US176771A - Improvement in bustles - Google Patents

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A. CARTER.

BUSTLE.

Patented May 1876.

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UNITED S'I'A'rEs PrurErrr @EF1-UEo ALBERTCARTER, OFl BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

i IMPROVEMENT lN BUSTLES.

Specieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,771, dated May 2, 1876; application led April 3, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT CARTER, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Bustles, of which the following is a specili- I cation the bustle, and are gathered together and attached to a waistband. By this construction the parts are all held together, but greatelastcity is obtained, and the bustle is very light.

In the drawing, Figure l is a plan of the said bustle, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same.

The loops or nodes a are made by Winding the wire around aforin+that is, an open frame--of spring-Wire sufficiently rigid for the purpose. `The ends of the wire are bent back, as at c c, and a cord, d, wound at the one side of the coil while in its cylindrical form. The ends of the cord are secured by a spangle at c, or otherwise, and the hooks h are introduced at the ends of the coil through the loop of cord. The form is then drawn out of the coil of wire, and the wire as it springs out upon clearing the form, twists the cords d tightly, holding the loops of Wire as they stand out from the cord in the form of nodes, and the loops run from one end of the cord d to the other, and pass oftl successively in a spiral position, so as to form an open elastic body for the bustle. This feature alone I do not claim, but where no other device is used the loops of wire become misplaced, and the body looses lits proper shape. I prevent this by the longitudinal wires or springs m that run through the respective ranges of loops, and are gathered together at the ends of the bustle and held by the clasps o, so that the bustle assumes a tapering form from the middle toward the ends, and there is a tape or strap, h', from each hook h to the clasps o, so as to apply the required tension upon the cord d to keep itin position. The waistband 1^ is attached to the ends of the bustle, and serves to hold the sanne in position on the person, and there is a cord, s, from the waistband to -the center of the bustle to draw the bustle nearer to the person, if desired.'

I claim as my invention- The combination, with the nodes or loops of wire a, and the twisted central cord d, of the wires or springs m that pass through the loops and are united together at the ends ot' the bustle, substantially as set forth.

Signed by ine this 28th day of March, A. D. 1876.

ALBERT CARTER.

Witnesses GEO. T. PINoKNEY, CEAS. H. SMITH.

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