US207351A - Improvement in corset-exhibitors - Google Patents

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` spBqFBRRIs. ,Corset-Exhibitor.

No.. 207,351; Patented'Aug. 27,1878.

:UNITE-D STATES neaknownthm; I, sHERwoon Bzrmms,

Improved Corset-Stand, of which theffollow-V sponding parts in all the iigures.

I or dummyV for displaying corsets yin show-.win-- properly'in shape for the "display of their ex` heart-shaped, andthe lowernearly. circular onthe stem, and'may' be connected byadjust `able tapes, or'bynlnbrellalike frame-Work, so.

.around them. l

The letterA. in the drawingsreprsents the base-plate or foot ofthe corset-stand. .From the same projects an upright stem or shaft', B,

.placed two horizontal boards, Gand D. These boards'are placed betweenpins .a 1), that pass through holes 4in the stemiB, and the` distance", i V between the boards 1G' D may consequently be varied atpleasure, in conformitywith thelength [of corset to be displayed. For a shorter cor- 1 for alonger one, .and the st e'ln B isprovided -With a.l series Votf holes, if necessary, fo'r-dii'er entz positions Of the pins'ab, to allowtheadjusts ment of the boards referred to; f The cuter ends,

PATENT sHEnWoon B. r'En'nIs-, 'or niteonnn; NEWXORK.

-`|M PnovEMnNail-NCoRsET-EXHfil-rons.

` 'Specimon @ff-ing Pm Ofet'fs Ptntno; eomsndatdagst 27, 181s application nica l January 21, 187g Tc all whom it may concern.'V

of the city of Brooklyn, county oifKings, and State oi N ew York, have invented a new and ing is a specication :V v

. In the annexed'. drawings, forming part of this specification, Figurel is afront elevation partly in section, of my improved corset-stand'. Fig. 2v .is `a top view of thesame.' Fig. 3 is `a front elevation of a inediti-cation ofthe same, and Fig. 4 atop view of the modified stand;

Similar letters of reference indicate'. corre- 'lhis invention relates to a neWjcorset-form (lows and other places, and forlioldingethenn,

act outline and `eonstruction. i

The stand `s composed fof' a central'stem, upon which are placed tWojboards-the upper form. These, boards are vertically 'adjustable asto give body to the corset Whichis placed The invention also consists-in further {details of improvement, hereinafter morefully set which extends through, and-vupon whichV are.

set the' boards are brought closer togetherthan of theseitwo boards C D may be connected by tapes d il-,.each` tape being loose at one end, so that it .may be .stretched after the corset is applied, to cause itto bear against the inner side of the corset; or a framc-v'vork, c, constructed of--umbrella-like ribs and braces,`or cqugaleut devices, may be placed between the boards rC D, s o .that when stretched orA spread ltderallyy ftrame-Work ewill bear against the inner side c .thejeorset that is .placed Varound vthe impart toit the requisite fullness. Y

4'.llhfe corset. is placed around the tivo boards in manner' clearly indicated inthe drawing,

the upper board being heart-shaped to litt-he' boso1n=gores, and the lower being cfa flattened` feircularfforrn, torgie tire'desired 'tline'to the 'lowerpart of the corset. '."lhe tapes, when stretched, vorthe frame-Werke, when extended,

Will', Vby bearing againstthe inner 'side of the corset," give .fullness tothe same..,

Aheriz'o n'tal -ar1nf,' to another'Stinf,jE,. and the'. same stem-'E may, by this arrangement, be:

madeto carry three or. cated in Figs.` ,3 and14.

One .'stemgB, may, if ,deb-Tired, carry incre -than olie' set of"'boards C D, soias to display,

, tivo or morejcorsets, one'above'the shown and described. 2. .The .combination of the boa central stein B with the innerdiste' or frame, described.

1;, The. corset-'stand comp osedfofl the centrall stem, B, and ot' the'boards G D,`s'h'aped to con lforni to the corset, substantial-1y as herein .eepesf substantially as herein shawn and

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