US240166A

US240166A - Former for shaping corsets

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Publication number: US240166A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1881-04-12
Anticipated expiration: 1898-04-12

Description

(ModeL) W. A. NETTLETON.

Former fd r Shaping Corsets. No. 240,166. Patented April 12, I88 I.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FORMER FOR SHAPING CORSETS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,166, dated April 12, 1881.

Application filed January 24, 1x181. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, WM. A. NETTLETON, of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairtield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Formers for Shaping Corsets; and .I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as Will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which forms part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in formers for shaping corsets; and it consists in the use of a separate piece or former for shaping the bust and the hips, or either one alone, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

The object of my invention is to do away with the great trouble and time required to shape and finish the busts and the hips of the corsets upon the same former upon which the other portions of the corset are shaped or molded, and to enable the ironer to shape and polish the corset at the same time.

The accompanying drawing represents my invention.

Heretofore corsets have been shaped or blocked upon large full -sized metal forms, heated by steam or otherwise, or else pressed in suitable heated molds or dies. The first method is slow as each corset must be clamped around the metal form and be drawn up by laces or other means until it fits it, and becomes molded to its shape as it dries thereon. Dies are too expensive and hard to operate. In both cases it has been found impossible to give corsets so molded the fine polish attained by hand-ironing, because, if first hand-ironed and polished, the stretching and steaming and fitting to the metal form destroys the polish. If first molded on the form, the after ironing to obtain the polish must, by the dampening required for such ironing,destroy the shape given by the molding. The parts most requiring such molding to give the corset the proper shape are the bust and hips. If these are shaped well, the Whole corset presents a good appearance.

To this end each ironer is supplied with a special metal form, over which both the hip and bust, or either one alone, is molded and set after the remaining portions of the corset have been polished. Each one of these forms A is placed upon the ironing-table in any convenient position, and is heated from a steam-pipe. One form may be used for shaping both hips and bust, or a separate one may be used for each one, so as to obtain a better form. The

ironer first irons the corset, and then fits the bust of the corset snugly onto the steam-heated bust and draws it down over it until it receives the proper shape; or the corset maybe let't upon the bust until it is well set.

Having thus described my invention, I claim A hollow metal block for shaping the hip or the bust of corsets, the block being heated by steam or other available means,constructed as and in the form described, and for the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 17th day of January, 1881.

WILLIAM ALFRED N ETTL'ETON. Witnesses:

D, W. ROCKWELL,

FRANK J. HueHEs.