US321289A

US321289A - gunning

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Publication number: US321289A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-06-30
Anticipated expiration: 1902-06-30

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J. F. J. GUNNING.

STIFPENBR FOR GORSETS, 6w

Patented June 3Q,l885

' NITED STATES PATENT Orricn,

JAMES F. S J GUNN INC-r, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

STIFFENER FOR COR-SETS, 8. .0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,289, dated June 30, 1885.

Application filed August 7, 1884. (Nomodch) To all 1077,0772, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES Fnnnrs J osEPH GUNNING, of'the city of New Haven, in the county of New Haven, in the State of Connecticut, U. S. A., now residing in Toronto, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, manufacturer of corsets, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Corsets and other Articles of Wearing Apparel, in

which stiffening-bones and other equivalents are employed; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The object of the invention is to devise simple and effective means for securing and protecting the bones or other similar stiffening material in corsets and other garments.

It consists, essentially, in securely sewing into the section of the garment the bones or similar stiffening material so that their ends shall not extend to the edges of the section, and protecting the said ends substantially as hereinafter more particularly explained.

Figure l is a perspective view showing the section of the corset with the ends of the stiffeners extending beyond the end of the covering-piece employed in securing them to the outer piece of the material forming the section. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same sect-ion, showing the caps for covering the ends in the act of being placed in position. Fig. 3 is an inside view of the section as it will appear when finished. Fig. at is an enlarged view of the end of a section provided with my improvement for protecting the ends of the stiffening material.

In corsets as now manufactured the bones or other stiffening material are secured between two thicknesses of the material forming the body of the corset or other garment; consequently the ends of the stiffening material must necessarilyif they are stitched into the corset in continuous lengthextend to the edges of the section, as it would not be possible to cut them shorter than the section when once they have been inserted therein. The ends of the bones or other stiffening material will, therefore, act on the binding of the corset or other garment at a point where considerable friction is directed, and therefore the bones soon wear through the material.

In my improved method for securing the stiffening material intov the section I provide a supplemental fly or covering piece, A, alittle shorter than the material forming the sec tion. Between this fly and the outer material, C, of the section the bones B or other stiffening material are inserted, being sewed tight- 1y into position, so as to prevent any longitudinal movement. The stiffeners B are usually sufficiently long to furnish a number of sections, which are sewed together in a continuous length, and the stiffeners cut off to the required length after they have been sewed into position. In the old plan, where the stiffeners B are secured between two thicknesses of the material forming the section, it is, as I stated before, impossible to cut the said stiffeners shorter than the section after they have been sewed into position, whereas by adopting the fly A, which is shorter than the section itself, I am able to cut the stiffeners B shorter than the section, after which the piece D, forming the inside of the section, may be sewed down so as to completely cover the ends of the stiffeners 13, thereby protecting the ends of the said stiffeners, and finishing the inside of the section.

\Vith the view of still further protecting the ends of the stiffener-s B, I provide a cap, E, formed out of a piece of the material, and folded as indicated to form the required cap. One end of the cap E is sewed on at the same time as the covering-piece D, and after the stiffeners have been cut the required length the cap E is slipped over the ends of the stiffeners, and the other end of the cap E is then sewed down at the same time as the coveringpiece D.

What I claim as my invention is 1. The stiii'eners B, cut shorter than the section 0, and the fly A, securing said stiffeners in position, in combination with said section 0, and the covering-piece D, arranged to cover the whole, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The stiffeners B, cut shorter than the the cap E, arranged to cover the ends of the 10 1 section 0, and secured in position by the fly stiffeners B, and the covering-piece D, ar- A, in combination with said sectionO, and ranged to cover the whole, substantially as and the cap E, arranged to cover and protect the for the purpose specified, 5 ends of the stiffeners B, substantially as and Toronto, July 30, 1884.

for the purpose specified. J AS. F. J. GUNNING.

3; The stifl'eners B, cut shorter than the In presence of section 0 D, and secured in position by the JOHN AKERs,

fly A, in combination with said section G and W. J. WALLACE.