margins is advantageously wider than the other and receives a portion of the eyelets of the lacing edge; the skirt or fabric of the corset being con nected to the other edge and also to the upper end, all of which is hereinafter more particularly set forth.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is an elevation at the lower central portion and at the back of the corset showing the lower corners and also portions of the lacing edges. Fig. 2 is an elevation in similar position showing a form of my invention as applied to one half of the fabric corset, the other portion being shown in dotted lines only.

Similar letters and numerals of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

Referring particularly to Fig. 1, a and 6 represent portions of the halves of the apparel corset. a and b the skirt portions of the same. 0 and d are the lacing edges. 2 represents the laces and 3 the eyelets. e and f represent the elastic edge inserts which come at the-lower back corners of the corset, and preferably occupy vertical positions which are lengthwise in line with the lacing edges. These elastic edge inserts each have an elastic center and inelastic edges or sewing sections 4, 5, which inelastic edges or sewing sections run lengthwise of the elastic fabric while the stretch of the elastic edge inserts e, f, is at right angles to the length of the inserts, or in other words, in a line circumferential with the skirts of the corset. These elastic edge inserts are each secured along an edge 6 by one or more lines of sewing to the skirts a b of the corset, and they are also secured along an end line 7 by one or more rows of stitches to the halves of the apparel corset at about the lower ends of the stays or bones 10. I prefer to make these elastic edge inserts with one inelastic edge or sewing section 5 wider than the other and of approximately the width of the lacin edge a, 03, so that the eyelets 3 may be placed in these inelastic edges or sewing sections with the same facility, and for the performance of the same function, that they are placed in the halves of the apparel corset a, b, or skirts at the lacing edges 0, d. In fact these inelastic edges or sewing sections 5 are substantial prolongations of the lacing edges 0, cl, and are so lettered in the drawing.

I have shown and may prefer to continue theobone pockets of the lacing edges 0, d, downward beyond the halves a, b, of the apparel corset, and connect the same to the inelastic edges. or sewing sections 5 of the elastic edge inserts, and to employ therein bones or stays 8 and 9 in pairs, one at each side of the eyelets 3, but I do not limit my invention to extending these bones or stays over, or in other words, superposed upon the elastic edge inserts, nor to the extent to which they may be so superposed nor to the location of the usual stays 10 or their. relation to the other parts. These elastic edge inserts occupy the same common plane as the halves of the apparel corset and the skirts, consequently there are no parts, one of which overlies another, to increase the thickness or to limit elasticity. Consequently, in the device of my invention, the

stretch or tension of the elastic partsor centers of the elastic edge inserts extends over the full length of the elastic edge inserts and this elongation is substantially the same that these portions of the corset accommodateinequality of the body, and furthermore, in the line of stretch or elongation there may be more or less yielding or stretch to provide for inequalities and .accommodate any tension that may be -produced either at the front of the corset or by the adjacent laces at the back.

Referring particularly to Fig. 2, I have shown therein, as a form of my invention, the possibility of employingtwoelastic edge insertsin lieu ofonly one, and in this figure, I have lettered the two elastic edge inserts as f, F. No different function is performed by this modified form of my invention than by the form shown in Fig. 1. The function is only augmented. The structure is substantially the same except for the employment of two inserts instead of one, and the two are connected together at a line of sewing 11, and at the distant edge of the insert f by a similar line of sewing t6, and at the top by a similar line of sewing 7, of greater length, other things being equal to Fig. l.

The elastic edge inserts of my invention may be of any length desired and of any width desired, and the elastic centers may also be of any width desired, hence I do not limitmy invention in any of these particulars.

I have omitted, and prefer to omit, the bindingat .the lower edge of the corset skirts for the width of the elastic edge inserts,

and not to continue said binding over the same because this limits the elasticity.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination in an apparel corset with the fabric body halves, of rectangular elastic edge inserts in the lower part of the back, said inserts each connected along one side and oneend to the corset, and the opposite side prolonging a lacing edge and having therein lacing eyelets.

2. The combination in an apparel corset with the fabric body halves, of rectangular ela-sticedge inserts at a part of the ack, said inserts being formed with marginal inelastic sewing sections and intermediate elastic sections, and. connected along one inelastic section and aorossethe elastic and in elastic sections at one end to the corset with the opposite inelastic section prolonging a lacing edge and having lacing eyelets therein.

3. The combination in an apparel corset with the fabric body halves and the skirts thereof, of rectangular edge inserts in the lower part of the back and in the same plane with the body halves and skirts of the corset, said inserts being formed with marginal inelastic sewing sections and intermediate elastic sections and connected along one inelastic section and across the inelastic and elastic sections at one end to the fabric body halves and skirtsof the corset, and at the opposite inelastic section prolonging a lacing edge of the corset and having lacing eyelets therein.

Signed by me this Stlrday of July, 1912. DANIEL KOPS. Vitnesses BERTHA ALLEN, MARIE D. WoHLUs.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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