US217512A

US217512A - Improvement in corsets

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Publication number: US217512A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1879-07-15
Anticipated expiration: 1896-07-15

Description

M. (JOHN,

Corset.

No. 217,512. Patented July 15, I879.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MORITZ OOHN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORSETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 217,512, dated July 15, 1879; appdcation filed November 11, 1878.

attain in such corsets certain desirable features never heretofore attained in a-woven or othercorsct, except by the employment of hand or machine stitching.

The desirability of lateral or horizontal stifi ening across the tops of the breast portions of corsets has long been recognized, and to attain that result woven corsets have heretofore had the upper front portions thereof turned over and stitched to form pockets for the reception of bones, 850., and sewed corsets have also had similar pockets formed by stitching two pieces of fabric together at intervals.

My invention consists in a Woven corset having across the upper portions of its swell or breast fronts transverse integral woven pockets for bones or other stiifenin g material.

My corsets may or may not be provided with vertical pockets below the transverse pockets and at right angles thereto, said vertical pockets forming no portion of my present inven tion. v

To more particularly describe my invention,

I will refer to the accompanying drawings, in

which- Figure 1 represents, in front View, a corset embodying my invention. Figs. 2 and 3 rep-,

resent the transverse integral woven pockets in section.

The swell-fronts A, com monly called breastgores, are, in their general form and construction, substantially as heretofore, and I have illustrated my invention in connection with a woven corset having the vertical woven pockets c as heretofore made.

The transverse pockets B across the tops of the breast-fron ts, considered solely as pockets, are not new, as they have heretofore been formed by the stitching of one separate fabric upon another, or by stitching the same fabric upon itself. As shown in Figs. 2 and 3, however, they are novel in that they are absolutely integral with the main body of the fabric, the

filling-threads 6 thereof not only co-operating with the warp in weaving the solid fabric F, but also the two walls of the "ertical pockets 0. The number of these transverse pockets may be varied according to the size and character of the corset.

The advantages due to the integral woven transverse pockets, as compared with the stitched transverse pockets heretofore well known, are the non-liability of any breaking away, as is common to stitching, and the economy dueto the obviation of the subsequent manipulation for their formation afterleavin g the loom, and also, instead of being liable to be varied in their form and dimensions, as when stitched, they are, when woven integrally, absolutely uniform, because predetermined by the mechanism in weaving.

Haviugthus described inyinvention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters'Patent-- A woven corset having across the upper portion of the breast-fronts transverse integral woven pockets, substantially as described.

MORITZ (JOHN.

Witnesses JAMES J. HANNAN, LEON S. COHEN.