US181960A

US181960A - Improvement in corsets

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Publication number: US181960A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1876-09-05
Anticipated expiration: 1893-09-05

Description

Z Sheets-Sheet 1.

HARRIET H. MAY.

consn'rs' Patented Sept. 6,1876.

INVENTOR N, PETERS. PHDTO-LITHQGRAPNER WASHVNGYON a Cv z Shees-$heet 2'."

.H-ARR'IET H. MAY.

CORSETS.

Patented Sept. 5, .1876.

INVENTOR WITNESSES N. PEYERS. PHOTO LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. n c.

goreless corsets.

UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

HARRIET H. MAY, OF BIRMINGHAM, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORSETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. lSl,960, dated September 5, 1876 application filed July 29, 1876.

of which the following is a specification My invention relates to what are known as The busts are formed by cutting the material in the manner hereinafter described, so as to dispense with gores. I also employ improved bust-distenders, consisting each of a number of grooved parallel springs of whalebone, or other material, applied in pockets in a removable pad, the ends of which are secured by lacing to ears or tabs permanently attached to the inside of the corset, as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is aninterior view of one-half of my improved corset. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2 2, Fig. 1. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are diagrams of the blanks or patterns of which the front portion of one side of the corset is made up.

A B 0 represent the three pieces by which the forward half, or somewhat less than half of one side of the corset is made up. By cutting them in the peculiar manner shown, the correct form is imparted to the bust without the use of gores.

My improved bust-distender consists of a web or pad, D, formed convex on its upper edge and concave on its lower edge. It is constructed with any necessary number of pockets, four being shown in the present illustration, to contain springs E of whalebone,

or other suitable material, which impart the required convexity to the front of the pad, in order to distend the bust and protect the breast from pressure. The ends of the pads are formed with any necessary number of eyelets, F, tor the reception of lacings G, by which they are attached to ears or tabs H, permanently secured in proper position on the inner face of the corset, as shown. This mode of securing the pads permits of their being applied and removed with great facility, and causes them to assume-their proper position when the corset is in use.

Having thus described my invention, the

following'is what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The ears or tabs H, permanently secured in anuer described.

3. The combination of the breast-pads D E and ears or tabs H with a goreless corset, in the manner described.

HARRIET H. MAY.

Witnesses:

ISAAC J ..QUIMBY, ALICE E. MAY.