US357917A

US357917A - Thomas s

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Publication number: US357917A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-02-15
Anticipated expiration: 1904-02-15

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(No Model.)

T. s. GILBERT.

CORSET.

o. 357,917. Patented Feb. 15,1887,

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, UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS S. GILBERT, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO MAYER, STROUSE & CO., OF SAME PLACE.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,917, dated February 15, 1887.

Application filed November 23, 1886. Serial No. 210,582. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS S. GILBERT, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Corsets; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a front view of one breast portion of the corset; Fig. 2,-a side View of the same; Fig.3, the several parts forming the breast section detached; Fig. 4, a horizontal section on line a; w of Fig. 1.

This invention relates to an improvement in corsets, with special reference to the breast portion, the object being to give a rigidity to the breast portion, to prevent the misshaping or breaking down of this portion of the corset in wearing.

A represents the front edge of one side of the corset and at which the breast-section The breast-section is composed of thre'evertical portions, B, C, and D. These portions are cut the full length of the'corset, as seen in Fig. 3. At the upper end of the part B, and upon the rear, a convex curve, a, is cut, giving a projection or swell at that point, and upon the front edge of the part D a like convex extension, b, is made, forming a like swell at that point, this curve commencing at the lower part of the breast. The central portion, C, is substantially of equal width V from top to bottom.

E F represent two gores, the two edges of which present a convex shape, and are in length substantially the height of the breast. They are arranged between the convex portions or b of the parts D B, as seen in Fig. 3, and the parts are stitched together in the usual manner of forming corsets, and as seen in Fig. 1. This brings the strip C centrally up between the two gores E F over the front of the breast, while the upper edges of the two sides B D diverge at the bottom of the gores from the part C.

The parts are made of two thicknesses, as

usual, and between the two thicknesses which form the gores I introduce a stiffening material-as buckram as seen in section, Fig. 4, this material being indicated by d. This stiffening material is introduced into the seams between the edges of the parts B and C and C 5 5 and D, which inclose the edges of the gore, as seen in Fig. 4., and being stitched as shown, by a line of stitches centrally through the part C, as at c, Fig. 1, and like seam at each side of the parts B D, respectively, as indicated by the lines f 9, form substantial stays extending from the top of the corset down each side of the gores and to the point of the gores at the bottom, which gives to the front of the corset a great degree of stiffening, and without the actual introduction of bones.

At the upper end and front side of the part C, I introduce a gore, G, in which is a series of cords or stays extending from the front edge rearward and upward; and at the rear tendency to compress the breast or front.

Thus I produce the breast portions of the corset stiff and firm, and yet without the introduction of the hard bones or springs heretofore necessary, and the breast portion of the corset maintains its shape, and any reasonable degree of fullness may be given to the corset by this construction without liability of its becoming misshaped in wearing.

I have omitted the hip and rear sections of the corset in illustrating the invention, as

they may be of any of the known cuts or construction.

I claim In a corset, the breast-section composed of the vertical portions B C D, the portion B 0 curved upon its rear edge at the top in a convex shape, and the part D having a like convex projection upon its front edge, the central strip, C, of substantially equal width through the breast-section, the said three sec- 9 5 tions extending from the top to bottom, combined with a gore, E, between the parts B C, and a gore, F, between the parts 0 D, the said gores E F having an interlining of stiffening upward and forward, the said parts united material, and witha stayed gore, G, at the substantially as described. upper end of the forward edge of the part B,

the stays running from the forward edge diagonally upward, anda like stayed gore, H, \Vitnesses: at the rear edge of the part D, having stays JOSEPH E. FAIROHILD, therein running from the rear edge diagonally FRANK J. HIGGINS.

THOMAS s. GILBERT.