US1465105A - Corset - Google Patents

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M. VON HALLE CORSET Filed June 19. 1922 ATTORNEY Patented ug. ld, i923.

unTTen sTaTas retains eaTenT oratore@ MILLARD VON HALLE, 0F PALISADES PARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSXGNOR T0 THE STANDARD CORSET COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION 0F MASSA- CHUSETTS.

CORSET.

Application led June 19, 1922. Serial No. 569,343.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it kno-wn that I, MiLLAnD VON HALLE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Palisades Park, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corsets; of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in corsets and particularly to that type of stays commonly known as a reducing corset. lts main object is to provide a'corset that will, in addition to the. usual functions of such an article of apparel, serve as an abdominal support and reducer.

The invention is embodied in one concrete and referred form in the accompanying drawing, which shows a plan view of the body parts of a corset fastened or hooked together at the front but with the back of the corset unlaoed or open.

l indicates the usual body parts of a backl laced corset having vertical inserts of resilient material 2 that are commoon to corsets of this type. 3 are the usual hookend-stud fasteners for closing the front of the corset attached in the usual manner to the front steels, bone, or other stilfening material 4 of the corset. 5 indicates the two supporting and reducing parts which are here permanently secured at one side or edge 6 to the corset, one on each side of the front steel or bone 4.

The parts 5 each comprise two strips of resilient material 7a and 7b arranged in oblique relation t-o each other so that they overlap and so that a straight substantially vertical edge is formed on each side oft the supporting and reducing part 5, as at 6 and 8, the edge 6 being of greatest length and the overlapping of the strips being of least extent at that side of the supporting and reducing part 5 that is permanently secured to the corset. The extent of the overlapping of the strips 7 a and 7b increases toward the free end of the support until at the outer edge 8 of the support 5 they are almost completely overlapped where they are se curely fastened or joined together so as to form a strong support for one end of an adjusting means 9 attached to said straight edge midway between the top and bottom thereof to eXert a pull upon the sup orting and reducing means. The other en of the adjusting means 9 .is permanently secured `front openin parts consisting of two strips of resilient f tion on the form of the wearer of the corset.'

After the corset has been, inthe usual manner, placed in position on the body of the wearer, a pull upon the stra l2 of the adjusting means will exert a pu l or strain upon the supportingand reducing part 5 that, because of the oblique and overlapped arrangement of the parts, will tend by means of the lower edge of strip 7b to lift and., after the adjusting means has been fastened to sustain this pull or strain7 to hold in elevated position any superfluous flesh at the lower part of the abdomen of the wearer and by means of the overlapping of the strips 7a and 7h to flatten c-ircumferentially such superfluous tlesh thus distributing it more evenly over that part of the body of the wearer and thereb improving the appearance, the lower ec ge of strips 7b and the upper edge of strip 7a holding such superfluous flesh in osition.

The strips 7 and b being of resilient material any undue pressure that would detract from the comfort of the wearer is avoided and the overlapping of the strips 7a and 7b afford the desired degree of strength at the point where the greatest reduction orl ilattening is required.

A reinforcing strip of any suitable material may be applied to the outer edge 8 of the part 5 if desired.

l claim:

l.. A corset comprising the usual body parts having suitable means for lacing and fastening these parts together around the body of the wearer and having permanently secured thereto, at a suitable point below the waist line of the corset, means for supporting and reducing the abdomen of the wearer comprising: two parts, one of which is locat-ed on one side of the front opening of the corset and the other of which is located directly opposite on the other side of the of the corset, each of these material and each of the two strips being permanently secured at one end to the corset 1n oblique relation to the front opening thereof and in oblique and overlapped relation to each other, so that as they recede from said front opening the extent of the overlap is increased, the free ends of these two stri s being fastened together to form a straigit vertical edge, and an adjusting means secured to said straight edge midway between its top and bottom edges and also at a point in the same horizontal plane to that part of the corset to which said supporting and reducing means is permanently secured.

2. A corset comprising the usual body parts having suitable means for lacing and fastening these parts together around the body of the wearer and having permanently secured thereto, at a suitable point below the waist line of the corset, means for supporting and reducing the abdomen of the wearer comprising: two parte, one of which is located on one side of the front opening of the corset and the other of which is located directly opposite on the other side of the front opening of the corset, each of these parts consisting of two strips of resilient material and each of the two stri s being permanently secured at one end to t e corset in oblique relation to the front opening thereof and in oblique and overlapped relation to each other, so that as they recede from said front opening the extent of the overlap is increased,the free ends of these two strips being fastened toget-her to form a straight vertical edge and an adjusting means for exerting and sustaining. a pull upon said supporting and reducing means to lift by means of the lower oblique edge of the support any superfluous flesh at that part of the body of the wearer and to hold such esh by means of the oblique top and bottom edges of the support in position and to flatten such superfluous flesh circumferentially by means of the overlapped strips, said adjusting means .being secured in the same horizontal plane to the straight vertical edge of said supporting and reducing means midway between the top and bottom edges of said vertical edge and to that part of the corset to which said supporting and reducing means is permanently secured.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New `York and State of New York, this 5th day of June, 1922.

MILLARD VON HALLE.

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