US371511A

US371511A - Corset

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Publication number: US371511A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1887-10-11
Anticipated expiration: 1904-10-11

Description

(No Model.)

M. E. LUNN.

CORSET.

Patented Oct. 11, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

MARTHA E. LUNN, OF ELGIN, ILLINOIS.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,511, dated October 11, 1887.

Serial No. $6,699. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, IMARTHAI]. LUNN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at the city of Elgin, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Corsets, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to an adjustable formcorset; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement ofparts,as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

Figure l is a view in perspective of the corset in position, one of the wings being open. 0 0 represent the breast-sections of the front of the corset, EXtGlldlDgllOlll the bottom of the corset up to the points F l, where the expansion for the breast begins. B B represent the continnations of the breast'sections above the points F F, which continuations are separated on both sides, vertically, from the main body of the corsetand constitute breast-pieces, on both sides of which are attached the two crescent-shaped pieces A A, and the whole breast-piece thus formed is given an elliptical shape. D D represent the two wings or continnations of the other fronts, E E, of the corset, and are given on the edge the shape of a segment of a circle. These wings open outwardly,and are provided on the inner surface, near the edges, with hooks h h, which are intended and placedfor adjustment with the eyelets g g in the breast-pieces B B. The eyelets g in the breast-pieces B B are placed in series of two or more, laterally corresponding in position to the position of the hooks h h on the wings D D, and the hooks h it may be adjusted at will in any of the corresponding eyelets, the object sought being to make the breast-pieces readily and conveniently adj nstable to the comfort and wish of the wearer.

Fig. 2 is a rear view of one of the breastpieces with wings attached by hooks and eyelets, as hereinbefore described.

I claim The herein described improvement in corsets, consisting in a breast-piece, vertically separated from the adjacent sections of the corset from and above the lowest point where the expansion of the breast begins, and having an elliptical shape, and two or more series of eyelets arranged in lateral lines, which eyelets are to be connected and disconnected with the hooks placed on the adjacent parts of the body of the corset, and near theedges thereof, by which means the breast-pieces are readily and conveniently adj ustable to the comfort and wish of the wearer, combined with the wings D D, extending from the adjacent portions outward over the breast-pieces, substantial] y as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

MARTHA E. LUNN.

\Vitnesscs:

ELIZABETH A. LUNN, EDWARD .0. LovELL.