US374216A - Bustle - Google Patents

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BUSTLE. 4 No. 374,216. Patented Dec. 6, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS P. TAYLOR, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

BUSTLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,216, dated December 6, 1887.

Application filed September 26, 1887. Serial No. 250,687.

To all w/wm it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS P. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport,in the county ofFairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bustles; 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 appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in bustles; but more especially to such bustles as embody the folding or collapsing principle.

The object of my invention is to provide a bustle whichshall be a perfect folder, and in which the spring action shall be smooth and easy.

With these ends in view my invention consists in the details of construction hereinafter to be set forth, and then recited in the claims.

To the end that such as are skilled in the art to which my invention appertains may fully understand its operation and how to make the same, I will describe my improved device in detail, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective showing the bustle in distended position, and Fig. 2 a detail showing the connection of the bows to the pivot-wire.

Like reference-numbers indicate the same parts in both figures.

1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 are the distending-bows more or less in number may be usedwhich comprise the expanding element of my device. To the uppermost of these bows 1 any suitable waistband,6, may be secured, as seen at Fig. 1. Both ends of each of these bows are pivoted upon wires, which are in the same transverse plane, thereby giving to the bustle approximately the shape of a quarter-sphere. ranging the hows it is my preferred construction to have the central bow, 3, outermost, as to its ends upon the pivotwires, next inward, 2 and 4, and innermost, 1 and 5. This order is not, however, essential, and may be varied. I find it useful, however, as it causes all the other bows to swing when collapsed into the central bow, 3.

7 are the pivot-wires upon which the bows In ar- (No model.)

turn. The outer ends of these wires are bent upward at right angles and are secured to the outerbow by means of clasps 8. The inner ends of said wires are provided with eyes 9, which prevent any release of the bows by slipping in ward, and between which a lacing-cord, 10, is extended for purposes of lateral adjustment and for keeping the bustle in shape. A pair of springs, 11, secured to eyes 12, upon the bows 1 and 5, and convoluted about the lacingcord, furnish the resilient element of the bustle and tend to throw and retain it open at the position shown at Fig. 1.

A spacing-tape, 13, connects all the bows and determines their position relative to each other.

When collapsed,thebows fold one within the other, as shown in detail, Fig. 2. \Vhen pressure is released, the expansion of the springs throws them outward to their distended position.

I claim-.

1. In a bustle, the combinatiomwith a series of pivoted distendingbows adapted to nest in collapsing, and all pivoted as to their ends in the same plane, of a pair of pivot-wires whereon said bows are arranged, said wires being bent up at their outer ends and secured to one of the bows and having eyes at their inner ends, a laeingcord extended between said eyes, whereby the width of the bustle may be controlled and varied, a pair of springs an ranged between the topmost and lowermost bows, and asuitable waistband and check-tape.

2. A bustle, the same consisting of the dis tending-bows arranged to collapse together, apair of wires whereon the ends of the bows are pivoted, said wires being turned up at their outer ends and secured to the outside bow, and having eyes at their inner ends, a spacing-tape connecting all the bows, a lacing-cord extended laterally between the eyes of the pivot-wires, a suitable waistband and a pair of springs arranged between the top and bottom bows and convoluted aboutthelacing-cord, substantially as shown and described.

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

THOMAS P. TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

S. H. HUBBARD,- S. S. WILLIAMSON.

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