US1447537A

US1447537A - Corset-stay brace and abdomen support

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Publication number: US1447537A
Application number: US508134A
Authority: US
Inventors: Mae W Ells
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1921-10-17
Filing date: 1921-10-17
Publication date: 1923-03-06
Anticipated expiration: 1940-03-06

Description

Mar. 6, 1923.-

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Application led ctober 17, 1921. Serial No. 503,134t.

To @ZZ whom it may concern: Secured to one side of the closure ofthe con Be it known that MAE W. ELLs, a citiset, adjacent the stay 1l, is a piece of strong zen of the United States, residing at Adrian, fabric 1G, the edge adjacent the stay being 55 in the county of Noble, State of ltflinnesota, provided with a series of eyes 17 secured 5 have invented certain new and useful nithereto. Secured to the other side of the clo proveniente in Corsetstay Braces` and Abdosure of the corset, and at a distance rearmen Supports; and l do hereby declare the wardly lof the stay 12,is a strip 18 of fabric of following to be a full, clear, and enact dethe same width as the strip or piece 16, but of 6o scription of the invention, such as will engreater length. llhe longitudinal center of 10 able others skilled inthe art to which it ap` this strip 18 is disposed on the line of the pertains to make and use the saine. lower ends of the stays 11v and 12, so that This invention relates to new and useful the lower half of the strip lies on the skirt improvements in corsets and particularly to of the corset. The strip 18 is preferably 55 attachments therefor. formed from two or more layers of fabric,

15 @ne object of the invention is to provide and between these layers, andin the center" an attachment for a corset `by means of of the strip, is secured ametal plate 19, the

y which the stays will be held in proper posisame beingr of considerably smaller dimention and prevented-from bulging outwardly. sions than the strip. llhe metal plate is so 70 .ff-another object is to provide an attachdisposed within the strip 18 that one half 20 ment for a corset which serves not only to of it is disposed above the stay line and the maintain the ends of the stays in position, other half below said line, so that the lower but serves as an abdominal retainer or supends of the stays rest against the plate. It port. will be noted that the larger fabric member 75 Another object is to provide'a device of 18, when drawn across the front of the corthis character which can be easily and set,`and hoolred to the eyes 17 of the memquickly secured to any corset now on the ber 16, by the hooks 20,`carried by the free market without modification` to the corset. edge of the member 18, disposes the metal Other objects and advantages will be applate 19 directly against the lower endsv of 80 parent from the following description when the stays 11 and 12, thus holding these stay taken in connection with the accompanying ends from bending outwardly from the front drawing. of the corset, and also holding the stays so In the drawing: that they will not bulge outwardly. Figure 1 is an elevation of a corset showlt will be further noted that the lower 85 ing the invention applied thereto. half of the attachment lies ibelow the stay Figure 2 is an enlarged vertical sectional line, and is flexible, so` that when properly view through one of the front stays of the hooked together across the front of the corcorset and the attachment, on the line 2 2 set, the attachment serves to hold the abof Figure 1. v domein in and up, thus producing an ef- 90 Figure '3 is a sectional view, enlarged on fective support for the abdomen. 40 the line 3-3 of Figure 1, running longitudi- While l have illustrated the device as apnallyof the attachment. pliedto the front of the corset, it will be Referring particularly to the accompanyreadily understood that the attachment may ing drawing, 10 represents a corset which be used with equal e'ectiveness at the rear 935 has the front stays 11 and 12 which carry of the corset, and on the stay line, to hold the fastening studs and loops 13 and 14, rethe rear stays against bending.

spectively. The lower ends of these sta-ys What is claimed is: are disposed-at the points 15, which is a dis- The combination with a corset having a tance above the lower end of the corset. front closure and stays terminating at a line 100 This lower end portion of the corsetis den above the lower end ofthe corset, of an atible and forms the skirt of the corset, the tachment therefor comprising a short strip. same being provided with the fasteners 13 of fabric secured to the corset at one side and 14;', at the closure, Y of the closure adjacent the stay, said strip extending in parallel relation to the Stay ter of the longer strip and arranged to lie and provided with eyes, a. longer strip of across the ends of the engaged stays. 10 fabric secured at one end to the corset at In testimony whereof, I aX "my signatlle other side of the closure and at adsture, in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

tance rearwardly of the stay and provided MAE W. ELLES. with hooks for engagement with the said Witnesses: f eyes, seid longer stripextending across the LELIAH. J ONES, closure, and a stiff plate secured to the cen-4 Gr. V. Mmmm'.