US1258149A - Washable corset and steel therefor. - Google Patents

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Y. SAYNISCH. WASHABLE CORSET AND STEEL THEREFOR.

APPLICATION FILED MA'Y 3 1917.

Patented Mar. 5, 1918.

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WASHABLE CORSET AND STEEL THEREFOR.

Specication of Letters Patent. Patented ltIal. 5, 1918.

Application filed May 3, 1917. Serial No. 166,075.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, YOLE SAYNISCH, a subject of the King of Italy, and resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vashable Corsets and Steels Therefor, of which the following is a specication.V

My invention relates to washable corsets and steels for the same.

It relates particularly to a corset from which the steels can be removed, thereby permitting the corset to be laundried, like any ordinary garment. It is well known that corsets become unwearable on account of the dirt and perspiration adhering thereto, long before they are wornout.

It is the object of my invention to remedy this defect, and, by making the steels removable, provide a corset that shall cost but a little more than the ordinary ones and outlast many times the usual construction, while complying with all the requirements of sanitation.

To carry out the invention, I provide the corset at the points where the steels are located with pockets which entend lengthwise of corset at the front, sides and back, and I combine with the pockets corset steels adapted to fit therein and removably engage certain portions of the corset fabric.

In the drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification Figure l shows in elevation a corset pro vided at the front, sides and back with my removable steels;

Figs. 2 and 3 are fragmentary views of the front of the corset with the steels in place. a portion being broken away in FigB 2 to show the relation of the engaging means to the fabric;

Fig. 4 is a similar back View showing a modification of holding the steels;

Fig. 5 shows the steel of Fig. 4 in process of being inserted into the pocket;

Fig. 6 is a similar view of the steel of Fig. 3;

Figs. 7, 8, and 9 are sections on the lines a--a, o o, and c-c respectively, looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 10 shows a portion of the steel with the clip, or hook attachment;

Fig. 11 is a top view of a modication of the steel shown in Fig. 4, and

Fig. 12A shows the clip attached to the edge of the' steel, thereby acting as a hook.

There are two essential parts involved in my invention, the corset fabric properly fashioned and the steel adapted for use therewith.

I form the corset with the front, side and back pockets open at the top, and along the l outer edge of the front and back pockets I run a strong seam, leaving at predetermined intervals openings to receive and hold the projecting and fastening devices, fashioned integral with or attached to the steels.

The steels are fashioned generally like those shown in my U. S. Patent No. 1,171,256, and in my U. S. application SenNo. 155,867. The devices-shown in each of these documents are perfectly practicable and useful( and can be advantageously used astherein set forth. Y A

rhe present application is,y however, the result. of long experiment and careful elimination of complications, so that I now have a steel in which there are no moving'parts, that might possibly stick or work hard.

Referring to the drawings 1 is the corset fabric provided with front, back and Y side pockets opening at the top; 2 are the front pockets, 3, the back and 4 the side pockets. The front and back pockets are. provided on their outer edges with a stout seam 5 having at intervals openings adapted to receive and hold projections attached to the steels. A strip 7 is fastened to the fabric near the seam 5 and serves also for engaging with the fastening devices of the steels. A. flap 8 is provided on the corset fabric adjacent to the edge of each corset part to protect the wearer from the projections on the steels. The corset may have or omit the outside flap 81.

The steels, as stated above, are Vconstructed like those in my U. S. patent and application mentioned. but vary therefrom in essential modification of the fastening devices. 9 is the steel body provided with the ordinary engaging features 10, which are provided with a depending portion 11. leaving a notch 121 (seen clearly in Figs. 5 and (i), which is adapted to engage the seam 5 and prevent the steel from moving backward or downward. These engaging devices, like the others mentioned, may, of course, be made integral with or fastened to the. steels in any well known manner. Attached to the outer edge of the steels'near the top, or at any desired point thereon, are clips, or hooks 12 which pass through the openings in the seam 5 and engage both sides of the strip 7. or some other part of the fabric, when the clip or hook is situated on some other part of the steel than the top. The clip or hook l2 may be made of `material that is unyielding or it may be of a spring;T nature. This clip or hook is one essential. feature of the invention, and is preferable generally to the pivoted device shown in my other applications. It is much smaller and more comfortable for the wearer. A modified construction of the engaging devices is shown in the steels of Figs. 4e, 5 and ll. These steels are provided, instead of with the. clip or hook, with one or more headed pins 13, attached to the edge of the steel or, at the same time to the face thereof, at the top or at any desired point, and engaging openings are provided in the seam 5, or at any desired points on the fabric of the pockets. The pins may be used instead of the clip or hook 12, as shown in Fig. l.

The manner of manipulating the corset and steels is easily understood from the drawings. To insert the. steel into the pockets, it is pushed back in the pocket so that the projections 10 may clear the seam 5, and when the projections 1Q, and the clip l2, or the pins 13 have come opposite the openings 6 on the seam, the steel is pushed forward and then downward, by which movements the notch 121 engages the seam 5, and the clip or hook is engaged by pushing the ap 7 below the hook or pins through the opening. Movement in a vertical or backward direction is thereby prevented.

Having thus fully described and illustrated my invention, what I claim, is i o l. A washable corset fabric provided on its abutting edges with pockets opening at the top and bounded by inner and outer seams, said'pockets having in their outei` seam, openings at predetermined intervals, in combination with a corset steel having' the usual closure devices adapted to fit through the seam openings, and provided near the top of the steel with a clip fastening attached to the edge of the steel and adapted to engage a portion of the corset seam and coperate with the closure devices in maintaining the steel in position.

2. A washable corset fabric provided on its abutting edges with pockets opening at the top and bounded by inner and outer seams, said pockets having in their outer seam, openings at predetermined intervals in combination with a corset steel having the usual closure devices adapted to fit through the searn openings, and engage the edge thereof, the steel being provided with a clip located at any desired point on the steel edge and adapted to engage the corset seam and cooperate with the closure devices and hold the steel in position.

Signed at New York in the county of New York and State of New York this 30th day of April A. D. 1917.

YoLE sAYNIscH.

Witnesses:

L. E. DANIELS, A. S'rnTsoN.

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

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