US236663A - Corset-steel fastening - Google Patents

Description

(Model.)

T. C. BAT'ESA Corset Steelv Fastening.

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THEODORE O. BATES, OF FORTH BROOKFIFLD, ASSIGNORUOF ONE-HALF TO DAVID H. FANNING, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORSET-STEEL FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 236,663, dated January 18, 18.871.

Application filed September 29, 1880. (Model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, THEODORE G. BATES, of North Brookfield, Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Corset-Steel Fasten ings, ot' which the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specication.

This invention relates to corset-steel fastenings, and is an improvement upon that class of fastening shown and described in United States Patent No. 222,400, December 9, 187 9. In that patent the bifurcated or j aw-like spring or fastening is attached to and located above the usual sheet-metal eye-piece commonly employed to hook over the stud of the other half of the corset-steels.

In practice it has been found that the head of the stud, after the steels are fastened together, sometimes works under the ends of the spring or fastening part, and passes into the large part of the eye, and so, also, it sometimes happens that the spring-fastening is struck by the stud when entering the steel through the eye, thus bending it upward from the eye-piece, so that it will'not again resume its proper level to correctly co-operate with the stud. To obviate these difficulties Ihave arranged at the under side of the eye-piece the spring or fastening which acts as a holder or stop to prevent the shank of the stud workingbackward along the slot of the eye-piece, and with such construction it will be obvious that the head of the stud, after the steels are fastened and the stud is at the extreme outer end of the slot in the eye-piece, cannot get between the springfastening and the eye-piece.

Figure l represents a pair of corset-steels provided with my improved fastening, the steels being fastened together as they will be when the corset is being worn. Fig. 2 is an enlarged top view of one of the eye pieces or plates with its attached spring or fastening device. Fig. 3 is an under-side view of Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a top view of the eye-pieces with the spring or fastening device detached; and Fig. 5 is a section on the line av av, Fig. 1.

In the drawings, c b represent two steels of usual construction, the steel b being provided with the usual headed studs'c. The steel c, at or near its central part, has two eye pieces or plates, d, of usual construction, and at the top and bottom of the said steel are two eye pieces or plates, e, constructed in accordance with the plan adopted by me in this invention. This eye-piece chas an enlarged eye, with a straight slot leading outward therefrom, both of usual shape. The outward end of the eye-piece e, or that through which the eye is formed,is struck up in a die and raised or offset, as designated at c', and is also provided with an opening or recess, e2, (shown clearly in Fig. 4,) to receive the rear end, 2, of the spring or fastening device f, (herein illustrated as a wire spring,) shaped as shown in Fig. 3, the free ends 3 ot' the said spring being so located with relation to the eye or slot in the eye-piece c as to fall at the rear side of the stud c when the corsetsteels are fastened together as they will be when being worn.

InV the act of fastening the two parts ot' the steel together the head of the stud will rst be entered in the large part of the eye nearest the edge of the steel with which the eye-piece is connected, and the stud will then be passed horizontally along, and to the outer end of the said slot, passing the ends or end of the said spring or fastening device, the latter yielding to the passage of the stud, and then springing back laterally across the said slot, when itacts as a stop to prevent the backward movement of the stud c into the eye at the end of the said slot. This spring or fastening (see Figs. 1 and 2) is located at the under side ot the eye-piece c', so that when entering the stud through the eye of the eye-piece the spring or fastening cannot be struck and bent upward, and as the head of the stud always rests upon the smooth upper side of the eye-piece when the corset is fastened about the person the said stud cannot possibly get between the spring or fastening and the eye-piece c, and so work backward along the eye of the eye-piece. The end 2 of the spring or fastening device entered into the opening c2 of the eye-piece is prevented from turning upon the said eye-piece, and is held fixed to the steel by the rivet 5.

It is obvious, instead of the wire-like spring or fastening device herein shown having two jaws, that I may employ a single jaw. I prefer the wire spring, yet may employ instead of IOO it a fastening of sheet metal, shaped substantially as shown in United States Patent No. 225,375, March 9, 1880, to which reference may be had, the said spring or fastening,` device being located, however, in all instances at the under side of the eye-piece.

It may be found desirable to have all the eye-pieces on the clasps with this same spring attachment, even to the four usually used, or even more than four hooks, as alive-hook corset-steel is quite common.

I claiml. In a corset-steel, the eyepiece upon one steel and the stud upon the other steel, combined with a spring or fastening device located at the under side of the eye-piece, to operate upon the shank of the headed stud below the eye-piece, substantially as described.

2. The corset-steel a and its connected eyepiece e, provided with the raised or offset portion e and slot e2, and the spring or fastening;

device located thereon at its under side and

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