US254786A - Corset - Google Patents

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l (Model.) H. WILLIAMS.

` GORSBT. No. 254.786.. Patented Mar. 7,1882.

A? dimi?, l K S l @Mmwam jecting rib or piece inside the breast portion,

.the side of the corset.

i UNITED STATESN ATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. WILLIAMS, OF WORCESTER, ASSIGNOR TO THEODOEE C. BATES, OF NORTH BROOKFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,786, dated March 7, 1882.

Application tiled .April 19, 1881.

To all whom it may concern y Be it known that I, CHARLES H. WILLIAMS, of Worcester, county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Im provem ent in Corsets, of which the following description, in connection with the accomi'ianying drawings, is a specifica-tion.

This invention in corsets relates to improvements whereby the breast portion of a goreless corset may be kept distended by a distending-piece, which is extended across only a portion of the upper part of the breast, the invention consisting in inserting and securing such distending-piece in pockets formed in the material of the front and side sections of the corsets, as will be hereinafter fully described.

Figure 1 represents in front elevation a suf cient portion ofthe breast part of a corset to illustrate my invention, the breast-distending strip being disconnected at one end to show my improvedV manner of securing it to the breast part of the corset, the said ligure showing the distending-strip applied outside the breast portion, as I prefer to thus avoid a pronext the person. Fig. 2 is a like view of a modification, showing the distending-strip connected with the corset, inside'the breast portion 5 and Fig. 3, a cross-sectional detail on the line x a', Fig. 1.

The front or breast portion of the corset, partially shown in Fig. 1, is composed of three pieces, c b c, connected by seams cl c, each of the said pieces being extended from the loottom to the top of the corset. The upper parts of the pieces c b c are broadened to give proper fullness to the breast-covering portion of the corset. These parts a b c are old. I desire to keep them distended. Y

The breast portion has been kept disten ded by a distendingpiece extended from or near the steel, across lthe top of the pieces a b c, and secured inside the breast-covering portion into the seam unitingthe outer edge of piece c with In corsets in which gores are used the distendingstrip for the breast portion has been applied exteriorly; but such strip has been sewed in with the seams unitingthe back and front with the side pieces. Thisstrp must hence be of unchangeable and excessive length,

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and is not adapted tothe Inotons of the body. Hence its ends are apt to h urtfnlly bear against the body, producing great discomfort, if not positive injury. By my invention of pockets to receive the strip I am enabled to make such strip ot' any desired length and to place it in just such position as is best suited to the requirements of the motions of the body and demands of the trade.

It is the aim of this invention to distend and keep the breast-covering portion distended by a shorter strip than heretofore used. The ends of the distending-strip are inserted in slits made in one of the two thicknesses of cloth composing the portions a c' o c', the said portions being, as is well understood, composed of two layers or thicknesses of clot-h, as represented in the section, Figx, the rear side or inner layers being marked a c.

In the practice ot' my invention, the vertical seams having been sewed, thefront parts, a, c, are each slit, as shown at the left of Fig. 1, forming pockets or spaces for the reception of the ends 2 of thenarrow band-like distendingstrip f, which may be suitably stitliened by bones, cords, canvas, or any other suitable flexible or stiftening material, and the raw or overlapping edge,outside the distending-strip at its ends, is then litted or turned in, as shown at 3, Fig. 3, and stitched through at 4, the said stitches also passing through the end ofthedistending-stripand theinnermostthickness of the corset material.

The upper edge of the distending-strip and the upper edges of the part b and portions of parts a and c are united and inclosetl by the binding m. I

Both ends of the distending-strip f being joined with vthe corset between its outer and inner plies or thicknesses, as at the right of Fig. 1, enables me to produce a stiftened or distended breast portion without a projection or rib of lany sort within the corset,` and the parts of the corsetbreast between the ends ot' the distending'strip and the extreme outer edges of pieces ay c are left to conform easily to the shape of the breast of the wearer of the corset, and not to bear too hard on the person.

It is obvious that this distending-strip may be placed inside the corset-breast, as in Fig. 2. In this last ligure the slit to receive the ends IOO of the shortened distending-strip, stiffened at g, is inserted between the inner and outer layers of thickness or plies of cloth a a and c c through slits made in theinner layers, a 0', and said slitted edges are turned in or felled and stitched at 3 4, as referred to in connection with Figs. 1. and 2.

I claim- In a corset having a goreless breast portion, as set forth, the distending-stripf, combined with the pieces a and c, and pockets or slits made in the material thereof to receive and retain the ends of the said distending-strip, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name r5 to this specification iu the presence of two suhsoribing witnesses.

CHARLES H. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

FRANK W. RUGGLES, H. H. FAIRBANKS.

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