US228725A - Corset - Google Patents

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Corset.

No. 228,725. Paten-ted )urne 15,1880.

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EVERETT W. BIGELOW, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORSET.

SPECIFIGATIONformng; part of Letters Patent No. 228,725, dated June 15, 1880.

Application filed April 1, 1880.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, EVERETT W. BIGELow, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specication and represented in the accompanying drawings` of which- Figure 1 isa front view, Fig. 2 a transverse section, and Fig. 3 a rear View, of the front portions of a duplex husk-corset having my invention. Figs. 4 and 5 are front views of the lapping portions of the duplex husk. Fig. 6 is a transverse section of the overlapping or button-hole portion of the husk, Fig. 7 being a front view, and Fig. 8 an edge view, of one of the intermediate or connecting pieces thereof.

In Letters Patent No. 215,560, dated May 20, 1879, and granted to me, I claim the underlapped portion, steel, or busk, provided with buttons, in combination with the overlapping or other portion provided with button-holes, arranged next alongside of the busk or huskpocket of such portion, whereby by so arranging the button-holes the strain on the buttons while the corset is in wear is borne mainly, if not entirely, by the outer husk and the cloth saved from being torn away by the Shanks or fastenings of the buttons.

In carrying out my present improvement I construct the overlapping portion of the duplex husk with two parallel steel or husk pockets, arranged close together, and having steels within them and button-holes formed between them, in order that the buttons projecting from the underlapping portion may be y supported by either or both the steels in a manner to prevent such buttons from wearing or tearing away the button-holes while the corset may be in use. Furthermore, in making the overlapping portion I combine its two buskpocket pieces with intermediate connectionpieces arranged with and sewed to the pocket pieces, as hereinafter described, so as to form button-holes between the several connectionpieces and also between the pocket-pieces.

1n the aforesaid drawings, A is the under- 1apping,and B the overlapping, portion of the duplex husk. The portion A has one pocket, a, in it for the reception of a single steel, b, provided with a range of studs or buttons, c, ex-

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tending from it in manner as represented. The overlapping portion B has two pockets, d d, arranged in it parallel to each other and a distance apart a little greater than the width of each of the button-holes f, the said buttonholes being arranged and formed between the two pockets, so as to cause the steels thereof, after beinginserted in them, to aid in prevent ing the buttons from straining or tearing out the button-holes, not only when the two parts are huttoned together and the corset may be in wear, but during the process ot' disconnecting the said parts or unbuttoning one from the other. y

In constructing the overlapping portion ot' the duplex busk I compose it ofthe two busk- 'pocket portions g 71J and a series of intermediate pieces, 't' t', the latter being arranged at short distances apartthat is, apart at distances corresponding to the lengths ofthe button-holes. These intermediate pieces extend into the pocketpieees and are stitched or sewed thereto. I usually form each intermediatepiece of a strip of cloth, of suitable length, sewed together at its two ends,` and folded at its middle, and I compose the pocket-piece h of a single strip of cloth, of suitable width, folded lengthwise along its middle and at its two opposite edges. The other pocketpiece may be made similar to its fellow, or of two pieces of cloth laid one upon the other and turned in at those edges next to the fellow pocket-piece. In this way I am enabled to make a pair of steel-receiving pockets with button-holes between them without the necessity of working or sewing the edges of the button-holes in the manner as usually practiced when button-holes are made in cloth.

I am aware that it is not new to provide one of the bnttonin g portions of a corset with steelreceiving independent pockets having a web extending from one to the other, and provided with a series of metallic eyelets to engage with studs projecting from a steel in a pocket of another buttoning portion of said corset.

Vith my invention the metallic eyelets are dispensed with, and in their pla-ce iiexile button-holes are formed in the space or web of cloth between the two pockets and their studs. In this way the strain of the studs on the button-holes is borne by one of the steels, and the IOO button-hole is thereby saved from being torn out by its button, the ileXibility of the buttonhole admitting of the steel to take the beerin g of the stud, which is not the ense when metellie eyelets are employed, such eyelets being very lieble to be pulled ont of the cloth or get out of place While the corset may be in use. One object of my invention is to avoid the use of snoh eyelets and in their platee employ :t leXile lmtton-l1ole,m1dto so supportit that it y cannot readily be Vtorn or injured either in the process of buttoning;` or nnbnttoning the corset or while it may be in weer.

I claim- In a duplex husk-corset in which the underlapped portion is provided with :t steel and buttons or studs projecting; therefrom to oonneet such portion with the overlappin g portion, having buttonlioles arranged between two steel-pockets and their steels, as described, the combination of the intermediate connectionpieees with the two husk-pocket pieces to form between them button-holes, as explained.

EVERETT W. BIGELOW.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, W. W. LUNT.

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